March 2012
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Charity case: can philanthropic journalism last? →
Despite rapid growth in the number of non-profit investigative centres in the United States and many fine examples of quality journalism by such centres, uncertainty remains over the longer-term sustainability of philanthropically-funded journalism.
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Hyperlocal News: A Failed Business Model? |... →
Hyperlocal news may be a terrific and noble idea, but it is a failed business model, at least as it has most often been pursued so far, according to a trio of experts who appeared at BIA/Kelsey’s ILM East conference on Wednesday.
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Cohn & Wolfe : Wolfetracking Blog →
This week Cohn & Wolfe Atlanta helped underscore the importance of hyperlocal journalism in grassroots engagement by linking corporations, institutions and agency communications practitioners with Georgia-based bloggers at a PRSA|GA breakfast meeting. A spoonful of citizen journalism met a dollop of local color for a program that helped businesses recognize important findings about how...
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Editors Weblog - How has social media changed the... →
How has social media changed the news? It’s a question so big that it’s almost impossible to answer, but it’s one that a panel at the Social Media World Forum tried to get their teeth into today. In a session titled “social media and the news” speakers picked out a few core areas in which social media has altered – and is continuing to alter – the way journalists work.
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Syria, citizen journalism and the capital “T,”... →
According to some reports, the news coming from Syria has been altered by activists who are trying to make a specific point. Does that mean citizen journalism is flawed? Not really. It just means that we need better tools to make sense of the flood of news that is all around us.
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Journalism Foundation backs local politics website... →
A grassroots website dedicated to reporting on local politics, Pits n Pots, was relaunched today with support from the Journalism Foundation (JF). The site, based in Stoke-on-Trent, is the first beneficiary of the JF’s help in Britain. The foundation is a charity set up to promote independent journalism.
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Who Do You Trust: Journalists, Bloggers, Social... →
It was a provocative question addressed by the SXSW 2012 panel sponsored by PR Newswire: When it comes to news and information, “Who do you trust?”
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How much do Twitter and Facebook boost local... →
Anyone who follows me on Twitter or Facebook knows I’m a social media addict. For this stay-at-home writer, it’s part source convention, part water cooler, part MinnPost traffic-driver. But as local news organizations like the Star Tribune, Pioneer Press and MPR push their staffs to spend more time tweeting, updating and Pinteresting, just how much do readers actually click through to the...
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Citizen journalism expert to ‘inform the... →
Founder of Norg Media and board member of Swinburne University’s Public Interest Journalism Foundation, Bronwen Clune has launched a new platform intended to “inform the informers.” Newsgraf is an email newsletter Clune founded after her departure from tech incubator Pollenizer to fill the gap in the market for “practical information for time-poor journalists, editors and content makers who need...
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4 types of journalists: How they tick and what we... →
I’m reminded of this basic realization very often as I work with many different journalists from a variety of newsrooms. I’ve found myself developing my own vocabulary to describe what motivates and inhibits the journalists I encounter. As this vocabulary has become more concrete in my mind, I thought it might be valuable to share it.
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How Hyperlocals Can Build Community and Source... →
As the campaign season heats up, the candidates are all stoking their boots-on-the-ground operations with social media efforts to drive out the vote and build community.
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Smartphone Optimization Tips Every Hyperlocal... →
Mobile is the commanding new digital experience. App-rich smartphones are rapidly transforming our daily lives, and it’s become vital for publishers and media companies of all sizes to create mobile products that satisfy consumer demand.
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Talk About Local » Hyperlocal in the spotlight... →
Local websites, community blogs and all manner of hyperlocal activity will be put centre stage by a new initiative looking to both study and importantly, fund, some projects.
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» Talking hyperlocal at the Guardian Open Weekend... →
Credibility, visibility and revenue all came up as themes in the n0tice.com-hosted discussion about hyperlocal journalism during Sunday afternoon’s Guardian Open Weekend event.
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NEast Philly: traffic, data and graphs on a... →
Quietly last fall, NEastPhilly.com, the hyperlocal news site for Northeast Philadelphia, marked three years since having been launched as a college project by now WHYY NewsWorks feed blogger Shannon McDonald.
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Changing Media Summit 2012 press round-up | Media... →
Links to the key discussion points from the Changing Media Summit 2012
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Journal Local — Supporting and showcasing great... →
…a place for celebrating, supporting, encouraging, sharing ideas for and looking to the future of hyperlocal and niche journalism.
