I'm interested to see how news agencies evolve now that there's nothing to stop news companies from joining forces by setting up websites to share copy amongst themselves. SiliconAlleyInsider is keeping an eye on AP (Associated Press) in the US, whose recent fee-structure shake-up has created considerable unease among its users. It cites an Editor & Publisher report about the most recent user to give notice.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
I like Jack Shafer and this piece of his has some real resonance for me. He talks about how newspapers traditionally offered readers a form of social currency (explained more below) that's increasingly being lost to social networks such as Facebook. Not that long ago, the daily newspaper was an indispensable coiner of social currency, and it gave its readers piles of the stuff in each edition. The phrase, which comes from sociology, is often used to describe the information we acquire and then trade—or give away—to start, maintain, and nurture relationships with our fellow humans.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Mark Potts blogs on Recovering Journalist about a new model being adopted by magazines that’s worth taking a look at. The first one is Portfolio’s takeout on Maghound, Time Warner’s plan to turn magazine subscriptions into an a la carte business: basically, you’ll be able to decide which issues of which magazines you take on [...]
Sunday, August 24, 2008
I enjoyed this rant from music blog The Lefsetz Letter which has a go at newspaper executives who are "online ignorant, even if they can speak the language, they’ve got no insight, because they don’t utilize the damn thing". He starts by noting how cross newspaper executives are with the likes of TradeMe and CraigsList for stealing their lucrative classified ads (Fairfax bought TradeMe to get them back again, although whether they're properly leveraging the deal is another story).
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Speaking of the need for news organisations to find and distribute stories out where people naturally congregate online, CNN is taking a leap along that pathway by allowing its video to be embedded.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Those of you who despair over how much the internet and texting are changing the language, look away. For the rest, here's a post from Jeremy Toeman redefining a few words from today's socially networked world: We are currently in the midst of a transformation, caused in a large part by the evolution of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc. These networks are clearly here to stay, and will evolve on their own to introduce new features and services as well as adapt to the changing needs of their users. In the mean-time, I’m noticing that a few very common words are losing their meaning, specifically due to their various implementations online (warning: much sarcasm and cynical writing follows, don’t take it too seriously if you are easily offended)…
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Steve Outing has written a good post about people wanting to upload and share 'news' but not necessarily with news or citizen journalist websites. I’ve started to realize that news organizations would be wise to focus less on creating their own citJ platforms and hoping someone will post something, and more on leveraging the social networks where people already are posting news. My previous post about Twitter touches on this; that micro-blogging service contains (amid all the personal fluff) real news that people are witnessing.
Monday, August 18, 2008
I've been mining SlideShare.net a bit lately - mostly looking at journalism & news related slide shows but now and then dipping in elsewhere. Can't recommend it highly enough as a source of ideas and inspiration, especially if you've got a presentation to do anytime soon.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
I've been meaning for a while to point to newswire.co.nz. It's a Wellington-based news site showcasing the work of Whitireia Polytech journalism students under the watchful eye of Jim Tucker.
Monday, August 11, 2008
These are worth following up: the finalists for the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
Evolving Links
Sunday, August 31, 2008
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