November 19, 2010
Slideshow Salvation
Chadwick Matlin at the Columbia Journalism Review tackles whether slideshows are the scourge or salvation of online journalism. It’s an interesting article, one whose premise I generally agree with–that, regardless of how journalistically empty a slideshow may be, it is generating page views than can be sold to advertisers. And, according to Matlin, the advertisers–at the moment–don’t really care, they...