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ASNE Notes: Huffington, Diller, Mossberg

From an ASNE panel just ended on the "digital revolution" -- ahem -- with Walter Mossberg, Barry Diller, Arianna Huffington and Don Graham of the Washington Post:  Huffington is talking about Huffington Post's plan to work with Jay Rosen's new project. NewAssignment.net, in covering the 2006 presidential campaign. We'll have a citizen journalists in every state, she says. What's a citizen journalists, asks Diller. Mossberg, not missing a beat, jumps in: "It's like citizen surgey." Rim shot. Big laugh from the newspaper editors.  Huffington diagnoses web publishers with obsessive compulsive disorder -- hammering a topic either to death or until...

News, Improved on Pressthink

Jay Rosen was kind enough to invite Michele McLellan and I to write about News, Improved on Pressthink. Here's the beginning of the piece: Back in the day -- that day when the newspaper was as much as part of daily American life as the cell phone now is -- back in that good ol' day, newsrooms were run and staffed mostly by autocratic, tough-talking men, news was what those men said it was, by God, and no one on the editorial side (and not too many on the business side, either) worried about making money because having a newspaper...

Notes from ASNE: Changes Underway; Six Things to Do

After beating ASNE over the head the last couple of years for not openly confronting the innovation stagnation in the news industry, it's good to report that this year is different. Yes, the room still looks more like the convention of podiatrists down the hall in the Washington Marriott than a gathering of news media innovators, but the conversation about change had definitely changed. In addition to our session on News, Improved (get the presentation here), there are panels featuring media savvy people like:  Jay Small: "We tend to treat the internet as an information and distribution medium. Most consumers...

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