I full intended this post to focus on Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell’s statement that she is considering taking Jeff Jarvis’s advice and state a blog. Yes, it is a much better way to reply to 600 emails on the same subject than writing a column and waiting 24 hours for a few paragraphs of [...]

Digital journalism guru Jeff Jarvis pronounced the death the old-fashioned news interview. You know what I mean: The reporter asks a few questions, uses what he/she wants and disregards the rest. The end result is owned by whatever mainstream media (MSM) organization employs the reporter. The Internet is changing all that, Jarvis says:
Interviews and articles [...]

I’ve expressed my admiration for Jeff Jarvis many times on this site. Once again, he impresses me with his advocacy for rebuilding newspapers from the ground up, taking into consideration that their Web sites can and will become more important their their dead-tree versions:
And newspapers have to take an even more frightening step: They need [...]