Online journalism has seen advances editorially, technologically and, more recently and perhaps more importantly, in sustainability, but the industry has yet to efficiently mature its methods of replication, according to my experience last week at the 2010 Online Journalism Association conference. In spring 2009, major conversations were still focusing on what direction anyone should be [...]

A tidy and frail little old man asked me to direct him to the coat rack. To walk him around the corner from the long and elegant main corridor of the nearly 150-year-old Union League of Philadelphia was my first deed. If nothing else, it made for interesting conversation when I made it to the [...]

News-gathering can be profitable — there are oodles of examples of them. The challenge is taking those dollars to create the most efficiently-produced local journalism. The big solution and sure trend of the future is fostering a community that covers itself. The Quick Take Citizen journalism is a transitional phrase that will soon be as [...]