Category Archives: Journalism

Unstructured thought for the day: hiring new journalists

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Chris Heisel

So as a starting point for discussion and not in a and-so-it-shall-be sort of way, a stream of questions one might considering asking when making new hires: * When did you first get on the Internet? * Do you blog? … Continue reading →

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The link economy is dead: New York Times

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Chris Heisel

Yesterday while I was looking for a link to the [Christian Science Monitor’s](http://csmonitor.com) plan to move to a primary online business, I found [this topic page on NYTimes.com](http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/christian_science_monitor/index.html?inline=nyt-org). There’s. Not. One. Link. To. The. Monitor’s. Web. Site. Try it yourself … Continue reading →

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Leading, not managing

Posted on November 8, 2008 by Chris Heisel

There are many categories of nerddom in which I fall, but today I had to share this bit of management nerddom from [an Cringley post about Steve Jobs](http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20081107_005502.html): Dell and HP have the odd strategic initiative, like getting into or … Continue reading →

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How to mix blogging and beat writing

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Chris Heisel

“[Amateurs self-select for the job. Professionals are selected. For most jobs, volunteers beat draftees.](http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/09/a-passionate-am.html)” First, I totally agree. Second, this could be a great way to avoid the problem of “my beat writer can’t blog because they’ll alienate their sources … Continue reading →

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New York Times releasing document viewer, missing the point

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Chris Heisel

[E-media Tidbits](http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31) is reporting that the [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com) is [releasing an open-source document viewer](http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=150665). To be fully buzzword compliant it’s both built in [Ruby on Rails](http://www.rubyonrails.org/) and there’ll be [Amazon EC2 instances available](http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011). (Actually the EC2 instance is kind … Continue reading →

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