Localbeat: Rediff LocalNews - Our thoughts. →
localbeat:
According to an exclusive from Medianama - Rediff has launched a Local News platform on top of the existing realtime platform. Welcome to the party! We couldn’t be more happier. So we decided to take it for a spin and here are some thoughts:
Approach & Technology:
First look at the product…
From SXSW: the Hyperlocal Public Television...
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Tweets and more from a panel on public television 3.0 at SXSWi.
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ONA Issues: Social Shares: the booming internet... →
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The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are the top five posts from last week.
TIME releases the 140 Best Twitter feeds of 2012.
15 awesome podcasts about…
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How Patch Plans to Win the 2012 Election | Street... →
Two things drive traffic to Patch: natural disasters and elections. No one can control the former, but the latter occur on a predictable schedule, and the AOL property is aiming to capitalize on the 2012 campaigns. Street Fight spoke with Patch Elections head John Ness recently about traffic surges, keeping people coming back, and why he’s not worried about user fatigue.
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Why Don Draper Would Hate Hyperlocal | Street... →
Is Don Draper invisible? Pete Campbell couldn’t find him. His secretary had no appointments on the books, and yet he was never around. He didn’t show his face to his ex-wife and her new husband; and if he’d had his way, no one at his surprise birthday party would have seen him either.
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Inside Forbes: The 9 Key Steps We've Taken to... →
I recently gave a presentation at the Digital Innovators Summit in Berlin on how FORBES is disrupting the traditional news media. There’s nothing like preparing a PowerPoint deck to focus the mind, especially when one of the presenters (a former newsweekly colleague of mine) runs Sports Illustrated. Somehow you know he’s going to show off a tablet app or something with swimsuit models (which he...
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MediaShift . How Social Media Is Changing Protest... →
n March 1984, tens of thousands of British miners went on strike over expected coal mine closures. During the next year, unions faced off with police and Margaret Thatcher’s conservative government in what became Britain’s most turbulent industrial protest of recent decades. Media coverage of the strikes was thoroughly unsympathetic, painting miners as aggressors even when police...
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In an anonymous online world, the user is the... →
Over recent years, social media - Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the like - have transformed the dissemination of information. Embattled governments are no longer able to limit news coverage by simply banning the traditional media. The citizen journalists posting videos from Syria are an example of how information has taken on a new life of its own.
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Five tools for the journalist's toolbox | Online... →
Journalism.co.uk has asked five tech-savvy journalists about their favourite tools. Here are their answers in no particular order.
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How the Guardian’s community of commentators... →
A community of commentators provides the Guardian storytelling process with “cross-fertilisation from below the line”, David Shariatmadari, deputy editor of Comment is Free (CiF), the Guardian’s comment, analysis and discussion platform, told readers at the Guardian Open Weekend event
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Paywalls create opportunities for local news... →
It seems like paywalls are popping up all over the place these days. In recent months Lee, GateHouse and Gannett, for example, have all announced or are implementing paid subscriptions for digital content. Nobody is rooting for these newspapers to fail as they try to prop up flagging business models, but as a matter of business reality, when an incumbent business moves deeper into sustaining...
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5 Ways Hyperlocal News Sites Can Use Social Media... →
Social media is a powerful and necessary tool for hyperlocal publications to engage with their readers and promote their work. In small communities, it can be a vital conduit to reach local people, build traffic, and provide value for advertisers. Here are five tips from hyperlocal publishers on how to increase a site’s social media presence.
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RTDNA - Radio Television Digital News Association... →
Good article on growth of hyperlocal journalism within radio and television.
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In the digital future, the Guardian must turn its... →
Your paper needs you, but do you need your paper? I’ve just spent the weekend watching Guardian readers grill the top management and leading hacks at the Open Weekend. Festival sessions like these are hardly a scientific survey, but the results suggest there is a special relationship. The readers feel this newspaper is a vital part of their lives. They offer their loyalty on the condition...
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Rusbridger: Guardian paywall ‘has not been ruled... →
Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, today asked readers what they were prepared to give back to the news group in return for journalism: money, time or data. The first option, to ask readers to pay for an online subscription, “has not been ruled out”, Rusbridger told a session called “what might the Guardian’s future look like?” at the Guardian Open Weekend.
