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- VMIX Media
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- VP, Product Development
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- San Diego
- About Me
- I am VP, Product Development for VMIX Media, a young technology company providing rich media and community tools to nearly 200 newspaper, tv, and radio stations.
- Share your thoughts about how the newsroom of the future should be different . (And if you do, please post a copy of your answer in the forums).
- Ummm....still processing that one a bit. I think that it will be more interactive, delivered electronically, and provide value by separating the signal from the noise out of everything on the Internet. Unfortunately for newspaper staff, I think that it will also be much smaller.
Ed MacBean's Blog
Do newspapers get it?
As mentioned in my previous post, I work for a software company offering a variety of web 2.0 services of user-generated media, comments & ratings, blogs, and forums to the newspaper industry. As a vendor, it has been extremely frustrating to get newspapers to adopt, or especially actively promote and encourage this level of interactivity. I think that true journalism is a critical part of a functioning democracy, but their state of paralysis risks making them increasingly irrelevant in a co… Continue
Posted on January 16, 2008 at 10:01pm — 3 Comments
My angle on the Next Newsroom
I am not a journalist, and have never wanted to be. While I try to stay on top of the news, I havent subscribed to a newspaper in over a decade, and when I did it did more to fill my recycling bin than anything else. I read the Chronicle, but didn't even know where there offices were.
So, what in the world am I doing here?
Well, for starters I was at Duke with Chris O'Brien, and either through random chance or cosmic destiny, I bumped across his profile on facebook. Other than… Continue
So, what in the world am I doing here?
Well, for starters I was at Duke with Chris O'Brien, and either through random chance or cosmic destiny, I bumped across his profile on facebook. Other than… Continue
Posted on January 16, 2008 at 9:23pm —
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