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

A story posted by KCRG warns potential renters and home buyer about the dangers of finding property online! As technology improves, criminals keep finding new ways to scam people. Realtors say more and more con artists are trying to take advantage of people looking to buy or rent homes online. See, Realtors nowadays have to [...]

An ocean adventurer who bears a resemblance to Christopher Columbus or Odysseus Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune

The Des Moines Register has finally found someone to replace longtime political columnist David Yepsen. Kathie Obradovich, the paper’s poltical editor, took the post. The Register‘s story announcing the change mentioned, in a throwaway line at the end, that Obradovich “is married to Jim Obradovich, a lobbyist for multiple Iowa organizations including the Iowa Environmental [...]

This comes by way of a friend who works at a Florida paper. Let’s not forget that as much as we think newspapers and news organizations need to change, we as journalists live in a bubble. It’s wrong to assume everyone of our readers is like us. Readers don’t tend to get pissed off about [...]

Online news: now savvier, hipper, more Web 2.0-ier! More ads! Still not making money! (Hat tip to Matt Waite, whom you should follow on Twitter because he’s smarter about these things than you are.)

Getting a job in journalism isn’t easy, but here’s some advice for journalism students.

One of the big changes in journalism these days has nothing to do the death of print or any other medium. Rather it’s this: journalists have a wide array of new, powerful tools available for news and information gathering. “I hate the term ‘computer-assisted reporting. It’s as ridiculous term as ‘notebook-assisted reporting,’” said  Steve Buttry, [...]

I complain about The Gazette in this space a lot, partially because it’s a good target as the largest media company in the Corridor Crandic, and partially because I want it to be a great organization. So, today, some kudos. Todd Dorman is a guy who gets it. Three columns a week about stuff that [...]

In Monday’s Corridor Business Journal is the first of what we plan to be a monthly media column that I will write with John Goodlove. In this installment, we wrote about the recent announcement that The Gazette is restructuring its newsroom, and the following staff uneasiness. Mr. Goodlove is a grizzled newspaper veteran while I’m [...]

Today I’m reminded of a lesson I learned in a reporting 101 class: People die. People do not pass away. They do not meet Jesus. They do not cross over. They are not lost. People die.