Archive for December 2008
It was a very good year … for buzzwords
Posted by: cynmccune on: December 21, 2008
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“Picking out political buzzwords from 2008 is like shooting moose in a pigpen,” say Mark Leibovich and Grant Barrett, authors of The Buzzwords of 2008.
They note, for example, that “the lifespan of Hillary Clinton’s campaign ‘meta-narrative’ could be charted entirely in buzzwords and catch-phrases — ‘inevitability’ to ‘Clinton fatigue’ to ‘Obamamania’ to ‘he can’t win’ [...]
Trying out a new business model?
Posted by: cynmccune on: December 16, 2008
Detroit’s big news as seen from a key design insider – SND Update
“It’s official: The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, will become the first major U.S. newspapers to cease seven-day home delivery.”
Hello to three-day delivery: The JOA will instead focus on Thursday and Friday delivery of both papers and Sunday delivery of the [...]
Magazine project resource
Posted by: cynmccune on: December 2, 2008
I just ran across an online slide show that might be helpful to you as you work on your magazine project, particularly as you think about developing a short-form info box or graphic to accompany your magazine piece.
It’s a slide show on Data Visualization by Mindy McAdams, who teaches graduate and undergraduate [...]
More bad news
Posted by: cynmccune on: December 2, 2008
The bad news for the newspaper industry just keeps coming:
Gannett Blog: Bulletin: Gannett launches mass nationwide layoff
tags: future of newspapers, newspapers, future of news, layoffs
The nation’s top newspaper publisher, Gannett, has begun what is expected to be the single-biggest layoff in the industry’s history — cutting as many as 3,000 jobs in an increasingly desperate [...]
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