June 2010
jimray: Redesigning stories →
Over at msnbc.com, where I spend most of my waking hours, we1 just launched a massive redesign of our story pages. For a news site, the story page is the most atomic and probably most important page of the site. The homepage (“cover” in our vernacular) and section fronts get a lot of…
Great, great direction for MSNBC.
“This short-versus-long paradigm is also surfacing within other forms of media,...”
– ~ The Long And Short Of The Coming Content Split
“See, according to Logan, not only are reporters not supposed to disclose their...”
– Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone has a pretty great piece up that responds to a lot of the criticism from the media establishment surrounding the Michael Hastings piece on McCrystal.
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“We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression. It will probably...”
– Krugman isn’t optimistic at the economic outlook. *sigh*
Kaywin Feldman, president of the Minneapolis... →
“Given its politics and the near-universal adoration with which it’s met,...”
– from “Comedy of Errors: Investigating the Daily Show’s Lady Problem”
Another choice quote from this is “One female comedian who has auditioned multiple times for the show says, “Looking back, it was ridiculous of me to even prepare! Should I have gone to the gym more?...
Rolling Stone, McChrystal, and the competition of...
In a multi-platform, multimedia environment, it’s difficult for a magazine to break the kind of news that will lead every cable broadcast, every newspaper and every website for hours on end. But that’s what the Rolling Stone profile (written by Michael Hastings, who is currently in Afghanistan) of General Stanley McChrystal did this morning.
But if you wanted to read that profile,...
Curation, content strategy, aggregation,...
Brain Traffic’s Kristina Halvorson has a choice quote at the end of her blog post, “Curation Nation”:
“As content strategists, it is in fact our job to sort through the wasteland of content—both online and within the organizations we serve—to find the really valuable assets, to organize them in meaningful ways, and to ensure they’re properly cared for over time.”
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“An exchange of op-eds in the Sunday Strib highlights a pretty radical proposal...”
– Eric Black does a nice job of framing the Tom Emmer candidacy for MN Governor
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“Tuesday night’s speech from the Oval Office of the White House was written...”
– from this actual CNN story, “Language guru: Obama speech too ‘professorial’ for his target audience”
Wow. Setting aside how misleading that headline is, the selected sentence is in no way unfortunate or difficult to understand.
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“By the time Obama appeared, CNN and MSNBC had done a thorough job of telling the...”
– ~ Newsweek, “How Cable TV Pundits Stepped on Obama’s Oil Speech”
Don't forget newsrooms are like corporate entities
This belief—that political sense, as well as reality, as well as the winning strategy in most elections resides in the center, while “the extremes” on both sides are equally extreme, deluded and irresponsible—has come to be called High Broderism, after the famous Washington Post reporter and sage, David Broder, for many years the “dean” of the capital press corps. And since High Broderism is a...
I still miss MJ, but not the old MSM
It was over a year between Jackson’s arrest and the beginning of his trial and the media was forced to try to pad the story out for as long as they could in the interim. Aware that Jackson was bound by gag order and therefore powerless to respond, prosecution sympathizers started leaking documents such as Jordan Chandler’s 1993 police statement. The media, hungry for scandal and...
I don’t know what it is, but for some reason I’m really getting into the World Cup this year.
“Critics of new media sometimes use science itself to press their case, citing...”
– Pinker in the Times on new media.
The Awl: Real America: The Gear Daddies are Back,... →
C’mon, The Awl. You’re better than this.
Business Models for News Media
This is a good summary presentation on changes to news markets.
