Will MPR save journalism?

I assure you I’m neither the first nor the last keyboard jockey to ask this post’s titular question, but this article from Ken Doctor has me thinking again about it. (In fact, last time I was on this kick, I was writing about NPR and, a quick check reveals, I used an awfully similar headline.)
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Google will rule the world: Exhibit 51,943

Suggested reading for today’s class: Austin’s earlier dissertation on micropayments.
We all know Google will soon rule the world. Here’s but one more piece of evidence:
According to the Nieman Journalism Lab, Google is developing a tool that will help publishers implement micropayment systems, letting them make pennies or fractions of pennies each time their content is [...]

Reading round-up: Journalists fail, start charging for news and more!

I simply can’t keep up lately with all of the interesting stuff I’m reading and ranting/raging about, wanting to share and to vent, so I’m writing a link-laden round-up post. It’s sort of the blogger’s equivalent of “fuck it, I’m wearing sweatpants today.” We’ll save the substance for the comment discussion, eh?
Irish student hoaxes world’s [...]

Will NPR save the news?

This Fast Company article about NPR — and its ability to kick journalistic ass and take donor names during the thought-to-be unversial media-business downturn — is a great read for anyone who’s intrigued by these “future of journalism” discussions or, more simply, who like a little Kerri Miller in the middle of their mornings.
According to [...]

Journalism happens, often online

Yesterday a group of online journalists were slated to testify before the Minnesota House rules committee. Their aim is to bring about a change of policy with regard to how the House defines a journalist and what types of media outlets could or should have access to the House floor.
I understand the need to make [...]

Pentagon no-photo policy holds no water

President Obama said he is considering whether to overturn a Pentagon policy that bans the media from taking pictures of the flag-draped coffins of U.S. troops returning from the battlefield. (Lead lifted word for word from USA Today; it’s not plagiarism if you link, right?)
The argument the Pentagon and Bush administrations (this was started by [...]

What if newspapers didn’t exist?

This guy thinks we can save newspapers by killing off newspapers’ info-for-free Web sites — temporarily.
So, here’s the proposal: At the stroke of midnight on Independence Day, Saturday July 4, all daily newspapers ought to switch off their Web sites until Friday, July 10.
Call it “A Week Without a Virtual Newspaper.” Call it crazy. Call [...]

Reuters EiC: I ain’t scared

Reuters editor in chief David Schlesinger has spent the week scooping his own news service with on-the-spot reports from World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
And he knows it. And it excites him. “Bring it on,” he exclaims.
Schlesinger has been twittering, blazing fearlessly into the future, I suppose. Sure, some of it’s not exactly breaking news, but [...]

Fixing the Newspaper Business or “Do I Have to Do Everything Around Here?”

This has been on my to-do list for a while but it keeps getting pushed downstream by other, more pressing issues.   The volume of whining – along with the complaints about the whining – has gotten so loud, though, I figured I’d better take an hour or two and get it done:
“#23: Fix newspaper business.”
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Does journalism have a future?

Last night, in a shameless effort to pander to the current and former journalism professors with whom I keep company, the missus and I went to the “Does Journalism Have a Future?” event at the University of Minnesota Monday night. The event was put on by the Minnesota Journalism Center at the U and the [...]