My employer,
Sound Publishing, has me on a kind of fact finding/info hunting mission as we look for ways to improve our
community newsbrands and their Web sites. We want to know what other sites (traditional news sites, blogs, etc.) are doing to build communities around their brands.
I'm hoping some of you won't mind sharing answers to a few of these questions (and please feel free to send me a priv…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on June 10, 2009 at 2:27pm —
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Just posted
some of my thoughts on '09 grads who maybe aren't
quite ready for the real journalism world. My best advice: Don't freak out; there's still time to learn.
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Added by Paul Balcerak on March 25, 2009 at 12:25am —
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Forgot to post a link to my newest post the other day, where I implore investigative journalists to
make their hard work more obvious.
Essentially, I think that with so much "you'll miss us when we're gone" talk from old school print journalists, they need to drop the humility act and start yelling in the form of page banners and logos: "WE WORKED OUR ASSES OFF ON THIS HUGE INVESTIGATIVE PIECE AND WITHOUT US…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on March 13, 2009 at 12:26am —
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I've begun the process of moving this blog over to Paul Balcerak on WordPress. I'll still be active here, but my posts won't appear in full anymore. The reason for the move is that I like WordPress's blogging platform a lot better and it makes mobile posting a lot easier.
The
No News is Bad News: Seattle as a no newspaper town? panel/forum turned out as I expected (little discussion on busines…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on March 3, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Added by Paul Balcerak on February 20, 2009 at 4:34pm —
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Got into the
#cfund discussion this morning and early this afternoon. Two impressions: (1) For a guy who says he knows nothing about business, I find myself in business-related discussions all too often; and (2) if today's chat was any indication, this "how do we fund journalism" debate could end up lasting longer than the industry itself.
That's not to knock the debate — I applaud
Alexandre fo…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on February 20, 2009 at 2:32am —
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One of the things I've
talked about in the past — even though I'm
firmly committed to discussing the future — is the idea that this animosity between new media journalists and old print journalists doesn't have to exist. The older crowd has skills that can be useful in new media and we owe it to them and ourselves to help bring them up to speed.
So…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on February 19, 2009 at 1:32am —
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It's been a while since I blogged here. I have problems blogging on a regular basis for whatever reason. I also get off track on Twitter every now and then.
Whatever.
The nice part about the Web is that it can constantly be reinvented. It's with that that I'm refocusing my efforts. I'm making a push to post more about innovations in delivering the news as well as the business model for doing so (less time bashing curmudgeons and talking about…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on February 19, 2009 at 12:34am —
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This is the fifth and final part of my "First Year in Journalism" series of thoughts. Also see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.
The first thing I learned when I g…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on February 10, 2009 at 1:00am —
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Steve Yelvington taught me a thing or two earlier this week about how
print isn't really dead:
In spite of the worst economy since Roosevelt, many U.S. newspapers are still turning profits in the 15-20 percent range, and the U.S. newspaper industry is still turning around 50 billion dollars of gross revenue every year. Several major newspaper companies are in big financial trouble because they borrowed heavily to fin
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Added by Paul Balcerak on February 7, 2009 at 12:52pm —
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I got into a discussion about news consumption and the future of journalism earlier today with some Twitter followers of
pnwlocalnews (that's the account I Tweet from on the clock) and one brought up something I've considered in the past:
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Added by Paul Balcerak on February 4, 2009 at 2:01am —
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Everyone runs into those stretches of life where, for whatever reason — work, life, etc. — the weird second life that exists on the Web just doesn't get tended to like usual.
Such has been the case with me. I recently got engaged and have been dedicating a lot of time to everything that goes along with it — cake tasting, getting photos taking, building a Web site....
I've done my best to keep active elsewhere on the Web, though, which is a lesson I learned from…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on January 28, 2009 at 12:12am —
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This is the fourth part of my "First Year in Journalism" series of thoughts. This is the second part of my "First Year in Journalism" series of thoughts. Also see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on January 28, 2009 at 12:00am —
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Since
Josh Korr (Publishing 2.0) and
Judith Townend (journalism.co.uk) basically said everything that needed to be said about the link journalism project I was involved in last week, I'm going to cherry-pick their posts for things I'd like to expand upon.
First, though, a quick reminder of what happened: As we…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on January 14, 2009 at 2:17am —
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Spinning off of the shared flood coverage I talked about in my
last post, Publish2 Editor Josh Korr posted the "story behind the story" over at Publishing 2.0:
The discussion about journalism’s future so often focuses on Big Changes — Kill the print edition! Flips for everyone! Reinvent business models NOW! — that it’s easy to forget how simple innovation can be. Sometimes all you need is a few Tweets, a bunch of links, and some
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Added by Paul Balcerak on January 9, 2009 at 3:21am —
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Myself and a few other Washington state journalists — mostly competitors of mine — met on Twitter today and inadvertently organized a little team to aggregate coverage on the floods in Washington state.
We're currently Twittering links under the hashtag
#waflood and aggregating links (which some of us have pasted into widgets) using
Publish2. (…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on January 7, 2009 at 11:55pm —
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This is the third part of my "First Year in Journalism" series of thoughts. This is the second part of my "First Year in Journalism" series of thoughts. Also see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on January 7, 2009 at 2:00am —
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This is the second part of my "First Year in Journalism" series of thoughts. Also see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on January 2, 2009 at 12:00am —
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This is the first part of my "First Year in Journalism" series of thoughts. Also see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and…
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Added by Paul Balcerak on December 30, 2008 at 2:00am —
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This is quite possibly the best insight I've heard thus far on new media in journalism:
Even though blogging has been around for more than a decade, there is still an unease about blogging among some professional journalists, often encapsulated in the phrase, "blogging isn't journalism." This is a tired argument that mistakes form for content. (
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Added by Paul Balcerak on December 23, 2008 at 1:57am —
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