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to very delibaretly picking a handful of trusted sources and authors and bloggers which provide a much more efficient way of getting a view of the world at the same time all my not so media savvy friends tend to become stressed out newsjunkies getting lost in the ocean of sugar coated peanuts in an age of everything is realtime and therefore news it s tempting at first and then it gets overwhelming and frustrating jeff as for the role of editors which is what you re really talking about i agree in a completely open world there s more need for editing read no gatekeeping but selection digging vetting and adding perspective than before as i said above i think we re heading to an architecture not just technical but in a business sense of needing to support find send audience to journalism at its source we hope this powers that finally it s also necessary for editors to present not just their coverage but their coverage in the context of other coverage here s our story says the times of anytown and here s the coverage of the timeses of new york london and india these i hope will be tools that help you and your harried friends which is all of us find better coverage coverage closer to events coverage from different perspectives posted by howard at 10 20 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 09 2007 death by blandness michael wolfe s analysis of newspapers in vanity fair is typically shallow but he has a vicious touch that makes reading him nearly irresistable for instance consider the way he mentions gannett s long unsuccessful search for a star ceo and concludes that they were forced to settle for in the description of one newspaper insider i know dennis fitzsimons s idiot brother indeed one of the few points he makes that seems unassailably true to me is the assertion that blandness has become the chief disease of modern american newspapers quoth he in this public utility age of newspapers the institutional blandness which resulted reporters themselves once clever and disreputable became something like public service employees seeing themselves with the beleaguered virtue of schoolteachers helped turn newspapers into a medium for old people newspapers are for people who remember newspapers in some sense newspapers became the inverse of media designed not to be noticed if we re gonna die let s go down swinging howard weaver posted by howard at 12 55 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday january 08 2007 iraqi staffers start blogging iraqi staffers at the mcclatchy bureau in baghdad have starting posting items at inside iraq a group blog hosted by the washington bureau their contributions so far touch widely varied subjects in varying levels of literary style but all have a raw authentic quality i think adds an arresting verisimilitude to the postings howard weaver posted by howard at 3 58 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest about blogs journalism in the aftermath of the duke lacrosse story few newspaper editors will be more familiar with the blogosphere than our own melanie sill at the news observer that was just the most recent of numerous occasions upon which the paper s energetic and unsparing journalism has run afoul of particularly passionate bloggers that makes mel s thoughtful post on journalism and blogs especially noteworthy her observations and links to useful commentary like this from malcolm gladwell are definitely worth your consideration good journalism is defined by what it is not who does it journalism involves a discipline of accuracy verification fairness public mindedness and truth telling as part of democracy it empowers citizens by informing them holds people in power accountable to the rest of us and conversely takes responsibility for its own actions howard weaver posted by howard at 11 37 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest readers rely on newspapers this story about a recent gallup poll leaves nearly as many questions unanswered as it addresses but the there s good news here for newspapers highlights include the fact that people cite newspapers as their primary daily news source over the internet by 2 to 1 44 versus 22 in addition another 13 use newspapers at least several times a week pushing steady useage up to 57 i was also glad to note that after recent declines in newspaper use it s been steady at 44 for a couple of years now a taste despite all of the publicity about people fleeing to the web for their daily news diet the gallup survey found that twice as many still rely on newspapers 44 daily vs 22 daily for internet use the rapid growth in the internet news audience may have slowed in the last two years and cable news viewership has declined gallup reports posted by howard at 9 55 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday january 06 2007 blogging as a reporting tool former print reporter justin rood is working these days as a blogger at tpmmuckraker a spin off of the popular liberal blog talking points memo he writes a piece for cbs here that describes the transition and what his new medium means it has some useful insights though i d caution that rood tends to conflate his particular experience with blogging in general a generalization that doesn t work for me he bemoans the necessity of being constantly on duty so as not to miss the momentary scoops of the blogosphere yawn for a fine example of blogging that isn t driven by that evanescent impulse i d recommend eric black and the big question at startribune com the most intriguing of rood s observations is his description of how important his readers have become as sources and tipsters as with dan gillmor s initial insight years ago as a silicon valley reporter my readers always knew more than i did this is evidence of the real power inherent in the distributed reporting model the same was true in the old days as well i always knew that in the days after publication of a big scoop i d learn things from readers that i wished i had known before but following up on our once daily publication schedule lacked the timeliness or ability to iterate that s available in blogs there is power here for reporting as we learn to harness it better howard weaver posted by howard at 10 36 