Nuts & Bolts
Reporter/Blogger/Reporting/Blogging
Tim Carmody tries to take apart both the reporter/blogger split and the reporting/blogging split. Now, are different from what it means to be a blogger or a reporter. The [Read More]
Business
Talking to managers that aren’t the solution
Everybody has blind spots, handicaps in the way we see and perceive the world. I know [Read More]
Niles’s five beats for new local sites
Robert Niles writes at OJR about the five beats he’d create were he starting a [Read More]
Portfolios
Above and beyond the simple resume and copy-and-pasted clips is the online portfolio, and [Read More]
Future
Curmudgeonry in journalism
Bryan Murley dismembers some journalism pundits’ recurring concerns that journalism [Read More]
Newsroom change efforts often focus on wrong employee groups
Michele McLellan makes a very smart point in saying that leaders of efforts to change [Read More]
Thoughts
If every journalist is an online journalist, journalists who aren’t online don’t exist
Here’s a bombastic statement: There is absolutely no valid reason not to be online at this time. If you’re employed by a traditional media company (or indeed, many others), you might not be able to do everything online that you want because of policies and [Read More]
Journalism School
Journalism is truly learned by doing, I think, but journalism schools still have a vital function.Whether at the beginning [Read More]