Owen Youngman


About Owen Youngman

Professor Emeritus of Journalism and formerly Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Formerly senior vice president/strategy and development and director of interactive media, Chicago Tribune.

    Well, apparently there’s a new reason to fret about social networks.  Will they eliminate teen-agers’ incentive, and opportunity, to grow up?   “For all the discussion Facebook has prompted, its most profound impact may be to alter, even obliterate, conventional notions of the past, to change the way […]

Growing Up on Facebook [NYT Mag]


The assumptions and conventions of today are grinding against those of the day before yesterday. All that’s needed now is somehow to tie in the AIG bonuses….. The use of BlackBerrys and iPhones by jurors gathering and sending out information about cases is wreaking havoc on trials around the country, […]

Why deliberate, or talk, when you can tweet? [NYT]