A Modest Proposal, Part Two (for the Jurnos on the Sidewalk)

Posted on February 27, 2009 by jestevens

The Rocky Mountain News published for the last time today. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is next, with its last day likely to be sometime early in March. The Hearst Corporation is threatening closure of the San Francisco Chronicle if it can’t shrink that news organization to zombie status. (Definition of a zombie newspaper: a skeleton staff [...]

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A Modest Proposal for the Seattle Times

Posted on February 24, 2009 by jestevens

In a couple of weeks, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is due to stop publishing its print edition. In the spirit of prodding journalists to move on with life, and concentrate on re-energizing journalism in our communities, here’s some unsolicited advice for the Seattle Times. This could be an opportunity for the news organization to take its [...]

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WestSeattleBlog — Don’t Call Them ‘Bloggers’

Posted on January 16, 2009 by jestevens

Just because they’re using a blog format, says WestSeattleBlog co-founder Tracy Record, it doesn’t mean they’re “bloggers.” (Unfortunately, that’s still a perjorative term in the journalism community. That’s too bad, since the blogging format is the Web “story” format.) Tracy and hubby Patrick Sand started blogging about their West Seattle neighborhood in January 2006 while [...]

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10,000 Jurno Startups…Why Not?

Posted on November 16, 2008 by jestevens

On Friday, a jazzed-up Dave Cohn waxed poetic about the future of journalism. I agree wholeheartedly.  Except with this statement: What we need right now is 10,000 journalism startups. Of these 9,000 will fail, 1,000 will find ways to sustain themselves for a brief period of time, 98 will find mediocre success and financial security [...]

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