I bought stamps yesterday and as I left Safeway I had an epiphany which has long since passed. The following is an attempt to recapture…
Category: Journalism Theory/Analysis
Thinking Like a Designer
Last week I went to Stanford’s Innovation Journalism conference. For this conference they invited lots of media makers and paired them up around topics to…
Can Professional Journalism Ever Replace Citizen Journalism?
The headline of this blog post says it all – a quick contrarian post. I am often asked if “right now citizen journalism could replace…
The Rhetoric of Journalism – Defining and Re-Defining What We Do.
In September 2007 I laid out my definitions for “Networked Journalism” vs. “Citizen Journalism” vs. the myriad of other names for social media in the…
Collaboration is Queen
Some traditions of journalism should remain steadfast. SPJ’s ethics seem like good principles to hold onto. Some cultural traditions of journalism, however, should be questioned…