Todd Mundt

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Sullivan’s piece in the November issue of The Atlantic is the best think piece about blogging I’ve seen, and its connections to, as well as its extension of the practice of journalism.
Sullivan writes that blogging is jazz to established journalism’s classical music. One doesn’t replace the other, but each requires a different way of performing, [...]

I’m glad to see that more and more newspapers are allowing online readers to comment on stories because, increasingly, I find myself wondering, “What do stupid people think about the issues?”

The closing of Backfence this week has encouraged good discussion about hyperlocal content. Terry Heaton pulls some of the threads together in a post today.
He includes comments from Jeff Jarvis and Mike Orren, who point out the value of the content, but also the challenge of getting people to, first, read it, and, second, to [...]

Moderator: Patricia Aufderheide. Participants: Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation; Diane Mermigas, The Hollywood Reporter; Dan Nova, Highland Capital Partners.
Because of a minor issue (let’s call it Autosave), these notes are adapted from Jessica Duda’s excellent summary on the Beyond Broadcast blog. I summarize them here not to pass them off as my own but to have [...]

Charles Nesson, co-founder and faculty director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Nesson delivered a brief and powerful address about the rhetorical space of the Internet, the central value of openness and the challenge posed by those who would curtail that openness. He spoke about universities and the mandate to create an “open [...]

Beyond Broadcast organizers offered the option of several loosely structured “idea generating/networking” dinners last night for conference attendees. I “moderated” a discussion among six individuals, based generally on the following question: how do we get the best content from our listeners? Participants included Josh Andrews of Chicago Public Radio, Jessica Duda of the Center for [...]

Filmmaker Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) collaborated with soldiers in Iraq, who filmed their service. She worked with them over the Internet, rather than going to Iraq herself so she could stay out of the story and not interfere directly in the soldiers’ storytelling. She spoke about working with the soldiers, winning their trust, and [...]

via Lost Remote:
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on a recent local panel discussion about TV news, in which a member of the audience challenged the use of terms like “breaking” and “severe.” Check out these defensive responses:
WPXI news director Corrie Harding said the breaking news bug afflicts TV stations because research shows that’s what people want [...]

Mark Glaser’s MediaShift blog features an interview with Dan Gillmor about Citizen Media. The interview follows a long post from Gillmor on the Bayosphere site, in which he lays out the objectives of Bayosphere, its effort to encourage and promote citizen journalism, and the ways in which the project didn’t succeed as expected. Gillmor offers [...]