Comments on: A by-the-numbers approach to what journalists are angry about http://merandawrites.com/2008/02/22/a-by-the-numbers-approach-to-what-are-journalists-angry-about/ curious by nature, journalist by trade Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:35:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Mood swinging journalists | SOJo: Student of Online Journalism http://merandawrites.com/2008/02/22/a-by-the-numbers-approach-to-what-are-journalists-angry-about/#comment-25696 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:41:53 +0000 http://merandawrites.com/2008/02/22/a-by-the-numbers-approach-to-what-are-journalists-angry-about/#comment-25696 [...] Meranda Watling wrote about both sites, even going so far as to make a study of what makes journalists angry. [...] […] Meranda Watling wrote about both sites, even going so far as to make a study of what makes journalists angry. […]

]]> by: Ed http://merandawrites.com/2008/02/22/a-by-the-numbers-approach-to-what-are-journalists-angry-about/#comment-14987 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:51:00 +0000 http://merandawrites.com/2008/02/22/a-by-the-numbers-approach-to-what-are-journalists-angry-about/#comment-14987 Kiyoshi: That was exactly my point. What is the future of media? Kiyoshi:

That was exactly my point. What is the future of media?

]]> by: Kiyoshi Martinez http://merandawrites.com/2008/02/22/a-by-the-numbers-approach-to-what-are-journalists-angry-about/#comment-14970 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:59:45 +0000 http://merandawrites.com/2008/02/22/a-by-the-numbers-approach-to-what-are-journalists-angry-about/#comment-14970 Meranda: thanks for the plug and also doing some really cool analysis on the site. I'd been thinking of doing a tag cloud of all the responses to see what the most popular terms were, but just haven't gotten around to doing that yet. You might have been one of the first few to compare it to PostSecret, but I can't honestly be sure. I will say that PostSecret, along with the Guestbooks that plagued the Internet in the dot-com era and Overheard in the Office all played a part in influencing my idea for the site. Ed: The question is, if you had $200 million from the lottery, would you want to dump it into a newspaper? Or would you rather take your chances and put the money toward tech startups? Personally, I'd rather invest for the future of media rather than put money into a dying format. Meranda: thanks for the plug and also doing some really cool analysis on the site. I’d been thinking of doing a tag cloud of all the responses to see what the most popular terms were, but just haven’t gotten around to doing that yet. You might have been one of the first few to compare it to PostSecret, but I can’t honestly be sure. I will say that PostSecret, along with the Guestbooks that plagued the Internet in the dot-com era and Overheard in the Office all played a part in influencing my idea for the site.

Ed: The question is, if you had $200 million from the lottery, would you want to dump it into a newspaper? Or would you rather take your chances and put the money toward tech startups? Personally, I’d rather invest for the future of media rather than put money into a dying format.

]]> by: Ed http://merandawrites.com/2008/02/22/a-by-the-numbers-approach-to-what-are-journalists-angry-about/#comment-14869 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:46:12 +0000 http://merandawrites.com/2008/02/22/a-by-the-numbers-approach-to-what-are-journalists-angry-about/#comment-14869 Wow! There are a lot of angry people out there. Print is losing readers for a lot of reasons, I think we can agree on that. But with all the complaining nobody in these posts is offering any solutions. My question is this: If someone had either raised or won the PowerBall and had $200 million to start a daily newspaper from scratch in 2008 what would it look like; what would it be like; how would it be managed? What kind of journalists would you hire? How would you make it profitable? Wow! There are a lot of angry people out there. Print is losing readers for a lot of reasons, I think we can agree on that. But with all the complaining nobody in these posts is offering any solutions.

My question is this: If someone had either raised or won the PowerBall and had $200 million to start a daily newspaper from scratch in 2008 what would it look like; what would it be like; how would it be managed? What kind of journalists would you hire? How would you make it profitable?

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