Busy dissertating, preparing to move to Memphis, getting ready to start a new job, and planning a wedding, I didn’t notice this article by Howell Raines until a journalist friend of mine sent it to me.
Apparently Raines thinks that Romeneko’s “gossip” site “inadvertently ushered in the era of fact-free journalism.”
Huh?
Does anybody else find it a [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 25, 2008
Why Raines is Wrong About Romenesko
June 18, 2008
Failures of Leadership: If Only YOU Would Just Let Go Of The Past…
The following quote from a recent speech given by Media News Group CEO Dean Singleton (posted by Jon Fine of Business Week here) exemplifies the attitude many leaders are taking toward change, even though most would not express it quite this directly or harshly:
Too many whining editors, reporters and newspaper unions continue to bark at [...]
June 11, 2008
More on Newspaper Profits
My friend Jonathan Groves, also a PhD student at Mizzou, former long-time reporter, editor, and Web geek, and instructor at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, had an interesting rebuttal/addendum to my previous post, and he even has an MBA. I think it’s great to have conversations like this that help us to really understand what [...]
June 11, 2008
Can We Read the Writing on the Wall?
At the risk of being depressing, I feel that I have to write about something that has been bugging me for awhile now. Please correct me if you think I’m wrong as I’m not trying to pretend to be an economist — maybe there is something I’m missing.
We all know that the newspaper industry is [...]
June 9, 2008
Back. Back Again.
Sorry for the brief blog hiatus! Er. Well, that’s assuming that anybody actually misses my pontifications, which is probably unlikely. Anyway. The past couple of weeks have been pretty crazy. Last week I headed down to Memphis, where I will be an assistant professor of journalism starting this fall, to [...]
