Category: Journalism

This is totally for entertainment value … or not.

Over on Black Star Rising, Northwestern University student Emily Chow talks about how she still believes there’s a future in photojournalism. I do, too, Ms. Chow. I do, too.

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...