I have to admit that I only just recently discovered this show. Thanks to the magic of Hulu.com I've been watching it. Pretty cool stuff. I wonder when the next newspaper/website/news television show will come out.

Here's a cool story for you. The local newspaper was ordered by a local judge recently to give up the name of one of their anonymous posters or at least the name of the company the plaintiff needs to go after for the information. The forums for the CNHI run newspaper are handled by a third party - Groupee's HeyMartha forums.

Was at Mondo Times today finally getting around to getting a listing for Anderson Free Press when I noticed their most recent poll - "The free daily newspaper is the future of the industry."

This is another thing that big media is getting wrong, imho.

Marketing Vox: Seattle Newspaper to Close - or Go Web-only - This is from a few days ago, but I'm just now seeing it. I think I remember it being mentioned that the Seattle PI might close, but I don't remember it being mentioned that they would go web only.

One of my favorite books about journalism is A.J. Liebling's The Wayward Pressman, which is not about an offset press operator's descent into perdition. It's available on amazon.com. I think.

Anyway, its introduction is self-effacing. Liebling recalls when he was telling his deskmates at the New York Times that he was soon to give a talk at a school about newspapers.

"Oh?" A fellow editor raised an eyebrow. "Who told you?"

If you remember, we were talking about narrative journalism and how CitJ could help allow news organizations to do more with it. Soon after, someone mentioned the Your Words feature at Bakersfield.com. Ray Hacke, Citizen Journalism Editor at The Bakersfield Californian, was kind enough to answer some questions about the CitJ experiment at their paper, which has been up and running for about two months.

First off, when I think of immersion journalism, I think of literary journalism. They're closely related. Anyway, I noticed this piece over at Romenesko about WestWord's Storytime: The dailies are looking for characters, and I immediately thought about how Citizen Journalism could possibly help with the lack of immersion journalism and/or literary journalism in the world today. (The side discussion would be the whole chicken/egg debate about the apathetic state of the audience...)

Hmm. I know I was gonna try to 'be nice' and 'not so negative' on this site, but for there to be hope for journalism, I have to point out things, ya know? Ok. The Silverton Appeal recently had an editorial (Join in our new holiday tradition) which I read, curious. It had come up in a Google News search for journalism. As I read, it sounded like a pretty basic idea (not necessarily a bad one), and then I got to this part.

From the editorial:

There will be nearly 400 community members’ faces – and nothing else – filling the front page for the final edition of 2005. In our minds, it’s community journalism at its best. People like to see their faces in the newspaper.