Showing posts with label mark potts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mark potts. Show all posts
Jun 24, 2011
No opinion
Should newspapers cut their opinion and unsigned editorials? I'm sure op-ed editors have all sorts of thoughts on that. A flack at Fast Horse, Jorg Pierch, said it risks alienating readers who can already find plenty of opinion elsewhere. And it would save money, according to new media consultant Mark Potts. Poynter
Jun 11, 2009
Four in the evening
1. Also still adjusting to the Internet: politics. Matt Bai
2. Overhead in the Newsroom of the day: Reporter: “Just cause somebody got gunned down doesn’t mean his story is all that compelling.” OITN
3. More LANG moves, this time in the San Gabriel Valley. From LA Observed: Steve Lambert is the new Editor and Publisher of the San Gabriel Valley newspaper Group and Steve Hunt is promoted from managing editor to senior editor. LAO
4. News is going mobile. Recovering Journalist
2. Overhead in the Newsroom of the day: Reporter: “Just cause somebody got gunned down doesn’t mean his story is all that compelling.” OITN
3. More LANG moves, this time in the San Gabriel Valley. From LA Observed: Steve Lambert is the new Editor and Publisher of the San Gabriel Valley newspaper Group and Steve Hunt is promoted from managing editor to senior editor. LAO
4. News is going mobile. Recovering Journalist
Aug 19, 2008
Evolution theory
In his latest post, Mark Potts at Recovering Journalist imagines what will happen when the keystone news organization in town gets taken down by parasites, age and ailments. In his vision, a stronger and better adapted news organization rises in its place.
I have no reason to think Potts is wrong and plenty of reasons to think he's right. However, I'm not as hopeful that new news organizations will quickly evolve everywhere that regional dailies die off - wild packs of chain papers continue to make things tough for start-ups.
The missing piece in his narrative is the benevolent force that will be needed to ensure these new news orgs build on the standards set by the best papers that came before. Natural selection is not synonymous with superiority.
In his latest post, Mark Potts at Recovering Journalist imagines what will happen when the keystone news organization in town gets taken down by parasites, age and ailments. In his vision, a stronger and better adapted news organization rises in its place.
I have no reason to think Potts is wrong and plenty of reasons to think he's right. However, I'm not as hopeful that new news organizations will quickly evolve everywhere that regional dailies die off - wild packs of chain papers continue to make things tough for start-ups.
The missing piece in his narrative is the benevolent force that will be needed to ensure these new news orgs build on the standards set by the best papers that came before. Natural selection is not synonymous with superiority.
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