The longest post in the history of Journerdism, ever.

In an effort to get totally caught up, below is the longest post in the history of Journerdism.com, ever. I know what you’re thinking, “IANRTLB, Will.” But I promise there’s something worth your time in here. Or you get your money back.

  • A video challenge from Bakersfield.com
    “Using a point-and-shoot camera and free video editing software, I bet my people could produce a video that would get as many views on an online video site like YouTube as something produced with a $1,000 camera and video editing software to match.”
  • Pace Of Downsizing Accelerates
    “The media industry eliminated 17,809 jobs last year, almost twice as many as were slashed in 2005, the outplacement consulting firm Challenger Gray & Christmas Inc. reported from Chicago this week, a trend they say is expected to continue this year.”
  • Freedom Interactive ‘Tearing Out the Infrastructure’
    “Mathieu has gotten a budget approved to hire up to 80 staffers – it is currently up to 40 — and laid out the blueprint of what’s now being called “The Phoenix Project.” And……. it looks a lot like Gannett’s Information Center…”
  • Craigslist Founder Seeks Online Trust for Journalism
    “Somehow, the craigslist community–its users and company–has constructed a culture of trust. Basically people feel they should treat others as they want to be treated. Where we start from on craigslist is in trusting people…”
  • SPECIAL REPORT: Can Online Ads Save Us?
    “Each unique newspaper online user, he notes, might bring in somewhere between $5 to $10 dollars in ad revenue. Compare that to one print reader (or one unit of circulation) at a regional newspaper, who he says brings $1,000 in revenue.”
  • LA Times: The sleeper awakens
    “Our Bluffton Today was one of the case studies examined by Times reporters in their research. Can the Times be a newspaper of national stature and a family of hyperlocal, personally relevant products? This is going to be interesting.”
  • News video on the cheap
    Daily afternoon pdf edition! I’m surprised more papers haven’t experimented with this earlier. … What did I just say? I’m not surprised at all that newspapers haven’t experimented.
  • CSS Superdouche
    Daughter: Mom, do you ever get that . . . not-so-fresh feeling after building a site? Mom: But of course! Daughter: So how do you deal with it? Mom: CSS Superdouche
  • Segway | Concept Centaur
    Segway introduces a 4-wheeler for the environmentally conscious hillbilly*. Btw: Where’s the flying car futuristic inventors of America? * = Not all 4 wheel drivers are hillbillies.

  • Washington Tries Its Best To Kill Internet Radio
    I’m not sure who really listens to internet radio besides sports fans that dig obscure teams that don’t play on ESPN (GO ROCKETS!) … But either way, I’m not a fan of killing many things on the internet.
  • buzz.mn
    Despite what the URL says, this is not the place to get your Mongolian Buzz on. It’s the Star Tribune’s sexy new community journalism product.
  • The Need to Reinvent Journalism While We Can
    “Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) reported its annual revenue from membership and individual gifts was about $11.7 million for the fiscal year that ended in June 2006. So people are willing to pay for a very high quality product…”
  • LEGO church
    Jesus Christ! Meet thy maker! Lego be thy name!
  • Newspapers’ industrial suicide
    “The bottom line is that they are making it hard for national advertisers to buy their sites — thus, easier to buy Yahoo, Google, MSN, MySpace, et al. You see, newspapers all think they’re special. But they’re not.”
  • Time to end beat reporting
    While I partially agree that beats should be switched up more often to break up bedroom deals with sources, this kind of report-on-anything-any-day approach would take some serious information infrastructure to support the same level of reporting. The whole beat system is based on developing local ‘experts’ with deep knowledge of a certain facets of the community–cops, women’s basketball, higher education, etc. Newpapes would first need to rid themselves of heir egos and start constantly sharing information and reporting notes with each other, ideally through a Derek Willis-esque “Rivers of Data” newsroom wiki so that no tidbit of information exits the building without being archived in the institutional memory and accessible to everyone in the organization. Even then, I’m still not really a fan of doing away with beats.
  • A ‘good enough’ replacement for journalism?
    “To connect with the new passive majority, you need to be engaged in a broad conversation (that largely isn’t about news), and professional journalism simply has not yet figured out how to do that.”
  • Browning’s letter to Tony Ridder
    I had the great pleasure of working with Michael Browning on a couple multimedia projects before he passed away. He was an awesome guy. One of those legendary reporters with absolutely no ego. And he dug multimedia. He will be honored a a big this Friday at the Post, if you’re interested lemme know and I can get you details. Anyway, 12 years ago he wrote a letter to Tony Ridder about all the changes taking place at the Miami Herald (where he worked at the time) to satisfy Wall Street. It’s a pretty awesome letter, and very sad if you think about how things have gone in the past 12 years. Imagine 12 years from now where things will be. (Via Justin “Pinkie” Gilken)

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01.29.07 / 6am
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