http://bryanmurley.com/site My personal home on the Web Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:29:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I'm working on this Mimbo theme, and trying to get photographs to show up in the featured box. So here's a photo from summer vacation (remember summer?) No related posts. http://bryanmurley.com/site/index.php/2009/09/01/still-working-on-this-new-theme/ Matt Thompson writes an excellent blog post explaining the 3 key parts of news stories you usually don't get. I encourage you to read the whole thing. (thanks to @jayrosen_nyu for the heads up) He breaks it down into these categories: The longstanding facts How journalists know what they know The things we don't ... http://bryanmurley.com/site/index.php/2009/08/20/the-missing-parts-of-daily-journalism/ Image by videocrab via Flickr The Internet makes it relatively painless to go TV-free, and still get the entertainment and information you want from television programs. This post is an explanation of ways you can legally enjoy most TV products without paying for cable. For most of the past ... http://bryanmurley.com/site/index.php/2009/08/18/living-without-television-cut-the-cord-on-the-boob-tube-and-still-enjoy-quality-entertainment/ This is cyclical recovery. We all tend to confuse the cyclical and the secular. Newspaper revenues are subject to economic cycles. They ebb and they flow. But there is a second force, the longterm decline of the primacy of mass-circulation print, that is undeniable. The result is that you get ... http://bryanmurley.com/site/index.php/2009/08/11/yelvingtons-green-shoots-for-newspapers/ Image via CrunchBase Twitter and other social media sites have broken down a lot of barriers between the personal and professional. This has led major media organizations (not to mention professional sports organizations) to clamp down on the social media craze by developing policies about these forms of expression. ... http://bryanmurley.com/site/index.php/2009/08/05/espn-the-latest-big-media-corp-to-struggle-with-social-engagement/ The New York Times has a gem of a brain-twister this morning in a report on media spending by consumers. Here's the paragraph: An interesting shift occurred in 2008, the report said. For the first time, consumers spent more time with media they paid for, like books or cable television, than ... http://bryanmurley.com/site/index.php/2009/08/04/what-does-that-even-mean/ The Bangor Daily News has a fascinating tale of the Las Vegas Sun's Pulitzer-winning research that is worth a read. Unfortunately, the lede contains a fallacy (as pointed out aptly by Jay Rosen): The story of a recent winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism should remind a cynical and ... http://bryanmurley.com/site/index.php/2009/06/10/the-only-profession/ Simon Owens does the legwork to show that the majority of Huffington Post front page stories are not "original reporting." Check it out here. Very reminiscent of a paper I did with Chris Roberts at South Carolina. Here's the PDF. FWIW, I'm less than enthused about HuffPo. Ariana Huffington rode the wave ... http://bryanmurley.com/site/index.php/2009/06/04/simon-owens-p0wns-huffpo/ Cover of Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon) A bit of pop culture this morning. Ross Douthat, the newly appointed token conservative on the New York Times' op-ed page, chimes in on the Dan Brown phenomenon ("Da Vinci Code," "Angels and Demons"). The entire column seems to be a ... http://bryanmurley.com/site/index.php/2009/05/19/depends-on-your-definition-of-cleaning-up/ Image via Wikipedia The other day driving to the ACES convention in Minneapolis, I was thinking about journalism and gaming, and the problems of the news industry. So many people are proposing new ideas, or bemoaning the moves made by industry titans. But what do we really know? I'd love to see ... http://bryanmurley.com/site/index.php/2009/05/08/random-idea-newspaper-tycoon/