Monthly Archives: January 2009


“Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to see the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.” Thus begins this video of a 1981 KRON report predicting the rise of news reporting on the internet. via You Need […]

1981 TV report on birth of Internet news [techcrunch.com]


Owen Youngman has been appointed the Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He will fill a chair created by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and will begin work in April 2009.  via Medill – News Releases .

Owen Youngman joins Medill