Tag Archives: Journalism

Blogging 101: Conducting interviews for media

A good friend of mine from the FLOSS community is going to be doing some interviews for his blog at an upcoming conference, and asked for a few tips on interviewing. Interviewing is not a science, but an art: And art requires practice. I don't claim to be the world's best interviewer: Most of the interviews [...]
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A New Role in Journalism?

TechDirt points to a discussion about today's newsroom and the idea a new role in a newsroom: Curators. That is, someone who would help readers by sorting, organizing, verifying, and editing information that's already on the Web or in the media. Traditional journalists might look down on this, as journalism programs really focus hot and heavy [...]
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Long day in London

In London (well, staying in Bracknell & taking the train to London) this week, spent most of Tuesday doing in-person press interviews about openSUSE, the 11.2 launch (a bit belatedly) and talking about open source in general face to face with some of the press here. Brigitte and the PR team had set up a [...]
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A few choice bits from around the Web about journalism, marketing, technology, and other fun stuff. State of Mozilla and 2008 Financial Statements -- Mozilla still healthy, despite the crappy economy. Wonder if there's any way for other FOSS non-profit projects to achieve this level (or even close) of fiscal health? "Our revenue and expenses are [...]
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Dan Gillmor on "new rules of news"

Even though I'm not working as a journalist these days, I still keep one eye on the profession. It's clear to me that journalism has a lot of evolving to do to keep up with technology and the way that people "consume" news. Dan Gillmor is one of the leading lights in this area. I like [...]
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