Another view on Newspapers’ “Original Sin,” from Howard Owens

Howard Owens has weighed in with his view on what the newspaper industry’s “Original Sin” was in the early days of the Internet: Alan Mutter says we screwed up by failing to charge for content. I say not only was that not a mistake, but many newspapers did try to charge for content. I have [...]

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Resources for journalism educators on digital ethics, new business models, journalism

I was privileged yesterday to be panelist for a discussion about the future of journalism education. I am pleased that journalism educators are considering the important issues for the future of journalism and the news business and hopeful that this means they will be teaching the right issues and skills and contributing valuable research. I [...]

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Chris O’Brien responds about data and newspaper readership

A recent post that I wrote included some hearty debate in the comments between Tim O’Brien of the New York Times and me (with several other people weighing in). That debate for a couple weeks didn’t include the person whose post launched the discussion, Chris O’Brien (no relation to Tim apparently) of the San Jose [...]

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