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March 08, 2006

Mashing the news

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

If an engaged citizen can produce as interesting and compelling a piece of journalism as onNYturf.com has done with Atlantic Yards, why can’t well-funded and staffed media organizations do the same? Atlantic Yards (yes, it is journalism with a... ›››

Category: General | JOURNALISM | Online media | Rethinking media | Technology | mashup

From the hurricane zone

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Joe Weiss has produced a wonderful piece of multimedia journalism in Six months after Katrina, for Raleigh’s newsobserver.com. The stories themselves — a series of minute-and-a-half videos featuring the survivors of the hurricane horror — are moving and provide... ›››

Category: General | Multimedia | Online media | Rethinking media | video

February 28, 2006

The news numbers

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

A Baltimore Sun piece titled 61% get local news from newspapers is getting a lot of link love today but I’m not sure there’s a huge level of comfort in it for newspaper publishers. Nick Madigan’s piece reports on... ›››

Category: General | Media Business | Newspapers | Online media | Rethinking media | local news

February 27, 2006

Picturing the present

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Hart Van Denburg at Hart’s Big Picture has taken the National Press Photographers Association to task for a recent ad. He writes: As a member in good standing of NPPA, may I say that this kind of consistent myopia... ›››

Category: General | Photojournalism | Rethinking media

February 02, 2006

An end to CJ

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

I’m trying to wean myself off the phrase citizen journalism, because I think it’s starting to get in the way of my fumbling attempts to figure out the possible futures for media. There’s nothing implicitly wrong with the phrase.... ›››

Category: General | JOURNALISM | Rethinking media

January 31, 2006

Always-on deadline

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Interesting words from Armando Acuña, public editor at the Sacramento Bee (free registration required) With little fanfare, The Bee has embarked on the road to its future - a digital, multi-media, interactive, around-the-clock news universe. Everyone knows the final... ›››

Category: General | Media Business | Newspapers | Online media | Rethinking media | deadlines

January 26, 2006

Dissecting Dan

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

There’s a lot of bandwidth being eaten up by analysis of Dan Gillmor’s soul-baring post on Bayosphere, in which he limns the lessons he’s learned from the experience and offers bare hints at the future of the site now... ›››

Category: General | Online media | Rethinking media | aggregation | bayosphere | grassroots journalism

January 17, 2006

It’s just software

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

This quote, stolen from Jim Romenesko, is one of the most sensible things I’ve read in some time: “Blogging is just writing — writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology,” writes Simon Dumenco. “Even though I tend... ›››

Category: General | JOURNALISM | Online media | Rethinking media | Technology

January 05, 2006

In praise of the audience

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

The wise Simon Waldman disappeared from the media ‘net for a while (although he was still blogging about music), crept back with a small series of link posts early this year and and has now re-emerged in fine form,... ›››

Category: General | Rethinking media

December 29, 2005

New journalism, new ways

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Ken Moritsugu has a pair of very interesting articles on the disparity of tsunami aid in southern India. They are informative and well-written, and accompanied by a narrated slideshow that shows life in the area, and by almost a... ›››

Category: General | Online media | Rethinking media

December 28, 2005

Finding new journalism

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

Jonathan Dube at Cyberjournalist.net has come up with his list of Top online media stories of 2005, based on the most popular reports at his must-read site. Not surprisingly, four of the top 10 are related to online media’s... ›››

Category: General | Multimedia | Online media | Rethinking media | Technology

Praise for Darknet

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

JD Lasica reports that his essential book, Darknet, has been... ›››

Category: General | Media Business | Rethinking media

December 21, 2005

Finding a voice

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

I’m going to tie together some posts scattered here and there on the ‘net because they all speak to a one of the things that I think we’re going to see happen with media — grassroots and professional —... ›››

Category: General | Rethinking media

December 20, 2005

Big news from Dan

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media

From Dan Gillmor at Bayosphere: Starting in 2006, I’ll be putting together a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. The goals are to study, encourage and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a major focus on citizen journalism.... ›››

Category: General | Rethinking media

December 14, 2005

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An 'oh, man' moment

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (feed)

For a long time this is how I’ve felt about books: stop publishing new ones for a year or so, so I can get caught up. Now it’s the internet: stop developing stuff, so I can take a deep... ›››

Category: Blogging | General | Rethinking media | Technology

December 12, 2005

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Delivering RSS search

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (feed)

A thought that struck me while I ate the evening meal while re-reading Dan Gillmor’s We, The Media: why haven’t newspapers moved beyond their section-by-section RSS feeds to such things as RSS of search feeds? It seems there would... ›››

Category: General | Rethinking media

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Squibs from Jeff

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (feed)

A whole separate category today, pointing to three Jeff Jarvis posts at Buzz Machine because the man is on a roll. Here are the titles: just go to the site and start reading. And make sure you read the... ›››

Category: General | Rethinking media

December 11, 2005

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Tackling Terry’s 10

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (feed)

Terry Heaton at Pomo blog trotted out 10 pieces of advice for j-school deans late this week, that come at a time when I’m deep in thought about journalism education. Here are his 10, followed by my comments on... ›››

Category: General | Rethinking media

December 07, 2005

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Sanity comes to the NY Times

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (feed)

From Ed Cone comes not just word that the NY Times is adding some blogs, but that someone there actually understands what they are. Ed reports on a memo from Deputy Managing Editor Jonathan Landman, who wrote in part:... ›››

Category: Blogging | General | Rethinking media

December 06, 2005

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What bloggers add

- Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (feed)

Through Jemima Kiss at journalism.co.uk, I found this: Nick Turner in the Press Gazette in the UK on When Joe Bloggers take over the news. He found that only two of more than 70 regional newspapers in the UK... ›››

Category: Blogging | General | Rethinking media

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