The not so distant future.
Entries Tagged as ‘Media Matters’
April 14, 2010
Let me pay: A case against “free”
Frank Chimero penned a good post on his blog a few days ago, in an open letter to the Internet. In it, he describes why he’d sometimes rather pay for content and programs than rely on the “free” nature of content. It is excerpted below, and the full text can be found on his blog. [...]
March 27, 2010
The MoJo’s toolkit
In the fall of 2007, I was in Washington for the annual Society of Professional Journalists conference, an organization with student chapters at journalism schools across the country. I went alone, because no one else from my chapter could make the trip, but it was probably better that way. The seminars and workshops at the [...]
March 18, 2010
The Only Game in Town
An item posted today on a blog for Philadelphia Magazine tells the story of Dan Robrish, a former AP reporter in Philly who is now living a sort-of superhero life in rural Pennsylvania. He quit his beat after 12 years and moved to quaint Elizabethtown, PA, where the corporate-owned daily newspaper had gone belly-up a [...]
February 17, 2010
In a picture: the state of the news industry
I love how this one picture, taken somewhere in Washington, D.C., completely sums up all of the problems facing the news industry in America. People want content, but they’re not sure they want to pay for it. In its defense, the Express is supposedly a very good alternative paper in the D.C. metro area, so [...]
