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Gee, You Had to Pay $2, Once, to Get News?

by Tim Berry on October 8, 2009

in Journalism, Web/Tech

Interesting juxtaposition: while much of the world worries about where we get real news, and particularly investigative reporting, iPhone users are up in arms about CNN charging less than $2, once, for an iPhone app that includes ads.
Megan Berry posted Do You Get What You Pay For? yesterday on the Huffington Post:
CNN’s new iPhone app [...]

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FTC vs. Social Media Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

by Tim Berry on October 7, 2009

in Current Affairs, Journalism, Social media, Weblogs

Here I was writing this post about new FTC rules for social media, feeling self-righteous about it, when it occurred to me that Shutterstock.com gives me a free stock photos account, which I use to illustrate this blog. And I’m an Amazon.com affiliate. I accept review copies of books, some of which I’ve reviewed here [...]

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Who Should Decide What News Matters?

by Tim Berry on July 23, 2009

in Journalism

Back in the old days editors decided what was news. Not advertisers and not readers. There was this concept called “news values.” Full-time professionals laid out the front page. They tried to highlight important political, economic, and social trends, coverage deemed important, rather than celebrities, fashions, nudity, and violence.
This was a long time ago. Back [...]

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Journalism, TechCrunch, Stolen Information

by Tim Berry on July 21, 2009

in Journalism, Weblogs

This — the TechCrunch publishes stolen information flap last week — is why I worry about the gradual disappearance of Journalism as newspapers and traditional advertising disappear.
You may or may not have read about it. Somebody stole documents from Twitter’s computer and sent them to TechCrunch. They stole more than 300 memos, presentations, projections, and [...]

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Investigative Journalism Under Siege

by Tim Berry on July 7, 2009

in Entrepreneurship, Journalism

Do you want to make meaning? Solve a problem? Disrupt the status quo? Then solve this problem: figure out a way to monetize investigative journalism. In the new media world.
No, not just journalism, thanks, but investigative journalism. By that I mean the product of professional journalists paid to dig for (relatively) objective truth, like facts. [...]

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Is Journalism Dead, Dying, or Just Faking It?

by Tim Berry on May 19, 2009

in Journalism, Writing

I feel like I’m watching Journalism fall apart; watching with interest, horror, and dismay … but just watching, like watching a fire from far away, powerless.

Like you do, I read about the newspapers folding, falling like trees in a rotting forest. Even the New York Times is in trouble. Many of the newspapers I grew [...]

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