by David | Jun 6, 2012 | Digital Migration
This is a photo of my class of working journalists. I am demonstrating for them how easy it is to do a blog post in real time. Please excuse any typos, because I am in a bit of a hurry. We can also use the blog to link to other sites about Ethiopia – for...
by David | May 28, 2012 | Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Video
UPDATE: The first video below was erroneously a duplicate of video #3. I blame the shoddy connection I had – I am thrilled that the videos made it up to YouTube at all, frankly, and it took me an hour and several tried to get this post to publish, so I had some...
by David | May 14, 2012 | Digital Migration, television
I met with the CEO of the Fana Broadcasting network this past week. We talked about the phenomenal growth occurring here in Ethiopia, and what that is going to mean for the traditional media here. Right now, as in so many other developing countries, the media...
by David | Apr 17, 2012 | Digital Migration, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch
27 Print Dollars for $1 Digital; Social News; Papers in Trouble; Kodak v. Fuji I posted this picture via Twitpic earlier today, and my digital brethren quickly chimed in on how much they felt like this in their daily lives. And I get it. Working in the media industry...
by David | Mar 20, 2012 | Digital Migration, Video
OK, I’ll admit it. I’m as guilty of assigning myself a made-up title as anyone. But c’mon – “Digital Alchemist” is pretty cool. And it’s a nice shorthand for what I do – which is to research, study, broadcast via social...
by David | Jan 18, 2012 | Digital Migration, new media
This was originally a comment to Robert Niles’ excellent piece on the Online Journalism Review, on whether or not the New York Times should be a “Truth Vigilante”. I’m republishing it here, because it looks like the commenting feature on OJR...
