Journalism

The past few days, there was something about the website of The New York TImes that was bothering me, and I finally figured out what it was: serifs. A serif is a small line that you see at the end of a letter or character- letters with serifs were most popular with…

I was so surprised to see an article in article in the NYT (Nov. 2, 2012) about Koshik (Kosik), the talking elephant in Korea. I had actually written a long feature article about Koshik in 2006 in the JoongAng Daily. At the time, a professor at Seoul National…

Kashmir Hill of Forbes has a great article summarizing the “nightmare” that the Shell Oil company is experiencing due to an anti-Shell social media campaign that was funded by Greenpeace. But…

The New Museum has an exhibition titled “The Last Newspaper” featuring the work of artists who use (and abuse) the daily newspaper in their art practices. It is certainly not a new idea to incorporate newspapers into art; artists have always found ways to…

Newspapers won’t die, but some should

The OJR posted an article that is by far the stupidest argument I’ve ever seen on why…

I’ve argued for some time that hyperlocal news is the future of newspapers and today’s article in the NYT points out several ventures that are trying out this model. These startups, however, don’t really utilize social networking, and they are missing out on…