Berkeley's journalism school dean has a response to an online discussion of journalism education: "We Have Been Bull-Dozed Aside." The discussion began with a Carnegie Corporation and Knight Foundation project that got NYU's Jay Rosen and other journalism teachers talking a couple of months ago. The latest conversation is also taking place at Jay's blog, where Berkeley Dean Orville Schell and the accumulated comments from Jay and readers already run to more than 6,600 words -- about 18 single-spaced pages that I'll be reading on that "vacation."

The New York Times reports on a media conglomerate's online move:
News Corporation Buys an Internet Company. "The News Corporation bought Intermix Media, which runs MySpace.com, for $580 million, a transaction that gave Rupert Murdoch some pause." (Is this a surprise after Murdoch's speech in April? It gives me a sense of having been here before.)

Ed Cone at the Greensboro, N.C., News & Record points to a colleague's article about his first six months as a "blogging newspaperman": Blog makes better paper, better writer. One quote: "Writing for the blog has made my writing voice crisper, more direct and more conversational." The new blogger, Allen Johnson, is the newspaper's editorial page editor.



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