Today, the New York Times’ David Carr came to speak at Medill. I’ve admired his work for some time, and he was just three floors above me, so I hopped on upstairs. While not directly data-related, he did talk about many topics relevant to the current journalistic climate. If that’s not a good enough reason, it’s my blog, so we’re going on a diversion. Here are some choice quotes that may interest you:
- On journalism’s doom and gloom naysayers: “People always say the sky is falling, and nothing happens.”
- “The golden age of journalism wasn’t actually all that golden.”
- “I still like to get the sense of a place from the local newspaper. It’s harder to get that on the Web because of the lack of hierarchy.”
- “On the Web, beyond porn, and beyond celebrity gossip, news is the killer app.”
- On why he likes the iPad: “You’re going from surfing and being hunched over to leaning back and relaxing with your content.”
- “I worry people will be so busy making media, updating Facebook and Twitter, that they won’t have time to consume it.”
- On using the NYT’s most emailed list as a metric: “When is the last time I emailed a story to anybody?”
- “I’ve always thought that as journalists, the skills we have are fungible enough that they could align to different platforms.”
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