I tried blogging earlier tonight to try to break the spell of the server consuming blog posts while I blog, but it didn’t work. The server stopped responding and ate a blog post. This time, the post does show up in another aggregator (as does something I posted last week and haven’t touched since), so […]
A long time ago, someone asked me to look into whether bloggers actually contributed to the downfall of Mississippi Senator Trent Lott or whether that was just an Internet rumor. Here’s a case study from Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy about the situation. The premise of the study is […]
The Associated Press circulated a wire story today claiming fewer people are using encyclopedias, favoring sources like the Internet instead. Fewer people are even using encyclopedias on CD-ROM. (Seems like I already had this conversation. And yes, there was interaction with other bloggers, so it was a conversation.)
” … With so much free online information, […]
WTSP-TV news researcher Theresa Collington Moore in St. Petersburg, Florida, explains four important ways television stations benefit when they hire a researcher: she can track people down quickly for news stories–a key task during breaking news, background people and subjects, find facts, and develop story ideas based on speculation and rumor (”I read …,” “I […]
An alumni magazine editor discusses some problems surrounding university commnications. Many times, he feels like he’s publishing stories to make a donor happy, to please a faculty member, or because of institutional politics.
He writes: “…just once, I’d like to hear someone say we ought to do a story because the readers will like it—because it […]