Tag Archives: distribution

Pneumatic story delivery

By Julie Starr | Published: October 28, 2008
Another piece of nostalgia from the NZ Herald Manual of Journalism 1967. Pneumatic tubes as a story delivery system within newsrooms were before my time but what a shame, they look cracking.
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AP to lose another customer

By Julie Starr | Published: August 31, 2008
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.
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The news is out there, you’ve just got to filter, aggregate and share it

By Julie Starr | Published: 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.
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Twitter moves news faster than ever – earthquake ripples

By Julie Starr | Published: May 12, 2008
I heard about the 7.8 earthquake in China's Sichuan province about five hours ago via a colleague on Twitter and retweeted it immediately. Little was known then. I went out for a few hours and when I got back it was being tweeted by BreakingNewsOn with the news that 900 children were reported buried and at least 109 people killed.
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Less is more when updating news on Twitter

By Julie Starr | Published: April 17, 2008
It's not just me, then. I see Jeff Jarvis is also getting annoyed with the way news companies are dumping multiple headlines on Twitter in big batches, with the result that they fill out people's Twitter boxes.
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