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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Rachel Smolkin at American Journalism Review writes that newspaper leadership won't just roll over and die at the prospects of the Internet, including (a) being disintermediated, (b) being unbundled, (c) having prices destroyed or (d) any mix of a,... ›››
Category: Advertising | Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | content | interactivity | strategy
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- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
Here’s one I’m not sure the Canadian press can win in the short term. The continuing feud between the Ottawa press gallery and the Prime Minister’s office (it’s a control of information thing) has escalated with a mass press... ›››
Category: General | JOURNALISM | ottawa | press gallery
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Adrian Holovaty, one of journalism's smartest people on all things online, proposes some new ways of tagging news stories to give them more useful structures. A news story is intended to be "consumed" by humans, not computers. Indeed, one... ›››
Category: Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | Search | content | design | development | usability
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I've been noodling on a list of megatrends that present megachallenges for newspapers. What am I missing? Fractured marketplace. We don't have an audience any more; we have lots of little audiences, and some of them are really different.... ›››
Category: JOURNALISM | Newspapers
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- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
Len Witt’s paper 15 Steps to Re-Inventing Journalism is one of the must-read pieces for anyone thinking about the future of media and journalism. I’ve just finished my first read of the PDF version of the piece (about 30... ›››
Category: General | JOURNALISM | Media | public journalism | we media
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Adrian Holovaty delivered the commencement speech at the University of Missouri School of Journalism last week, and he's posted it on his blog. He delivers the "plain truth as a friendly kick in the pants as you walk out... ›››
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AP reports that a Pennsylvania newspaper has fired a reporter for posting anonymously to forums on the newspaper's website. According to the story, the reporter, Justin Quinn, began posting to "set the record straight" and eventually started adding his... ›››
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According to BBC/Reuters/Media Center research, the most trusted media brand in the United States is Fox News, and the most trusted in Egypt is Al Jazeera. This tells us something about "credibility" that I find troubling: A great many... ›››
Category: JOURNALISM
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- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
Coming up on the editorial side of things, I never paid too much attention to ads. In fact, I can still go through a newspaper without seeing the ads, unless I consciously decide to look at them. But, in... ›››
Category: Advertising | General | JOURNALISM | Media
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I like Vanessa Gezari's Poynter centerpiece, "Casting Off the Parachute," discussing the world of the freelance foreign correspondent. There was a time in my life, many years ago, when I thought about pitching my worldly goods into a dumpster... ›››
Category: JOURNALISM
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I grew up in a world where editors could make the rules. "We don't report rumors" was one of them. Those days are gone now, and reporting on rumors is one of the major shifts for professional journalism. No,... ›››
Category: JOURNALISM | Newspapers
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- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
Given that today is World Press Freedom Day, it’s an appropriate time for Reporters Without Borders to release its annual report on the state of press freedom around the world. While the report is laden with bad news for... ›››
Category: General | JOURNALISM | freedom | reporters without borders
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- Small Initiatives - Sensible Internet Design
Vin Crosbie carries forward analysis by Prof. Robert G. Picard to a troubling conclusion: even with the fanciest of new media strategies in play, newspapers may be doing little more than buying time before death: Even if newspaper Web... ›››
Category: Advertising | Innovation | JOURNALISM | Media | Newspapers | content | interactivity | strategy
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- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
Douglas Fisher has done all of us media-watchers a favour by reporting on media analyst Lauren Rich’s presentation to the American Copy Editors Society convention. There’s a ton in what Doug reports that makes sense. Mixed with optimism about... ›››
Category: General | JOURNALISM | Newspapers | future
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- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
One of the local TV stations lost one of their news viewers last night and it’s all because of their damned helicopter. CTV has the only news copter in the market and makes much ado about that. It’s in... ›››
Category: General | JOURNALISM | tv
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- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
Jay Rosen has a compelling argument that the recently-retired Scott McClellan’s performance as press secretary was not inept or a matter of spin, but part of a continuing, determined policy of “press nullification.” Expanding on earlier posts, Jay writes:... ›››
Category: General | JOURNALISM | Politics | canada
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- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
Last week, Mindy McAdams passed along excerpts from a memo sent to the Miami Herald newsroom, which includes this: Every job in the newsroom — EVERY JOB — is going to be redefined to include a web responsibility and,... ›››
Category: General | JOURNALISM | miami herald | web
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- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media
Another sign of how blogging is affecting media: Reuters has poured some money into the indispensable Global Voices and will use Global Voices content on its web site as part of its reporting. Global Voices show the power of... ›››
Category: General | JOURNALISM | global voices | reuters
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