January 19, 2008 – 11:06 am
Scientific American has finally posted my Science 2.0 story on its Web site. As the introduction explains, this is actually an experiment in getting reader feedback well before the print version appears. So I hope you will all take advantage of that opportunity. And I hope you will also publicize the link as widely as […]
January 2, 2008 – 5:40 pm
Big changes in the offing: Starting February 4 I will be joining Nature magazine as their editorial editor, working out of the Washington, DC, office. I.e., I’ll be the guy in charge of those two pages of official Nature opinion in the front of the magazine (along with Philip Campbell, the editor-in-chief), as well as […]
December 4, 2007 – 10:09 am
Over on BuzzMachine, Jeff Jarvis has written an eloquent rebuttal to the notion that bloggers are somehow in competition with professional journalists, or that they are hoping to replace professional journalism with some kind of bottom-up “citizen journalism.” Instead, Jarvis reiterates the concept of “networked journalism” that he first articulated in a post last year:
In […]
November 17, 2007 – 12:06 pm
Like everyone else in (science) journalism, I am a). fascinated; b). perplexed; and/or c). terrified by how the Internet is changing our profession. Recently, though, I’ve come across several items that provide a little reassurance—and a challenge. Robert Niles‘ post in Online Journalism Review, Michael Hirschorn’s article in this December’s issue of The Atlantic Monthly, […]
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