In the sensory overload world, eliminating clutter and streamlining work flow can be a challenge. You can’t have that big picture success without an attention to detail. I have two good examples - one for photographers and one for editors - of pushing through nonsense to get the job done. Bring on back the Monday [...]
Talk about economic recovery! New Hampshire welcomed back the Claremont Eagle Times. The newspaper shut the doors and laid everyone off in July 2009. The new owner is Sample News Group - a company that owns several local papers along the east coast. By my research, the two are perfect partners. Both entities fly very [...]
Photojournalism’s digital alteration prevention strategy seems to be to wait for an infraction, blame photographer, check photographer off list of future offenders, put ethics in check, feel better about industry, wait for next infraction.
Perhaps digital alteration will always be the case of a rogue photographer. But we won’t know because we tend not to discuss [...]
Industries are tripping over themselves to develop innovative ways to make money, use social media, keep their day jobs and produce work all at the same time. Signs that we are picking up speed to happier times or heading into a tunnel of desperation?
Jane Hamsher, a writer and movie producer (Natural Born Killers), created firedoglake [...]
A Chicago Reader blogger reports that a Chicago Tribune reader is one tough customer. Coleen Davison has not been happy with a perceived decline of substance and increase in pop culture coverage in the wake of the Tribune company’s financial turmoil and redesign in the fall of 2008. She participated in a reader survey to [...]
Centralized but devolved. Integrated pods. Platform-neutral editors. All key concepts in creating the new, new newsroom. Innovation is so last month. Meetings are also old school. New term is ‘checkpoints.’ Crafty consultants with their smoke screen terminology. Check out a story about a streamlined Guardian in their better building here. Fancy floor plan. The photographers [...]
Deals to be had! The Kalish is on sale because like any good editor, they want you to come in under budget. June 12-16, 2009. $500!
What did I learn at Kalish? Photojournalists can be fragile. I’m not so fragile. People from northern Minnesota tend toward absurd strong-as-ox behavior regardless of reality. And we assume everyone [...]
FishbowlDC reported that Tom Kennedy, managing editor of multimedia at The Washington Post resigned Feb. 3 and will leave the office Feb. 13. A job vacancy at a newspaper?! Where he is going no one is saying (on record).
General industry news. If you are looking for help crafting your proposal as to why your newspaper [...]
Each month, Wired magazine publishes Jargon Watch - a collection of new ‘it’ words. Take December 2008, one of the nouns to make the list:
“Frolleague n. A work colleague friended on a social networking site and thus granted access to personal information, from blog entries to stag party pics, that may be perceived as less [...]
The meltdown of newspapers is suddenly big, big news. Coincidence that the industry became a media darling after the Chicago Tribune threatened bankruptcy? Hometown of President-elect Obama where a bazillion journalists are camped out waiting for the journey east? However we got in the media spotlight (including a sketch on The Daily Show!), with [...]
