11
Dec
My ten rules for blogging in 2025
Number 10 will shock you.
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10
Dec
We don't (always) need to meet readers 'where they are'
Let’s be heterodox for a moment on two points:
1 We don’t need to meet readers where they
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05
Dec
Ten books helpful to understand 2025
How does one make sense of a period of cultural upheaval informed by the electoral politics of irrationality, hatred and
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28
Nov
Technology is a tool not a solution
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that technology simply exists and nothing more. Omniscient, omnipotent,
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15
Nov
Artificial Intelligence is likely a bad news editor
I was struck by a minor existential dread recently while testing an AI-driven news aggregation app in my quixotic 10-year
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12
Nov
The Job to be Done for Willingness to Pay Theories
I have a commentary, published today in Journalism & Commuications Monographs accompanying “News Subscription Motivation: Why Audiences Pay for
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08
Nov
Journalists - is Twitter actually your community?
It is long past time for journalism to abandon Twitter.
We ourselves have torn down the wall between editorial and
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01
Nov
In defense of newspaper endorsements
I will not bore you with the surveys and studies and punditry that argue newspaper opinion pages and candidate endorsements
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31
Oct
Why is the business of news so difficult?
The below is from a thread on Threads, reacting to the owner-imposed crisis at the Washington Post and the trend
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31
Oct
16 years later, another new CMS
In 2008 I moved this blog over from Django to WordPress self-hosted. Somewhat unrelated to the recent WP-driven controversies, my