Howdy folks - as you have probably heard, my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby boy yesterday. I am not going to be in class today — but I will be in class on Wednesday. Please give Alec Ross a warm welcome today.

Due in class on Wednesday, Nov. 3:

• Add an article to the class delicious feed.
• We’re moving into a unit on technology and it’s impact on journalism.  I noticed a blog post on Dave Winer’s Scripting News about Jay Rosen’s class — and discovered that several of the readings are ones I was already planning on assigning, but there are some new ones, too.  Jay has his class read a series of speeches by news executives — and then a series of pieces from a broader set of sources.  We’re not going to read the news executives speeches — but we will read Dave’s post about the news executives, and a range of other pieces. So a special thanks to Jay and Dave — and here are your readings for Wednesday:
  • Dave Winer, Readings from news execs, at his blog Scripting News (Oct. 25, 2010).
  • Jeff Jarvis, The Last Presses, at his blog, Buzzmachine (Dec. 5, 2005). 
  • Eric Alterman, Out of Print: The death and life of the American newspaper, article in The New Yorker, (March 31, 2008). 
  • Nick Carr, The Great Unbundling: Newspapers & the Net, Britannica Blog (April 7, 2008). 
  • Lisa Williams, Journalism will Survive the Death of its Institutions, IdeaLab blog. (April 15, 2008). 
  • Clay Shirky, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable, at his blog. (March 13, 2009). 
  • Steven Berlin Johnson, Old Growth Media and the Future of News, at his blog. (March 14, 2009). 

See you on Wednesday.