Category: Journalism
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New York Times Hires Gang Who Killed Chicago Tribune to Kill Tribune – New York Times – Gawker
The entire organization was seized by their collective panic at lowering revenues, plummeting readership (I quite literally never met a Tribune subscriber socially during my five years in Chicago), and frequently aborted frantic attempts to do something—hastily convened committees to launch new sections produced prototypes that languished for months and months in sad little piles […]
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Hellman nonprofit to boost local news coverage
San Francisco financier Warren Hellman will invest $5 million to develop a nonprofit journalism venture that will provide regional news coverage online and feed stories to media partners including KQED and possibly the New York Times. via Hellman nonprofit to boost local news coverage. Perhaps people want news when it isn’t produced by an organization […]
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Tips on Videojournalism
Ok, so in general, mostly big-picture tips for videojournalism. Quick follow-up, I shouldn’t have said “Web video” before. I consider this advice more in the non-traditional broadcast style because “Web video” should scale to mobile, TV, Hulu, iPhones, pocket watches (wait, what?), whatever (h/t Chuck Fadely re scaling). I’m biased toward a documentary-style videojournalism, so […]
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YesMen and Their Excellent Advice
Fix the World Challenge A Yes Men game * Challenges * How does this work? How does this work? There are several ways you can play: * Find a Challenge you’re interested in, and click through. You’ll see what groups are already hard at work on them, and a bit of text about each. If […]
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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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Attention Young Journalists: Here’s Opportunity Knocking in Chicago
Image via Wikipedia Well, they don’t mention money, but it doesn’t say these are without remuneration either. I’m heartened to see that the Tribune is now defining reporting today pretty much the same way I would. They are asking for 12-15 clips. If you are short some clips, I encourage you to submit some stories […]
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Is Twitter Going to Replace RSS for News Sites?
Image by biverson via Flickr Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds | Online Journalism Blog. Interesting story that looks at how many subscribers various news paper sites have — that is RSS feed subscribers. The suggestion is that twitters are more effective for attracting eyeballs. I think I may agree with this idea. I know […]
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Reporter’s Center on Youtube is a Good Reporter Resource
YouTube – reporterscenter’s Channel. Related articles by Zemanta YouTube Rolls Out Redesigned Channels for All New Users (mashable.com) http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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EPA finds air pollution in Granite City poses high cancer risk – STLtoday.com
Image via Wikipedia The EPA released a report on data from 2002 that listed the areas of the country where cancer rates were the highest because of toxic air. I did expect LA, but not Madison County, IL. This story by Kim McGuire of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH presents a very balanced view of the […]
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Reporters without borders reports on Iran’s jailed journalists
Image via Wikipedia Twenty-three journalists have been arrested in the week since the presidential election via Media Channel – Home. Here is the list from Media Channel. Other bloggers have been arrested as well. Somayeh Tohidloo, who also keeps a blog (http://smto.ir) Ahmad Zeydabadi Kivan Samimi Behbani Abdolreza Tajik Mahssa Amrabad Behzad Basho, a cartoonist […]
Barbara K Iverson 