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On meaningful work 30 Jun 2013 | 06:25 pm
I’m reading Phil Jackson’s “Eleven Rings” on iBook and am very much enjoying it. Last night, I came across this passage and it rang true. I think I’ve always sought work that was meaningful. I think m...
My evolution as a photographer and thoughts on the Chicago Sun-Times 7 Jun 2013 | 06:03 pm
This is Michael Penvose. In April he was arrested for allegedly stealing a thermometer. He claimed he needed the thermometer for his sick baby. A police officer bought the thermometer. When I heard ab...
A Saturday road trip to Niagara and Orleans counties 25 Nov 2012 | 08:11 am
Today a client sent me to a town in Niagara County near Lake Ontario. The irony was, the night before the assignment came in, Billie said to me, “I’ve been thinking, we haven’t been up to Lake Ontario...
Photos: San Francisco 24 Sep 2012 | 08:19 am
I suspect I could spend a lifetime in San Francisco and never exhaust the photographic possibilities. A million photographers couldn’t. It’s no wonder it’s a city that inspires so much art. Here are a...
A collection of YouTube sales training videos for aspiring local online news publishers 20 Sep 2012 | 10:24 pm
Some time ago I thought it would be interesting to see if I could put together a sales training course for beginners, thinking primarily of journalists, using just YouTube videos. I’m posting what I’...
You’re not in the railroad business, you’re in the news business 20 Aug 2012 | 07:19 am
Countless times in the past 15 years I’ve heard online news gurus exhort newspaper executives to “get” the digital media future with admonition: “Railroads thought they were in the railroad business. ...
It’s time to move legal notices online 15 May 2012 | 07:53 am
There are important reform bills in California and New York, and perhaps elsewhere, that would allow online-only publication of legal notices. Newspaper publishers are predictably fighting the bills, ...
Why Patch will never be profitable 25 Mar 2012 | 04:42 am
Patch faces to huge obstacles on its path to profitability: The first is expenses; the second is revenue. Expenses: Tim Armstrong is absolutely right that a great deal of the expense of a print public...
Paywalls create opportunities for local news entrepreneurs 23 Mar 2012 | 02:42 am
It seems like paywalls are popping up all over the place these days. In recent months Lee, GateHouse and Gannett, for example, have all announced or are implementing paid subscriptions for digital co...
Advocates of pay walls should consider the fate of the New York World 5 Mar 2012 | 11:44 am
First, let me remind you of a post November, 2009, in which I quote Walter Lippmann: We expect the newspaper to serve us with truth however unprofitable the truth may be. For this difficult and often ...
