Archive for the 'Media' Category



[Panel] The Future of Newsrooms


h1 Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago in the wee hours by oso

You’ve got a staff of about 200. Your task: to create a newsroom for the 21st century. Where do you put your staff? Where do you invest your resources? How many reporters do you need? What about editors, copy-editors, photographers, programmers, web producers, and technical support? How much do you focus on your website and [...]

[Criticism] The Death of Newspapers. The Transparency of Editing


h1 Posted 9 months, 1 week ago around lunchtime by oso

I’ve been meaning to write about a recent episode of the World Technology Podcast on the so-called death of foreign correspondance and Paul Steiger’s recent front page reflection on the history and future of the newspaper industry in the Wall Street Journal just happens to set the context of what I have to say perfectly.
Steiger [...]

The Self-Sustainable Non-profit Oxymoron


h1 Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at around evening time by oso

It was social entrepreneur day at Stanford University on two Sundays ago as part of “Entrepreneurship Week” at Stanford. I wanted to go for a number of reasons. Global Voices is in the process of incorporating into its own Non-Governmental Organization. There are lots of NGO’s with weblogs, but I think we’re probably the first [...]