Posted in journalists, twitter on Jan 23rd, 2008
If there is one trend that journalists should pay attention to right now, I would say that it is the microblogging platform Twitter. Why? Because its snowball affect is coming quickly, and you have the chance to be a part of its evolution, instead of playing catch-up with other platforms like social media, video, blogging […]
Posted in journalists, news, innovation, journalism, goodbye journalism on Jan 11th, 2008
Steve Outing reached out to his network of colleagues in the news industry to find out what their biggest problem was:
“Everyone’s got work to do to put out the “daily miracle,” but in an era when the old industry model is in decline, we can no longer afford to have a workforce where the majority […]
Posted in journalists, blogging on Jan 1st, 2008
Valleywag reports that Gawker Media is changing how their bloggers are getting paid. Below are quotes from a supposed Gawker internal memo that Valleywag got a hold of.
How online editorial compensation is flawed:
Traditional media payment structure can reward those who politics within their organization:
“It’s only on the internet that a writer’s contributions can be […]
Posted in journalists, blogging on Dec 24th, 2007
Robert Scoble profiles Federated Media, a community of 150 “passion driven” blogs. FM’s Founder and Chairman, John Battelle categorizes media in two ways:
Mercenary media
A company identifies a market opportunity, creates content around it, and then sells advertising against it.
Missionary media
Writing for the passion of the topic. A community builds around this because people really […]
Posted in journalists, marketing on Dec 23rd, 2007
This is a story about what is standing between individual journalists who blog and work on the web, and crushing lawsuits from large companies…
Last week, a blogger gave up his right to report on a certain company. The man is Nick Ciarelli, a student who has written the influential Think Secret blog, which speculates on […]
Posted in journalists, blogging, AdSense on Dec 20th, 2007
Darren Rowse points us to a post by a blogger who is giving up on using Google AdSense because of ethical issues.
Trent Hamm runs a website called The Simple Dollar, which gives financial advice for “people fighting debt and bad spending habits.” His issue with AdSense:
“…this automated bidding system allows anyone to bid, and I […]
Posted in journalists, blogging on Dec 17th, 2007
Gawker.com, a blog with 10 millions page views per month, is looking to evolve into “a more traditional news operation.”
“It’s no longer enough to take stories from The New York Times, and add a dash of snark. Gawker needs to break and develop more stories.”
“That dash of snark — the hallmark of Gawker since it […]
Posted in journalists, print, web on Dec 16th, 2007
More top publications are integrating their print and web editorial teams:
“BusinessWeek has joined the crowd, putting one editor in charge of print and online for each of eight major content areas… As part of the changes, a dozen business and editorial staffers will be laid off.”
“While coverage is intended to be seamless between the print […]
Posted in journalists, newspapers on Dec 2nd, 2007
Fiona Spruill, editor of the Web newsroom for The New York Times shares a bit about their integrated newsroom, and what they look for in new hires:
“Our Web newsroom is closely integrated with the print newsroom, so I am looking for people who can flourish in both worlds and who I could see fitting into […]
Posted in journalists, blogging on Nov 27th, 2007
Nikki Finke, who manages the blog “Deadline Hollywood Daily,” points out how she differs from more established media outlets:
“I don’t think I’m a better journalist than anybody else,” she said. “I don’t think I’m a harder-working journalist than anybody else. I do think I have a forum where I have more freedom than anybody else.”
It […]
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