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Media Consumers Are Making Demands

June 17, 2009

I know, I know. I keep asking “Is print really dead?”. But the question comes back to me like an echo with no answer.
When I use the word “print” in this sense, I am not simply referring to printed material. Print in this sense = printed word distributed with a specific circulation by publishers. Imagine [...]

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Choosing Interaction over Consumption

June 15, 2009

In order to have ideas about media, you need to interact with media. You don’t need a degree in communications, and you certainly do not have to be Julia Allison.
Just pick up a magazine or newspaper and think about how you feel when you flip the pages, read the words, and skip over things that [...]

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Doom and Gloom in the Newsroom

June 12, 2009

When I start writing these posts, I usually don’t have a clear-cut idea of what I want to say. More often than not, I begin writing because I want to explore an idea or because another writer’s words made me stop and think.
Today, I am writing simply because I stumbled upon Journalism Is Dead, “a [...]

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Context Clues in the News

June 10, 2009

I just added the Niemen Journalism Lab’s blog to Google Reader, and I really love the innovative video (and accompanying transcript) that they posted today! Matt Thompson, a web editor and web producer who blogs at Newsless.org, shared some innovative ideas about news updates on the web.
The problem: Because many news websites are updated in [...]

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