August 2011
34 posts
“From a TV programmer’s point of view the advantage of politics-as-entertainment...”
– Jay Rosen. Professor de Periodisme. New York University.
Aug 31st
“Always ask of […] data “what is the question to which this number is the...”
– John Kay. Columnista. Financial Times.
Aug 30th
“What humans do better than the algorithms is anticipate. I can see a story and...”
– Megan McCarthy. Directora de Mediagazer, un agregador.
Aug 29th
“De Jobs me entusiasman dos cosas […]. La segunda, su concepto de invención pura:...”
– Paco Sánchez. Director de la Fundació Santiago Rey Fernández-Latorre.
Aug 28th
3 notes
“My basic criteria for assessing quality [journalism] is that it must be...”
– Wendy Bacon. Periodista. Professora de Periodisme a la UTS de Sydney. Treballa al Australian Centre for Independent Journalism.
Aug 27th
“A story is only as good as the source.”
– Lynne Russell. Primera presentadora de CNN i CNN Headline News (1983-2001). Detectiu. Ajudant de Sheriff. Escriptora de novel·les policíaques romàntiques.
Aug 26th
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs, fundador de Apple Computer Inc.
Aug 25th
1 note
“If you’re not paying for television, you’re not the customer. You’re the...”
– Jeff Bewkes. President. Time Warner.
Aug 25th
“Subscription has proved by far the best way of paying for high-quality...”
– The Economist. Leader, 20 d’agost, 2011.
Aug 24th
“According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the word “tabloid” dates back to...”
– Roy Peter Clark, mestre de periodistes (de debò), Poynter Institute.
Aug 23rd
“Journalism is not an exact science, and the flow of information in the immediate...”
– Magnos Nome, freelance noruec als EUA.
Aug 22nd
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have...”
– T.S. Eliot, poeta britànic, als cors de The Rock.
Aug 21st
1 note
“[…] journalism will become increasingly more about the journalist as a person,...”
– Paul Sawers, UK & Media Editor, The Next Web.
Aug 20th
“Now it’s “get it on the Internet; get it on the website by...”
– Bob Woodward, figura, entrevistat a Foreign Policy.
Aug 19th
“You still need human sources […]. But you talk to young people and they say, if...”
– Bob Woodward en el paper de Bob Woodward.
Aug 19th
“I also buy a lot of music, because I like the product, understand the incentives...”
– Un senyor entre 25 i 35 anys, sobre el pagament per continguts a propòsit del paywall de The New York Times.
Aug 18th
“It turns out people will pay for things even when payment is not required....”
– Jeff Sonderman, Digital Media Fellow, The Poynter Institute.
Aug 17th
“Historically, when people paid for news, they paid for a newspaper — a physical...”
– Felix Salmon, blocaire financer de Reuters.
Aug 16th
2 notes
“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so...”
– Stewart Brand, fundador de The Well i editor de The Whole Earth Catalog, a Steve Wozniak. Aquesta és la frase sencera —gairebé sempre només se’n reprodueix la negreta.
Aug 15th
1 note
“Hacer periodismo militante es desinformar con motivos políticos”
– Robert Cox, heroic ex director del Buenos Aires Herald.
Aug 14th
“While journalists covering previous riots would chase ambulances to find the...”
– Paul Lewis, periodista de The Guardian.
Aug 14th
1 note
“Podríamos escoger otro camino: abandonar la insistencia obstinada de que no...”
– Michael Casey, sociòleg, Universitat de Notre Dame Australia.
Aug 13th
“[…] five habits of mind that characterise disruptive innovators: associating,...”
– Schumpeter, columnista de management a The Economist, comenta el llibre The Innovators DNA. 
Aug 12th
“[The Washington Post] future lies not with the rich; it lies with the citizenry....”
– Patrick B. Pexton, Ombudsman, The Washington Post.
Aug 11th
“Una de las secretas fuerzas del periodismo verdadero es su capacidad para...”
– Tomás Eloy Martínez, periodista enorme.
Aug 10th
“El periodista no es un agente pasivo que observa la realidad y la comunica; no...”
– Tomás Eloy Martínez, periodista sublim, a En busca del periodismo.
Aug 10th
Aug 9th
“No sé quienes son los dueños [de los diarios oficialistas], bueno, sé que son...”
– Un quiosquer de Buenos Aires a Robert Cox, mític ex director del Buenos Aires Herald.
Aug 8th
“The vast majority of [users, readers] just want a great experience, and they...”
– Marc Frons, Director de Tecnologia Digital, The New York Times.
Aug 7th
1 note
“One can spend a lot of time defining a medium in terms of how it looks, what it...”
– Paul Ford, blocaire, a The Internet is a Customer Service Medium.
Aug 6th
“Sé […] que el periodismo busca la verdad de un modo arduo y a gran velocidad y...”
– Gonzalo Peltzer, periodista magnífic.
Aug 5th
“[…] style sensationalism, blatant conservative politics, and machete editing […]”
– Frank Rich, sobre l’estil de The New York Post, uns mesos després que el comprés Rupert Murdoch, el 1976.
Aug 3rd
“A severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy...”
– Lema de The Economist des de la seva fundació, el 1843.
Aug 2nd
“Sorry, folks, but it is unrealistic to think the newspaper business model will...”
– Alan D. Mutter aka Newsosaur, veterà executiu de mitjans de comunicació.
Aug 1st