June 2012
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Business Today: Cultivating Citizen Journalism →
As the dramatic events of the January 25 Revolution unfolded, IT specialist and entrepreneur Mahamad El Tanahy was in Tahrir Square, staying informed through his Twitter account. Meanwhile, Sarah O. Wali, a journalist, was in New York City collecting social media content on the revolution for her employer, ABC News. They witnessed the revolution from different perspectives, but both saw the...
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Five things The New York Times learned from its... →
With yesterday’s news that The New York Times is ending its affiliation with The Local — a pair of hyperlocal blogs that the newspaper launched three years ago — an experiment came to a close. And from the outset, the Times made it clear that it thought of its dive into neighborhood coverage as just that — an experiment, not an investment likely to generate financial returns. As the Times’ Jim...
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New York Times Divests from "The Local" Blogs |... →
When the New York Times partnered with the NYU School of Journalism two years ago to form The Local East Village, some in the already-established local blogosphere scowled. “Hyperlocal” was the buzzword of the moment, and big money jumped into a sandbox dominated by indie bloggers with fingers deep on the neighborhood pulse.
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Want to save local newspapers? Then break the... →
The economies of scale that once helped place the journalism business among the economy’s most profitable now threaten to help sink the industry. America’s newspaper chains missed their moment of opportunity to use their scale to dominate the information business online. Now, it’s time for those chains to break up, in a last-ditch effort to save many of their newspaper titles.
Clay Shirky on the future of news from the... →
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Jose Antonio Vargas Opens Online News Association... →
“The theme of our conference this year is Digital Storytelling,” said Jane McDonnell, ONA Executive Director, “and Jose is a journalist who is using all platforms in new ways to cover, crowd-source and interpret a crucially important debate.”
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Laziness is killing online journalism – Mic Wright... →
Presented by 10525524-twilio-logo RSS Feed Editor’s Pick Media Laziness is killing online journalism Mic Wright Tuesday, 26 June 2012 A Guardian journalist, yesterday A Guardian journalist, yesterday It isn’t the internet killing journalism, it’s lazy journalists, writes Mic Wright from his sun lounger. “In 20 years’ time,” he said, “there won’t be any...
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L'Echo de Victoriaville: Sun Media Corporation... →
Sun Media Corporation, a subsidiary of Quebecor Media, is pleased to announce the launch of a new free weekly in the Bois-Francs region, L’Echo de Victoriaville. More than 43,000 copies will be distributed weekly, starting tomorrow.
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4 Questions With Brian Ries, Social Media Editor... →
“Four Questions With …” is a monthly series of interviews with different social media and community editors in the news industry.
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7 CMS Platforms for Hyperlocal Publishers | Street... →
Behind every successful hyperlocal news website is a robust content management system. Although many publishers have adapted general-purpose systems like WordPress and Drupal to meet their needs — and others, like Patch and Sacramento Press, have built their own technology platforms from scratch — new CMS platforms are being developed specifically with the needs of local and regional publishers in...
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Inside Forbes: How We're Helping Journalists Find... →
I never thought I’d be the author of a book. In a traditional sense, I’m still not. Over the past two years, I’ve been writing posts on Forbes.com about the intersection of the news business and social media, focusing on our strategy to build a sustainable model for journalism in the digital age. Now, these posts have been molded into an e-book. My day job as chief product officer includes...
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Canada's Media Companies Do Content Right, But... →
It is baffling and upsetting to the average Canadian to see traditional media fall by the wayside despite the continued production of great journalistic quality.
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NYTimes Ends NYU & CUNY Hyperlocal Site... →
The New York Times announced today that they will be ending their hyperlocal news collaborations, dubbed The Local, with both NYU and CUNY that cover the East Village, and the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. According to Capital, both schools were given a few weeks notice about the closure of the site, but are still are still working on a time-table for when they can detach...
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Berkshire Adds Waco Newspaper, Expanding Media... →
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) agreed to buy the Waco Tribune-Herald to expand in Texas as Chairman Warren Buffett extends his bet on community newspapers. The purchase from the Robinson family of the 34,000- circulation-daily newspaper is expected to be completed by July 31, according to an e-mailed statement today from Berkshire’s Omaha World-Herald Co. that didn’t disclose terms
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Warren Buffett And The Strength of Community... →
Given that the newspaper industry has been hearing the death knell for over a decade, Warren Buffet’s purchase of 64 newspapers raised more than a few eyebrows. Usually when someone invests in an industry that has been publicly (and unfairly) placed in a hospice, analysts view it as fool’s gold. However, when the most successful investor of all time invests in the same industry, those experts...
