Opinion: PBS.org media writer profiles The Ticket
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Mark Glaser is a veteran journalist who writes a regular column called ‘MediaShift’ on the digital media revolution for PBS.org He’s also a very handsome fellow, as you can see.
Glaser is a recognized expert on the rapid and bewildering changes that are revolutionizing the media world that we all consume and rely on and criticize and that is so vital for the proper functioning of a democracy.
This month Glaser chose to write his column about The Ticket. So he’s obviously a loyal Ticket reader. Here’s a snippet of the interview with Andrew:
This was spring of last year, and they asked how I saw the blog developing. Well we had to be different. I asked myself: What do I enjoy about being online? If you distill it down, what I liked about being online was it was like beachcombing. You never know what you’ll find. And that’s the opposite of what newspapers have tried to do over the years. You’ve got the most important story in the upper right, and you’ll have a picture here above the fold and it’s less important as you go down the page. [The newspaper] is directly contradictory of what the new experience is where I’m in control and I’ll go where I want. There are no lane markers, you can jump to wherever you want and do what you want. Unpredictability was at the top of my list. And we had to be pretty well informed and well written, and Don and I had done a lot of that. And I liked the idea of having it run around the clock because a lot of blogs shut down at night. The first thing I wrote, I said we wanted this to be a dialogue, and sometimes I’ll go in and put comments on other people’s comments. Then we’ll have a discussion with others commenting, and I find that to be exciting. It’s like a conversation, imagine that.
For those interested in learning more about that media topic in general and this blog in particular, that column and his columns are available by clicking here.