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

The candy jar on Daniel Victor’s TBD.com desk Daniel Victor’s How TBD’s candy jar is a seamless metaphor for news site participation So my new mission was to create a sustainable, crowdsourced candy jar operation, beneficial to all but cumbersome to none. To do this, it’s not enough to simply rely on your reputation as [...]

Janet Coats’ Changes at TBD show Godzilla just keeps winning Apologies for blockquoting 50 percent of the original post, but there were so many media metaphors I couldn’t help it. — Nick Bill Clinton I don’t envy the folks at TBD.com, especially those in leadership positions. I’ve been in that awkward position of trying to balance [...]

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 [...]

Robert Allbritton, quoted in Paul Farhi’s TBD.com making its move into the crowded market of local news in 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 grocer and so on. [...]