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 »

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 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 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 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 »

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 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: 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 »

By King Kaufman: Roger Cohen's Sunday column in the New York Times was a lament. The longtime foreign correspondent confesses to feeling "bereft" at having been forced to leave Iran. He also worries about the state of journalism.

The problem is, he seems to be conflating journalism with himself.… 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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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 »

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 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 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 »

By Katharine Mieszkowski: Details about the New York Times' plans to charge readers of its Web site for access are trickling out. In a conference call to discuss earnings today, CEO Janet Robinson described two possible payment scenarios -- a "meter model" or a "Times club membership."… Read full post »

By King Kaufman Dear Chris Cillizza and Dana Milbank,

I am in receipt of your separate, not terribly sincere apologies for "Mouthpiece Theater," your Web video series on the Washington Post's Web site, which the Post has now killed.

I appreciate and accept the gestures, however wan, but… 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 »

It's hard to put yourself into the mind-set of another time, but if you can do it, you might get some insight into how you think about the present.

Do me a favor, give it a try and watch this 1981 KRON-TV report from San Francisco about people… 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: Megan Garber slams "The Daily Show" in the Columbia Journalism Review for its takedown of CNN's use of Twitter on TV, which you can view at that link.

Host Jon Stewart  mocked the cable news network for its self-congratulatory "We're passing along unverified information -- whic… Read full post »

By Katharine Mieszkowski Columnist Connie Schultz over at the Cleveland Plain Dealer has some company across the pond. As readers of this blog will recall, Schultz has argued that the government should curtail free speech to help save the journalism business model. 

Now, European publishers… Read full post »

By King Kaufman: I'm perfectly willing to entertain the possibility that Google is an evil overlord that will stop at nothing to crush us all under the weight of its unstoppable enormity, but when publishers argue that Google is an evil overlord that will stop at nothing to crush us all…

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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 »