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Jim McBee's Discussions
We lost our press
Replied Jul 5
Making the most out of a college newspaper
Replied Nov. 22, 2008
Smarting Off
Prescription for SND’s ills
The news industry has let us down. I can't count how many of my friends and colleagues have lost their jobs or are just waiting for the axe to fall. And the axe appears to have fallen disproportionately on "visual" people. It's time to fight back, and to do it in a way that genuinely supports the interests of members — by creating jobs.
Should the guvmint step in to save journalism?
Just got my hands on Free Press’ white paper, Saving the News: Toward a National Journalism Strategy. Free Press bills itself “a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media.” I’m only just now sitting down with this; thought I’d share before I was done looking at it.
Journalism for those who can afford it?
I’ve been wondering whether we’re headed for tiered journalism — quality news and information available only to those who can afford it, and who have a deep enough interest to bother; bloviation, press releases, gossip, trivia, poorly researched crap for everyone else. I don’t see a conspiracy, I suspect a pattern. Public interest journalism has been [...]
Want to get back at evil corporate greedia? Carving each other up ain’t gonna do the job
Lots of bitterness and fury from people whom Tribune has canned recently. Hell, I just got a 10 percent pay cut in my non-newspaper job, so I feel — well, a sliver of the pain, myself. It appears the head-rolling — which seems disproportionately distributed among “visual” folks — has brought long-built tension over how much [...]
Would news by any other name still smell as … inky?
I got an interesting comment on my LinkedIn status line, which is “Jim would like to collaborate (or just brainstorm) with you on putting laid-off newspaper journalists back to work.” The respondent said “Create a Truth Syndicate. The day is coming when when consumers will pay for vetted information.” The comment sparked a minor mudslide of [...]
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- What best describes your role in journalism?
- Editor, Designer, Entrepreneur, blogger, Department head
- What organization are you with?
- SmartNews
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- Fayetteville, N.C.
- Biography
- I'm a newspaper designer and editor with years of experience as a mouse jockey; I've reported, photographed and made Web pages, managed copy editors and designers and worked on projects.
These are dark times for newsrooms -- mergers, layoffs and shrinking news hole are killing morale. But there is hope. Newspapers need to shed the appearance of arrogance and get back in touch with regular folks. Thanks to the Internet, this is easier than ever. Build a bridge between Web and print, invite readers' voices into your pages, and you will win friends. And happy readers make for happy advertisers. That's the hypothesis, anyway.
Specialties: Newspaper design, integrating words and images to tell a story, managing creative employees, changing newsrooms, integrating Web and print, redesign, tab conversion
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- http://www.smartnewsnc.com
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Is there a way to feed my Wordpress blog into my ning blogs ...
I have no trouble feeding into my crappy handmade page. So why not in this slick, 2.0-friendly ning universe — which contains actual people I'd like to connect with? Works fine with FB notes, too.
Seems like there'd be an obvious widget or strand of code for this, so one person may have several… Continue
Posted on March 14, 2009 at 7:30pm —
Happy 25th birthday, Macintosh
Posted on January 24, 2009 at 12:46pm —
Google settlement with authors may point the way for newspapers
Google will pay at least $45 million to authors and publishers of books it has digitized without permission. In exchange, Google will get more access to books and libraries will get more access to digitized content. The lawsuit settlement comes out of court, so there's no judicial definition or redefinition of "fair use."
"Rightsholders will receive a share of revenues from in… Continue
Posted on November 11, 2008 at 12:30pm — 4 Comments
CNN planning to start up a wire service
In December, CNN will host a three-day meeting at its Atlanta headquarters for newspaper editors. The goal: sign them up for the cable network's new wire service. CNN, in its letter, to editors emphasizes its global reach:
"Like most major news organizations, CNN has its own internal wire service to provide original reporting on world news. With a worldwide staff of 3,800 people, 22 international bureaus, soon to be 15 domestic bureaus (incl… Continue
Posted on November 6, 2008 at 11:27pm —
Newspaper redesigns, 2008
Posted on August 12, 2008 at 11:06pm — 6 Comments
Comment Wall (23 comments)
- At 12:44pm on March 11, 2008,
Scott Griffin said… - I haven't had a job that needed Photoshop skills in almost 14 years. I was on the way to learning when I was at the Northwest Fla Daily News, then moved to Connecticut where we've always had a dedicated graphics person to tone, cutout or whatever else we need. I'd like to get some work outside of the paper now and figured the new skills would help. I confessed all this back in the Design magazine we wrote for about staying at small papers. Remember the days when people who knew Quark were few and far between?
- At 8:01pm on March 7, 2008,
Michael Higdon said… - Haha, that's what I thought you meant.
- At 5:40pm on March 7, 2008, Michael Higdon said…
- I didn't mean to come off bitter, although his comments did strike me as quite unprogressive. However, I think he was also "trying to make me think." I need to follow up with Mr. Cox on some things anyway.
As for the dark side, I've heard this quite a few times lately, what is the dark side? :)
- At 12:52am on February 15, 2008,
Cassandra Hood said… - Thanks for the welcome. I look forward to some interesting discussions.
- At 5:51pm on February 13, 2008,
Michael Donlan said… - Thanks man... nausea rocks!
- At 12:03pm on February 6, 2008,
Jude Knight said… - Can someone please tell me what is usually done in cases like that? Because my boss is telling me that the reporter gave an undertaking to the people at the press conference that we wouldnt use the photo. Shouldnt get permission from the Editor first?
- At 12:00pm on February 6, 2008, Jude Knight said…
- Hi Jim, my name is Jude Knight and I am working in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Now I dont know how you would handle this situation. The Prime Minister is accused of raping a 36 year old policewoman at his residence. The DPP discontinued the case because of insufficient evidence but the lawyers for the complainant is seeking review at the high court. Now the name of the woman was released by her lawyers to media houses all over the Caribbean and her mother was actually involved at a press conference yesterday. Now I am being told that our reporter gave an undertaking that he wouldnt publish a photo of the mother. But she was there giving her side to the whole world. IS that ethical?
- At 9:02pm on February 4, 2008,
Marlowe Mason said… - Hi Jim,
Thanks for your design suggestions, I appreciate the help.
Take care
- At 12:27pm on February 1, 2008,
Andrew Braford said… - I designed tbt for about 2 months last year, as part of a rotation through the newsroom. I really enjoyed it, and think we are going to be doing a lot more work in this style.
- At 10:52am on February 1, 2008,
Michaela Schuett said… - This looks like a wonderful home for designers. I can't wait to meet people.
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