Ryan Thornburg
With the start of the new semester at UNC today, it’s a good time for a “What did you do over vacation?” post. For journalism students who have a sincere interest in online, they probably spent the break teaching themselves new technology.
Exhibit A: Greg Linch, editor for online and multimedia at The Miami Hurricane.
I normally try to avoid giving public advice to my former employers. But, with it having little chance of helping or hurting any of my former colleagues at this late point in the decision process, I’m going to fire away.
Dear Washington Post Deciders,
You need to merge the print and online newsrooms immediately. There is no time to spare. Oh, and you need to keep them separate.
Continue reading “Open Letter to Washington Post: Keep the Frontier Open”
With the new Pew report out this week, a lot of people are wondering this: Is there “evidence in the survey that what the internet did to newspapers may soon happen to television”?
First, the Internet didn’t do anything to newspapers that the 1970s didn’t do more effectively.
Second, these aren’t the right questions to ask.
If Chapel Hill had a patron saint of town-gown relations, it might have been Rebecca Clark. The 93-year-old woman was not only a leader in the area’s black community, but the mother of the late Doug Clark, who entertained generations of frat parties with his band, The Hot Nuts.
Ms. Clark died on Saturday. But the Triangle’s newspapers should ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.
Continue reading “Activist’s Death Takes Toll on Newspapers”
I’d agree with this post from Andria Krewson — “technology will not replace human contact that reminds government employees to provide public information to the public.” Hopefully that elicits a big fat “no-duh” from most readers of this blog. But here’s how people and machines will work in newsrooms of the future …