Month: February 2014

Viewers Guide to David Gregory’s “Hey, I’m self-aware…” segment on climate change.

I recommend that you read my guide first, then endure the ads and watch the segment, but it works fine the other way too.

Published 17 Feb 2014 9:42 am

First Look Media and the personal franchise

The bet is that a news brand can be both: its own thing and the thing that talented, driven, fully-voiced individuals want to do in journalism

Published 11 Feb 2014 8:56 am

Behold how badly our political journalists have lost the freakin’ plot

I read hundreds of bylined works of journalism a week. Every so often one of them forces me to go back and read it over and over...

Published 7 Feb 2014 9:31 am

Features and details of the personal franchise model in digital journalism, with 11 examples

These are my notes for a talk I'm giving today at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno

Published 4 Feb 2014 11:40 pm