Last week Jeff Jarvis must’ve said it a half-dozen times: News is a conversation. The past couple days I’ve been wondering what that means. As I noted yesterday, news has been one-way from the get-go: we report, you consume. The…
Bringing blogs and newspapers together
Say you work at a newspaper whose circulation is larger than 300,000 … big enough that it needs to cover major regional stories and localize national ones. A paper this size is just big enough that it needs to devote…
Job update
TV Guide: Copy editor Nashville Tennessean: Part-time copy editor Washington City Paper: Temporary copy editorAlbuquerque Journal: Assistant design director Palm Beach Post: Sports design directorHonolulu Advertiser: page designer Dallas Morning News: News copy editor Houston Chronicle: Features copy editor/inside page…
TV news truisms
From Steve Safran at Lost Remote (nod to BuzzMachine for the link), who offers a ton of eternal truths that seem strikingly familiar to the stuff we see every day. THE LAW OF NEWS CONSPIRACIES Those who believe there is…
Latest plagiarism news
Slate tries to figure who that New York Times guy actually plagiarized.
Willcopy’s back
The guy behind Stylin’ and Smilin’ has a fresh post — he’s been away for a month getting himself moved from Orlando to his new job on the features desk at the Fresno Bee — and wants to know what…