Please pretend that you’re taking over as editor of a weekly news magazine such as U.S. News & World Report (James Fallows’ old job) today. What challenges would you be facing? And how would you proceed in addressing them? Just respond (in two or three sentences) to each of the problems/opportunities outlined by Fallows (in the video). Type your responses to each of these. Here is the list.
James Fallows: problems &opportunities
1.Time/timeliness
2.audience
3.Interpretation versus Facts
4. Words versus pictures
5. Inside world of U.S versus outside world
6. Logistics of paper versus online
7. Usefulness (public journalism)
8. Make the important interesting