Our guest was Howard Weaver, former VP for editorial at McClatchy Newspapers and a career newspaper journalist who is also quite active on Twitter. He writes a blog about the transformation of the news business.
We talked about where the future-of-news discussion gets off track; putting users first; “eat your vegetables” news; the J-school we need for the world we are actually in; the job of the professional journalist when there are way more participants; the Twitter firehose; Google vs. the news business and more….
Here’s the mp3
