The Carnival of Journalism must go on!
Hey everyone! We had some casualties this month, but The March Carnival of Journalism must go on! (Updates will be posted as they come in)
DIGIDAVE: Re-Thinking the Inverted Pyramid and Other Artifacts of Newsroom Culture
“My point is simple to take a step back - realize we are ingrained in a culture that was defined a long time ago - and systematically unpack everything we do. From how we contact sources (phone and email versus Facebook or Twitter) to how we see as our final goal (to inform versus to enable).”
ONLINE JOURNALISM BLOG : What is a publisher’s “duty of care” to bloggers?
“Do you have a formal duty of care or contract drawn up with bloggers? When a blog post goes viral like this, what procedures are put into place (e.g. increased monitoring of comments, informing or discussing with the blogger, dealing with comments off-site etc.)? What would your advice be to bloggers caught up in a similar situation? What would your advice be to publishers?”
MY MUSINGS 2.0: The first rule of blogging for journalists (and everyone else)
“Dead blogs are ignored by the community. Once you stop posting for a few days, your readership declines. People stop cruisng by. If you stop posting for a few weeks, you’re in trouble. And, if you stop posting for months, forget about it. Your blog is just another hunk of dead weight on the outskirts of cyberspace. ”
RANDOM MUMBLINGS: That New Coke moment
“The ability of a company in the midst of a downturn or tightening financial conditions to invest in innovation and emerging opportunities is so counterintuitive that it takes guts not consensus.”
COMMON SENSE JOURNALISM: “Maybe they missed the session on anonymous sources?”
“Don’t give me the “balance” argument — that’s he said-she said journalism. Doing so anonymously lets the scoundrels off the hook. (And besides, Kang essentially parroted the funding stuff in the next graf, though pointing out that its lobbying budget is far less than the budgets of its opponents.)”
