Articles by Chad Capellman

Chad Capellman Managing Editor, Media Center at the American Press Institute E-mail: chad@mediacenter.org

Monday, August 08, 2005

On the Morph blog, Steven Rosenbaum weighs in on Al Gore's new network, Current. "For media professionals interested in understanding where media is going, watching the evolution of Current is instructive, maybe even essential." Read full post

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Rob Curley, director of New Media and Convergence at LJWorld.com talks about integrating content into the new PlayStation Portable, what a newspaper is and what it isn't and what happens when the unthinkable happens to the KU men's basketball team.

Monday, April 11, 2005

Sales effectiveness consultant Gilbert Cargill, talks about the need for having both "hunters and farmers" on your sales force, the importance of focusing on the right indicators and how to win the battle with the "sales prevention department."

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

The Media Center recently hosted a free public webcast called, The Vanishing Newspaper: Survival and Public Service in the Age of We Media, and the discussions are still continuing.

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

We are in the process of launching video channels on The API Network of sites. The first such channel is available at http://mediacenter.org/mc/video/ (Flash player 7 required)

A collection of conversations from The Media Center's Emerging Technology, Business and Policy for Senior Executives seminar includes the following:

• Dan Gillmor, author of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People," spoke during the opening night dinner of the seminar.
• Tim Barsky, traditional Ashkenazi storyteller and oral historian demonstrated why he has been getting increasing attention for his unique performance style, which blends hip-hop, street theatre, and Jewish folklore.
• Salim Ismail, Co-Founder & CEO of PubSub Concepts, Inc. talks about being able to search the future.
• Mark Fletcher, CEO and Founder of Bloglines, answers the question, "What's the big deal about RSS?"
• Ellen Siminoff, President & CEO, Efficient Frontier, talks about what she would advise media companies to do to best position themselves with the advent of new search opportunities.
• Stu Watson, Founder of Syndicate IQ talks gives a brief description of about his company does and why publishers should be interested.

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Michael White, nicknamed "The Dean of the Electoral College," offers some surprising insights about how poorly informed state officials can be about their roles in the electoral process.

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

BaltimoreSun.com, CQ.com, Reuters.com, USAToday.com and WashingtonPost.com demonstrate different approaches to digital storytelling at ONA conference.

Thursday, June 17, 2004

API's 2004 Publishers Forum, titled “Near and Far Horizons, the Road Ahead for Media Organizations” opened up by providing the media executives in attendance lessons for thriving in the digital age from an unconventional source.

Thursday, January 22, 2004

On the heels of Monday night's Iowa Caucuses, Chris Peck - Editor of the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn. spoke with attendees of API's City and Metro Editors seminar about the challenges they face with their own election coverage. (includes audio)

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

While defining online news these days isn't easy, it's clear that the myriad of sites out there have made considerable efforts to forge their own identities and not be typecast by all the characteristics of their parent organizations.

Monday, October 13, 2003

A number of newspapers across the U.S. have been publishing a form letter from troops stationed in Iraq, USAToday reports in Monday's editions.

Thursday, October 02, 2003

Comments from participants in API's first Publishers’ Forum on Ethics and Responsibilities: » Jim Crutchfield, President & Publisher, Akron Beacon Journal
» Steven Knowlton, Professor of Journalism, Hofstra University
» Peggy Kuhr, Knight Chair, University of Kansas, School Of Mass Communications
» Jack Nelson, Chief Washington Correspondent, (retired), Los Angeles Times

Tuesday, August 05, 2003

The Washington Post hopes commuters can't get enough of the wire briefs, advertising and random quotes that comprise the Express as the company looks to gain a foothold in a marketing approach that is sprouting worldwide.

Tuesday, June 24, 2003

ASNE president Peter Bhatia reacts to receiving hundreds of postcards that claim the group's diversity programs "bear some of the responsibility for the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times."

Friday, June 06, 2003

API discussed ethics, the New York Times and the FCC with this year's ASNE president

Thursday, June 05, 2003

API talked with Douglas Clifton about the impact of the Jayson Blair affair on the New York Times and journalism as a whole on the day editors Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd resigned from the paper. Mr. Clifton is editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and was named 2003 Editor & Publisher Editor of the Year.

Wednesday, May 07, 2003

API caught up with Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon, who these days finds himself balancing his newspaper duties with an ever-expanding television career. In a conversation prior to his appearance as a discussion leader at API's sports editors seminar, he commented on the recent controversial comments of Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan, his influences, and how a print columnist makes the adjustment to national television.