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Montreal Mirror to End Publication →
It is with great regret that Sun Media Corporation is today compelled to announce the closure of the Montreal Mirror. The current edition of the free English-language cultural weekly will be its last.
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To pay or not to pay? The question of the online... →
Noel Young, chairman of the Online Media Awards judging panel, looks at the future of free news, asking whether readers should pay for online journalism.
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Archant partners with local social network... →
The publisher of regional titles is collaborating with Streetlife.com, a social network to share news and information with people living nearby
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Quality journalism to go down a black hole in... →
This is a mantra for all the newspaper companies now – we will maintain quality journalism while we cut our staff in half. How are they going to do that? THE AUSTRALIAN winter has not been kind to the nation’s print journalists, with first Fairfax Media revealing plans to axe 1,900 jobs and then News Corp signalling that it will shed an unspecified number of positions from its newspaper units,...
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Study: 75% of UK journalists source news from... →
Oriella Digital Journalism Study also found more than half journalists worldwide use social media, such as Twitter, to source and verify stories, from contacts already known to them
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How Hyperlocals Should Handle User-Generated... →
The best engagement for a hyperlocal site is when its audience becomes a cornucopia of user-generated content. But how do sites make that happen?
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Editors Weblog - Tor: good for journalists and... →
The Tor Project is one of the six organsations that recently won a big grant from Knight Foundation, as part of the Knight News Challenge. It’s easy to understand why it caught the eyes of the judges, and walked away with $320,000. The project is a non-profit organisation that provides free, open-source software to allow users to act anonymously online. As the project’s website explains, Tor has...
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This I believe about journalism and the future of... →
Thanks to Tim McGuire for his recent “This I believe” blog post, spelling out his core values and views about journalism, newspapers and the future of media. I think it’s helpful, especially in turbulent times, for journalists (or people in any field) to reflect occasionally on what we believe — core values as well as our beliefs about where our profession and our industry are going. I promised...
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News downsizes « Online Journalism →
News Limited has ditched its traditional newspaper structure to meet the demands of 24/7 multiplatform journalism. The legacy of a series of takeovers and expansions, News Limited had 19 Divisions, including The Herald and Weekly Times in Melbourne, Queensland Newspapers and Nationwide News in Sydney. Under the new organisation, management will be reduced to five divisions with multiplatform...
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New BBC CoJo site promises 'new wave of... →
The website for the College of Journalism, a useful resource for journalists, relaunched this week promising ‘substantial amount of new content’ on the BBC’s journalism
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The Times They Are A-Buzzin’: Jim Roberts and Ben... →
A media odd couple was formed on Monday, when BuzzFeed and The New York Times announced that they will join forces to cover the Democratic and Republican national conventions in live-streaming video “TimesCasts” on NYTimes.com.
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Most journalists now get story ideas from social... →
An annual global survey of journalists by public relations firm Oriella finds that more than half now use social media as a source of story ideas, and nearly half use blogs to find angles and ideas.
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Guardian website wins five prizes at online media... →
Guardian.co.uk was crowned website of the year and scooped four other prizes at the 2012 Online Media awards on Thursday.
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10 Best Social Media and Web Search Tools for... →
For the journalist who uses the web for research on a daily basis, efficient search habits are a must.
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Social media massacre, social media manhunt |... →
(Once upon a time, of course, those of us who worked for the newspaper would have had to wait until tomorrow morning to share our stories with you, in newsprint form. Instead, my colleagues have been working around the clock, filing breaking news and commentary to Twitter, Facebook, and our website, www.edmontonjournal.com ) Twitter and Facebook, in fact, seem to have been the way that most U of...
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Message Discipline and the Decline of Political... →
Ezra Klein is only 28 years old, but he says that Washington DC has changed in just the few years he’s been there: Perhaps my favorite thing to do on the blog is long Q&As, like the ones I’ve conducted with Tom Coburn, Kent Conrad, Paul Ryan, and Buddy Roemer, to name just a few. But those interviews are harder to get than they were even a few years ago. The communications directors...
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Journalism education cannot teach its way to the... →
As we think about the changes whipping through the media industry, there is a nearby storm about to strike journalism education.
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Local news crisis: let's turn universities into... →
Former Press Association chief executive Paul Potts and PR company managing director Richard Peel have other ideas about the way to provide local news content…
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Scotland's Olympic torch relay: how citizen... →
David McGillivary, project lead of Citizen Relay, recounts the achievements of citizen journalists using the olympic torch as a starting point for interviews about Scottish identity
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Factiva, Twitter and the Devaluation of Content... →
David Chivers, Vice President of Dow Jones’ Factiva products, recently interviewed by Social Media Portal (SMP) discussed how free-only information models are having an impact on businesses, and how publishers are reacting via pay walls. Chivers explains, “The low point for the information industry as a whole happened when there was an expectation that all content should be free due to the...
