studying the media ecosystem
The Society for New Communications Research has published a rather provocative essay in which information technology editor Paul Gillin predicts that the collapse of the newspaper industry will lead to a renaissance in journalism. I’m not sure that I agree on either end of that prediction, either as regards the collapse (the word conjures an image [...]
All 28 members of a House committee voted to pass strong, new whistleblower protections in February. That’s a strong start to a bill that the Government Accountability Project says “will create a gold standard for public employees free speech rights.”
This proposal must still clear the full House, pass the Senate and get signed. But how encouraging to [...]
This question came from a citizen journalist who’d rather remain anonymous:
Under what circumstances is it legitimate for a public figure to decline interviews? And if they decline can they insist that their denial remain off the record?
I’m going to answer that question directly and then address some thoughts to what I think may be the larger problem from [...]
(Josh Wolf is a freelance journalist and anarchist. He has been jailed for refusing to turn over videotapes of a protest being investigated by a federal grand jury. Online Journalism Review has written about his case; here is a bit more from Wikipedia. On Friday, December 1, 2006, I ran a reminder of his incarceration. [...]
When I used the analogy of an Amish barn raising yesterday to reintroduce the idea of forming a media cooperative, I didn’t have the presence of mind to mention one of the prime reasons for this choice: I assume from the outset that any assembly of creative/political people will be unstable. “Like herding cats,” one critic said in a [...]
A little over 15 years ago, while I was briefly living in New York City, I took part in an Amish barn raising. A series of arsons inflicted on one Amish community in Pennsylvania had been reported by the New York Times, which also published the date and locale of the barn-raising. I’ve always been handy and, being curious [...]
(I’ll be doing an interviewing workshop tonight at the Social Media Club in San Francisco. I thought I’d share at least a skeleton of my remarks and some links here. Please add your tips, tricks or questions below.)
I’ve always enjoyed talking to people and asking questions. Most opeople have stories to tell – provided you can get them talking. Important or [...]
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