Maybe news sites CAN take on Craigslist
Last month I wrote a post wondering why newspapers don’t try to take on Craigslist by making their classifieds free (and making money from targeted advertising on a robust, user-friendly, feature-rich...
View ArticleInnovation-by-omission, and other thoughts
I’m writing most of my journalism-related posts at Publishing2.0 these days (“most” meaning the few that I get around to writing). So you should check out a couple recent posts: Why not writing a story...
View ArticleHow the Sunlight Foundation and PolitiFact can make ALL political coverage...
Today’s 2010 Knight-Batten Symposium gave me visions of political debates and speeches transformed from exercises in sound-bitery and emotion into civic lessons and conversations. It gave me visions of...
View ArticleData journalism needs to be more than external data sets
Paul Bradshaw has a good column at Poynter about how the increasing availability of data will force journalists and news organizations to change: Data journalism takes in a huge range of disciplines,...
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