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Editors Weblog - Twitter: social media becomes... →
“Twitter is not a media company,” said CEO Dick Costolo at the beginning of this year. Yet a number of recent developments have been threatening to prove him wrong. Last week Twitter announced the launch of a #NASCAR hashtag page, where users can “discover the best Tweets, photos and perspectives from NASCAR drivers and their families, crews, commentators, celebrities and fans – all in a single...
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Dan Rather on how social media has changed TV... →
There are certain people that you need to know about and read about to really help you understand what the TV in social TV really means. Dan Rather, who will turn 81 this October, was CBS Evening News’ anchor for 24 years. He not only understands the greatness of TV but helped define it by capturing our nation’s most pivotal moments for decades. We reviewed his new book, “Rather Outspoken: My Life...
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"Digital-first" model means layoffs of 600... →
On Tuesday, June 12, 600 newspaper employees were laid off in New Orleans and Alabama — and no, that’s not a record, reported Poynter, illustrating just how deeply troubled the newspaper industry is as cuts are made to compensate for declining ad revenue and circulation resulting from readers’ transition from print to the Internet.
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New tablet application hopes to cut through... →
When Philip Sanford goes to his favourite bar to watch his beloved Seton Hall Pirates, he brings along his phone charger so he also can follow the game on Twitter. Heather Carleton looks to the social media website for clarification when there’s a disputed call involving the San Francisco 49ers.
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Buffy's World | Mobile media lab tutorial:... →
Here is the tutorial on how editors determine if something is newsworthy for our mobile media lab. For updates and more information about this project, search for “mobile media lab” on YDR Insider.
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New Orleans, Alabama and the future of digital... →
As expected, Newhouse-owned newspaper chain Advance Publications announced on Tuesday a wave of layoffs at its properties in Alabama and at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans — the fallout from a recent decision by the company to stop printing those newspapers every day and instead shift its focus to the web. As sensible as this decision might seem from a financial standpoint, however, the reaction...
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Twitter appoints @marksluckie to journalism... →
Twitter has appointed the Washington Post’s social media editor Mark S Luckie as a creative content manager for journalism and the media, which will see him “serving as a liaison between Twitter and the journalism community”.
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Editors Weblog - A social media guide for... →
On Tuesday night Anthony De Rosa (@AntDeRosa), a social media editor and columnist for Reuters - once crowned “the undisputed King of Tumblr” by The New York Times - shared a Google Doc entitled Public Cheat Sheet: Social Media for News on Facebook. The post quickly garnered 51 likes, 12 shares and 6 comments.
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Rawporter Announces "Liberated Libya" Partnership... →
Today Rawporter announced a partnership with freedom fighter and journalist Matthew VanDyke to help show the world a 1st-person perspective of the newly liberated Libya. Mr. VanDyke makes frequent trips to Libya and will be capturing raw videos and photos along with providing occasional commentary to share “on the ground” imagery not normally available for public viewing.
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The role of curation and curators in the newsroom... →
What do you think when you hear the term “curation”? Do you roll your eyes at the “future of news” talking head types likely posing the word to you (like right now)? Or does your mind reel with the possibilities?
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data journalism handbook | Campfire Journalism →
If you are a multimedia journalist, teacher or student, here are three recently released books I recommend adding to your summer reading list.
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Zite: A look inside the 'smarter' social reader... →
It is just 16 months since Zite, a personalised magazine that aggregates content based on a user’s social media and other connections, launched on the iPad.
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iWitness tool offers social content search by time... →
The web app, which was one of last year’s Knight News Challenge winners, enables users to filter by text, photo or video to find content shared by time and location
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5 Reasons Why Facebook and Twitter Are No... →
I can’t remember the last time I held a broad-sheet newspaper in my hands. It may well be more than a month since I read the New York Times or Washington Post in paper form. But, while the newspaper in its traditional form may be dying, reporting is definitely not. I think there is a market for good, honest reporting; now more than ever. Most of the news I read on a daily basis comes from:...
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Why traditional media should be afraid of Twitter... →
As we’ve mentioned a number of times, Twitter has been gradually tip-toeing further and further into the media business for some time now. It has already become a real-time newswire for many, a source of breaking news and commentary on live events, and now — with the launch of curated “hashtag pages” like the one it launched late last week for a NASCAR event — it is showing signs of becoming a...
