Tag Archives: Journalism

NY Times providing child porn

By alex | Published: 8/19/2006
A lot of newspapers have been shy to link outside of their own news organization: so much so that it is almost a truism. They followed the corporate credo of keeping users on the site. That has changed over the last few years, with more and more traditional news sites willing to include hyperlinks. The […]
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The New Yorker on Wikipedia

By alex | Published: 7/28/2006
The New Yorker has a very nice article on Wikipedia, which sums up the site better than I\’ve seen it done, and (as noted by David Robinson) Wikipedia agrees with that assessment. It will be a nice item to add to introductory social computing readings–something the Atlantic Monthly (esp. Charles Mann) has been a good […]
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Converging mainstream media converage

By alex | Published: 7/7/2006
A book chapter is about to come out in a collection entitled Media Diversity and Localism. When I get proofs, I generally read them out loud, to catch any errors. This time, I recorded it, and if you have a spare half hour, it would make a good bedtime story. Here’s the gist: There is […]
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Online media and the future of journalism

By alex | Published: 6/23/2006
Went last night to a talk at the New York Public Library celebrating Slate’s 10th Birthday, featuring Michael Kinsley, Malcolm Gladwell, Arianna Huffington, Jacob Weisberg, and Norm Pearlstine. Given the topic, “online media and the future of journalism,” it was one of those blogged-to-death deals. I’m slow to the punch, my friend Trebor Scholz wrote […]
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