(Note to the hand-wringers: It’s the newspaper industry that is on the endangered-species list, not journalism itself, which merely is undergoing a transformation).
Entries from February 2009
February 24, 2009
The New American
When you tell stories for a living long enough, you learn that you almost never get the perfect conditions in which to spin the most compelling yarns.
February 17, 2009
What’s Black and White and …
One of the “problems” with being a photographer, which I (finally) own up to being, is that one sees pictures everywhere.
February 12, 2009
Newspapers, murder-suicides and the Kindle 2
I think the same thing about the massively unenlightened newspaper executives around the country. They have, after all, lined up time, technology and new ideas, and shot them in the head. Now, one by one, they are swallowing the poison — gutting their staffs and their products — that makes the death of newspapers almost a fait accompli.
February 9, 2009
It’s All Relative
I am going to describe my journey – from writer to editor to photographer to audio producer to videographer to, hopefully, multimedia arts journalist. My underlying expertise, I can say with some certainty, is sports – more specifically, basketball. Along the way, I’ll touch on that as well. Mostly I’m going to describe how I’m doing things, in hopes that someone smarter and better can leave a comment on how I could have done something smarter or better, or someone less experienced can learn either how to do or how not to do something.
