Monthly Archives: August 2023

We Need Wide News

Posted on August 31, 2023 by Doc Searls

How do people get news where you live? How do they remember it? For most of the industrial age, which is still with us, newspapers answered both those questions—and did so better than any other medium or civic institution. Newspapers … Continue reading →

Posted in Indiana, Journalism | 8 Comments

We Need Deep News

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Doc Searls

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter. — Thomas Jefferson News is the first rough draft of history. — … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Commons, Journalism | 3 Comments

All home now

Posted on August 8, 2023 by Doc Searls

From 2007 until about a month ago, I wrote on three blogs that lived at blogs.harvard.edu. There was my personal blog (this one here, which I started after retiring my original blog), ProjectVRM‘s blog (also its home page), and Trunkline, … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkman, Blogging, Harvard, infrastructure, Journalism, VRM, WordPress | 3 Comments