Friday, May 02, 2003

API posed five questions to Orage Quarles, former NAA Chairman and President/Publisher of The News and Observer Publishing Company. He is also an API discussion leader

Friday, April 25, 2003

The following questions were formulated from a marketing presentation made earlier this year to an API seminar group by Richard P. Honack, assistant dean at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University.

Thursday, April 17, 2003

Wednesday, April 09, 2003

The Washington Post begins a series of global perspectives on local media coverage of the war by starting in Argentina. The people there, in a country only 20 years removed from its own dictatorship, are opposed to the war by about an 8-to-2 margin.

Tuesday, April 08, 2003

Business Week reporter Frederik Balfour, embedded with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq, writes a first-person account of his encounter with David Bloom, after the late NBC anchor's body was brought to the medical tent of the 703rd Battalion on Apr. 6. Elsewhere, Google's news collection site has ammassed more than 300 articles chronicling the death of a Reuters cameraman and an Al-Jazeera correspondent following U.S. attacks in Baghdad. The site also has a significant collection of pieces that look back at the life of former Washington Post reporter and editor-at-large of The Atlantic Monthly, who became the first U.S. reporter to die in the war.

Friday, April 04, 2003

Suzanne C. Ryan reports in the Boston Globe on a situation where a journalist did not sit by and merely observe.

Thursday, April 03, 2003

An interesting (and unscientific) poll is currently being conducted on Monster.com. The question, "How often do you interrupt your workday to check for news on the war?" received twice as many responses for "Never" (32 percent) as there were for "Constantly" (16 percent) with a total 31,070 votes cast as of 1:45 p.m. ET. Thirty-one percent said they check 1-2 times a day, and 20 percent said they check 3-5 times a day. Poll snapshot 1:45 p.m. ET

Tuesday, April 01, 2003

Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz spends some quality time with "The M Brigade" of veteran television reporters Jim Miklaszewski of NBC, ABC's John McWethy, CBS's David Martin and CNN's Jamie McIntyre.

The four are charged with the daunting task of taking all of the scattered reports from embedded reporters in the field and providing a big picture view, as well as sifting through the official line from the Pentagon.

Thursday, March 20, 2003

This is obviously a busy time for any newspaper executive, but Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downie took an hour to make himself available for an online chat at noon on Thursday.

Tuesday, March 18, 2003

With the threat of war looming as the NCAA men's basketball tournament is about to begin, we added another pull-out section from our book "Crisis Journalism: A Handbook for Media Response." The piece by Kenn Finkel "Trivial War references ruin our credibility" highlights some of the pitfalls sportwriters sometimes find themselves in when trying to convey the intensity of games such as the ones about to be watched by much of the country.

Monday, March 10, 2003

The Erie Times has compiled a special section titled America at War which includes pieces on how local residents are dealing with the U.S. confrontation with Iraq as well as occasional wire stories on overseas events.

Saturday, March 08, 2003

Should a newspaper allow its journalists to be "embedded" into a military unit, where they will be watched closely by military public affairs personnel and limited in their ability to travel more freely and have a more "big picture" view of a war?

Friday, March 07, 2003

I typed in "troops" and "local" into the news search pages on both AltaVista and Google.

Friday, March 07, 2003

An open letter to editors, publishers, producers and reporters appears on TomPaine.com conveying "a level of heightened expectation in your forthcoming coverage of the U.S.-Iraq situation."

Friday, March 07, 2003

Is our country's obsession with standardized education and test scores preventing students from any real learning about the complex political relationships and issues that the United States faces abroad?

Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center, reports on a study that finds teachers growing more and more reluctant and unable to tackle such subjects during the school day.

Thursday, March 06, 2003

Remember overhead projectors and transparancies that could -- layer by layer -- give a two-dimensional image more of a three-dimensional feel?

Wednesday, March 05, 2003

As Salon reports, should the U.S. move forward with an attack on Iraq, the first shot might come via cyberspace in the form of shutting down the country's Internet access.

Wednesday, March 05, 2003

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has always been a valuable resource for knowledge about the complex relationships among nations and cultures around the world, and with tensions rising over Iraq, the center continues to deliver.

Sunday, September 01, 2002

Monday, April 01, 2002

Friday, March 01, 2002

Friday, September 21, 2001

Tuesday, January 16, 2001

Managing an online newspaper can be a daunting task, and no one has developed an approach that is far and away the best one, but there are things that all sites can do to improve the quality of their online content.

Thursday, October 26, 2000

When learning the ropes in the world of journalism, it's hard not to get burned. Here are some tips for those just setting out on the journey of a lifetime.