05 Jul, 2010
Posted by: Mark In: this week
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on June 11, 2010.]
The Times has the Pulse (briefly) pulled: Last week, I noted one of the more interesting iPad news apps: The Pulse Reader, designed by two Stanford grad students, is a stylish news aggregator. But on Monday, the app was pulled from the iTunes store [...]
01 Jun, 2010
Posted by: Mark In: this week
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on April 23, 2010.]
Facebook tries to connect the web: Most of the talk on journalism and the web this week was about two tech giants making moves that, for the most part, aren’t making users and commentators happy. The first one I’ll run down is Facebook [...]
20 Mar, 2010
Posted by: Mark In: Uncategorized
[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on March 19, 2010.]
A raft of ideas at SXSW: The center of the journalism-and-tech world this week has been Austin, Texas, site of the annual conference South by Southwest. The part we’re most concerned about — SXSW Interactive — ran from last Friday to Monday. The [...]
30 Jan, 2010
Posted by: Mark In: citizen journalism| social media| theory
Consider this your dictionary for the common phrases in the future-of-journalism world that function as shorthand for big, fundamental ideas.
28 Sep, 2009
Posted by: Mark In: this week
(A little about what I’m doing is here.)
— Clay Shirky talked about journalism this past week, and when he talks about journalism, people listen. Shirky, an NYU prof, has been regarded for years as one of new media’s most respected thinkers. But after his March essay “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable” went viral and reached [...]
11 Sep, 2009
Posted by: Mark In: sports journalism
Last week, a familiar sports media storyline played itself out in Michigan. Detroit Free Press columnist Mike Rosenberg and reporter Mark Snyder wrote an investigative piece with details from a half-dozen current and former Michigan football players about practices that (most likely) violated NCAA rules.
A predictable firestorm erupted, with national media taking notice, Michigan coach [...]
I don’t have any big, long manifestos to get us started, but I should explain briefly what conversation I’m joining with this blog, and why I’m joining it now. (If you want to know a little bit about who I am and what I do, my About page is a good place to begin.)
I came [...]