Mediacology

One thing I learned from working at newspapers and magazines is that journalism school graduates write the least interesting stories. So I find it quite funny to learn that when it comes to new media, some at Columbia Journalism School are not rolling over easily.

Columbia J-School’s Existential Crisis — Daily Intel — New York News [...]

The Atlantic ponders the end of the NYT, and doesn’t see the sky falling. Nor do I. People will probably scoff at my attitude, but will the world be less whole if we no longer have print newspapers? I find it curious that many so-called media reformers idealize the heyday of diverse newspapers and a [...]

The New York Times – Video Library – Magazine Playlist

Click the above link to see what I consider to be one of the coolest presentations ever using simple desktop tools (the content doesn’t much interest me). The potential for this kind of vlogging is incredibly appealing because it allows for addressing the audience via webcame [...]

A great article From The Economist print edition on the possibilities of “citizen journalism” as traditional newspapers decline:
Journalism too is becoming interactive, and maybe better
Craig Newmark, of Craigslist, says that “journalism needs to become a community service rather than a profit centre,” and is working on making this happen. As The State of the News [...]

VS.
Some stories lend themselves to great headlines (“Cocaine cola a real buzz” for instance), but the demise of the Village Voice tends to not offer much humor (except in the Twainian sense of “news of my death is greatly exagerated”). I have mixed feelings. For those of you [...]

Implicit in the following LA Times story is a lament from the industry (yet more evidence that all media do is report on themselves) that the era of an informed citizenry is a thing of the past because there will be no infrastructure for information gathering. Corporate media love to think of themselves as the [...]