Graduates! The future is in your iPod holding hands!

I love Bill Moyers.  He’s one of my personal heroes, and I regularly watch his show on PBS.  To me he ranks up there with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.  However, I disagreed with his optimistic comments at Whittier College’s graduation.  At one point he says “I’m not sure anyone from my generation has anything [...]

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Mobile Media (and you!)

In class and online, I’ve heard a lot about mobile media devices and how they can “save” printed media.  While I am as excited as anyone to see the development of the mobile media and it’s potential for profit generation, I am ultimately unconvinced that current business models for selling aps and content will lead [...]

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Truth in the age of Truthiness

On Friday, the University of Oregon’s journalism school hosted an event in it’s 2011 Hulteng Conversations series on campus in Eugene.  The panelists were eloquent and passionate as they spoke about ethics in journalism and the changes that new media will bring about.  Stephen Colbert’s term “truthiness” served as a frame for the demise of [...]

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Privacy and PR in the Digital Era

Last week, an anonymous  source contacted privacy-researcher Chris Soghoian offering to help him write a piece about a company the source claimed was violating people’s privacy: Google.  The source promised to be able to spill the beans about how Google was amalgamating web data in a way that could rob people of their privacy.  When [...]

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Hook, Line and Sinker

The night of Osama bin Laden’s death I tried to get my hands on every piece of information I could, and I even turned to Twitter.  I’m not big on Twitter, but the day of bin Laden’s death seemed like a good time to hear what people were saying.  I saw several people tweeting the [...]

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Stephen K. Doig on Power Journalism

My reflection on Osama bin Laden’s death has been up for less than 12 hours and it’s already received more hits than any post I’ve made in the last year and a half I’ve had this blog.  The statistics page shows that the bin Laden post is already nearing half of the total views my [...]

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My first reaction to breaking news of Osama bin Laden’s death

I was fourteen when the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center took place on September 11th, 2001.  I very clearly remember the entire day, and it was one of the defining moments of my transition from childhood to adulthood.  In the days that followed the attacks I learned who Osama bin Laden was for [...]

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