The Huffington Post has signed up political columnist Dan Froomkin to be its Washington Bureau Chief, after his popular online column was dumped by the Washington Post recently. Is it a perfect match, or flirting with disaster?
Bloggers
Newspapers and bloggers: isn’t there room for everyone?
The failure to adapt a product to a market is bad business, but the petulant bitching and moaning from dinosaur media chiefs is just bad form, writes Scott Bridges
Hartigan on old and new media
The irony of Hartigan talking about bloggers and citizen journalists getting the facts wrong, after a month when we have seen the media outlets publish a fraudulent email, is palpable. Pure Poison — and readers — weigh in on John Hartigan’s attack on new media.
Froomkin on being dumped by the Washington Post
Now former Washington Post political blogger, Dan Froomkin, speaks out on his unceremonious dismissal from his post.
Washington Post fires Froomkin
The Washington Post have boned left-wing blogger Dan Froomkin, one of the paper’s most outspoken (and often only) voices against the Iraq War during the Bush years.
Bloggers try to make sense of AF447’s fate
While there’s still no clear idea of what happened to AF447, well-informed bloggers — like Crikey’s Plane Talking — are suggesting what might have gone wrong.
Writers’ fest does blogging. Your thoughts?
To blog or not to blog? That was just one of the questions posed by moderator Rachel Hills to a panel of bloggers, journalists and one burnt-out ex-journalist at a Sydney Writers’ Festival gig on Sunday.
Food bloggers have standards too
Introducing the Food Blog Code Of Ethics. A way for food bloggers to show they’re serious about their lavosh and brie.
A tale of two internets: French v US online culture
What’s the European blogger mindset?
Fiji unravels: the view from the blogosphere
The Fiji blogosphere chats about Frank Bainimarama’s fear of a coup within a coup of his 3 coups.
The future of “quality” journalism: lots of questions, few answers
A bunch of media people gathered at the ABC’s in Sydney last week to discuss the future of journalism, and not one of them whinged about bloggers.
Citizen Crikey: Missives from the marginals
As the PM and the alternative PM troop around the nation with open cheque books and an entourage of snappers and minders and hecklers, so the reports keep filing in from Crikey’s key electorate bloggers.
The PM has 16,050 MySpace friends, actually, make that 9
There’s a striking example of the finely honed research skills of journos in The Australian’s media section this week, ironically about the use of online media for political campaigning.
The Crikey bias-o-meter IV: the blogosphere
Before blog commentary makes it into the public realm, it doesn’t have to fight its way through an editorial bureaucracy, nor does it have to live up to a masthead. And that’s how we came up with the criteria for inclusion in the Crikey Blogosphere Bias-o-metre — it’s all about the wonks.
