September, 2011

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Can You Have Entrepreneurial Journalism without Entrepreneurs?

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In the latest chapter of its ongoing critique of AOL’s hyperlocal news network, Patch , Business Insider last week took aim at the marketing and sales-prospecting efforts the corporation expects its editors to undertake. AOL, BI’s indignant headline says,”Requires Patch Editors To Drum Up Ad Sales Leads.”. You might object to the ethical aspects of combining editing with marketing or sales, or to the excessive workload.

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E-Books: The Next Front for Journalists in Transition

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Over the weekend, I read a couple of blog posts that highlighted for me the shifting battlefront in the digital-media wars. Twitter is no longer a matter for debate among thinking journalists. Twitterland is settled, and the analog natives have either converted or consigned themselves to the dustbin of history. The next front is something quite different: e-books.

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Facebook Subscriptions: Overdrive for Journalists?

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Though I understand its appeal, I’ve never found Facebook compelling. What I’ve taken to be its core assumptions—that one’s world is divided into friends and everyone else, and that all your friends are friends in exactly the same way—just don’t work for me. That’s why I’ve so far stuck with Twitter and its follower model and dallied with Google Plus and its concept of differentiated social circles.

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Social Media and the Blurring of Professional Roles

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In a rare post today, Paul Conley stated the obvious : he doesn’t publish much on his blog anymore. Well, duh–all his fans are painfully aware of that. (If you’re not familiar with Conley, I recommend a thorough study of his archives. Admittedly, that can be depressing for someone like me—Dammit, Conley, why have you always already said what I want to write about, and better than I ever could?

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Like It or Not, Mobile Connectivity Is the New Imperative

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I went on vacation last month, a pleasant road trip up the Pacific coast to Washington state. I didn’t intend it to be an experiment in social media deprivation, but because I had only a dumb cell phone and the occasional borrowed computer, it turned into one. What did I learn by taking a three-week break from social networks? Well, first, despite my digital savvy, I’m not a social media native.

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Should You Publish? A Tale of Two Melvilles

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Not Herman. Is what you write worth publishing? Once upon a time, that wasn’t your choice to make. It used to be that the threshold to publication was as high as the transom. The only way most people could hope to cross it and break into print was through an unlikely toss over a publisher’s front door. The Web, of course, has flung the door wide open, and there are few barriers to publishing left standing.

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Should Journalism Schools Rethink Magazines? (Or Even Journalism Itself?)

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Last week, Susan Currie Sivek wrote about how magazine programs within journalism schools are increasingly giving up on traditional magazines—or as she less cynically puts it, how they are teaching beyond the magazine. It’s the right direction for J schools to take. But does it go far enough? Though I love magazines, I’m not sure any journalism school should have a magazine program.

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