"To listen to talk radio, to watch TV pundits, to read a newspaper's online message board, is to realize that increasingly, we are a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic, alienated from even objective truth. We admit no ideas that do not confirm us, hear no voices that do not echo us, sift out all information that does not validate what we wish to believe."

Journalism schools need to become small business foundries if they are to continue in their mission of preparing students for the real world. Unfortunately, most of them change slowly, and the rapid decline of media institutions has caught them flat-footed.

“In the Age of Darwinian Content, You Are Your Own Editor. The old gatekeepers are disappearing. We’ve become our own and one another’s editors.”

"A professional reporter should understand the fundamentals of the craft. However, the freewheeling nature of the democratized information landscape creates all sorts of gray areas. Journalism schools and editors need to do a better job of giving young journalist the tools to living with the growing pressures of deadlines and information overload without violating basic principles of ownership."

"The MSM outlets have boring feeds that usually have little more than a lede and a link to the main article. All of the top blogs, with the exception of Engadget, provide a full feed, with images and the entire article (and, notably, sometimes advertisements)."

ONA is hosting a one-day workshop in Nashville in April.

The Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech was embroiled in a controversy over online comments last week. This is the latest news.

A great feature piece about film critic Roger Ebert and how his personal tragedy has spurred him to be a more productive writer.

The feisty start-up that took on a massive mission is shutting down. Best of luck to the college journalists who spent countless hours keeping it running.

Foursquare's unintended consequences.