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Washington Post: Print-Heads vs. Web-Heads

The recent cuts at the Washington Post (WPO) — as reported by Politico and Washington’s City Paper — have once again brought to the surface a culture clash that has been going on in mainstream newsrooms for most of the last decade, and one that shows ...

From MATHEW INGRAM, ETF Investor,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company

Walking the walk on transparency

Openness and transparency and all of those wonderful attributes are easy to defend in the abstract, but the real test of our commitment to them comes when we try to implement them in a specific, real-world case. I found myself in that situation ...

From MATHEW INGRAM, Nieman Journalism Lab,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Craig Newmark,  New York Times Company

The story behind a deleted post

I n a post written earlier today on our books blog, In Other Words , online books editor Peter Scowen expressed some strong opinions about an internal Globe and Mail workshop we held a few days ago that looked at the issue of "search engine optimization" ...

From MATHEW INGRAM, Globe and Mail,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Danny Sullivan

Is transparency the new objectivity? 2 visions of journos on social media

Nothing brings home the clash of cultures between “new” and “old” media like the debates over social-media policies at mainstream publications like the New York Times and the Washington Post. Earlier this year, the Times was in the spotlight for its ...

From MATHEW INGRAM, Nieman Journalism Lab,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Howard Kurtz,  Rafat Ali,  Jeff Jarvis,  Amy Gahran

Micropayments for news: The holy grail or just a dangerous delusion?

No matter how many times people like Clay Shirky or Mike Masnick try to pop the bubble of faith around micropayments as a cure for what ails the newspaper industry (or even the media industry as a whole), another believer emerges to argue that a secure ...

From MATHEW INGRAM, Nieman Journalism Lab,  21 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Clay Shirky,  Google Inc.,  Wall Street Journal,  TiVo Inc.

Newspapers get the kind of communities they deserve

Since I became the first “communities editor” for The Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto almost a year ago, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what makes for a good community — a healthy community — and what makes for a bad one. I’ve looked at ...

From MATHEW INGRAM, Nieman Journalism Lab,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Craig Newmark

Real Journalists vs. Bloggers: Which Journalism Will Prevail?

C.W. Anderson — @chanders on Twitter — has an update to his recent post at Nieman Journalism Lab, which tried to go beyond the binary “real journalists vs. bloggers” equation to look at online and traditional journalism entities on an axis related to ...

From MATHEW INGRAM, Seeking Alpha,  10 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Gawker, the WaPo and the death of journalism

In yet another exhibit in the ongoing debate about what constitutes fair use online, Washington Post reporter Ian Shapira writes about how Gawker Media “ripped off” a recent story he wrote. In addition to this pejorative (and arguably also inaccurate) ...

From MATHEW INGRAM, AgoraVox,  4 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Gawker Media,  Google Inc.,  Jeff Jarvis,  Twitter Inc

Welcome to the social network, where your privacy has to be flexible

Privacy? What a quaint idea. Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy said a decade ago that we have no privacy any more, and that we had better start getting used to it. That may be overstating the case a little, but the uncomfortable reality of our ...

From MATHEW INGRAM, Globe and Mail,  16 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  Scott McNealy,  Twitter Inc,  Flickr

Your privacy has to be flexible

Privacy? What a quaint idea. Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy said a decade ago that we have no privacy any more, and that we had better start getting used to it. That may be overstating the case a little, but the uncomfortable reality of our ...

From MATHEW INGRAM, Globe and Mail,  16 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  Scott McNealy,  Twitter Inc,  Flickr

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