Kara Swisher

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Victorian Gadgets and the Modern Reporter

Here is an interesting video by WSJ.com’s Andy Jordan on a movement called “steampunk,” where modern-day gadgets are rebuilt to look as if they were made in Victorian times. We liked the porthole CD player a lot:

And MarketWatch’s media maven Jon Friedman does a video post related to his Media Web column on the Washington Post’s political reporter Anne Kornblut, using her to depict what the new breed of reporter needs to know how to do–namely, everything multimedia.


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While it’s tempting to see the Huffington Post’s Pulitzer as a “big win for new media,” or something like that, the real story is that these organizations — the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post — are becoming more like each other. Old media and new media are increasingly antiquated terms.

— Journalism professor Jay Rosen to HuffPo media writer Michael Calderone (via GigaOM)