Since this is the first Weekly Reader post, a few of these will be older ones.
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable — Clay Shirky
“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.”
Nonprofit Newspapers — The New Yorker
In the foreseeable future, it seems, there will be two kinds of nonprofit newspapers—those which are deliberately so and those which are reluctantly so.
Milwaukee Journalist Shows How to Investigate Stimulus Job Tally in Your State Journalist finds some jobs counted twice, others counted wrong and some data is misleading.
Bloggers vs. Journalists is Over
“I have been an observer and critic of the American press for 19 years. In that stretch there has never been a time so unsettled. More is up for grabs than has ever been up for grabs since I started my watch.”
Truthiness, Transparency and Other Words I Had Banished Why a fan of the First Amendment risks even the wrath of Stephen Colbert in a quest to get some words eliminated from use.
Jurors Have Difficult Time Giving Up Twitter, Facebook Judges warn against collecting own evidence online.
Tips for Covering Mass Shootings A Salt Lake Tribune reporter provides eight things you need to know.
New Media & Transformation Bibliography List of online resources and books about the history and transformation of new media and online journalism.
Take a Tour of the Book-Writing Process You need the right space and few simple tools.
Goodman: ‘Each One of Us Has Maybe 6 Columns a Year Inside Us’ Ellen Goodman, who retired last week, reflected on the changes she’s seen in journalism since starting out in 1963.
What Great Bosses Know about Doubling Their Feedback Five strategies for time-crunched managers who want to increase the feedback they provide.
Tip Sheets: Writing / Editing Journalism tips you can use, with links to stories, seminars, and a complete bibliography.
Learn About Writing from Poynter Learn About Writing from Poynter
Archived Chat: How to Write a Book Roy Peter Clark shares six secret strategies & answers your questions today at 1 p.m. eastern.
News orgs’ goal for 2010: Imagine tomorrow’s media world today The legacy press — or the traditional media, or whatever we’re calling newspapers these days — has one main challenge for 2010, and it’s not finding a new business model. It has to do with vision. It has to do with being able to imagine a world that does not yet exist.
California Watch: The latest entrant in the dot-org journalism boom
Eric Newton: Shame on us if we don’t take the steps needed to feed knowledge to our democracy
What qualifies as a Spotlight story on Google News? Here’s a few clues
What 2010 will bring newspapers: Bad revenue news, bad bankruptcy news, and maybe a nice tablet
