We talked yesterday about the YouTube-classic 1981 TV news report about a primitive experiment with making newspapers available online, which at the time meant through the CompuServe service.

One of many amusing, ironic moments in the piece is when the guy in charge of the experiment at the San Fran… Read full post »

By Katharine Mieszkowski The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, who is preparing a broad inquiry into the future of journalism in this country, is married to a columnist for the Washington Post, Ruth Marcus.

As I blogged about earlier this week, Jon Leibowitz, the FTC's chairman,… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: This isn't exactly a Future of Journalism story except that the Future of Journalism -- and increasingly, the present of it -- appears to be all about the power of the source. Consider a source by the name of Dave Carroll, a Canadian musician who had his prize…

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By King Kaufman: Newsosaur Alan Mutter wonders, "Can grassroots journalism do the job?"

My old boss Will Hearst once said, "If there's a question mark at the end of a headline, the story won't answer the question." Actually, Hearst was, I think, the boss of the boss of the boss of the… Read full post »

By King Kaufman I've been meaning to mention this since last week, when Nicholas Carlson of Silicon Alley Insider published The 10 online ad formats people hate most.

Here comes a spoiler. The online ad format that people hate the most, above all others, is: all of them. "People… Read full post »

By Katharine Mieszkowski: Sometime this summer Google News will be recast in an upgraded form called Flipper, according to TechCrunch. The concept behind the cutesy name is that you can easily flip the pages to get to what you want.

From looking at a screenshot it appears that… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: The big journalism story of the day Thursday was Dan Froomkin's firing by the Washington Post, but we're interested in the future around here, so we surfed in tomorrowland. Here's some reading to start your tomorrow:

• Who says you can't sell content online? Men's Health is… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: I mentioned at the end of my post about Flickr zapping photos that corporate parent Yahoo hadn't responded to a message asking for comment.

Yahoo did respond late Wednesday night with a statement pointing out that all members agree to abide by the Flickr community guidelines,… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: Flickr is often held up as a building block of the citizen-journalism future. Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, blogs.

But the photo sharing site has no future as a key tool in the journalism racket if it plans to keep acting the way it acted toward Shepherd… Read full post »

Hastings, who spent the run-up to the war as an intern at Newsweek, writes that support… Read full post »

By Katharine Mieszkowski: Amid the protests after the disputed Iranian presidential election, many foreign journalist's visas are expiring, and the government is refusing to renew them.

Loren Jenkins, the senior foreign editor for National Public Radio, said: "I think they want everyone out of… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: A few things read, seen and heard in the last day or so.

Beatblogging's Patrick Thornton on how professional journalists can create value when everybody's a journalist. With examples from the Iran story.

DigiDave, aka Dave Cohn, founder of Spot.us, on whether journalism scho… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: With Twitter acting as the main conduit for updates on the world's top news story this week, it's nice timing that the video of Clay Shirky's May lecture titled "How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history" is viewable online at Ted.com.

Shirky, an adjunct professor at NYU,… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: The Iranian government jams the BBC's Farsi-language channel electronically and blocks its Farsi Web site.

Right now, the BBC's main home page is awash in green, evidently in support of the opposition "Green Revolution."

It's a remarkable show of support by a mainstream… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: Sometimes in life, little things say a lot. Over the weekend, CNN gave a little hint that, at least on the TV side, it doesn't quite get this whole social media thing.

 During coverage of the events in Iran Sunday night, anchor Don Lemon went into… Read full post »

By Katharine Mieszkowski: In between ferreting out corruption and scouring public documents, the nation's investigative reporters and editors held their annual conference this weekend in Baltimore. Salon's own Mark Benjamin was there, tweeting: "It is all about nonprofit journalism at the annual IRE… Read full post »

By Katharine Mieszkowski: Google has apparently peeved some commercial illustrators  by inviting them to donate their work to the multibillion-dollar company. The nut of the controversy: the search giant has asked dozens of  prominent illustrators to contribute designs to be featured on i… Read full post »

Welcome to the Future of Journalism on Open Salon.

Your bloggers are Katharine Mieszkowski, whom you know as a Salon reporter, and King Kaufman, Salon's cover editor and former sports columnist. Katharine has covered this subject a bit in Salon's pages, while King has been blogging about it on… Read full post »