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

Glue factory Wayne MacPhail’s How Journalism Teachers are Failing, and How to Stop It on Mediashift And, frankly, looking to most newsrooms for best online practice is like visiting a glue factory to learn about race horses.

The eternal squeaking wheel Dean Starkman’s The Hamster Wheel, in the Columbia Journalism Review Without getting into whether newspapers are worse or better than before—let’s concede they’re fabulous; that’s why everyone loves them so much—we should pause for a second and think about the implications of the do-more-with-less meme that is sweeping the news business. I call it the [...]

A supermarket for news Robert Allbritton, quoted in Paul Farhi’s TBD.com making its move into the crowded market of local news, from The Washington Post Right now, [getting local news on the Web] is like trying to buy groceries in the old country. First you went to the fishmonger, then to the baker, then the [...]

A farting killer dog Adrian Monck’s Can apps save news journalism? [W]here does the rise of the app leave the news business, the flatulent Rottweiler in the dog shelter of online content? Can apps give it a caring home at last? Moses wandering the wilderness David Cohn’s Generations in the Desert – Thoughts from Aspen [...]