by David | Jul 1, 2011 | Digital Migration, journalism, new media, newspaper crisis, Online Video, Video
The clash of ancient and modern is never more stark than in these developing nations I’ve been in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the last week, training the local journalists and government information officers (aka PR flacks) on how best to take advantage of the...
by David | Jul 6, 2010 | Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Online Video
Tbilisi Journalist Graduation, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. These are the journalists from the smaller cities & towns outside of Tbilisi, Georgia. They’re all grinning happily, because they’ve managed to survive my intense one-week course, where I...
by David | Mar 27, 2010 | Digital Migration, journalism, Newspaper Deathwatch
GM’s NUMMI plant in Fremont was the solution to their crisis.     So why did they ignore its lessons? I strongly urge you to listen to this great piece from This American Life about the NUMMI auto plant in Fremont. It’s about how the U.S. auto...
by David | Feb 9, 2010 | journalism, new media, newspaper crisis, Newspapers
Signs were there that DVD sales were about to implode; industry ignored all warnings To anyone in the newspaper industry, the parallels are eerie. The disruptive technology is introduced, and people with the ability to look beyond this quarter’s P&L...
by David | Jun 29, 2009 | journalism
On Friday, I lost my cat Duce to a terrible and swift-striking illness. I am going to devote this post to remembering him, because he was such a large & special part of my life for the last 8 years. This is the last notice my friend will receive on this earth,...
by David | Apr 24, 2009 | Amusing Nonsense, journalism, Online Video, Video
Last week at the International Symposium of Online Journalists in Austin, I presented a series of viral videos to make the point that the national discourse is no longer “owned” by what we think of as professional media. It may seem like a trivial point,...
