Has Rupert Murdoch’s paywall gamble paid off? – Online, Media – The Independent
Predictable…. Faced with a collapse in traffic to thetimes.co.uk, some advertisers have simply abandoned the site. Rob Lynam, head of press trading at the media agency MEC, whose clients include Lloyds Banking Group, Orange, Morrisons and Chanel, says, “We are just not advertising on it. If there’s no traffic on there, there’s no point in [...]
The beauty of data visualization
this TED talk comes from David McCandless of Information is Beautiful and was found on The beauty of data visualization at flowingdata.com
Knight News Challenge: Dissertation probes contest’s impact | Knight Digital Media Center
Lewis lists three key takeaways from his research: 1. “The Knight Foundation, to accomplish innovation, backed away from journalism, but these innovators [the News Challenge winners] brought journalism back in.” 2. “In seeking to reform journalism, news innovators are not de-professionalizing journalism so much as re-energizing its ideals.” 3. “It used to be hard to [...]
Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott
Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott. there are so many more great ones, give it a click.
Massive Censorship Of Digg Uncovered « OOO
interesting and impressive piece of investigative work. if true, this has a lot of ramifications for the whole community/crowdsource/cyberjournalism sphere. worth following. A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to [...]
How The Guardian is pioneering data journalism with free tools » Nieman Journalism Lab
How The Guardian is pioneering data journalism with free tools » Nieman Journalism Lab.
Journalism Educators: How are you staying current?
I’m presenting at the American Association of University Professor’s conference this weekend on the challenges of keeping journalism school curriculum updated and relevant during the dynamic digital age we’re in. In addition to our own war stories of dealing with AEJMC standards and curriculum review processes, I’m hoping other educators also engaged in this important [...]
4 News Outlets Get 80% Of All Links From Bloggers
99% of the stories blogs link to come from traditional mainstream media sources, according to a study out today from PEW’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Bercovici notes that of that pool, 80% of those links come from four news outlets: BBC News (23%), CNN.com (21%), The New York Times (20%) and The Washington Post [...]