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csrollyson
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saja.org :: south asian journalists association
Great diverse group people from largely traditional media
 
Alison G
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UK: Trinity Mirror to develop mobile sites for national and regional papers
Trinity Mirror announced it is developing a mobile site for two national papers, including the Daily Mirror and the Daily Record and 12 regional newspapers.Each publication will have a print version, an online edition and a mobile site, which shows that...
 
Ryan Sholin
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It's Time for a Revenue Revolution
In Chicago this week, I had a conversation with fellow News Challenge winner David Cohn (creator of the very cool Spot Us community-funded reporting system) that got me thinking. David is skeptical of relying too much on advertising to fund journalism....
 
Yinka
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Television will be the first traditional media medium to fall
The move away from traditional, or mainstream media is currently accelerating as more and more people switch to the internet for their information and entertainment. Sales of newspapers are declining, radio advertising is down, and television viewers are...
 
haydens30
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Tell Zell
Anonymous blog critcising Sam Zell, the owner of the LA Times
Readership Institute: Get Smart About Your Readers
News flash: Readers have NOT left the building - yeah right!
 
<em>joomyee</em>
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The Effective Promotional Items
Advertising being one of the major components of marketing your business, all business enterprises big or small employ some...
 
reechard
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Television will be the first traditional media medium to fall
The move away from traditional, or mainstream media is currently accelerating as more and more people switch to the internet for their information and entertainment. Sales of newspapers are declining, radio advertising is down, and television viewers are...
 
Mike Fruchter
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Television will be the first traditional media medium to fall
The move away from traditional, or mainstream media is currently accelerating as more and more people switch to the internet for their information and entertainment. Sales of newspapers are declining, radio advertising is down, and television viewers are...
 
Louis Gray
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Television will be the first traditional media medium to fall
The move away from traditional, or mainstream media is currently accelerating as more and more people switch to the internet for their information and entertainment. Sales of newspapers are declining, radio advertising is down, and television viewers are...
 
Chris Amico
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The business model is still the elephant in the room
As much fun as it is for me to make clever lists and shout from the hilltops about what I think your news organization should be doing, how they should be doing it, and why they should be doing it, no matter what argument I (or anyone else) has in favor...
 
Duncan Besford Skirving Stephen
Read Giles Coren's letter to Times subs | Media | guardian.co.uk
I like this detail: "I woke up at three in the morning on sunday and fucking lay there, furious, for two hours."
 
Antonio Tombolini
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Fear of a Byte Planet: The Nation on (not) saving newspapers
In the recent edition of The Nation, Eric Alterman has a story entitled “I Read the News Today…Oh Boy.” The thrust of Alterman’s story is that newspapers are in serious decline, and the newspaper industry can’t figure out a way to stop the...
 
Kevin Lim
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Extra! Read all about it.. « Rosenblumtv
It's a crime to overproduce videos. At the Star Ledger newspaper, reporters produce quick but quality videos with the Sony HD A1U. Great for examples for videobloggers.
 
Tom Usher
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EXPOSURE OF THE EVIL PLUTOCRACY TO CONTINUE UNTIL IT FALLS
Corridor from Titan control room to missile siloThe deep state is built upon not just amorality but deliberate immorality....
 
FerroGate
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“It’s worth fighting for”
“People need to stop looking at TBO.com as an add on to The Tampa Tribune,” she said. “The truth is that The Tampa Tribune is an add on to TBO.”
 
MartinStabe
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The EveryBlock Blog: EveryBlock partners with the Chicago Tribune
"[T]he Trib is publishing a map and list of local news articles, powered by EveryBlock." The Sun-Times appears to be doing the same thing.
 
Walter Neary
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Young Newspaper Journalists Could Flee Because of Slow Pace of Change
"Newspapers have a history as top-down organizations where senior management huddles in conference rooms to decide what everyone else will do. Innovative ideas usually die on the vine or in bureaucratic red tape. And that’s frustrating for young...
 
allaboutgeorge
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Opinion - The Public Editor: Newspapers dying? Not if you take a global view - sacbee.com
"'Internet advertising revenues – not just newspapers online, but all Internet advertising – was up 32.45 percent over one year and 200 percent over five years,' the report said."
 
