Note: This article first appeared here, on April 26, 2014. Many of the problems of the news media—an oligopolistic, centralized corporate ownership, a “business” orientation that reflects the world view of the managerial and ownership classes while ignoring the concerns of working people, overpaid celebrity reporters with “insider” status, reporting that uses false equivalency to […]
Chasing web hits: media rope-a-dope leads to dumbed-down content
注意：本文首次出现在此，2014年4月25日。周三和周四我讨论了依靠广告作为主要收入发生器的新闻媒体的不安。我认为商业模式建立抑制措施来涵盖故事或调查可能对广告商产生不利影响的问题。今天和周末我想谈谈如何广告[...]
Why we need a subscription-based news outlet
Note: This article first appeared here, on April 24, 2014. Yesterday I discussed my problems with advertorial, and explained that it was one reason why I left The Coast. The news site I’ll be launching in May will have no advertising, which addresses the problems that come along with with advertorial. But running an advertising-free news […]
Advertorial: an unnecessary evil
Note: this article was first published here, on April 23, 2014. In the early 2000s, I worked as a freelancer for the Daily Tidings, a newspaper in Ashland, Oregon. It was good work, and helped me hone my skills and build a portfolio that would allow me to make a career out of journalism. But […]
I’m starting an on-line news site
Note: This article was first published here, on April 22, 2014. You couldn’t get rid of me that easily. Yes, I needed some time for myself. I went to California, spent my days walking on the beach, hiking in the mountains, hanging with my starlet friends in the sun. I haven’t been this relaxed in […]