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Short Takes
06:00 AM - December 14, 2011
The Future of Magic Bullets
Cartoonist Ted Rall shows us how to save the news business
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
Two things.
1) It's sad that CJR is now doing using ridiculous click-click-click slideshows to generate page views.
2) To make #1 even worse - you require yet another click to even get to the click-click-click page.
This is a sad development. Sheesh.
If you're doing to have pointless click-click-click pages - merge step #1 and #2 and put something like "[slideshow]" in the title so those of us in the know won't waste our time.
Yes, I didn't say "please".
#1 Posted by F. Murray Rumpelstiltskin, CJR on Wed 14 Dec 2011 at 12:16 PM
Believe it or not, the slideshow thing isn't a naked page-view grab... it really did seem like the most elegant and efficient way to present Ted's cartoons. They were scattered throughout the print edition, and we wanted to mimic that page-turning experience, rather than just dumping them all on one page. Your point about putting "slideshow" in the title is a good one, and we'll do that in the future -- though, to be sure, I don't expect us to do very many slideshows in the future.
FYI, "The Moments," which went up on Tuesday, is also a slideshow, just in case you want to stay away from it.
#2 Posted by Justin Peters, CJR on Wed 14 Dec 2011 at 02:36 PM
@ Justin Peters
Oh, good - happy news! And thanks for the FYI heads up.
#3 Posted by F. Murray Rumpelstiltskin, CJR on Wed 14 Dec 2011 at 05:11 PM
I think the Ted Rall suggestion of settling another planet - but not giving them internet - has real potential for the future of newspapers.
Maybe they could do a special edition, without cartoons, for people without a sense of humour, or with nothing better to do than get twitchy about how many pages they turn. Twitch, twitch. In space, no one can hear you twitch. And other assorted space memes. Twitchelstiltskin?
Wonder what the F stands for.
#4 Posted by Jason Brown, CJR on Thu 15 Dec 2011 at 04:50 PM
You might want to put an upper bound in your slide show, I could keep clicking on inexistent panels until id=50 and beyond. And yeah, you don't need a slide show to do a multi-panel comic, eg..
http://www.leftycartoons.com/its-a-tidy-system/
http://www.leftycartoons.com/who-to-blame/
#5 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Thu 15 Dec 2011 at 08:18 PM