About the Journalism Field What should a young journalist or journalism student know about the field of journalism today? Not "how to" but rather "what it is now." This is a collection to clue them in to the way things are, and where journalism is going.

Journalists Need Advertising 101

Newspapers that aren’t dying: Four success stories and four lessons

Subcompact Publishing

Why mobile will disrupt journalism like the Internet did a decade ago

I’ve been on my mobile soapbox lately, urging news organizations to adopt a “mobile first” mindset. Meanwhile, Business Insider’s Henry Blodget says the smarter strategy is “mobile, too.” “The reality is that we live in a multi-screen world, not a ‘mobile world’ that operates parallel to a ‘desktop world,’” he writes. “For some services, such as news and information, the laptop/desktop screen is still by far the most dominant screen. So abandoning that screen, or designing for another screen first, ...

Mounting costs for the default model of trust production in American newsrooms

Jan. 6 The outlines of the new system are now coming into view. Accuracy and verification, fairness and intellectual honesty–traditional virtues for sure–join up with transparency, “show your work,” the re-voicing of individual journalists, fact-checking, calling BS when needed and avoiding false balance. For about 20 years (yikes!) I have been trying to move American journalists off their default view of newsroom “objectivity.” The default view goes like this: # There is something called “news,” another thing called “opinion,” and ...

News at Twitter Speed

Newsmaker: Roman Mars

10 things every journalist should know in 2013

Twitter's Biz Stone And Ev Williams And Charlie Rose: The Long And Short Of Creative Conversations

BuzzFeed, Andrew Sullivan, and the Future of Making Money in Journalism

Digital Cracks 50% of Ad Revenue at Wired Magazine

Seven publishing trends that will define 2013