10 Reasons You’ll Actually Miss Newspapers
By Tim Berry
I wish I’d thought of this first. But I didn’t. So instead, here’s 10 Reasons You’ll Actually Miss Newspapers, by Dan Frommer on businessinsider.com (he’s got it illustrated one picture per item, too, worth clicking on the original just for the pictures): Starting a fire Wrapping presents Espionage (that one really needs the picture, a... Read More »
Investigative Journalism Under Siege
By Tim Berry
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... Read More »
Is Journalism Dead, Dying, or Just Faking It?
By Tim Berry
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... Read More »
Boomer Business Blogger Part 4: You Have to Like Writing
By Tim Berry
True confession: I love writing. I love short sentences, strong words, making myself understood. I think most, if not all, good bloggers like writing. Video people do vlogs and YouTube, poets go to Twitter (say, what?), but bloggers are writers. Almost all of my favorite blogs — I’ve got the blogroll on this blog, rightmost... Read More »
Does the News Business Die Along with Newspapers?
By Tim Berry
In the olden days, when I was a grad student in Journalism, for instance, or a night editor for UPI, the business model of the news business was fairly clear: News organizations sold advertisements. They needed news to get readers to be able to sell the ads. News needed credibility to get the readers. So... Read More »
Business Plan Bashing
By Tim Berry
"You don't need a business plan," the self-styled expert says, feeling good when he or she does because it's fun to be contrarian. It's a good story because it's man bites dog instead of dog bites man. But it's posturing.... Read More »
Good Advice, Bad Advice
By Tim Berry
Good advice? In the first few weeks of my first real job, I was heading out to cover a student demonstration in Mexico City when my then boss, the bureau manager of UPI in Mexico City, told me: "Come back... Read More »
Like Breath Mints, Always Accept Editing
By Tim Berry
I'm surprised by Seth Godin's post Editors from late last week. Particularly this sentiment: Great products, amazing services and stories worth talking about get edited along the way. Most of the time, the editing makes them pallid, mediocre and boring.... Read More »
