By King Kaufman: In April, Time magazine used a stock photo of coins in a jar on its cover to illustrate a story about "the new frugality."

Last week, the photographer who took the picture, Robert Lam, proudly pointed out his achievement in the Photography Talk forum on… Read full post »

By King Kaufman There's a parallel universe, Future of Journalism fans, where they gab about the future of music, and in that world they're talking about all the money Amanda Palmer made recently on Twitter.

Palmer is a singer, formerly with a band called the Dresden Dolls, who enjoys a… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: This blog is going to ask for your indulgence. It is frankly obsessed with the 15-minute video at Cleveland.com that both Katharine and I wrote about yesterday. We're thinking of changing the name of this blog to the How Crazy Was That Cleveland Plain Dealer Video? Blog.…

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By Katharine Mieszkowski As the recession hammers on, and the newspaper industry collapses, add the Washington Post to the crowd of newspapers with truly harebrained schemes about how to boost their bottom lines.

Mike Allen of Politico reported today that the Washington Post invited lobbyists to… Read full post »

By King Kaufman A day after Future of Journalism nerds pondered the implications of "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul announcing her resignation from the show on Twitter -- the sources go direct! -- Twitter was crippled this morning by a denial of service attack.

In a post stamped "1… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: Either you've seen Jill and Kevin's Wedding Entrance Dance or you live in a cave, and either it made you happy for a few minutes or there's something wrong with you.

And either you know I'm going to claim the whole nutty fandango is somehow relevant… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: What is it about news and newspapers that makes big financial guys, CEOs and major investors, forget the most basic laws of economics, the kinds of things any kid with a lemonade stand gets implicitly?

In a long New York Times Magazine piece about Philadelphia newspapers,… Read full post »

Maybe one of the reasons it's so hard to figure out what the Future of Journalism is going to look like is that none of us agrees on what the Present of Journalism looks like. At least we don't agree on what to call it.

Wired editor Chris… Read full post »

I spent a good part of the weekend avoiding this Los Angeles Times column by Tim Rutten headlined "Setting the price of a free press."

I have my blood pressure to think about. Here's the subhead: "If the 1st Amendment is to mean anything, Congress has to suspend antitrust… 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 Patrick Thornton: It's time for me to be frank about why you should or should not attend journalism school and the reality of what J-schools represent.

Do not under any pretext attend journalism school -- undergrad or graduate -- with the mission of working for a large metro or… Read full post »

By King Kaufman

Are you on Twitter?

The hosts on C-Span have taken to asking the guests on their various shows some form of that question, and it turns out the answers are highly illuminating. This montage of them has been floating around since last week,… 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 Katharine Mieszkowski Michael Arrington of TechCrunch imagines what would result if the top journalists at the New York Times quit and started their own company.

"I keep wondering what would happen if the top 10 percent of the writers at the NYTimes just walked… Read full post »

Our guest on today's episode of "Newspaper Guys Whine About Money" is Benjamin J. Marrison, editor of the Columbus Dispatch, who wants you to know that "High-quality journalism isn't 'free.'"

The last guest, Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times, wanted Congress to allow newspapers to form a cartel… Read full post »

By Patrick Thornton: Many news organizations have proclaimed that they will begin charging for news on their Web sites soon, but how many have thought of some of the hidden issues associated with pay walls and authentication schemes?  

For instance, yesterday I tried to access an ESPN Insider ar… Read full post »

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 King Kaufman: The Future of Journalism is going to involve the news coming at you from all sorts of directions, and one of the most interesting, to me, is news that's going to be coming from corporations.

I hear the squeals of outrage and indignation. That's not news,… 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 »

By King Kaufman: I'm loving the story of the British Chiropractic Association vs. the blogosphere, detailed beautifully by Ben Goldacre in the Guardian last week.

The moral of it is this epigram from Dave Winer of Scripting News, which should be heeded by a lot of people who ignore it:… Read full post »

By Katharine Mieszkowski With so many journalists looking for work, some are finding new corporate patrons. Over at Fast Company.com, Chuck Salter writes about the new gig of novelist Dan Gearino, a former longtime columnist for the Raleigh News & Observer.

Gearino's spending a month in Stephe… 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: Recovering Journalist Mark Potts boils down the paid content issue pretty succinctly in a reaction to Financial Times editor Lionel Barber's recent bloviation that "almost all news organizations will be charging for content" within a year.

"The current print formula of raising newss… Read full post »

By Katharine Mieszkowski If you can get past the monotone delivery, there are some real zingers in the 15-minute video "chat wrap" with the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Reader Rep Ted Diadiun, in which he defends columnist Connie Schultz's proposal to curtail the First Amendment to save newspap… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: I'm slowly developing this view that while there are almost no newspapers that could get anyone to pay anything for their basic content online, the New York Times can. But $5 a month, which the Times is reportedly considering, is way out of whack.

Well, this… Read full post »