Category: Journalism
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Casey Cora
Met this guy at CMFC Casey Cora. SouthtownStar – Tinley Park, Ill. Reporter – Municipal beat reporter for Oak Lawn, a village of about 60,000 on Chicago’s southwest side. I’m trying to incorporate more multimedia and Web 2.0 tools into my beat coverage, and at the newspaper’s Web site. St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times Reporter – […]
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Mike Doyle notes report on local blogs and media and more.
from ChicagoNow by Mike Doyle Chicago Carless But wait, there’s more. This Saturday (June 13th) also brings the Chicago Media Future Conference to town. Organized by Mike Fourcher, founder of Purely Political Consulting, Barbara Iverson, Columbia College journalism professor and publisher of ChicagoTalks.org, and Scott Smith, Senior Editor at Playboy.com, as a follow-up to February’s […]
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Demotix plus openDemocracy a new model for journalism
Editor-in-chief of openDemocracy Tony Curzon Price, commenting on the Demotix site, echoed the sentiment “we’re rebuilding the media, piece by piece – Demotix’s citizen journalist collective and openDemocracy’s open-source analysis and commentary will bring new media and new models into a mixture of text and picture that is not just a replacement, but better than […]
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Thomson Reuters launches new resource for online business community – Editors Weblog
This is an example of honing what journalists do into a specialty. It will go beyond standardization or content and provide something clients might pay for. This latest venture on the part of Thomson Reuters shows a growing trend among news organisations to maximise relationships with niche clients in a bid to reinvent their roles […]
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The daily roundup: a second dose of link journalism from bloggers | BeatBlogging.Org
And it’s a very simple post that any journalist can do. It doesn’t take much time, can drive serious traffic and provides additional content and insight for readers. With sites/tools like Publish2, link journalism has become incredibly easy. Most journalists and bloggers eventually call it a day (except, it seems, for a few tech bloggers). […]
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The 2009 Conference on the Future of Chicago Media
Coming in June. Don’t Miss these Panels. More info coming soon. The 2009 Conference on the Future of Chicago Media. http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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ProPublica | Eye on the Bailout
ProPublica | Eye on the Bailout. From pro to am, journalist to citizen journalist, here is a resource from the nonprofit ProPublica that puts transparency into the bailout process. From a widget that lets you see if your bank is getting money, to a timeline showing how got where we are now, to a searchable […]
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Sun-Times Media files for bankruptcy | Crain’s Chicago Business
Image via Wikipedia Sun-Times Media Group Inc., which also owns dozens of suburban newspapers, filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Delaware court — the fifth newspaper publisher to seek protection from creditors in recent months. The company listed $479 million in assets and $801 million in debt. The largest unsecured creditors are newsprint vendors; […]
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CUNY Journalism goes “trackless”
Image by biverson via Flickr This is a good idea. Not even ahead of its time. This is what the schools should have done several years ago. Better late, than never. Jeff Jarvis in buzzmachine says, “At CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism we just told the students that they no longer need to commit to […]
Barbara K Iverson 