The 'rewrite man', of course, joins the 'outside man' the 'linotype operator' and the 'women's department girl' as integral parts of any respectable daily newspaper.

 Found this on Journalism That Matters

 

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I am working on a presentation for a college class - talking about the transition from print to digital newsgathering and figure it is about time that a Powerpoint (or Keynote actually) about multimedia actually use some multimedia to make the point.

 

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An interesting story in the Globe today about an offbeat Website taking an anthropological approach to that species of Americans known as 'white people.'

Stuff White People Like draws fans, criticism - and 16 million hits - The Boston Globe

 

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Increasingly, Longworth told me, decision-makers get their news from elite sources and too many voters don't get any news at all.

Chicago Reader | Hot Type | The Rust Belt Reader: Could a regional newspaper improve the midwest's prospects?

I really want to agree with the thesis here - that newspapers are obliged to give people all the news they need, not just want, because that information is important to a functioning democracy. Specifically - global news is important to local and regional papers because of the global economy.

 

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It has been far too long since I updated this blog - in some part due to a very busy Spring conference schedule. 

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ChannelOne (a news station for high school students) and NBC news broadcast a nice segment on the Telegraph-Nashua High partnership to cover the presidential interviews. Video after the jump... 

 

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Some good news on the awards front today - the Telegraph has been announced as a finalist in two categories for the Newspaper Association of America's Digital Edge Awards. 

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One thing we (at the Telegraph) will not be thankful for this Thanksgiving is the fact that one of our photojournalists, Stanton Paddock, let us know today that he is moving on to other opportunities.

We wish him the best - but as a result, we have an opening on the Telegraph photo staff - see the job posting below:

 

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Matthew Ingram posts a comment from an AP staffer regarding the AP/Google partnership:

 

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UPDATE: A follow-up to this post is here

It is strictly 'inside baseball' stuff but in their blogs Jeff Jarvis and Matthew Ingram picked up on our recent experiences with the Google News / AP partnership.

 

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Well - I am taking this as a final no if for no other reason than I am tired of emailing with their CSRs: 

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Well, after two weeks of cryptic customer service emails from Facebook about our deactivated account - I finally got another 'real' answer today: 

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Well, some good news in the wake of people and corporations large and small not being our friends. 

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Apparently someone out there (besides Facebook) does not like us. 

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Well, the Telegraph had a Facebook profile for about a week, and gained 100 friends, till we were cut off. 

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