My first thoughts about journalist and the field of journalism came from my experiences with Superman and Louis Lane. I imaged people running around getting stories and writing about them with inside access only they could obtain. I think this is changing. I think with freer flow of information. Everyone will have the same inside [...]

I am extremely interested in the point Dan raised about journalists feeling a sense of entitlement. Entitlement to what exactly, I’m not sure — to a certain amount of respect, attention, or praise, perhaps?
It reminded me of Barbara Ehrenreich’s commencement speech to graduating journalism students at Berkeley, which I read earlier tonight. At the end [...]

I’ll get to tech and “the business side” in a minute, but I wanted to mention one other thing that journalism schools need to be teaching students: Journalism is no longer a lecture, it’s a conversation.
When guest speakers come to our program and insist that nothing has/will ever chance about journalism outside of business models [...]

I just came across this article introducing a UK startup called Imagini The company’s product VisualDNA Shops is a widget that presents blog readers with a series of visual questions and product recommendations based on the responses. The youtube video in the article explains it very well.
I really like this product. The concept seems very [...]

The two most common words that precede the word “journalism” these days are “future of.” I am happy to see that finally experts and media people themselves moved beyond the “are newspapers dying?” debate, since we already waved farewell to a dozen of the greatest newspapers all over the country. Finally, another question came into [...]

What we are seeing is competition between formal and informal news gatherers and information providers. The journalist that produces a well-researched 1000-word article ends up losing audience to a blogger that writes a 200-word paragraph or twitter-er who posts an update on the spot. That blogger or twitter-er only gets more attention because they [...]

With all this talk of digitization and instant access to content. I am wondering what will happen to the library? As a kid one of my favorite pass times was simply to go hang out at the library and enjoy being around other people and books. It seems that technology is taking us in a [...]

Mr. Malik gave one of my favorite guest lectures of this quarter.  His approach of learning the trade and gaining experience in the industry before finally creating his own venture is to me the model of an entrepreneur who has a genuine passion for his work. I was glad to see that in Om, because [...]

I agree with Dan that journalists have a tendency to stodgily (and somewhat stupidly) keep themselves separate and apart from the “techie” side of news operations. The idea is an echo of Ted Glasser’s contention that journalists shoot themselves in the foot by living in willful ignorance of the “business side” of their profession.
I [...]

Connecticut’s New Haven Advocate brought out an entire issue, using freelance journalists from India to fill up content. http://newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=13128.
I know what journalists think about outsourcing content, but I am curious to know what non-journalists & MBAs think. What is your take on the tradeoff between cost-cutting and missing out on cultural nuances?

First, please excuse the lame headline.
Second, as Dan and Lindsey both pointed out in their posts, I agree that part of the problem journalists are facing today is of their own making. Until recently, the realm of content creation has been isolated from both the business and technology sides of the industry. Innovation has been [...]

Coming from India, J-school in the US has been a great learning experience for me. In India, online news is still not a big enough market, and print and TV news dominate. It was great to come to grips with multimedia tools and J-school has given me the confidence that I am ahead of the [...]

Perhaps the most memorable takeaway from Om Malik’s conversation with us last Thursday was his example of the value of persistence. Mr. Malik’s willingness to take less-than-optimal reporting beats, his repeated phone calls to David Churbuck, and his eventual “camping out” in front of the Forbes building in order to ambush Mr. Churbuck were all [...]

Call me crazy, but I think J-schools do well to continue to teach their students about the craft of writing. Sure, many of us aspiring journalists already know how to write a 1,000-word article. But, we don’t necessarily know how to write it well. I came into school with a ton of clips, but when [...]

I love to write; I absolutely love it.  I actually enjoyed writing my essays to get into business school.  But I think the “problem” with my writing, as you can see by my beginning a sentence with the word “but,” is that it is usually conversational.  To some it comes across as easy to read [...]

I completely agree with DWS. I think part of journalists’ beef with the way things are going is of their own making. Professor Grimes has pointed out that there’s a very real division between the business side and the journalism side of a newsroom. Thankfully this is changing, as Neil Chase has demonstrated. And Om [...]

I’m not a journalist or j.school student myself, so I don’t know how much authority I have to speak on the subject.  But when thinking about the exposure I have had to journalist and j.school classes, I would have to disagree to j.schools have become irrelevant and can be done away with.  I feel that [...]

It is a little difficult for me to speak on the value of J-schools not being a journalist, but I will give my opinion of my perceived value of them. I would say it certainly still has some value-add for you despite the fall of many large papers and institution that might have been previously [...]

I can’t speak to what you do and don’t learn in Journalism school, but given a lot of what I’ve heard people say it seems that here at Stanford at least there are not enough technology requirements for getting through. Having been on both the technology and the business side of things I can attest to how important [...]

J.schools like to tout that they are seeing a high number of applicants, even during the turmoil of the news industry.  In my mind, though, all of those poor college kids who just came out of undergrad with a journalism degree are trying to make themselves relevant in today’s changing media landscape by getting a [...]