Data-based journalism and its potential; an ex-mogul takes a flogging, etc.
The catch, as always, is the low base: £250m, or $400 million, is not a big number, given that the US print circulation revenue alone is about $10 billion.
The growth rate is just okay, considering, and “rocketing” is decidedly the wrong word.
—It figures that just when I got my new (ahem) iPhone 5 it would be time to break up with Apple.
‘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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
Conrad Black smashes the US injustice system and the court-historian media in one impressive interview. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20036674 Ouch.
#1 Posted by Dan A., CJR on Sat 3 Nov 2012 at 02:04 AM
I wonder why the wingnuts love fraud so much. I don't think this was always true, historically.
#2 Posted by Edward Ericson Jr., CJR on Mon 5 Nov 2012 at 12:10 PM
You'd be surprised:
http://thebaffler.com/past/the_long_con
#3 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Mon 5 Nov 2012 at 01:43 PM