The Critical Mistake that Keeps Bloggers Broke | Copyblogger
Great, succinct post by Larry Brooks over at CopyBlogger that is a must read for all my students and colleagues, especially the ones who are either recently laid off from journalism or writing about how to “save journalism.”
Your blog is a strategy, a branding and marketing vehicle, a means toward an end.
Your business is the [...]
Sign of the Times: For Newspapers to Survive, They Must Put Users First | Design Pragmatist | Fast Company
This is an excellent article that discusses newspapers not from the perspective of “saving journalism” but for saving advertising and publishing from a user experience perspective. Must read.
Sign of the Times: For Newspapers to Survive, They Must Put Users First | Design Pragmatist | Fast Company.
AOL Moves to Build Tech ‘Newsroom of the Future’ – BusinessWeek
Good press that may move the stock needle for the old guard investors, but AOL seems to be making another, deeper step into being a TimeWarner style content company here. Once, AOL’s greatest features were community driven – instant messenger, e-mail, buddy lists — all of the old bbs community features that kept people in [...]
the big takeaway from #wjchat – journotaxonomy
I just got out of a really great twitter chat hashed wjchat that was pitched at web journalists and kicked off tonight.
There were plenty of seasoned hacker journos there mingling with new and curious types who were online/social savvy so the pace was blisteringly brisk and friendly. In all a great chat, but there was [...]
SOC Snow Days | American University School of Communication
This is a great story about how my colleagues on the faculty at American University’s School of Communication have kept teaching despite back-to-back blizzards that shut down most of the capital city. We all got it done using various communication technologies online and really, what else would you expect — we do teach people how [...]
Frank N. Magid dies at 78, created news anchor ‘happy talk’ – washingtonpost.com
For better or for worse, Magid changed television newscasting with his “Action News” format. One one hand, the focus on local news and more engaging broadcasting was a very needed development to take full advantage of the medium and move away from straight up radio rip-and-read desk anchors. On the other hand, most of what [...]
WAMU teams with ProPublica and WNYC for transportation project
WAMU is beginning a year-long partnership with public radio station WNYC in New York and the non-profit investigative news organization ProPublica to examine how transportation works, and how it doesn't work.
via WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio – This Week.
Promising online news organizations – The hunt is on | Knight Digital Media Center
saw this retweeted a lot yesterday, so i wanted to check it out.
Promising online news organizations – The hunt is on | Knight Digital Media Center.
i think it is an admirable and well- intentioned effort, and i realize it is just getting started. i wanted to post this comment, but it didn’t quite work out [...]