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Louis C. Hochman Column: The Shrinking Newsroom Is Bad For Us All

By Louis C. Hochman, Patch, 1/14/2011

 

It's bad news. And it's bad for news.

 

The journalists of the Daily Record, Courier News and Home News Tribune learned this week about half of them will lose…

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Added by Louis C. Hochman on February 7, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Louis C. Hochman Column: Tragedy of Tyler Clementi's Suicide Not as Modern as it Seems

By Louis C. Hochman, Patch, 9/30/2010



Let's be clear: The world knew hurtful foolishness long before it knew Facebook. It knew social stigma long before it knew social networking. Pain is nothing new, nothing modern. …

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Added by Louis C. Hochman on February 7, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Louis C. Hochman News Clip: Online Discussion of Tyler Clementi's Death A Challenge to Keep Civil—Or Even Running

By Louis C. Hochman, Patch, 10/1/2010

 

Theresa M. Collins didn't expect to become responsible for managing what might be the Internet's largest discussion on the death of Ridgewood teen Tyler Clementi. And she certainly wasn't expecting the ugliness that would surface in the discussion again and again.…

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Added by Louis C. Hochman on February 6, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Louis C. Hochman News Clip: Daily Record, 2 Other Gannett Papers Slashing Newsroom Staffs in Half

Employees told about coming cuts on Monday.

By Louis C. Hochman, Patch, 1/10/11

 

The Daily Record, Courier News and Home News Tribune will cut their collective newsroom staff approximately in half, employees of the local newspapers were told Monday.…

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Added by Louis C. Hochman on February 6, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Louis C. Hochman Are your local cops smarter than a sixth-grader?

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Added by Louis C. Hochman on June 9, 2010 at 7:35pm — 1 Comment

Louis C. Hochman Patch makes me a better person ...

... well, at least it asks me to do nice things. AOL — which owns my new employer, Patch.com — recently asked its employees to find opportunities to volunteer in their communities. At Patch, we focused on helping the communities we serve — or, in my case, will serve — as part of our Give 5 program (see the "Giving Back" section here).


The region I'll be leading…
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Added by Louis C. Hochman on May 20, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Louis C. Hochman Blogging strategy ...

It's been several days since I've had time for a new blog post (new job! yay! keeps me busy! yay! neglecting MH! boo!). So while you patiently wait out the next one, I thought I'd share this cartoon on blogging from xkcd. Why? Because I, too, love content.

Added by Louis C. Hochman on May 17, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Louis C. Hochman Goodbye, Daily Record

Tonight I wrapped up my last shift at the Daily Record, the way I've wrapped up most shifts — quietly and tiredly, as one of the last staffers (but not quite the last staffer) to leave for the night. I did what I do most nights — see off the DR print edition as deadline passes, and guide DailyRecord.com into the new day. It was nice to be able to leave on such a familiar note.


I…
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Added by Louis C. Hochman on May 7, 2010 at 1:30am — No Comments

Louis C. Hochman Don't put all your eggs in one digital basket

Here’s an old idea the digital age kindly renews every so often: Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.



If you’ve ever done any sort of work with complex systems, you’ve heard the phrase “single point of failure.” It’s a term for what you’re supposed to avoid: A component that, when it fails, brings the whole system crashing down. Think of a Rube Goldberg contraption after the birdie’s flown off and… Continue

Added by Louis C. Hochman on May 5, 2010 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Louis C. Hochman Social media and minors: Where do we draw the line?

I got a little blowback this week for a social media-outreach effort: We at DailyRecord.com created a Facebook group to ask Morris County, N.J. students what they thought of the major budget cuts that threaten programs and staff sizes at their schools.



We thought it was a good way to represent a typically underrepresented voice in the school budget debate. But some parents thought otherwise.



Some of our online commenters thought we were…

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Added by Louis C. Hochman on April 29, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Louis C. Hochman Wow. I've been busy.

Here's the official job-listing description of the post I'm vacating. Actually, it misses some things (I edit sports copy twice a week), but it's essentially right. Jeez. I've been busy.



The post is for the Daily Record, in Morris County, New Jersey.



Position is responsible for managing The Daily Record website 5 evenings a week, as well as the responsibility for how it appears the following early morning. Daily duties include editing Daily… Continue

Added by Louis C. Hochman on April 26, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Louis C. Hochman J.D. Lasica reminds us of how independent journalism came to Rutgers



J.D. Lasica knows a thing or two about using media (and social media) to advance the public good.



A gathering looms — one of former staffers of The Daily Targum, the student newspaper at Rutgers University, where both Lasica and I (though a few decades apart) learned valuable lessons about what it means to be a journalist.



Lasica won't be there, but he… Continue

Added by Louis C. Hochman on April 22, 2010 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment

Louis C. Hochman Jarvis' 'This is BS' ... is BS (sort of)

(Note: The headline is a willful overstatement. But catchy, right?)


Jeff Jarvis — the journalism professor, author, and leading voice in new and social media — just posted a video of his recent lecture from TEDxNYED: “…
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Added by Louis C. Hochman on April 18, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Louis C. Hochman AP gave in. This is a "website."

Since the Intrar-Web-Iverse first came onto the public radar, the Associated Press Stylebook — the style bible for news organizations everywhere — has insisted the Web is made up of "Web sites." Not websites. The thinking: Web is short for World Wide Web, and therefore a proper noun. A site is just a site. Ain't nothing proper about that.


But today, the AP gave in to overwhelming popular usage. Here's the e-mail I just got via my online stylebook…
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Added by Louis C. Hochman on April 16, 2010 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Louis C. Hochman I was on Friendster trolling for girls before all y’all

I’m getting a little tired of all the chatter surrounding social media.



That’s not the sort of thing people in the news industry are supposed to say — since we’re all clumsily wandering about, hoping to stumble into the promised land of milk, honey and relevance social media (excuse me,… Continue

Added by Louis C. Hochman on April 13, 2010 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Melissa Hayes News Clip: Perr resigns as Dems chief

From the Aug. 26, 2009 edition of the Burlington County Times:
By: MELISSA HAYES AND DAVID LEVINSKY
Burlington County Times
Burlington County Democratic Committee Chairman…
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Added by Melissa Hayes on April 5, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Melissa Hayes News Clip: E-mails show Dem leaders' ties to PAC

From the Aug. 23, 2009 edition of the Burlington County Times:
By: MELISSA HAYES and DAVID LEVINSKY…
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Added by Melissa Hayes on April 5, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Melissa Hayes News Clip: Democratic committee treasurer steps down

From the Aug. 4, 2009 edition of the Burlington County Times:

By: DAVID LEVINSKY AND MELISSA HAYES
Burlington County Times

The treasurer of the Burlington County Democratic Committee says he will resign from his…

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Added by Melissa Hayes on April 5, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Melissa Hayes News Clip: Mayor in corruption sweep has county ties

From the Aug. 2, 2009 edition of the Burlington County Times:

By: MELISSA HAYES and DAVID LEVINSKY
Burlington County Times

A North Jersey politician charged in last month's federal corruption sweep has ties to Burlington…

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Added by Melissa Hayes on April 5, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Melissa Hayes News Clip: Figures don't add up

From the Aug. 7, 209 edition of the Burlington County Times:
By: MELISSA HAYES
Burlington County Times

How much money did a Medford political action committee actually donate to a North…

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Added by Melissa Hayes on April 5, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

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