Hoping for a better media year in 2010

I’m usually old-school in observing New Year’s Eve traditions, so I dusted off this definitive rendition of “Auld Lang Syne” by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians. And hey look, digikids, it’s on vinyl! Best wishes to all for a prosperous 2010. After another difficult year in the media world, the coming weeks and months [...]

Merry Christmas 2009!

Not much more to say except that I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I just received the nicest gift any humble blogger could expect when Ink-Drained Kvetch was included on a list of 91 journalism blogs and Web sites you will love. What a pleasant surprise! There [...]

10 good links about journalism’s past, present and future

There’s no intentional attempt at symmetry here, but in my Delicious collection I’ve noticed an almost equal number of journalism-related links lately that either 1) weep for the state of newspapers and cross their fingers at how they might survive, or 2) say goodbye to all that and march defiantly into the future. Perhaps it [...]

Best wishes to a young former journalist

“Loss and destruction has been almost all that I’ve ever known in journalism. . . For now, journalism is just beginning its trek underground, searching for a ray of light and fresh air. I needed a break from that long, dark trek. Will I ever return? I don’t know. I’ve stopped worrying about what the future will hold [...]

Filling the void of Editor & Publisher

There have been many, many Tweets and blog posts popping up all around the journosphere since the news came down Thursday that Editor & Publisher, the 125-year-old trade publication covering the newspaper industry, would be folding at the end of the year. Like many of those chiming in, I have to admit that I hadn’t read [...]

Between nostalgia and the future of news

I’ve got so many links on journalism and media topics here from the last week to share, especially as they pertain to old-media journalists being confronted with the realities of the new media universe, voluntarily or not. As traditionalists continue their nostalgia tour of the late, great newsroom, the vitality and energy that have departed [...]

As another ‘future of journalism’ gabfest goes on . . .

Today and tomorrow the Federal Trade Commission is conducting its very own “Future of Journalism” extravaganza with all the usual suspects, and from the live Tweeting I’ve seen they’re not saying anything all that new, as important as the topic may be. Spicing up the festivities, however, was Queen Arianna’s clash with Rupert Murdoch this [...]