Register’s new website is opportunity for interaction
The Des Moines Register has been planning a website overhaul for quite some time, and the whole thing has been in beta testing for the past several weeks. Last week it seems the test-site got accidentally “leaked” to the live world, then for a week the old site was back. Now the new is back again, [...]
Snow challenges media on Freedom of Speech
I found a link over the weekend to Tony Snow’s remarks as he accepted the 2007 Freedom of Speech Award from The Media Institute.
Snow is President Bush’s former White House Press Secretary and, prior to that, was host of a news analysis program on FoxNews. In his remarks, Snow links declining newspaper, television and cable [...]
Vote for your favorite video, maybe win cash!
Visitors to the Greater Des Moines Partnership website can vote for their favorite entry in the “Digital Do More Challenge,” and be entered in a random drawing for a $500 cash prize. The Digital Do More Challenge is a video contest which asked area residents to produce videos showing why they like to live and [...]
Has blogging peaked?
Earlier this year, there were rumblings that “blogging had peaked” as an activity because a blog-measuring service called Technorati had claimed that the number of daily posts to blogs worldwide seemed to be declining. I wrote at that time, and I still believe, that the number of posts per day has very little to do with [...]
The “former Iowan” in every story: front page news?
I’m waffling on something right now. And that is the Register’s desire to always find someone connected - in practically any way - with a tragedy or disaster. Today I’m talking specifically about the headline on Thursday’s front page, “Valley graduate has close call,” in connection with the Minneapolis bridge disaster - but we see this kind [...]
*Traditional media fail at Blacksburg
Having grown up in the era of the Watergate scandal, and consequently following the drama that surrounded journalism’s new ’stars’ like Woodward and Bernstein (and later, Janet Cooke), I’ve long been fascinated by the inner workings and politics of the newsroom. So, while I watched with the rest of my nation in horror and grief [...]
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