In honor of Comic-Con 2010, happening right now in San Diego, we’ve decided to blog about the beloved intersection of journalists as superheroes and newsrooms as Ground Zero for crime fighters.
Perfect Market’s favorite journalistic caped crusader has got to be Superman, a.k.a., Clark Kent.
Not only due to the time Kent spends in the newsroom with his intrepid colleague Lois Lane but, of course, because of Perry White, the irascible editor-in-chief of the Metropolis newspaper Daily Planet.
In celebration of the craft of journalism and the heroic truth squads serialized in these classic comics, I’ve compiled some of the more news-centric Superman quotes and a few photos and comic book pages—all for your viewing pleasure.
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There is no denying Huffington Post's substantial growth over the past few years.
Where once they were deemed a political blog, today they strive to be "America's Internet Newspaper." The site is well on its way with 22 verticals and a readership and revenue which some have projected to eclipse the New York Times by 2014.
They've got to be doing something right.
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Newspapers are worried.
And yet, they have some of the most enviable resources in the online space: professional journalists and opinion leaders with fact-checking chops capable of producing nuanced, in-depth and often tide-turning prose.
Yahoo, AOL and DemandMedia could be seen as potential competitors, but only if newspapers chose to relax their standards of journalistic excellence.
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While perusing my twitter feed this morning, a particularly compelling link caught my eye. In fact, the link was retweeted so many times it was virtually impossible to miss.
The Wall Street Journal’s Digits Blog reported “Internet Is Set to Overtake Newspapers In Revenue.” It’s a little surprising that this link would be so “hot,” since the writing has been on the (Web) wall for quite some time.
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23 July 2010 By Perfect Market
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