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.Tumblr (3.0; @sasquatchmedia)http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqihmnoSb1qag9cto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>That’s a lot of cash, Facebook. You worth it? (h/t to <em>NYT</em> for news alert)</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16882063416http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16882063416Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:01:31 -0800<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ask-the-post/post/about-our-changes-in-comment-threads-and-moderation/2012/01/30/gIQAjSPMdQ_blog.html">WaPo Cracks Down on Bad Comments</a>: <p>This kind of thoughtful yet aggressive approach to story commenting is coming way late in the business, but, hell, I’m giving it props. I especially like the <em>Post’s</em> attempts to not just ban the idiots but reward the inspired. </p> <p>You go, girl.</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16823485018http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16823485018Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:08:29 -0800<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3KNpn-XGM04?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><strong>TV Anchor Fail 2011 Compilation Video</strong></p> <p>These 20 million views are <em>well-earned </em>…</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16737266366http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16737266366Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:23:36 -0800<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyjukjjmgb1qag9cto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Rebel” on late-night TV tonight. So much for sleep …</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16686394220http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16686394220Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:39:23 -0800<a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/01/the-public-insight-network-now-swimming-in-data-launches-its-own-reporting-unit/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NiemanJournalismLab+%28Nieman+Journalism+Lab%29">Public Insight Network Launches Reporting Unit</a>: <p>So much love for this growing conversational news initiative. Best quote from PIN Director Linda Fantin: <br/><br/>”<span>PIN is full of “unstructured data,” as Fantin calls it, “that’s never seen the light of day, because most traditional story forms are about quoting three or four people and getting a lot of context, and the rest of it is kind of buried in the reporter’s notebook.” What if, instead of three or four people, you could talk to a thousand people?</span> </p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16472733188http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16472733188Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:34:38 -0800““I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill,” he said. “And you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I’ve taken the red pill, and I’ve seen Wonderland.””<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/tenured-professor-departs-stanford-u-hoping-to-teach-500000-students-at-online-start-up/35135" target="_blank">Tenured Professor Departs Stanford U., Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education</a> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://pulse.infoneer.net/" target="_blank">infoneer-pulse</a>)<br/><br/>Kind of loving this guy — frankly, anyone who bucks the system. </em>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16416552026http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/16416552026Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:57:00 -0800<a href="http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/01/newspapers-paywalls-and-core-users/">Shirky: Paywalls Will Change What Users Want from News Sites</a>: <p>Great prognosis on how paywalls might change news sites. Now that online news consumers are paying for content, they may well demand less-intrusive advertising and higher-quality news as conversation. Already happens in public broadcasting. Way over due in other mainstream newsrooms. </p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/15577771783http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/15577771783Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:12:35 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwubjg0OSV1qag9cto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Santa, you’re too kind.</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/14838973140http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/14838973140Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:14:03 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw950f3t3S1r2u8sso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://pbsthisdayinhistory.tumblr.com/post/14264424049/december-15-the-bill-of-rights-is-ratified" target="_blank">pbsthisdayinhistory</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>DECEMBER 15: THE BILL OF RIGHTS IS RATIFIED (1791)</strong></p> <p>On this day in 1791, Virginia ratified the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_philadelphia1791.html" title="Liberty Chronicles Bill of Rights" target="_blank">Bill of Rights</a>, allowing the United States Congress to add ten amendments to the Constitution. The Bill of Rights guaranteed for the first time individual rights. Among them are freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion and freedom of assembly.</p> </blockquote> <p>Well hello, liberty. My favorite document in the world …</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/14271320336http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/14271320336Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:39:00 -0800Sweets: […] I would've sawed it off myself, but you won't let me touch the weapons!<br /> <br /> Me: [beat] And that's why. They're not weapons. They're *tools*.