Link: » [UPDATED] Lee Enterprises executives get six-figure bonuses for doing their jobs JIMROMENESKO.COM
On Friday, Lee’s executive compensation committee gave CEO Mary Junck a $700,000 bonus, while CFO Carl Schmidt received $400,000.
The Olympics sparked a deep examination by U.S. media of Russia’s policies and politics, so it’s eye-opening to see how the country’s own media operates. Photographer M. Scott Brauer spent a month painstakingly documenting Russia’s journalism industry and
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2014/02/brauer-russian-newsrooms/
What would Paddy Chayefsky say, now that the apocalyptic “Network” has come true a couple thousand times over?
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/dowd-still-mad-as-hell.html?hp&rref=opinion
Tim Burke of Deadspin is known for his ability to capture the moment — whether as a still, a video clip or a GIF — better, faster, more frequently and from more sports events than just about anyone.
Since we’d gotten a number of questions from readers, I jotted down a short post a couple days ago explaining…
via Talking Points Memo: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/–100456
Harper’s publisher John R. MacArthur wrote a letter for the October issue of the magazine in which he took a strong stand against publishing free writing and photography on the web. He tackles the question of how journalism should be funded and distribute
Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should ‘fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can’t control’. By Lisa O’Carroll
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2013/sep/27/seymour-hersh-obama-nsa-american-media?CMP=twt_gu
Riptide is an oral history of the collision between journalism and digital technology, from 1980 to today. Featuring over 60 interviews: Tim Berners-Lee, Eric Schmidt, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Arianna Huffington, Clay Christensen, Dick Costolo, Nick Denton
via Riptide: http://www.niemanlab.org/riptide/
A far younger campaign reporter now feeds a never-ending news cycle named Twitter.
[ Updated at 7:29 p.m. ET with latest figures.] Gannett’s U.S. Community Publishing newspaper division and a handful of other subsidiari…
Link: http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/urgent-layoffs-job-eliminations-now.html
After lobbying for laws to allow them to opt out of Google’s search results, German newspapers have opted right back in again. The publishers claim it’s a temporary measure while they f…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/01/german-newspapers-go-back-to-g.html
Jonathan, sent me a link to David Simon’s blog awhile back and in the comments of the introduction he gets into a debate with someone about the future of newspapers. I know he’s right about the problem and solution, and despite the occasional idiotic move
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/06/12/is-there-still-hope-for-newspapers-david-simon-of-the-wire-thinks-so/
If the constant downsizing in the news-media industry hasn't already convinced you to pick something else to do with your life, a new study shows the worst "return on investment" for a four-year degree is a job in journalism. It takes journ
via Gizmodo: http://front.kinja.com/journalism-is-the-worst-4-year-college-investment-be-a-512348579
For a gesture that fleetingly alludes to the insanity that is Washington, this is epic.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/04/the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-2013-morphing-of-hollywood-and-dc-now-complete/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
When big news breaks, a common impulse is to turn to CNN, but the network suffers from self-inflicted damage.
Link: Why we need a better conversation about the future of journalism education | Poynter.
If journalism has value to democratic society that makes it more than another form of commerce, then licensed or not, it has the qualities of a profession and should be evaluated as we evaluate other professional schools.
Link: Fox News reporter who won’t reveal sources threatened with jail | Poynter.
If forced to testify, Winter would either reveal her confidential sources in the nation’s highest profile trial – perhaps destroying her career as an investigative reporter – or spend up to six months in jail, according to Judge Samour.