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday january 04 2007 racist remarks in comments this post at lost remote links to an appalling story about racist comments at the sun sentinel newspaper s site some of the comments that follow it are well worth your attention as well managing this kind of abuse is clearly a moving target for news companies as many of you have discovered yet manage it we do and must in the main i m a proponent of the approach steve yelvington suggests in his reponse and in his further musing at his own blog here and i like this approach to thinking about the issue which came from taylor walsh s comment at yelvington s site gradually i though of the spaces we were providing for these conversations similar to a saloon with a collection of tables where people gathered to talk about whatever we were the proprietor of the space a private proprietor of commercial space and welcomed the public and pointed to the sign on the wall that read no spitting fighting or flamewars we reserved the right to toss out anyone who was ruining the experience for everyone else howard weaver posted by howard at 10 27 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday january 03 2007 ads on the front page well at least on the front page of this blog trained observers like you will have noticed no doubt that a single line of google adsense advertising now appears or soon will appear above the lead post here on etaoin shrdlu it s not some sinister intrusion or a harebrained plan to bail us out the current revenue malaise i just thought it would be interesting to see whether this blog would attract any of google s contextual advertising it takes a while for them to categorize us apparently if so what the ads would be about and finally what it would pay i ll provide a full accounting if we make any money here howard weaver posted by howard at 8 11 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest google game set match here s the quickest possible summary of what richard skrenta argues in a recent blog post about google s market power ibm 1950 1980 microsoft 1984 1998 google 2001 his essential insight seems unasailable to me to paraphrase an old comment about ibm made during its 30 year dominance of the enterprise mainframe market google is not your competition google is the environment google is the start page for the internet the net isn t a directed graph it s not a tree it s a single point labeled g connected to 10 billion destination pages now not all of his conclusions are as certain but i found the arguments mighty persuasive basically if you can t beat em join em online businesses which struggle against this new reality will pay opportunity costs both in online advertising revenue as well as product success competitors such as yahoo should quickly move to align themselves with this inevitability yahoo could add an extra 1 5b to their revenue overnight by conceding monetization to google and becoming a distribution partner for adwords as ask jeeves did what does this mean for newspapers as you know five our our papers are now part of a beta test in which google basically runs a bid ask auction for print newspaper space early results i am told are positive what if google was in charge of monetizing our online advertising howard weaver posted by howard at 2 41 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 02 2007 corrections and clarifications december 30 2006 12 39 am nick coleman s column on page b1 friday incorrectly stated the mcclatchy company s operating margins mcclatchy had an operating margin of 18 6 percent in 1998 the year it bought the star tribune its operating margin last year was 19 percent in 1998 mcclatchy s free cash flow was 28 3 percent as measured by earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization in 2005 its free cash flow was 25 percent posted by howard at 9 42 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the new wall street journal those of you who read the printed wsj will certainly have noticed that today s the debut of its new design instantly different narrower new typeface somewhat more modular layout it s an attractivenew package and this initial offering is as you might expect packed with impressive features you can read the publisher s letter here and download a hefty pdf of their readers guide here take a look howard weaver posted by howard at 9 23 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday january 01 2007 ten media trends that ought to concern you peter kann had his troubles as ceo at dow jones but he s a smart guy and was a good reporter you d enjoy this opinion piece on what needs mending in the press from his intro thomas jefferson a better president than we ve had in a very long time penned a line back in 1787 were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government i would not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter by 1807 in his seventh year as president and after seven years of being subjected to severe press criticism he wrote i deplore the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity the vulgarity and the mendacious spirit of those who write them howard weaver posted by howard at 7 12 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest identifying trusted voices i hadn t seen this mercury news story when i wrote about the jeff jarvis commentary below but it s absolutely on point the story contrasts systems that simply let readers rank stories according to their taste like digg com versus a non profit site called newstrust that asks for a much more nuanced evaluation newstrust s more thoughtful approach can yield dramatically different top stories on tuesday newstrust s users selected top ten myths about iraq 2006 from a blog written by juan cole president of the global americana institute digg s top story was 50 reasons why it s great to be a guy from a blog written by someone named mike in los angeles reddit a digg competitor that was recently acquired by conde nast featured why ipods are never on sale from salon com iraq versus ipods that kind of sums it up howard weaver posted by howard at 4 25 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest newer posts older posts home subscribe 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