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Oh, to be the Economist

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 22/06/2009

When newspaper people in the U.S. aren’t wishing they were the Wall Street Journal – “well, they can charge” – they aspire to be The Economist. Dream on. I just got email announcing The Economist Group’s latest financials. * Operating profit up 26% to £56m ...

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Defending public as a journalistic doctrine

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 21/06/2009

In a few countries around the world, we’ve seen a backlash against Google’s Streetview as somehow an invasion of privacy, even though what Google captures is the very definition of public: what can be seen in the open. I wish that journalists would defend Google and its definition of pub ...

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Adding value in the new news ecosystem

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 20/06/2009

How can and should news organizations and others add value to the new news ecosystem that is being used in the Iran story? Or to put the question another way: The New York Times keeps talking about how expensive its Baghdad bureau is and what a fix we’d be in without it. Well, the essential [. ...

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The journalism bubble

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 21/05/2009

When I decided to go into the news business, we took a vow of poverty, or at least acknowledged that we’d never be rich. I chose not to go to law school and instead transferred to j-school and did so in the full awareness that I’d never be well-paid. Wrong. I ended up being very [...]

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When CYA can BYA

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 16/05/2009

It’s lawyer day at Buzzmachine….In this week’s kerfuffling on Twitter and blogs about the Wall Street Journal’s anti-interactive interactivity rules regarding Twitter et al, a New York Times editor took a few of us to task for not recognizing that this was just a case of a CY ...

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