The AP: Dramatic changes in the media industry – as evidenced by last year’s closing of the nearby Rocky Mountain News in Denver – have prompted the University of Colorado at Boulder to review the future of its journalism program. CU said Wednesday that on Sept. 1 a committee will start the process of “program [...]
Brandon Keim: A series of satellite photographs conveys the epic scale of the floods sweeping through Pakistan, leaving millions homeless and the world aghast at an extreme weather disaster that experts consider the new normal. The images are haunting.
Matt Gertz for Media Matters: Media Matters has confirmed Bloomberg’s report using publicly available IRS filings. We also found no evidence of corresponding donations to the Democratic Governors Association in the current political cycle. News Corp. wants Republicans elected to office, and they’re willing to spend money to make it happen. According to the article, [...]
That’s how many words it took Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky to explain the site’s new commenting system. Engadget’s comments system needed an overhaul, but as before, I’ll simply ignore the whole thing. Comments just give me headaches. Life is simpler without them, don’t you think? (You can always email me or ping ForkBombr on Twitter. I [...]
Laura Drake: What a journalism undergraduate degree will get you are amazing memories, good connections with profs who know hundreds of working journalists, marketable skills in the form of writing and communications abilities. What it will not get you, and what no one ever promises it will get you, is a job in journalism. To [...]
University of Georgia [PDF warning] has new research out about journalism graduates: The percentage of spring journalism and mass communication bachelor’s degree recipients who reported having at least one job offer when they completed their studies dropped in 2009 by nearly 10 percentage points compared to a year earlier. Only 46.2% of the bachelor’s degree [...]
The Des Moines Register: The Des Moines Register will be one of five regional design centers for Gannett Co. newspapers, the company announced Tuesday. The announcement is expected to bring 35 to 60 jobs to Des Moines, said Carolyn Washburn, the Register’s editor and a vice president. Gannett hasn’t determined the timeline for the project, [...]
Reuters: LeBron James has made at least one decision, just not the one the basketball world had been waiting for. The most sought after NBA free agent of 2010 has joined the social networking site Twitter under the moniker ‘kingjames’, his publicist Keith Estabrook confirmed with Reuters on Tuesday. More than 84,000 people have signed [...]
John Gruber has addressed (once again) why his ever-popular site Daring Fireball doesn’t have comments: What makes DF an efficient and effective soapbox is exactly that it is not noisy. My goal is for not a single wasted word to appear anywhere on any page of the site. [...] Comments, at least on popular websites, [...]
