We Want Media

Before our blog gets “put on ice” now that the semester is ending, I’d like to offer some parting advice. Perhaps to no surprise, I strongly recommend that each of you start your own blog.

The debut issue of Garden & Gun, “a glossy new lifestyle magazine from Charleston, S.C.,” faced a shaky start when it hit newsstands earlier this month, just days before the shootings at Virginia Tech.

As much as I hate to imagine Jay Rosen giving speeches from the balcony in the J-Dept, maybe I don't have a choice. After all, isn't he citizen journalism's de facto leader?

According to an article in the New York Times, gentrification and urban neighborhood blogs are proving to be a rather dynamic duo.

I have to hand it to Vice TV. While we agree that most print media have a hard time making the dive into digital, Vice Magazine kind of nails it.

Anonymous blogs only stay anonymous for so long. For the past year, Socialite Rank has been detailing the attire and actions of socialites in order to determine their popularity standings.

Africa is not a country, it’s a continent. If you already knew that then give yourself a big round of applause because in the United States you are probably in the minority.

Over the past few months, we've talked extensively about digital media taking over traditional media. But while I certainly agree that digital media will replace newspapers eventually, I’m not so convinced that it will replace magazines.

As if video games didn't attract enough attention as a possible source of violence for the incident at Virginia Tech, Sony decapitated a live goat (head still dangling) and encouraged guests to reach into the innards of the animal and eat its warm offals.

Google announced on their blog last week a new "online home" for their Authors@Google chats, where they talk to authors of recently released books about their work.

Rosie O'Donnell announced earlier this week that she was leaving "The View" in June because of conflicts with renewing her schedule. Donald Trump said no way, Rosie was fired and it was solely because of him.

KCAA-AM might have the greatest "dumb luck'"in radio right now. After CBS fired Don Imus on April 12, this small talk radio station, out of San Bernardino, Calif., continued running reruns of “Imus in the Mornings” in its 6 a.m.-9 a.m. time slot.

Teen queen Atoosa Rubenstein, the former editor in chief of Seventeen, gave a surprise interview with our Digital Journalism class this week.

One of my favorite guest speakers and the Queen of Snark herself, Miss Ana Marie Cox of Swampland/Wonkette fame, is caught in battle of wits with Nation columnist Eric Alterman over Time.com's inability to cater to the liberal market.

Charles Johnson over at Little Green Footballs brings us this gem today. Not terribly outrageous or controversial until one reads the caption.

AM New York online editor Diane Goldie is gutting the paper's website, merging it with print content, and making every editor responsible for managing web material. Her goal: "Make it seamless. We want to push people back and forth from the web to the paper."

When hospitals, police officers and school officials—even traditional media outlets—failed to get the word out, Facebook became the go-to source for information on missing students at Virginia Tech.

Next Wednesday PBS is planning to air a special on the media’s performance during the run up to the 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq, and if this Editor & Publisher article is any indication, the portrayal will be far from positive.

Sanjaya Malaker is out of the running for the TV "American Idol" title, but he is most definitely not out of the public's hearts.

The blogosphere is in uproar calling it “tasteless,” “crude,” even “creepy.”