Margaret Simons on Media

Category Archives: media history

Let’s do lists. What’s good and bad about old style journalism?

January 1, 2009 – 12:21 pm

“Journalists are white collar pros with blue collar myths. They romanticize anyone who can resolve the contradiction.”
Jay Rosen said this on Twitter this morning (our time). Rosen, of course, is the New York University academic who founded the civic journalism movement and who has written much of what’s worth reading about media futures. You can [...]

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The Bad News About News – and Why I Disagree

December 22, 2008 – 3:01 pm

Inside Story, a new publication on which I have blogged before, has an interesting article by Sally Young, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, on changing habits in consuming news.*
I disagree with elements of Young’s essentialy pessimistic analysis. She says:”Even though we are spending more time with media today, we’re [...]

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Interesting Post Reflecting on Television History

December 22, 2008 – 1:56 pm

A fascinating post from Gary Hayes, director the Australian Laboratory for Advanced Media Production (run through the Australian Film TV and Radio School) on what the history of television can teach us about new media forms. I often like to reflect on the history of the printing press as a way of thinking about what [...]

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