NOTE: The following post first appeared on Oct. 4, 2007. Recent posts about staff departures at the Journal Star, and more misery in the newspaper business, made me think it was time to revisit the idea of what newspapers need to do to adapt and survive. That list doesn’t include shedding reporters. I’ve done...
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.Elaine Hopkins of Peoria Story (who STILL doesn’t allow commenting on her site) noted my recent expression of frustration:
Duh — blogging can be work.
It’s journalism when done right. That means covering events, interviewing people, finding information. That can be fun, but it’s also work, and few people can afford to pursue full time work...
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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...
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A columnist for Editor & Publisher — the newspaper business trade rag — has deemed the loss of 5,000 newspaper jobs to be the top industry story of 2005. I would have picked the contunued growth of blogs as the media’s watchdogs at the top story, or perhaps the print media’s continued refusal to...
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It’s 11:43 p.m. and the only other Peoria blogger to even begin addressing the campaign finance reports was Polly Peoria, who focused on the at-large council races, because at the time of her post, neither Ardis nor Ransburg had filed. If my check of Peoria news media Websites is any education, no local media...
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Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates The Blog Peoria Project, which promotes community-based citizen journalism in his hometown, Peoria IL. Call me at (309) 863-5748 and leave a message.
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