New Relationships, Forms, and Models for News

These digital visionaries tell people like me that we just don’t understand…

No Mas Mass Media

“There are in fact no masses,” said sociologist Raymond Williams, “there are only ways of seeing people as masses.” Without…

Content vs. Service

Is news really a content business? Should it be? Perhaps defining ourselves as content creators is a trap. That worldview…

The Article is Dead. Long Live the Article.

I come not to bury the article but to praise it. Machined to near-perfection over a…

Journalist as Organizer, Advocate, and Educator

Ecosystems and Networks

After the invention of the high-speed press, news became a vertically organized industry. Single corporations…

Engagement, Collaboration, and Membership

One of the greatest crises facing news organizations — well, besides disrupted business…

News as Platform

Back to Hurricane Sandy. When news sites all-in-all failed to give me the information I needed or the means to get it, I used…