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Bryan Keefer is a bestselling author and Director of Product at The Daily Beast. [read more]

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Online Journalism Awards

The Online News Association (based at USC) has just announced finalists for the Online Journalism Awards, and CJR Daily is a finalist for online commentary for small sites. (The awards are for work published June 2005 through June 2006.) That’s in addition to the Webby nomination this year, and the honorable mention from the National Press Club last year. I couldn’t ask for a better parting gift!

Green Apple Talk #2

I’ll be hosting a panel this coming Tuesday (the 12th) at The Strand bookstore in downtown NYC. The subject is urban environmentalism, from urban planning to infrastructure to product design, and everything in between. The panelists are authors Alex Marshall and Buzz Poole, and urban planner/blogger Shin-pei Tsay. Free and open to the public, as always.

New CJR Article

I have a short piece in the latest print issue of Columbia Journalism Review comparing the Web sites and online strategies of the New York Times and Washington Post. Since (somewhat ironically) it’s not yet online, I’ve gone ahead and put together a PDF download (850 K) of the piece for those who can’t find a print copy of the magazine.

Leaving CJR Daily

I imagine most of the folks coming here have already seen enough of the whole CJR Daily controversy, but for friends and family who can’t get enough, here’s a roundup.

You can still take a look at the New York Times story that broke the news that my boss, Steve Lovelady, and I had resigned over budget cuts at CJR Daily. (J-School Dean Nick Lemann also released a statement to Romenesko that summed up his side of things.)

There were some interesting comments from Jeff Jarvis (who Lemann took on after Jarvis posted a detailed critique of Lemann’s recent New Yorker piece about online journalism), Businessweek, and the the editor of the Greensboro, North Carolina News & Record. Even CJR Daily’s long-time sparring partner National Review weighed in. (Gawker had the best headline: “We Must Burn the Online Journalism Village in Order to Save It.")

And David Hershman of Editor & Publisher had probably the most insightful analysis I’ve seen anyone write about the whole situation.

Speaking at Cornell

For those of you in lovely and scenic upstate New York, I’ll be giving a speech at Cornell University this coming Thursday titled “MySpace, Blogs and the MSM: The Future of Media, and How You Can Break Into It.” ‘Cause kids love the MySpace! (More info.)

Sadly, I see I’ll just miss former Spinsanity punching bag and New York Times fan Ann Coulter, who’s speaking at Cornell (her alma mater) on Monday the 24th. On the plus side, I imagine Cornellians will be saving their oranges to throw at Coulter, rather than at me.

Update: The Cornell Daily Sun has a nice writeup of the speech, which made the front page on Friday.

Webby Worthy

CJR Daily has been nominated for the Webby for Best Political Blog. In addition to the judges picking a winner (announced May 9), they also hand out a “People’s Voice” award in each category, which is determined by votes from the public. So please take a second and vote for CJR Daily!

While I’m at it, a plug for a friend: Treehugger.com is nominated for the Webby for Best Cultural/Personal Blog, so take a look while you’re voting for CJR Daily. I’ll be hosting a panel in June with one of the editors, Dominic Muren, about green design and how environmental values are moving into the mainstream via consumer products.

“Brian Lehrer Live”

I’ll be appearing on “Brian Lehrer Live” tonight at 7:30 on the CUNY TV network (which is picked up by most New York cable providers; it’s channel 75 on Time Warner.)

The show repeats a few times this week, and the whole show will be available online for your streaming video pleasure.

A Manuscript and a Magic 8-Ball

I’ll be hosting a panel next Wednesday, March 29, at the 92nd St Y/Makor, titled “A Manuscript and a Magic 8-Ball: Secrets to Success in Publishing Today.” The panelists are Jonathan Karp, publisher and editor-in-chief of Warner Twelve; Johnny Temple, rock star and publisher of Akashic Books; and Sarah Weinman of GalleyCat and Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind.

Topics will probably include everything from how authors can distinguish themselves, to publishers’ approaches to marketing (there’s a New York Times article published today about paperback originals), how reading habits are changing in the age of the Internet, the relevance of book reviews, and anything else that pops into my head.

Blook’d

All the President’s Spin has been short-listed for the Lulu Blooker Prize (yes, you read that right, it’s “blook"), a new award for the best book to come out of/be based on a blog. We’re up against an interesting array of books, including Belle de Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, a book on biofuels, one about cafes, another about recipes, and one about the Scott Peterson trial. The winner will be announced on April 3.

NY Press Club Panel

I’ll be filling in tonight as a panelist at the New York Press Club for a discussion of the direction technology is taking journalism, along with Jonathan Landman of the New York Times, Michael Everett Lane of NYCbloggers.com and Rachel Sklar, formerly of FishbowlNY. $15 bucks, if you’re sitting around Midtown with a hankering to hear some journo-pontificating.

The New CJR Daily

I’ve had my nose to the grindstone for the past several weeks, trying to get a major redesign of CJRDaily completed. And, after a truly epic battle with MovableType and DNS (anyone interested in migrating an MT installation to a new server, feel free to email me for advice) the new site is live.

Our designer, Bill McDermott, came up with a concept that emphasizes the criticism/review aspect of what CJR does; we also eliminated photos (for a number of reasons), instead using color to emphasize the various areas of coverage.

Take a look, and let me know what you think.

How to really get the news

Next Wednesday, I’ll be moderating a panel at the 92nd St. Y/Makor here in New York. I get to grill Chris Regan of “The Daily Show” (not the Chris Regan of JunkYardBlog, New York magazine notwithstanding), Jon Friedman of CBS.Marketwatch.com (not the comedian Jon Friedman, New York again notwithstanding) and Jesse Oxfeld of Editor & Publisher (not MediaBistro—strike three, New York), on “How to Really Get the News.” Evidently one of the answers is, “don’t trust peoples’ affiliations as published in New York‘s listings.”

At least New York got the date and time right—7:30 p.m. on the 19th.

RatherGate: The dirty laundry is even dirtier than you thought

One of the most disturbing aspects of the Thornburgh/Boccardi report on the CBS Bush National Guard documents fiasco is that it reveals how the network essentially turned its own evening news broadcast into a PR campaign for itself. CBS went on the air day after day contending that the documents had been authenticated when they very obviously hadn’t been in any meaningful sense of the word, and they misrepresented what even sources they put on the air had been telling them.

If anyone wants their darkest suspicions about the modern news business confirmed, they need look no further.

(I have more on this over at CJR Daily.)

Hollywood Reporter Reports on Me

I’m cited in a piece in an article in the Hollywood Reporter about blogs and the Democratic Convention. Here it is:

Most bloggers readily acknowledge that what they do is far from journalism. Bryan Keefer, assistant managing editor of Campaigndesk.org, a Web site on the 2004 campaign that is run by the Columbia University School of Journalism, thinks blogs serve as a check on the media, sometimes forcing journalists to cover an issue they might not have otherwise handled. . . .

Campaigndesk.org’s Keefer, who has co-run a blog called Spinsanity since 2001, thinks that the success of blogs has forced traditional media to work faster and to incorporate the best of blogs into its own operations.

Making the Front Page

The Los Angeles Times was kind enough last Wednesday to let me sit in on their meetings on how to decide what stories to put on their front page. It was a pretty interesting look at how one of America’s major media outlets decides what news is important (and how the paper functions more broadly, as well). You can read the article on CampaignDesk.org.

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