Make Money to Make Journalism, don’t Make Journalism to Make Money

Make Money to Make Journalism, don’t Make Journalism to Make Money

11 December 2009

At least not starting out when your competition is big media, which still has money to burn. It struck me this summer (somewhere during year four of my adventures in journalism) that I needed to rethink how I was approaching things. I was still running around trying to do everything all on my own. I [...]

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Pentagon Sees WikiLeaks.org as a Threat

Pentagon Sees WikiLeaks.org as a Threat

19 March 2010

To the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States, the Pentagon has added WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information and documents that governments and corporations around the world would prefer to keep secret. The Pentagon assessed the danger WikiLeaks.org posed to the Army in a report marked “unauthorized disclosure subject to [...]

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How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?

How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?

08 March 2010

How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?

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Blogger Gets Fed Up Working for Big Media in Windy City

Blogger Gets Fed Up Working for Big Media in Windy City

02 March 2010

The Past Imperfect of ChicagoNow Posted by Mike Doyle on 3/01/10. You can’t run a 21st-century blog network at the speed of a 19th-century newspaper. I wish someone would tell the Chicago Tribune. Yesterday, when I ended my ten-month run as the scribe of the Chicagosphere online-media blog for the paper’s ChicagoNow content [...]

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I Heart Journalism: The Mallard Lake Landfill Press Conference Story

I Heart Journalism: The Mallard Lake Landfill Press Conference Story

22 February 2010

Call it what you will, but I really believe what I’m doing here in the Midwest is Journalism pure and simple. Sure, it’s not the journalism that was and hopefully not the journalism that will be, but it’s journalism in transition and it’s exciting. Case in point was last Friday. I was asked by several [...]

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Michael Moore Hates America

Michael Moore Hates America

09 February 2010

Good documentary. Before praising Michael Moore, it might be a good idea to give this a watch. The truth usually lies somewhere in between.

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Google + iPad = Mobile Advertising Boom in 2010?

Google + iPad = Mobile Advertising Boom in 2010?

04 February 2010

Google + iPad = Mobile Advertising Boom in 2010? by Jason Hahn If you yawn when you read another headline about mobile advertising and its ever-pending explosion, you’re surely not alone. It seems that year after year, experts are touting the mobile platform as the next big thing that needs [...]

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New Tricks: Create a successful news vertical

New Tricks: Create a successful news vertical

01 February 2010

Some forward-thinking Statesman employee had reserved the domain name “hookem” more than a decade ago. All it needed was a purpose. This past summer, we gave it one when we launched the niche site just before the Horns football team started 2-a-day practices. The Statesman had a Longhorns forum for more than a decade, but it [...]

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Charlie Rose Interviews Jeff Zucker

26 January 2010

An exclusive conversation with Jeff Zucker. 1/18/2010  ~ Charlie Rose

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Poll: Most won’t pay to read newspapers online

Poll: Most won’t pay to read newspapers online

16 January 2010

Would you pay to read your favorite newspaper online? Most say no, at least according to a new Harris poll. With traditional print newspapers struggling to turn a profit, many have turned to the Web as a means to stay afloat. While some offer their online content free of charge, other papers have played around with [...]

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The Economy of Wikileaks

The Economy of Wikileaks

08 January 2010

I’d like to show you an interview with Julian Assange, the spokesperson of Wikileaks, that I conducted for my small student’s blog (I study journalism). On the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, a hacker event, I had the chance to talk with him, about the current economic and financial aspects of the website (at the [...]

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Journalism Jobs – Chicago, Illinois

Journalism Jobs – Chicago, Illinois

08 January 2010

If you’re on the hunt for journalism jobs in Chicago, Illinois, good luck. There are more journalists than jobs these days, it seems. Luckily, Indeed.com makes it easy to search for jobs from various sources all at the same time. That’s right, you can find journalism jobs in Chicago easier than ever before. If you [...]

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