Digital media

Monday is the first day of the spring term at Northwestern.  It will have been four months, exactly, since I went out to pasture after 37 years at Tribune Tower. There has been a lot to think about, watching the news industry from the outside since Thanksgiving.  Ultimately, I suspect […]

The pasture is prologue

How Times Have Changed [Or Not] In Response to New Media, installment 14,441: Obama explaining why he decided to have a live Internet video chat:  “This is an experiment,” the president said in a video promoting the event, “but it’s also an exciting opportunity for me to look at a […]

whitehousechatroom.gov, then and now

As I was shelving 16-plus years of Wired magazines on the shelves in my office at Medill today, I saw plenty of memorable cover stories … and, in some remarkably thick back numbers from the late 1990s, plenty of evidence of memorable ads for forgotten Internet startups. Rather than be […]

Ask a Flowchart: Which Blowhard Am I? [Wired]