David carr why not occupy newsrooms

What does it mean? November 11, Tom Jones. Brian Williams is out. Rachel Maddow may be soon, as could others.

Why are Americans buying so many pregnancy tests? Al Tompkins. It changed the wording. Samantha Putterman. Angela Fu. You're a newspaper company. You're a publicly held company. These bonuses are a matter of public record, and you have nothing to say about them? There's both real-time news My persistent concern is that I'll become so busy producing media that I won't consume enough of it. All of that content can be overwhelming. Carr says his nightstand is filled with books he'd like to read, his iPad is filled with stories from his RSS feed, and he's constantly inundated with information wherever he goes.

He notes that his younger colleagues don't have this problem: They're able to both consume and produce media at the same time. He's in a different sort of universe.

I do think there has been horrible frictional costs, but I think when we look back at what has happened, I look at my backpack that is sitting here, and it contains more journalistic firepower than the entire newsroom that I walked into 30 to 40 years ago.

It's connected to the cloud, I can make digital recordings of everything that I do, I can check in real time if someone is telling me the truth, I have a still camera that takes video that I can upload quickly and seamlessly. All the analytics are baked in because the reporters are able to check stuff as they go. Now the business model has not kept up with that. Did I worry that somewhere in there, when I was doing a big job cut story, that I would type my own name? Yes, I did. On how he tells sources that he's writing a serious piece.

Still others felt this was nothing revelatory, that this is rather obvious. I agree with TheWrap's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and provide my consent to receive marketing communications from them. His best work not only kept us informed, but it serves as an inspiration to all writers.

Here's a few of his pieces that should be required reading. The July piece was a personal essay of Carr's, which he eventually turned into a memoir. The story details his experience with his twin daughters, who were born while he was unemployed and in the midst of a cocaine addiction. Carr got full custody of his children, cared for them, and, as we all know, became a prominent journalist at The New York Times.

In one of his more recent pieces, Carr wrote a scathing takedown of Charles C.