Category: News biz
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Medium Offers Publishers a Hand
Twitter begat Medium. Now Medium is slowly courting a “…small but growing group of independent publishers who’ve seen their websites become revitalized by joining Medium. Medium offers publishers a platform that is clean and hosted by Medium, so thus, no more WordPress or Drupaling around. Medium also offers advertising, sponsorship and membership as ways that a…
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Internet Traffic, Site Recognition Anomalies
Pew looked at which sites people are using to find out about politics, and found that HuffPost is getting many visitors, but they don’t credit it as the place they go to for political news. CNN Politics and Politico get named as sites people use, but don’t have the numbers. There are a couple of…
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Zite | Android Must-Have Apps
out there among others like Pulse, Editions, and Livestand, is of course Zite. Zite, unlike Flipboard actually learns your interests and serves you content based on your reading patterns. Kind of like my6sense does. Well, apparently Zite is on to something and CNN announced yesterday that it will be acquiring the young company for approximately…
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From Feder: Who Is the Journalist Show at Medill
Who Is the Journalist? The Past, Present, and Future of News, on display through September 2 at Northwestern University Library in Evanston. If the powers that be had gone to such lengths to devalue the word “journalism,” how would they reflect my beloved profession and its heritage to the masses? The developer and curator of…
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WBEZ behind the scenes in the newsroom
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13500320&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 City Room: Episode 1 from WBEZ on Vimeo.
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Vanquish Digital ‘Vampires’ says Cuban
Content aggregators and search engines are vampires, and newspapers are the chesty blondes who fall victim to their charms — and ultimately get bitten. via Cuban: Print Must Vanquish Digital ‘Vampires’.
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Freelance writing’s unfortunate new model – latimes.com
Philanthropic, nonprofit sites (ProPublica) will take up some of the slack, while other new models (Spot.Us) ask consumers to make micro-payments to put writers on specific local stories. Other websites (True/Slant) pay bonuses for stories and commentary, with writers getting paid more as they deliver bigger audiences. It's hard to say if any, or all,…
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Adding structure to content – semantic web by any name
Leigh Montgomery is Librarian at The Christian Science Monitor. If you know me, you know I respect librarians and believe they have some practical and visionary ideas about information. These ideas are vital to the future of news. Here is just a snippet of what Leigh wrote in a JTM (journalism that matters) post, “…factchecked,…
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Individuated Media on the Horizon – ClickZ
Borrowed from post-modern philosophy, “individuate” means individual customization on a massive scale. It’s neither the same nor the opposite of mass media. Instead, it takes media into an entirely new dimension. And it will be key for media in the 21st century. via Individuated Media on the Horizon – ClickZ. A very concise piece that…
Barbara K Iverson 