Comments on: AJC’s Julia Wallace: ‘We’re doing the things we need to be doing’ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/ajcs-julia-wallace-were-doing-the-things-we-need-to-be-doing/ Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:24:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Water’s Fine » Blog Archive » AJC editor: Layoffs "very, very difficult" http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/ajcs-julia-wallace-were-doing-the-things-we-need-to-be-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-105633 The Water’s Fine » Blog Archive » AJC editor: Layoffs "very, very difficult" Sun, 31 May 2009 22:59:09 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/ajcs-julia-wallace-were-doing-the-things-we-need-to-be-doing/#comment-105633 [...] and Enterprise. All lot of what she said already is summed up in this interview she gave Creative Loafing. When I asked how you ensure quality investigative reporting as papers continue making cuts, she [...] [...] and Enterprise. All lot of what she said already is summed up in this interview she gave Creative Loafing. When I asked how you ensure quality investigative reporting as papers continue making cuts, she [...]

]]> By: Sistah Lily Pulitzer http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/ajcs-julia-wallace-were-doing-the-things-we-need-to-be-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-87029 Sistah Lily Pulitzer Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:01:22 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/ajcs-julia-wallace-were-doing-the-things-we-need-to-be-doing/#comment-87029 The thing that needs changing, or so I hear from the rank-n-file at the AJC, is laborious, clueless leadership that simply "doesn't get" all the personal technology that needs to happens to create this "2.0" stuff of which they holler a lot about. From what I understand, seems most of 'em can barely power on computer. How do you hold onto a media-based position of leadership in the digital age when you can't even create, say, a blog all by yourself? You issue a lot of memos, hold a lot of meetings, and listen to absolutely nothing from the people inside who DO have a clue. And I won't even mention "the community." These people at the AJC afterall, will holler "but I'm a journalist" whenever someone even makes the slightest suggestion they do something as base as commune with the online community. You want to be an online leader? Well you have to be... online. Not just rapping about it in a conference room. The thing that needs changing, or so I hear from the rank-n-file at the AJC, is laborious, clueless leadership that simply “doesn’t get” all the personal technology that needs to happens to create this “2.0″ stuff of which they holler a lot about. From what I understand, seems most of ‘em can barely power on computer. How do you hold onto a media-based position of leadership in the digital age when you can’t even create, say, a blog all by yourself? You issue a lot of memos, hold a lot of meetings, and listen to absolutely nothing from the people inside who DO have a clue. And I won’t even mention “the community.” These people at the AJC afterall, will holler “but I’m a journalist” whenever someone even makes the slightest suggestion they do something as base as commune with the online community.

You want to be an online leader? Well you have to be… online. Not just rapping about it in a conference room.

]]> By: Jaosn Preston http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/ajcs-julia-wallace-were-doing-the-things-we-need-to-be-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-85187 Jaosn Preston Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:14:55 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/ajcs-julia-wallace-were-doing-the-things-we-need-to-be-doing/#comment-85187 It looks like they've got some good plans in terms of the editorial direction for the newspaper, but it seems like few newspapers are giving really serious thought to the tech of their newspaper going forward. I'd be a lot more optimistic about the AJC's future if I saw more in this interview about hiring good web-savvy tech staff that can build the technological foundation to let good journalism shine online. It looks like they’ve got some good plans in terms of the editorial direction for the newspaper, but it seems like few newspapers are giving really serious thought to the tech of their newspaper going forward.

I’d be a lot more optimistic about the AJC’s future if I saw more in this interview about hiring good web-savvy tech staff that can build the technological foundation to let good journalism shine online.

]]> By: ed http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/ajcs-julia-wallace-were-doing-the-things-we-need-to-be-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-85021 ed Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:40:05 +0000 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/ajcs-julia-wallace-were-doing-the-things-we-need-to-be-doing/#comment-85021 Let me see if I have this right, but surveys showed readers wanted local news, and so now we are losing our local zoned edition in favor of an Atlanta-wide edition. Is there something at odds, here? I've also heard about how AJC 2.0 is going to reinvent journalism as we know it, and bring Atlanta into the 21st Century. Yet everytime I read about AJC 2.0, the date seems to wander off into the future. Now we are told it will be next February, and the presses are blamed. Do not the current generation of presses print on paper? As for @issue, it has become so fuzzy that it is irrelevant. Let me see if I have this right, but surveys showed readers wanted local news, and so now we are losing our local zoned edition in favor of an Atlanta-wide edition. Is there something at odds, here? I’ve also heard about how AJC 2.0 is going to reinvent journalism as we know it, and bring Atlanta into the 21st Century. Yet everytime I read about AJC 2.0, the date seems to wander off into the future. Now we are told it will be next February, and the presses are blamed. Do not the current generation of presses print on paper? As for @issue, it has become so fuzzy that it is irrelevant.

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