For years, those of us who have been thinking deeply about the digital translation have been asking the same question: What happens when one of our national newspapers closes – or goes online only? Anyone who didn’t know that day…
nostalgia
A collection of 3 posts
Is nostalgia for print dooming journalism students to failure?
Merciless attack on print nostalgists from Clay Shirky: The most important fight in journalism today isn’t between short vs. long-form publications, or fast vs. thorough newsrooms, or even incumbents vs. start-ups. The most important fight is between realists and…
The cozy glow of format nostalgia
There’s an interesting post on Teleread by Chris Meadows that digs into the reflexive dislike of eReaders that many people have: When people say they like paper books, the feel of pages, smell of books, and so on, what…