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Online first? Four ways to show you mean it
Michele McLellan at the Knight Digital Media Center lists four ways newsrooms can show they are dedicated to being "online first."
Your News Content Is Worth Zero to Digital Consumers
News publishers expecting to make money from their digital readers will need to figure out how to offer something tangible -- and mobile represents big-time opportunity, especially for phone applications.
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News publishers expecting to make money from their digital readers will need to figure out how to offer something tangible -- and mobile represents big-time opportunity, especially for phone applications.
Why Comments Matter
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson says the ability to comment on news articles isn't enough. Authors need to moderate those comments and participate in the discussion. Lots of benefits come from that, Wilson says.
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I agree that simply adding a comment thread at the end of a news story is a recipe for trouble. But it is only a recipe for trouble if that is as far as you go. An unattended comment thread will be full of garbage and many are.
But if the author of the news story, or opinion piece, or blog post, tends to the comments, replies to the good ones, signals the bad ones, chastises the loudmouth bullies, and generally runs the comment threads like a serious discussion group, a serious discussion will result.
Facing up to life after print for newspapers
Alan Mutter compares newspapers to the auto industry and finds that newspapers have more promise for adapting to future economics.
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Like it or not, it’s only a matter of time before it will not be economically feasible in most markets to print newspapers seven days a week.
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To gain full advantage of the resources remaining at newspapers after the recent years of extreme cost cutting, many publishers are going to have to face the emotionally difficult decision to cut back on their daily print schedules.
By producing a limited number of premium-priced, niche publications on only the days when it is profitable to do so, publishers can begin to focus more of their attention and resources on creating the wide array of tightly targeted Internet and mobile products that represent the future for their franchises.
Visual Voice
Anne Van Wagener lists a few quick tips for reporters creating stories for online consumption. The nut of it all: just because there's virtually unlimited space online, that doesn't mean you have to use it all up.
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Tighten, tighten, tighten. Don't be seduced by the perception that there is unlimited space available on the Web. Just because it's there, doesn't mean you should use it.
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One way to plan your story is to storyboard. A storyboard will give you a sense of the timing, pacing, and energy of the project. Good storytellers keep the audience engaged by using the high and low points to change the tempo of the story. Storyboarding allows you to see where the highs and lows are and helps with timing the audio and image.
Dancing Rocks
An online story by Jane Ellen Stevens that shows how to package a mix of audio, video, photo, text and graphics for the Web.
Associated Press Seeks More Control of Content on Web
The AP thinks it has been scorned and is now out for the blood of all would-be Web poachers.
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Add Sticky NoteThe A.P. will “work with portals and other partners who legally license our content” and will “seek legal and legislative remedies against those who don’t,” the A.P. chairman, William Dean Singleton, said Monday in a speech at the group’s annual meeting, in San Diego. “We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories.”
- They may be "misguided" theories to the AP's way of thinking, but note that Singleton doesn't call them "wrong" or "illegal." Just note that. - on 2009-04-11
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At a time when newspaper revenue is collapsing and some papers are closing, the prospect of a share of revenue from Yahoo or Google is more tempting than ever. But executives at some news organizations have called the ire at the search engines misguided, saying that much of their own Web traffic arrives through links on search pages
AP is fighting last century's battle
Dave Winer lists some of the reasons he see's behind the AP's new approach to online news.
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Add Sticky NoteThat, my dear friends at AP (no sarcasm) is where you should be pouring your energy, not trying to take back what you think Google took from you. That happened a long time ago, and the toothpaste ain't going back in the tube.
- Winer says the AP is in the perfect position to create a real-time news Web site, the kind of site that could tell people "what's news NOW," which is what Winer sees as the most popular purpose of the Web -- finding out what's going on now. - on 2009-04-09
There is no rule book for online news
Jason Preston from Eat Sleep Publish has this guest post on Journalism 2.0, in which he lets us know that failure online is a welcome thing and that the Web is for experimentation.
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Add Sticky NoteAll of this is to say that there is no rule book online. There are no pre-set Right Ways and Wrong Ways. There are literally thousands of people who will charge you lots of money to tell you what you should and shouldn’t do online. Screw ‘em.
- He embraces failure, an idea I like. However, sometimes failure is expensive, and I think people are afraid of that. - on 2009-03-13
I Want to Start an Online Community Newspaper. Now What? - RJI News Collaboratory
Amy Senk writes about wanting to start an online local newspaper in her smallish California city as a one-woman operation.
OBS White Papers
A collection of presentations and papers about online publishing by Laura Fillmore, president of Open Book Systems. These documents date from about 1993 to 1997.
Short and Sweet: Technology Shrinks the Lecture - Chronicle.com
Professors are beginning to divide their lectures into shorter segments to hold students' attention when those lectures are posted online. These divisions have begun to migrate into the physical classroom as well.
Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter
A blog post announcing a ruling against those who want to post c&d letters online. Those who oppose this ruling claim it will allow companies to bully people who don't have the resources to fight back.
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