I come from the “follow-the-money” school of journalism, so I’ve written about more than my share of billions over the years. But Alan Mutter took my breath away with his post cataloging the staggering volume of dollars that have fled newspaper help wanted, or so-called “recruitment” ads.
Newspapers have lost more than half of their print [...]
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Billion dollar bye bye
Posted in journalism, news business, online news business, tagged alan mutter, Chicago Tribune, Classified Intelligence, Craigslist, Gordon Borrell, help wanted, Hot Jobs, Monster.com, newspaper classifieds, recruitment, Will Rogers on February 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Saul Alinsky would be proud
Posted in bloggers, digital journalism, facebook, journalism, news business, online news business, university, user generated content, tagged Epic 2015, facebook, Flickr, Google, Microsoft, Saul Alinksy, student journalists, Twitter, Yahoo on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The students and I talked current events today in my Web Publishing and Design class, and the chit chat wasn’t about the Super Bowl or Super Duper Tuesday. It was about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo and what that could mean for all of us.
One among them knew that Google’s CEO reportedly called Yahoo’s CEO to [...]
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