Here’s my Dallas Morning News Citizen Journalism Column that appeared in Sunday’s Points section. I’ve included pictures from the Poynter Institute Sense Making conference that I’ve been talking about for the last few weeks and reference in the column. Thanks to Nicole Stockdale at the Morning News for allowing my...
I’ll be talking a lot about “the new media reality” over the next few weeks. In the new media space, we will see more newspapers going out of business, more newsrooms announcing layoffs, gaps in coverage. All of this impacts people of color exponentially. Shawn P. and Carmen D. A...
In a story posted to the Dallas Morning News website, they’re parent company A.H. Belo Corp announced that they are cutting salaries and suspending their retirement supplement to pension plan participants next year. Belo also owns The Providence Journal in Rhode Island; The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif.; and the Denton...
Join Kristin and I Thursday night as we talk about the state of media in general and what that means for Black Media in particular. Kevin Ross broached the subject on Dallas South and after spending a week at the Poynter Institute with some of the top minds in new...
The Poynter Institute has assembled an amazing group of new media mindsfor their “Sense Making” seminar that’s designed to help identify the new course of media and journalism. Some of those include Drew Curtis of Fark.com, Latoya Peterson of Racialicious.com, Chris Rabb from Afro-Netizen, Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of reddit.com, and...
On Sunday I’ll be traveling to St. Petersburg, Florida to participate in a media conference at the invitation of the Poynter Institute and the Ford Foundation. The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalism. The conference is bringing together a relatively small group of...
I listen to the Glenn Beck program on the radio from time to time and I have to say, the dude is so all over the place I’ve never understood why he matters. I see now (thanks to a TIP from a fellow Ticket P1) that he’s taken his 3...
On Saturday, the Dallas Morning News ran a column written by Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. The title was You will never get a Twitter (tweet?) from me. Here are some of the highlights from Pitt’s column: Today, I make you a solemn promise: I will never Twitter you....
As the Tyrannosaurus trudged down his driveway to pick up the newspaper, he wondered whether or not the story of T.O. being released would be above the fold. Of course the news of Terrell Owens’ departure was at the very top of the Dallas Morning News’ Thursday edition. Apparently the...
Thanks to Geoff Johnston for hitting me up on Facebook and requesting a Q&A for this week’s Quick. I also had a fun photo shoot with Jason Janik, tough I liked the photo on the Quick homepage better than the one in the paper. Make sure to pick up a...
