My anonymous forum for media professionals hit a milestone today: 10,000 comments from angry journalists.
To begin, let’s look at some statistics. Since February 2007, AngryJournalist.com has had 607,129 page loads, 323,185 unique visitors, 244,455 first-time visitors and 78,730 returning visitors.
For a site that started as a concept executed over a weekend and grew by [...]
Almost a year ago I wrote about the need for publishers to tackle comment identity and filtering if they desired for their online communities to be successful.
Since then, I’ve come to a few conclusions about comments on Web sites:
Comments are a form of content on a publisher’s site.
Comments should be treated with the same level [...]
I attended the Chicago Journalism Town Hall, which gathered together 350+ people in some way related to the media in the Windy City along with a panel to discuss (supposedly) the future of journalism in the city knowing the current challenging climate.
I went because I’d hoped there would be some substantive discussion and brainstorming [...]
If you follow the journalism industry publications and blogosphere, then you’ve probably witnessed an industry doing it’s finest fiddling while Rome burns. Everyone’s talking ad nauseam about the problems with newspapers and the industry.
Everyone is wondering, “What is killing newspapers?”
Here’s your answer: “A lack of money.” Yes, it’s really that simple.
It’s not the [...]
This AngryJournalist.com word cloud was made using Wordle.
Idea from 10000words on Twitter. Visit the 10,000 Words blog.
Here’s a short list of assorted thoughts after my AngryJournalist.com presentation at WIU. You can read the essay my presentation was based on here and the student newspaper’s coverage here.
1.) I had a blast spending time with the WIU faculty. They were all really nice and it was great to be around educators who [...]
On Monday, September 22, I’ll be visiting Western Illinois University to talk about this essay I wrote for the Center for Innovation in College Media blog:
“Journalism school graduates: How to increase your chance of finding a job and decrease your chance of having to vent on AngryJournalist.com”
Throughout the day I’ll be meeting with [...]
Today the Rockford Register Star announced layoffs of 13 full- and part-time employees. This follows a previous round of 17 buyouts. Among those laid off today was a really great mentor and friend of mine: Aaron Chambers, the Springfield bureau chief.
I worked under Chambers as reporting intern while I was in the Public Affairs [...]
My latest project has finally launched: Journalism.me. Please, check it out and share the link.
The project actually came from a tweet by Jay Rosen, who wanted to know if a list of 20-something year old journalism bloggers existed. To my knowledge, none existed at the time.
I set out to create a definitive — but [...]
With the news that Ariana Huffington plans to take the Huffington Post local by aggregating news around geographic locations, I began to think how her plan to start this effort in Chicago would affect the already tumultuous media climate in the Windy City.
Huffington, who rocks not one but TWO Blackberrys, doesn’t just see her city-specific [...]
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