Friday link roundup
Rescuing reporters, paywalls, NPR’s continued expansion and more. What I’m reading this week and why you should be, too.
Friday link roundup
I’m really liking the link management feature from Publish2. I can collect links all week long with notes and then share my take on them in one post. Hope you enjoy. Let me know your take in the comments. Story structure for the Web | NewsLab Jacqui Banaszynski suggests a “totem pole” structure to Web [...]
What do Lake Wobegon and journalism’s ‘golden days’ have in common?
A colleague forwarded a quote this morning from Garrison Keillor, of “Prairie Home Companion” fame: “This is the beauty of the new media: it isn’t so transitory as newspapers and TV. Good stuff sticks around and people email it to friends and it slowly floods the country. What the new media age also means is [...]
Make new friends, but keep the old…
Note: This post started as a reply to a post by WeMediaGuru, but it just got too long for that format and turned into its own animal. Today, Jason at wemediaguru notes words from Mike Blinder of the consulting firm The Blinder Group, which works with media companies to maximize revenue: The mafia (yellow pages) [...]