“ ‘You’re gonna miss us when we’re gone’ has never been a great business model,” Clay Shirky says.
All posts in category Journalism
Digital Guru Clay Shirky on a Newspaper Plan B
Posted by bethmacy on February 21, 2012
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2012/02/21/digital-guru-clay-shirky-on-a-plan-b-for-newspapers-2/
Alzheimer’s deserves to be on the front page
“This disease is reaching epidemic proportions, and every one of us will be affected in some way with this disease.”
Posted by bethmacy on November 19, 2011
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2011/11/19/alzheimers-deserves-to-be-on-the-front-page/
Journalism Ethics: Mystery desserts, midnight karma and the best story I never wrote
War was hell, and so was coming home and spilling it out to a newspaper reporter, no matter how empathetic she seemed.
Posted by bethmacy on September 28, 2011
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2011/09/28/journalism-ethics-mystery-desserts-midnight-karma-and-the-best-story-i-never-wrote/
Notes from a South African newsroom
But the biggest challenge for South African journalists isn’t just the Internet; it’s also illiteracy, combined with new government threats to press freedoms.
Posted by bethmacy on July 11, 2011
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2011/07/11/same-challenges-in-south-african-newsrooms-with-a-twist/
Old-school lessons for the new-media generation
What I’m describing here is a life of trying to balance family with work; balancing taking care of others with taking care of yourself. … Bad things will sometimes happen, depressing things — teenagers, for instance.
Posted by bethmacy on April 1, 2011
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2011/04/01/old-school-lessons-for-the-new-media-generation/
In praise of the fact-checkers
McPhee has written that the worst checking error is calling people dead who are not dead. … It’s the things you think you know that get you into trouble every time.
Posted by bethmacy on January 14, 2011
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2011/01/14/in-praise-of-the-fact-checkers/
Bull castration, mountain bikers and other joys of returning to the Star City
There are no good stories in the newsroom.
Posted by bethmacy on August 17, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/08/17/bull-castration-mountain-bikers-and-other-joys-of-returning-to-the-star-city/
Lynn Forbish: “I have dementia, not [expletive] herpes!”
Not long ago, she re-asserted her legendary will by refusing to roll balls of yarn — she never was the crafty type. “It was down with the yarn, up with the Beatles!” her daughter-in-law said.
Posted by bethmacy on April 16, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/04/16/lynn-forbish-i-have-dementia-not-expletive-herpes/
Rough drafts (Or, why it’s good for your stories to get peed on every now and then)
I try to heap praise on the folks who toil behind the bylines. Does it hurt you to bring the news researcher a decadent brownie every now and then?
Posted by bethmacy on March 29, 2010
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2010/03/29/464/
