A couple weeks ago The Daily Texan, 114-year-old student newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin, was on the ropes: few ads, dwindling bank account, doubt over its future and no idea what would happen next, but it wasn’t going to be anything to write home about. In one sense, none of that has […]
A publisher colleague of mine, noting my collection of gimme bags that now help me avoid the “paper or plastic question” at the grocery store, asked how many national conventions/conferences have passed in front of my eyes over the years in the newspaper industry. Never thought of it that way, but let’s say conservatively 40. […]
A headline the other day in The New York Times caught my eye: Local Papers Shine Light in Society’s Dark Corners. The gist of the story: The “Road Warrior” columnist at The Record (Bergen County, northern New Jersey) focused on a massive traffic tie-up, the paper kept digging and N.J. Gov. Chris Christie now is […]
Yes, perhaps a strange headline to type as AOL continues to struggle with profitability for its ambitious hyperlocal Patch operation. Yes, perhaps a strange headline to type after open-mike oddities during a recent staff call announcing cutbacks. And, sure, some folks love to chortle on Facebook when they find the occasional very, very local, nonsensical […]
On March 1, in Austin at a meeting of the Texas Student Media board, there will be a discussion about cutting publication days of the 113-year-old Daily Texan, always one of the best collegiate papers in the U.S. Okay, you say, some non-student papers are moving to reduced publication. But those drastic steps are taken […]
Yes, I like cat and dog videos on the web, the Stones and Ray Charles from the 60s, Willie, Waylon and Jerry Jeff from any era. As a journalist, anything news-related, and as a media consultant, anything newsy, new tech or build-a-great digital-businesss-related. And, oh yes, George Takei and My Prozac Moment on Facebook. But […]
We left j-school thinking we had the answers, then we learned just how much we had to learn. I learned humility when I read my first correction in a 700,000-circ paper, apologizing for an error I had made in a story. I learned creativity when security blocked me and a photographer from entering the work site […]
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