Hi: I'm Doreen Marchionni (Ph.D. '09, Missouri School of Journalism). I'll be your intergalactic pilot on this journey through my dissertation. Send whiskey, please.
Today brings a terrific post from The Next Web on one of my all-time pet peeves: ads that block news content.
Rather than creating an environment of solicitation and respect for your audience — essential to conversational journalism in my book — such sites demean. And they are everywhere.
Pictured above is possibly the worst example I’ve seen in recent years, from my beloved hometown paper where I got my start in journalism. The ad actually slid into view to mask the news content. It’s enough to make a gal give up on mainstream news sites.
