The Biz: DigiDave "Bullish" on Journalism, Calls for 10,000 Startups

Digital journalism blogger Dave "DigiDave" Cohn says he's "bullish" on the future of journalism. At least someone's bullish about something. The S&P 500 just broke down below the 2002 lows, so Cohn's optimism is a good antidote to that glum news. Here's his interesting column on the need for 10,000 journalism startups (of which he thinks two will become the new New York Times).

TAGS: future of journalism, interesting, the biz

Investigations: NPR Host, Guests Had Pharma Ties

Dr. Frederick Goodwin, host of a popular show on NPR, earned at least $1.3 million giving marketing lectures for drug makers between 2000 and 2007, reports this interesting blog item on Jim Romenesko's site, citing this New York Times piece. Especially noteworthy, reported a Slate article on the same controversy last May, is that Goodwin hosted an NPR show called "Prozac Nation: Revisited," which featured four guests who talked about how worries about a link between Prozac and suicide are overblown. All four guests also have financial ties with antidepressant drug makers, according to the report. As well, Goodwin's show, The Infinite Mind, itself has received "unrestricted grants" from one antidepressant manufacturer. Also interesting is the back-and-forth debate appended to the end of that Slate piece between an NPR producer, the NPR ombudsman and the Slate article's authors.

TAGS: pharma, investigations

Conferences: Call for Internet Research Papers

Internet researchers are being called for papers for the Oct. 2009 annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, titled "Internet: Critical," to be held in Milwaukee. Learn more about the conference and this organization (which has an interesting free listserv) here.

TAGS: tools, conference, internet, Web 2.0