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 [...]
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 [...]
Thought I would share a couple of things I’ve read out there on those darn Internets that have puzzled me lately.
First is Poynter’s Rick Edmonds calling for newspapers to substantially raise their prices, noting that US newspapers are much more of a bargain in the United States than in most places abroad, especially in an [...]
Journalists clearly aren’t the only ones dealing with major upheaval. According to this piece in CNNMoney.com, an interesting new study found that 83 percent of global CEOs see major changes ahead as they aim to retool their business models to better serve the “information omnivore,” a new breed of consumer that demands a wide [...]
Venerable journalist and dear friend and mentor Bill Kovach said it himself just last week: “The Wall” is Gone. Blown to smithereens.
Of course, editorial independence from advertising remains one of the core values of journalism, as the author of the Elements of Journalism clearly knows. However, communication between the parts of [...]
