As my restless vacation continues into its second week, my mind reels with the prospects of an uncertain future. Like most newspapers across the country, steep revenue declines are disrupting any semblance of job security for print journalists. Media companies seem to be in a race to tear down their brick and mortar operations and [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 23, 2008
Newsvideographer reviews S-R report
The buzz about the Gang of Eight, a group of young journalists who were tasked up finding a better way to streamline The Spokesman-Review newsroom structure, has been making its way around the blogoshere lately. Angela Grant with Newsvideographer.com has a thoughtful review of the report’s suggestions for handling multimedia better. You can view the [...]
July 19, 2008
Ready, set, change!
As I settle into my first day of a two-week vacation, I find it a struggle to relax. I guess my first step at unwinding should be to stop reading Romenesko. Today had yet another parade of layoffs stories and paper doom scenarios. Then I caught this blog post by my editor Steve Smith, who [...]
July 11, 2008
Going old school
Yesterday, after driving 280 miles round trip to shoot a video on some maggot farmers—yes maggot farmers, I spotted a plum of smoke in the hills along Interstate 90. It wasn’t much, but the winds had really kicked up. I called it in and by the time I got back to the newspaper twenty minutes [...]
July 1, 2008
The message is clear: Change or perish
Black Monday seems to be striking American newspapers on a daily basis. With almost a thousand journalism jobs lost last week alone, there seems to be a concerted effort by everyone in the industry to reinvent the medium. While noble, it’s sad these changes didn’t take place sooner. But hey, we had a good gig [...]