Bill D
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GateHouse Media Adds Social Networking for familiesW
The addition of Wicked Local People allows visitors to the sites to:– Build and share family profiles, photo albums, and blogs. Links and calendars allow a family to organize everything from soccer schedules to homework assignments to social engagemen
 
Alfred
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | McFly CD lifts newspaper's sales
How the Daily Mail in the UK is trying to boost sales
 
iandelaney
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How Good Is The Mainstream Media At Linking Out?
We believe that linking to useful websites doesn’t “leak” traffic - quite the opposite in fact. Offering useful links actually makes visitors more likely to return to see what other interesting websites they might find in the future
 
Flap
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New York Times 2Q profit drops 82 percent
New York Times Co. says its second-quarter earnings fell 82 percent from the year-ago quarter boosted by a one-time gain. Meanwhile, print advertising revenue continued to shrink.What a SHOCK!
 
Bill D
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Any journalist can do this. Really.
Journalism prof Mindy McAdams picks up my "Seven Steps to Writing Like a Digital Native" post and spreads it around
 
Biddy
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A riddle wrapped in a correction to a crossword
Because of a production error, some copies of Wednesday’s paper contain an outdated crossword puzzle and its solution. If you look here first, proceed with caution. If the answer in the solution to one across also appears in the puzzle above it, you...
 
iandelaney
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Teaching Online Journalism » The survival of journalism: 10 simple facts
who’s going to pay for the journalists and the journalism in 10 years’ time?
 
Adriana
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The survival of journalism: 10 simple facts
very good summary of the issues and strategic advice to those who are interested in survival of journalism...
 
<em>richardatdell</em>
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Twilight of the curmudgeons
Jay Rosen has been worrying about curmudgeons. I’ve developed a different attitude. I try to just ignore them and if I can’t, I yell at them. The other day, I was on the phone with a few consultants who were getting free advice, gladly given, but...
 
Chris Amico
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Newspapers: Why Newspapers Shouldn't Allow Comments
Or, why mindless pontificating still has a ways to go before it reaches an artform. To paraphrase a comment cited as evidence: Would I be reading this if it weren't on gawker?
 
Rex Hammock
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Bob Garfield: Nobody has figured out yet how to make any money on the Web.
Quote - "Understanding that the Web is still in its infancy, nobody has figured out yet how to make any money there, at least any substantial money." [Why does someone as seemingly smart as Bob Garfield believe this?]
 
Preoccupations
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YouTube - Google Maps API and The New York Times
"NYTimes.com, the nation's largest newspaper website, uses the Google Maps API to create interactive maps for its travel section and to help readers visualize local trends like crane incidents and homicides in New York City."
 
Ryan Sholin
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A snapshot of change in newsrooms
Amidst the doom and gloom over the newspaper industry, a refashioning is taking place in newsrooms that a majority of editors believe is improving their product even as revenues to support newsrooms, among other things, are declining.And the audience the...
 
Palpitt
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A lire : Newspapers Shifting Coverage Local As Online Challenge Grows http://tinyurl.com/5memqh
 
Matt McAlister
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NYTimes To Customize Headlines For LinkedIn Users
The targeted headline feature will highlight the five latest NYTimes stories relevant to the user’s profession or industry.
 
allaboutgeorge
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The Changing Newsroom | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)
“I feel I’m being catapulted into another world, a world I don’t really understand. It’s scary because things are happening at the speed of light. The sheer speed (of change) has outstripped our ability to understand it all.”
 
MartinStabe
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Gawker: Why Newspapers Shouldn't Allow Comments
"Comments are thought to be an added value to a newspaper's site—providing another reason to read. You come for the article, and stay for the interesting discussion. The only problem is, there is no interesting discussion. Almost never."
 
noodlepie
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Pew Research Center: The Changing Newsroom: Gains and Losses in Today's Papers
"I feel I'm being catapulted into another world, a world I don't really understand," said Virginian-Pilot Editor Denis Finley. "It's scary because things are happening at the speed of light. The sheer speed (of change) has outstripped...
 
allaboutgeorge
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Working the web at the Seattle P-I - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
"It’s about a bigger thing. It’s about my position, not me as a person. So I really don’t feel entitled to have a say.”"
 
Chris Amico
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What The Newspaper Industry Could Learn About Do Or Die Innovation From General Motors
As newspaper companies lose billions in market capitalization and innovation-minded journalists battle newsroom “curmudgeons” shell-shocked by the rapid pace of change amid increasingly dire economic realities, a lesson in burn-the-rule-book...
 
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