David Carr back to blogging for the Times
The media site I Want Media did an interview recently with David Carr, who became the first blogger at the New York Times last year when he started writing Carpetbagger leading up to the Academy Awards — and filming short video clips and interviews. The Times now has a series of blogs, including the TV blog Screens. Carpetbagger went dark following the show, but the newspaper has decided to revive it. Here are some of Carr’s comments:
I think our biggest achievement with The Carpetbagger last year was that it allowed material from the blog to flow into the paper and material from the paper to flow into the blog. Synergy… gained real traction during our run. We got a good look at how things might go in the future.
Now that programming capabilities are in the hands of consumers… how will the big content creators keep up and make money doing it? Just because media companies can own the methods of production no longer means they’re going to own the audience as well.
Back in about ‘98, Steve Coll, who was then the managing editor of the Washington Post, suggested that reporters would one day be walking around with “hat-cams”… I wrote a column about how nonsensical that idea was… And now, that’s essentially what I’m doing with the video on The Carpetbagger.
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