My mentor, friend, and former boss at the Committee of Concerned Journalists, Bill Kovach (this is he and I at my CCJ going away party in 2005), came to talk to a lunchtime gathering of the Missouri Journalism School today about the future of news. Nobody can articulate big thoughts about journalism the [...]
The New Yorker piece on the demise of the American newspaper by Eric Alterman has been buzzing about among most folks I know for quite awhile now, so I’m assuming that many people have read it.
My favorite part of the article — and maybe this is for no other intellectual reason aside from the [...]
To state the obvious: Openness and personality aren’t words that naturally come to mind when one thinks about Wal-Mart, of all businesses.
However, it appears that even this retail behemoth has embraced what one might call a form of transparency and heeded the call of many Internet researchers who note that authenticity, personality, and interactivity are [...]
