17 Jun, 2010
Posted by: Mark In: this week
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on May 7, 2010.]
Has Newsweek’s time come?: This week was a relatively quiet one until Wednesday, when The Washington Post Co. announced that it’s trying to sell Newsweek, which it’s owned since 1961. A possible sale doesn’t always signal the demise of a news organization, but [...]
27 Mar, 2010
Posted by: Mark In: social media
For many people at the intersection of the journalism-tech-media discussion, Twitter has moved well beyond the “What I had for lunch” cliche (if it ever was that in the first place), past being a fun new technology to experiment (read: waste time) with, and into a place by itself as the essential distributed source of [...]
22 Feb, 2010
Posted by: Mark In: this week
[This review was first posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 29, 2010.]
The iPad’s big reveal: Apple unveiled its new tablet — the unfortunately named iPad— on Wednesday, a week before the Super Bowl, and the buzz was as least as big: The Internet practically broke under the weight of the hype for Apple’s latest product. Rather than [...]
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 Dec, 2009
Posted by: Mark In: this week
I’ve spent the past week alternately shoveling through snow drifts and being stranded away from home with family by a good old-fashioned Nebraska blizzard, so I haven’t had much time to check out what’s been said about media and journalism this week. On the other hand, I’ll be in Portland visiting friends next weekend, so [...]