So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it.
Lord, let your laughter ring forth.
-Molly Ivins
I am one lucky journo.
So many times in the past 30 years I paused, looked up to the heavens, and thanked the stars that someone was actually paying me to do this fabulous [...]
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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 »
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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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 | No Comments »
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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Posted in bush, digital journalism, ethics, journalism, news business, online news business, presidential election, true stories, tagged caucus, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain, KNPR State of Nevada, Mike Huckabee, primary, squirrel, UNLV, UNR on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Some followup notes from my delightful conversation this morning on KNPR’s State of Nevada, with host Dave Berns and his panel of so-called “witty academics.” (The audio with David Damore, Ken Fernandez and me from University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Eric Herzik of University of Nevada, Reno, is here.)
During the show, I mentioned a [...]
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Posted in journalism, news business, online news business, presidential election, tagged ABC video, Barack Obama, Dave Berns, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Tears, KNPR, mochila, Nevada caucus, New Hampshire primary, UNLV, UNR, YouTube on January 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to the printing press, the mail coach and the steam packet—gifts beyond the gifts of fairies—we can all see and hear what each other are doing, and do and read the same things nearly at the same time.
— Maria Edgeworth, (1767-1849) Irish author
(thanks to Ted Pease and his alert WORDster Louise Montgomery)
So “The [...]
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Posted in news business, online news business, true stories, user generated content, tagged Central Market, citizen journalism, cookbook, green chile, Hatch, recipe, San Antonio, snow, user generated content on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chile pepper recipe bookOriginally uploaded by charlotteanne.lucas
What if you give away the polished and edited content, but then put a price tag on the user-generated content?
People will buy it.
Those of us who have solicited so-called user-generated content know that there’s just about nothing more popular than people’s own stuff.
The numbers are overwhelming and [...]
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Posted in bloggers, crowdsourcing, journalism, news business, online news business, social networking, true stories, tagged , Aspen Institute, CNN Democratic candidate debate, J.D. Lasica, mobile, moblogging, Roundable on Mobile Media and Civic engagement, SF State, Twitter, UNLV, Utterz on December 13, 2007 | No Comments »
J.D. Lasica has a very interesting post here from a session at the Aspen Institute and San Francisco State University’s Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement.
He poses the notion of a “posse” of collaborators who could use Twitter to send questions to a reporter who is covering a news event. It sounds like a [...]
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Posted in First Amendment, news business, true stories, university, tagged budget, budget cuts, Jim Gibbons, Nevada, petition, protest, UNLV on December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Mobile post sent by charlotteanne using Utterz. Replies. mp3
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Posted in First Amendment, bloggers, ethics, journalism, news business, online news business, true stories, tagged CNN, Democratic Presidential Debate, Emily, facebook, hurricane, Katrina, Media, Motorola mobile phone, MySanAntonio.com, MySpace, Radio Shack TRS-80, Rita, UNLV, Utterz on November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Students in my Digital Storytelling class zoomed into the prime time blogosphere this week, providing live, multimedia coverage of the Democratic presidential debate and the accompanying mayhem at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Besides making more than 150 posts to the UNLV Presidential Debate 2007 blog, many of the students published audio, photos and text [...]
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Posted in crowdsourcing, journalism, news business, social networking, tagged community news, crowdsourcing, innovation incubator, journalism, journalism students, Knight Foundation grant, Online News Association, Poynter on October 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s the reason for my slow posts this past couple weeks, as I and other faculty herded students from seven universities to the Online News Association conference in Toronto to present youthful and innovative visions for the future of news.
First, a video of students from each of the three projects from MediaGiraffe.
I’m a little partial [...]
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