Posted in marketing, magazines, news, journalism on Aug 6th, 2008
While the web is quickly changing the landscape for journalists, magazines, and newspapers, it is also a powerful tool to extend event coverage. The web offers incredible opportunities to do the following:
Extend your coverage
Further engage your industry
Maximize your resources
What can coverage look like? Feasibly:
Multiple articles a day
Multiple blog entries a day
Multiple videos a day
Multiple photos […]
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Posted in social media, news on Jan 25th, 2008
Digg.com, the social news website, has been changing system to help ensure that a broader group of users have a chance see their voice matter on the site. In doing so, they seem to have marginalized a core part of their community. Digg’s goal:
“Digg’s promotional algorithm ensures that the most popular content dugg by a […]
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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 […]
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Journalists are finding success with pocket-sized tools that allow them to report on stories from almost anywhere in the world.
Reuters is having their reporters experiment with a “mobile journalism toolkit,” which allows reporting in text, audio, video and photos:
The Mobile Journalism Toolkit contents, which include a Nokia N95 phone, Nokia SU-8W folding keyboard, a small […]
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Posted in media, news on Nov 27th, 2007
BBC News has shaken up their operations to better leverage all media:
“… today is a very big day for BBC News which has now been re-organised in a fully multimedia fashion… up until today the editorial decisions have been taken separately in three different departments – Radio News, News Interactive and TV News. Now those […]
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Posted in journalists, news, social networks on Nov 27th, 2007
You know how teenagers are always clammoring for new ways to learn about politics and interact with broadcast news teams? Well, Facebook is answering that call:
“ABC News and Facebook have formally established a partnership — the site’s first with a news organization — that allows Facebook members to electronically follow ABC reporters, view reports and […]
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Posted in newspapers, news on Nov 5th, 2007
The Wall Street Journal now has over 1 million subscribers to their online content. As talk heats up of them tearing down the pay-wall… you have to wonder how many businesses ponder giving up this kind of paying audience.
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Posted in journalists, media, news on Nov 3rd, 2007
Tom Curley, CEO of The Associated Press is asking the news media to rethink how they operate:
“Curley said in a speech that news organizations should quit thinking like gatekeepers of information and reach out to people who are accustomed to receiving news in real time online and customizing the ways they see and read it.”
“The […]
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Posted in news, journalism on Oct 31st, 2007
MediaShift gives a recap of how the news media served their audience during the California wildfires. Here is one perspective, from Rebecca Coates Nee, a former broadcaster who teaches online journalism at San Diego State:
“I think [the local media] lost sight of their mission, which is to inform the residents, especially those of us who […]
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Posted in journalists, news on Oct 24th, 2007
Jay Rosen shares a list of components that he feels make up the emerging model of a successful online news organization. The best part about his list is the many examples he includes to live sites.
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