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Nieman Reports | From the Curator: Challenging... →
When Koky Dishon took over features at the Chicago Tribune in 1975, she didn’t tinker. She slapped a “Closed for remodeling” banner on the old Tempo section and the following day redefined the so-called women’s pages for all time.
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Paywalls create opportunities for local news... →
It seems like paywalls are popping up all over the place these days. In recent months Lee, GateHouse and Gannett, for example, have all announced or are implementing paid subscriptions for digital content.
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Guardian to act as platform for arts organisations... →
The Guardian has been talking about being ‘of the web’ rather than ‘on the web’ for some years now, with a “federated” (as some staff call it) approach to publishing which often involves either selling advertising across, or pulling in content from, other sites (disclosure: this is one of them). Its Open Platform is a technical expression of the same idea, allowing others to build things with its...
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Hacking book: what's the point of journalistic... →
Instead, in the face of declining revenue (and print sales) for newspapers, the challenge is to fund ethical journalism in future.
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Tori Stafford murder trial: Why the Star isn’t... →
Can the graphic evidence from the Tori Stafford murder trial be relayed fairly and accurately in a 140-character tweet?
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Is Social Media a Fad? Students Are Beginning to... →
This week I’ve been speaking to classes at Central Michigan University about social media and how it relates to mass communications and journalism.
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NBC’s Chuck Todd Trashes ‘Tidbit’ Journalism -... →
On this morning’s MSNBC “The Daily Rundown” host Chuck Todd went after what he and his panel dubbed “tidbit” journalism. Their repugnance was high after yesterday’s Etch a Sketch remark from a top Mitt Romney campaign advisor that, they joked angrily, “went viral.”
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Arianna Huffington On Social Media: Beware... →
She may be known for her role in harnessing bloggers and social media to deliver news, but Arianna Huffington concedes there are “snakes in the garden” she helped create.
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Editors Weblog - The ownership of the Twitter... →
The electoral debate aside, the Guardian took the opportunity to reflect on the nature of social media identities and the “ownership” of journalists’ Twitter accounts.
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How to: Use Twitter for news →
Twitter is a great way to stay up on the current events. And yet, most people don’t use it for that purpose. Here’s a guide for how to set up your Twitter account, and start curating your perfect news feed.
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Journalists and Social Media: Rights and... →
ill Church, executive editor of the Statesman Journal* in Salem, Ore., spoke in a recent Poynter Institute Webinar about the role of journalists in social media, including their rights and responsibilities. Here’s a recap of the Webinar in case you missed it:
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SXSW Successful Journalism Startups: Global... →
Research project “Sustainable Business Models for Journalism” has interviewed these brave journos that have actually made the move to entrepreneurship _and_ are making living out of it.
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Does Nonprofit Journalism Avoid Critical Coverage... →
Is this commentary published by Poynter a little pushback against the nonprofit model of journalism? The author, Poynter’s Andrew Beaujon, draws on a blog posting by journalist Stephen Robert Morse suggesting a couple of problems with the nonprofit business model of the Austin-based [I]Texas Tribune[/I].
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Gulf Daily News » News Details » Comment →
When I saw that the media industry’s annual report card had been released late Sunday night, I clicked and scanned through the key findings for newspapers — the industry that has been my daily passion since I fell in love with journalism at my high school paper.
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MediaShift . State of the News Media: Newspapers... →
When I saw that the media industry’s annual report card had been released late Sunday night, I clicked and scanned through the key findings for newspapers — the industry that has been my daily passion since I fell in love with journalism at my high school paper.
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gulfnews : Building a bridge for journalists →
Dubai: The relationship of readers to their newspapers is nothing short of symbiotic. Both need the other in full measure. With that in mind, tech-oriented entrepreneurs David Haddad and Valencio Cardoso have set up Press Pass, an online journalist directory aimed at connecting people in the media with their audiences. The site aims to enable businesses, non-profit organisations and citizen...
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Quality + Quantity = A Record Audience -... →
I was recently chatting with FORBES writer Deborah Jacobs about our model for entrepreneurial journalism. Deborah is an estate-planning expert, an author, a great reporter and a former freelancer—the perfect skill set for building an online audience around her individual brand and expertise. “You know what’s changed for me at FORBES?” “What’s that?” I replied. “I now write for my audience,...
