Comments on: Dan Froomkin’s five-point plan on how to reconnect with readers http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/dan-froomkins-five-point-plan-on-how-to-reconnect-with-readers/ A collaborative effort to figure out the future of journalism. A project of Harvard University. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:39:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill Michtom http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/dan-froomkins-five-point-plan-on-how-to-reconnect-with-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-19735 Bill Michtom Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:35:53 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=5250#comment-19735 Having been directed here by Digby (only knew your work in the Post), it is all too clear why they fired you. Dan! STOP MAKING SENSE! The Post will sink into the concrete that sets them in their stenographic ways. And good riddance to Hiatt, Will, Broder, Krauthammer and the rest of the drones. You are part of the present and future. They are past. I look forward to continuing to read real journalism--as you propose in this series and as you practice. Having been directed here by Digby (only knew your work in the Post), it is all too clear why they fired you.

Dan! STOP MAKING SENSE!

The Post will sink into the concrete that sets them in their stenographic ways. And good riddance to Hiatt, Will, Broder, Krauthammer and the rest of the drones.

You are part of the present and future. They are past.

I look forward to continuing to read real journalism–as you propose in this series and as you practice.

]]> By: Martha Sterling-Golden http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/dan-froomkins-five-point-plan-on-how-to-reconnect-with-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-19680 Martha Sterling-Golden Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:09:40 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=5250#comment-19680 On September 11, 2001, we lost more than the 3,000 lives at the World Trade Centers. That day marks the beginning of the end of real journalism in America. A nation without a free and fair press is in more trouble than it knows, and that is too true of us. It's a sad day in the US when all the best writing published is now being outsourced to the UK papers and the blogosphere. Dan, your faithful Froomkettes will follow wherever you write. Screw the WaPo; their credibility is shot anyway. Best wishes from Maine. On September 11, 2001, we lost more than the 3,000 lives at the World Trade Centers. That day marks the beginning of the end of real journalism in America. A nation without a free and fair press is in more trouble than it knows, and that is too true of us.

It’s a sad day in the US when all the best writing published is now being outsourced to the UK papers and the blogosphere.

Dan, your faithful Froomkettes will follow wherever you write. Screw the WaPo; their credibility is shot anyway.
Best wishes from Maine.

]]> By: martin jones http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/dan-froomkins-five-point-plan-on-how-to-reconnect-with-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-17301 martin jones Sun, 31 May 2009 14:08:52 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=5250#comment-17301 I have been advocating this kind of journalism for five years in Oxnard Ca. The most important stories never see print. For instance what are the ramifications to the taxpayer when a city manager or his appointed city employee in California (Oxnard) can sign contracts and change orders without taking it to the council for approval? If deals like these are not taken to the council the public is unaware of exorbitant spending for contracting friends of the council. No transparency and accountability. What is the role of the 4th estate? I have been advocating this kind of journalism for five years in Oxnard Ca.
The most important stories never see print.
For instance what are the ramifications to the taxpayer when a city manager or his appointed city employee in California (Oxnard) can sign contracts and change orders without taking it to the council for approval?
If deals like these are not taken to the council the public is unaware of exorbitant spending for contracting friends of the council.
No transparency and accountability.
What is the role of the 4th estate?

]]> By: Ruxandra Guidi http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/dan-froomkins-five-point-plan-on-how-to-reconnect-with-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-16994 Ruxandra Guidi Fri, 29 May 2009 19:11:29 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=5250#comment-16994 Thank you, Dan Froomkin! Very well said. Out of all the current industry insights, critiques and doomsday predictions, your take is the most thoughtful and honest. I would add that editors and journalists ought to step away more often from the breaking news cycle and make room for stories about real people and real places -- not just pundits and places of conflict. Thank you, Dan Froomkin! Very well said. Out of all the current industry insights, critiques and doomsday predictions, your take is the most thoughtful and honest. I would add that editors and journalists ought to step away more often from the breaking news cycle and make room for stories about real people and real places — not just pundits and places of conflict.

]]> By: O futuro das notícias, segundo Dan Froomkin : Ponto Media http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/dan-froomkins-five-point-plan-on-how-to-reconnect-with-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-16939 O futuro das notícias, segundo Dan Froomkin : Ponto Media Fri, 29 May 2009 14:20:56 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=5250#comment-16939 [...] DAN FROOMKIN escreveu um interessante ensaio sobre o futuro das notícias, que termina com este five-point plan on how to reconnect with readers. [...] [...] DAN FROOMKIN escreveu um interessante ensaio sobre o futuro das notícias, que termina com este five-point plan on how to reconnect with readers. [...]

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