Nick Bergus Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things

More on this later, but this is a great example of operating in the so-called “link economy” by recognizing that more can be made from becoming a reliable source of information by linking to stories from others (even your competitors) than by producing your own duplicate version.
First came this:

Then came this:

Yes, that is the Chicago [...]

Right above Kurt Michael Friese’s column in today’s Press-Citizen is Michael Knock’s column all about Kurt Michael Friese.
But nowhere in the 3,000-inch story (a Q-and-A style piece takes up the majority of the the feature front and then jumps inside for another half-page of broadsheet real estate) about Mr. Friese’s new book does anyone acknowledges [...]

Ralph Gross remembered the glory days of The Des Moines Register and he didn’t like what it had become.
“Thirty years ago,” he wrote in a 2005 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, “I would pass in front of the Register building and with great pride read a display that said: ‘The Des Moines Register has won [...]