Just read Caloy Conde's post pointing at David Carr's story on how US papers have lost their value by as much as 20 percent in the last two years. I couldn't agree more with Caloy's observation that Filipino newspaper owners and editors can learn much from the experience of their First World counterparts.
David Carr's story and Caloy's post reminded me of my earlier plan to subscribe to some RSS feeds of US-based media writers. Thankfully, Journalism.org has a list of US-based media writers and columnists, as well as media ombudsmen and reader representatives. Here in Manila, among the Manila-based newspapers, it is only the Philippine Daily Inquirer that has an ombudsman (veteran journalist Lorna Tirol, who was also a former editor of the PJR Reports). Bravo, Inquirer.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, community papers in the country neither have ombudsmen or nor reader representatives.
Here's the list of media writers and ombudsmen in the United States as provided by Journalism.org. And yes, I already subscribed to some of them. Read them, and learn.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
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