7 posts tagged Gahran

Podcasting vs. Blogging Posted by boyberm on May 10th, 2008 The US Navy blogs. Larry Kudlow of CNBC blogs. I’d say “everybody and their brother” except (1) it’s a cliche and (2) it may be grammatically inaccurate. Dan Rather is only too aware that everybody blogs.

Jay Rosen pointed me to a piece by Amy Gahran. Is the newsroom its own worst enemy?"Most of what I do is help journalists and news orgs wrap their brains around the Internet. Generally I enjoy that work. Lately, though, I've been getting quite aggravated at the... read more

By Mick Gregory What kind of mind set is inside newsrooms today? Here is a comment from Amy Gahran, a media consultant who instructs newsrooms and PR departments on Web 2.0. This is how elitist journalists think of themselves as they rearrange the deck chairs of the Titanic.

On a day that offered fresh evidence of plummeting circulation at many major metros (Sunday Denver Post’s sales dropped nearly 15% in the year ended March 31), Poynter’s Amy Gahran offers a testy take on the resistance of news managers to change their mindsets and adapt to the new reality wrought by economic and technological forces.

So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. -Molly Ivins I am one lucky journo. So many times in the past 30 years I paused, looked up to the heavens, and thanked the stars that someone was actually paying me to do this fabulous journalism thing.

Show of hands. Who follows links in Twitter now more than links in your feed reader? That question was just raised by Amy Gahran, one of the blogosphere's most prolific bloggers. She confesses to following that practice and, once I thought about it, I realized I do as well.

Amy Gahran has an excellent outline of the ties between mainstream journalism and participatory journalism and their futures.  Here are some of the outline headings:  What’s the point of news? Why do people want & need news? What do people do with news? Breaking out of the story format.