Innovation in College Media

"But when the authors call for collective action, watch out. What they’re talking about is using government. The only institutions that seem able to use government without being used are too-big-to-fail banks and military contractors; the rest of us fall into the inverse category. Journalists get government help at some peril." - Dan Gillmor on the Downie/Schudson report.

"Are photojournalists obsessed with "ruin porn"? Reporter Thomas Morton recently visited Detroit, where photographers have been flocking to take pictures of the city's decrepit factories and abandoned buildings. But Morton says these photos, which he calls ruin porn, paint a misleading picture of the city." Fascinating OTM from a few weeks back.

"American journalism is at a transformational moment, in which the era of dominant newspapers and influential network news divisions is rapidly giving way to one in which the gathering and distribution of news is more widely dispersed." - the original report Jarvis talks about.

The Daily Pennsylvanian's redesigned, Drupal-based web site. Have a look.

"Just because newspapers put themselves at risk, it does not follow that journalism is at risk. Newspapers no longer own journalism." I would argue they never owned journalism to begin with. Jeff Jarvis rants.

Really the most annoying things on the web? I think "People who write about the most annoying things on the web" should be on the list.