Interesting insight into The Magazine and its (previously unknown, I believe) near-death experience: Having a “built-in audience” from a 5by5 show, Tumblr, Instapaper, and Marco.org didn’t sustain The Magazine. I sold it because it was cratering under my…
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The BBC, Savile and editors under pressure
Charlie Beckett makes an insightful point about last night’s Panorama covering the BBC’s multiple failures to expose Jimmy Savile as a paedophile and sexual predator: Likewise, let’s put the Newsnight controversy in perspective. The Newsnight debacle is…
TechCrunch: journalism's heretics?
MG Siegler of TechCrunch has published a really fascinating post on his personal blog, responding to the current brouhaha around Mike Arrington, TechCrunch and AOL. I’m less interested in the corporate politics of the debate than I am in…
Leading from the Social Media front
Love this article, as tweeted by Kevin Sablan: Unless a once-in-a-lifetime story is breaking in your community, the most urgent challenge facing every news organization today is making a swift and successful transformation to the digital future. Leading that transition…