That digital technology is disrupting the business of journalism is beyond dispute. What’s striking is how little attention has been paid to the impact that technology has had on the actual practice of journalism. The distinctive properties of the Internet—speed, immediacy, interactivity, boundless capacity, global reach—provide tremendous new opportunities for the gathering and presentation of news and information. Yet amid all the coverage of start-ups and IPOs, investments and acquisitions, little attempt has been made to evaluate the quality of Web-based journalism, despite its ever-growing influence.
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Venture Capitalists Take the Media
Venture capitalists have decided that there’s money to be made in media, or at least in starting media companies—a fact that should concern us all.
Source: VCs Take the Media
The winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize is…
Innovative Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai is tonight announced as the winner of the sixth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Krasznahorkai was chosen from a list of ten eminent contenders from around the world.
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/winner-2015-man-booker-international-prize
If you could print out the whole Internet, how many pages would it be? – The Washington Post
The number of pages it would take to print the Internet = 305.5 billion
Source: If you could print out the whole Internet, how many pages would it be? – The Washington Post
May Book Display 2015
Mexican War Declared – May 1846
May’s Book Display, come check out some of the history concerning this struggle between two nations and the cost of that struggle for the lands of the SouthWest.