"“The muscles of journalism are weakening and the muscles of public relations are bulking up—as if they were on steroids,” he says."
"The American Society of News Editors says it reviewed the social media rules of leading mainstream news organizations and identified “the best-practice themes at the heart of the best policies.”"
"here are tips for media companies to create a user-friendly navigation menu. There's no one-size-fits all approach, but this advice from experts can be broadly applied to many types of media companies. "
"For a private individual using Twitter, it might make sense to delete a message that you later discovered was in error. But for anyone tweeting as part of a professional media job, representing a news organization on Twitter, or using Twitter to do journalism independently, the course here ought to be plain: It’s almost always better to correct than to unpublish. Removing information you’ve already disseminated — sometimes called “scrubbing” — always leaves open the possibility that you’re trying to hide the error or pretend it never happened."
"We used a wide variety of sources from around the Web to put this post together. You can find the full list of source references at the bottom of the post if you’re interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get you even more numbers to chew on." - via Doug Fisher.
"The father of a former Cal football player is suing The Daily Californian's editor in chief and president Rajesh Srinivasan in a Fresno County small claims court, charging him with intentional infliction of emotional distress related to one article and two blog posts from 2006 and 2007 that remain in the newspaper's online archives. "
"So we ask: is deleting a tweet after the fact a lack of transparency, especially if any subsequent tweets don’t admit the error? Is a news organization obliged to tweet that it was wrong? Does the retweet function make such actions moot? We strongly believe in transparency, as do many of you. But whether deleting tweets is a responsibility or not, and whether a news organization must tweet that it was wrong, should lead to serious discussions in all newsrooms."
Iowa State's Michael Bugeja with a "Get off my lawn" rant worth reading. Don't necessarily agree with everything he's saying, but worth checking out.
"Welcome! to the News Frontier Database ... a searchable, living, and ongoing documentation of digital news outlets across the country. Featuring originally reported profiles and extensive data sets on each outlet, the NFDB is a tool for those who study or pursue online journalism, a window into that world for the uninitiated, and, like any journalistic product, a means by which to shed light on an important topic. We plan to build the NFDB into the most comprehensive resource of its kind."
Is it journalism if it doesn't have reporters? An AOL News veteran makes the argument.
Helpful ideas to put into perspective some of the changes in the Internet landscape.
A group blog by a digital journalism class at NYU. I know of a number of these projects that have happened over the past two years. Would that we had a clearinghouse of this type of student blog efforts.
A must-read for understanding the people who will be reading the media in the next century.
An early (2/2005) article that explains AJAX web application development. You may not know the term, but if you've used Google Maps (and other applications), you've been using AJAX.
Steve Outing looks at the MySpace move into the classified market. Who owns MySpace? Oh, yeah. Rupert Murdoch.
A list of things new media execs are demanding of aspiring digital journalists. Are you training for these attributes?
Joan Connell discusses the State of the News report and also a UK government report that maps the future of the BBC. The post contains a pdf link to the BBC report as well. Some inspiration as you navigate the future.
Published at the University of South Carolina, an editorially independent online newsletter examining convergence in college journalism education. This issue includes a report by Bryan Murley on the reinventing mini-summit.
Joint endeavor to keep people in the newspaper mix.
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