Category archive for ‘News Media’ 
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Media Versus the Machine: The Southwest Observer
Every day on the Internet, the Southwest Observer faces off against Chicago’s machine mentality. Can an independent community journalism website aimed at some of the most parochial neighborhoods in the Windy City find success? Editor Mike Fielding is on a mission to find the answer.
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An Interview with Journalist Blogger Laura Washington
In Chicago, the idea of journalists blogging for free is a controversial one at best. Some journalists scoff at the suggestion that they give their words away for free. However, Sun-Times columnist Laura Washington does just that–and in the process shows why blogging is key to the future of journalism. Enter: The Washington Report.
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Who Should Defend the Copyright of Content Network Bloggers?
As print media interests across the country continue to launch blog content networks, why don’t their resident bloggers receive the same vigorous infringement defense as newspaper and magazine writers?
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Oh, Irony: Leaving Huffington Post Chicago over Copyright Infringement
Being a Huffington Post blogger was a good fit while it lasted. But I finally got tired of seeing all my words stolen and reposted on spam sites with little help from HuffPo to stop the practice.
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Should You Believe Everything You Read Just Because a Reporter Writes It?
It’s amazing how unused to receiving criticism reporters can be. Since writing about the future of journalism in Chicago this week, I’ve been inundated with comments from reporters telling me that I don’t have the right to share my opinion or voice dissent when it comes to reporters…because I’m not a journalist myself. In today’s video post I ask my audience, do you think you should believe everything you read just because a reporter writes it?
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The Day Michael Miner Killed Commentary
Last week, the Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner suggested journalism could be saved by forcing columnists to write only companion pieces for news articles written by reporters, in effect gutting the field of columneering to save someone else’s paycheck.
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Why the Sun-Times Deserves to Die
The Chicago Sun-Times deserves to die. Here’s why.
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Last Word (for Now) on C-BOM Blog Sustainability Meetup
On the last Saturday in August, I and two dozen other bloggers from across Chicago got together for the C-BOM: Community Blogging & Online Media meetup at the Tribune Tower in downtown Chicago. We arrived to discuss ways to make local blogging financially sustainable.
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On Chicagosphere: Why the Sun-Times Deserves to Die
On Chicagosphere I asked whether the Chicago Sun-Times union truly understands the endgame faced by their paper and journalism in general, calling out the Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner along the way for suggesting that columnists be forced to ditch commentary in favor of strict news analysis. There’s nothing I find more tiresome than yet another reporter throwing the rest of the world under the bus for the failings of their own field.
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Columnists on Chris Kelly
For the past four days, columnists across Chicago have been opining at length on the death of former Blagojevich adviser and fundraiser Chris Kelly. Most have stretched hard to forge news out of speculation. But some have allowed the story to be as simple as, in all likelihood, it really is.