<br /> <br /> <br /> He's obviously led a sheltered life ...http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/14090042514http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/14090042514Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:53:56 -0800<a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/155359/editor-who-led-student-coverage-of-2007-virginia-tech-shooting-has-left-journalism/">Virginia Tech Student Editor No Longer In News Business</a>: <p>Great interview with Amie Steele, who supervised coverage of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre for the student newspaper. Breaks my heart that she left the news business after the economic downturn (or you might argue the business left her), though her gig at the U.S. Government Accountability Office doesn’t sound too shabby. </p> <p>I’m most struck by the way coverage of the massacre inspired rather than tainted her love of journalism. Watching professional journalists botch things up (reporting rumors as fact, shoving cameras in students’ faces) made her realize the business needs better journalists and more of them. </p> <p>Newsrooms need the presence of heroes like Steele if they’re going to survive into the future. If I ran a newspaper,* I’d hire her in a blink.</p> <p>* Don’t give me any ideas </p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/14085028427http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/14085028427Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:10:00 -0800<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvsyudSE711qayi68.png"/></p> <p>Today brings a terrific <a href="http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/12/06/ads-the-death-of-user-experience-on-cnn-forbes-mashable/" title="Blocking ads" target="_blank">post</a> from The Next Web on one of my all-time pet peeves: ads that block news content.  </p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13842225620http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13842225620Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:17:38 -0800<a href="http://brizzyc.tumblr.com/post/13813907419/im-a-proud-digital-furry-mammal-living-in-the-trees">Proud Digital Furry Mammal Living in the Trees</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://brizzyc.tumblr.com/post/13813907419/im-a-proud-digital-furry-mammal-living-in-the-trees" target="_blank">brizzyc</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Someone was just asking me about this, so I’m publishing this amusing exchange I had on the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Newspaper Division list serv about one year ago, when the division was debating changing its name to something a bit more digital friendly,…</p> </blockquote> <p>This kind of thing, more than anything, gives me pause about staying in academia. Props to my buddy @brizzyc, who mentored me through Ph.D. school.</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13834476894http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13834476894Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:17:02 -0800<a href="http://chelseapaulsen.tumblr.com/">Props for Study Abroad</a>: <p>Given many of you are students, perhaps soon to be graduates, you might be interested in this Tumblr blog student Chelsea Paulsen developed for her final project in my social media class.</p> <p>Good stuff on a wide range of topics related to study abroad, from what programs are best to how to acclimate to your home culture once you return. </p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13784282942http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13784282942Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:44:54 -0800<a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/154356/spot-us-to-become-part-of-public-insight-network/">Spot.Us merges with Public Insight Network</a>: <p>Love this merger. Combines crowdsourcing (the PIN part) with crowdfunding (the Spot.Us part) of stories. Public broadcasting has long shown citizens are willing to fund great journalism via pledge drives and other means. Why not this?</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13517751769http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13517751769Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:15:00 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvabur7LXp1qag9cto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Tearing out my eyeballs …</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13362311706http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13362311706Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:37:43 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv6mv6dI9r1qag9cto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Nothing says happy Thanksgiving Day like “The Godfather.” Thanks, AMC.</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13266574350http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/13266574350Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:43:00 -0800woke up at noonwatching TV when I should be cooking<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lukcsq7IPV1qag9cto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Rioting jocks. Sigh. </p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/12700478039http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/12700478039Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:58:00 -0800<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8rwsuXHA7RA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>This ad made the rounds the week Steve Jobs died. He apparently did the original voiceover for the “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” commercial in 1997, which never aired. (The version featuring Richard Dreyfus’ narration aired instead.)</p> <p>Missing Steve’s faint lisp already. Sigh. </p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/12561256227http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/12561256227Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:56:38 -0800<a href="http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/">The Social Graph is Neither</a>: <p><a href="http://jimray.tumblr.com/post/12548240637/the-social-graph-is-neither" target="_blank">jimray</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Perfect.</p> </blockquote> <p>Love this hard.</p>http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/12561147092http://blog.sasquatchmedia.com/post/12561147092Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:52:25 -0800