Just last week I told the students of my 21st Century Journalism class at least 30-40% of them would one day work for organizations that don’t do journalism now. I have been telling other classes the same thing for the last three or four years. I have never found the statement particularly bold or outrageous. […]
Tag Archives: ASNE
Advocacy and self-interested journalism are inevitable, but what are the consequences?
September 3, 2014 – 1:46 pm
ASNE is not what it used to be and it’s time to blow it up
April 6, 2011 – 6:28 pm
Exactly 10 years ago today (April 6, 2001) some 600 or 700 hundred of my closest friends in the newspaper business sang “Happy Birthday” to my then 22-year-old son Jason. Jason has Down syndrome. It was a moment neither of us will ever forget. He talked about it this past weekend when we discussed his […]
ASNE needs to figure out what game it is rejoining
April 14, 2010 – 6:52 pm
Last Friday ASNE President Marty Kaiser started telling me about the remarks he planned to make at the board dinner Saturday night. His enthusiasm was so infectious I urged him to emphasize the very words he was saying to me. He did and his lead was: “Wow” We’re back in the game!” Incoming President Milton […]