23rd July '08Today's Top Blog Posts on Journalism
1. Where Did “Citizen Journalist” Come From?
I had a call last week from a researcher for a big-name journalist, asking a question about the expression “citizen journalist”:I am primarily interested in finding who coined this term and when itentered the…
2. PressThink: A Most Useful Definition of Citizen Journalism
When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have been given to inform each other, that’s citizen journalism. There are other definitions, but they will have to be discussed in the…
Covered By: buzzmachine.com, citmedia.org, anorak.co.uk, mguhlin.net
3. Is it curtains for critics? | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
Food critic Jay Rayner opens up the debate to a host of bloggers and ‘traditional’ media critics.
Covered By: anorak.co.uk, poynter.org, noodlepie.com
4. Day 1, iPhone 3G
I had to give a lecture at 9 a.m. Friday, so I couldn’t go to the AT&T store and stand in line.At 6:15 p.m., when I figured all the homebound Friday traffic would be finished, I went to the AT&T store on the south…
5. Engadget’s Sloppy Journalism on the New iPhone
Engadget, the electronics blog, has a detailed iPhone 3G review today. Good overall, but then, near the top, is this whopper:And its 3G network compatibility finally makes the iPhone welcome the world over, especially…
6. FOX Friend Doocy fires back in Photoshop wars, Graydon Carter targeted
FOX and Friends’ Steve Doocy responded this morning to Vanity Fair’s photoshopping hall of horrors that tinkered with FOX personalities’ images, which in turn was a response to FOX and Friends being caught running…
7. WFLA-Ch. 8 medical reporter Irene Maher laid off after 23 years
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Irene Maher, WFLA-Ch. 8’s longtime medical reporter and a 23-year veteran of the station, was informed this morning she would be among five people to be downsized at the station this year. Maher, 52, is the…
8. Bzzzzt! Wrong! Community should be job #1 [del.icio.us]
“Newspapers can and do feed community, but it works both ways. The newspaper very much draws its sustenance from that same process. In communities that score well on other measures of social capital, newspaper…
Covered By: blog.news-record.com, techdirt.com
9. Reflections of a Newsosaur: 7 newspaper stocks hit record lows in 1 day
The shares of six publicly held newspaper companies plunged to modern-day lows in early trading today.McClatchy, Lee Enterprises, and Gatehouse hit all-time lows when their shares skidded respectively to $4.85, $3.11…
Covered By: newsbusters.org, newsbusters.org
10. Will you be at WordCamp UK next weekend?
WordCamp UK* is being hosted in Birmingham this year. I’ll be there, mostly ignoring the rather too formal conference-style structure and instead using it as an excuse to meet people I should really meet more often.If…
11. Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
Guardian News and Media is expected to announce the acquisition of ContentNext, the company behind news sites paidContent.org and paidContent:UK. According to the report, ‘north of $30m’ will be paid for the firm, which…
Covered By: siliconvalleywatcher.com, readwriteweb.com, adpulp.com, beet.tv, mashable.com, contentsutra.com .. more
12. newsobserver.com | N&O subscriber sues the paper for cutting staff
One of the paper's readers is suing the News & Observer in North Carolina following a series of staff cuts and reductions in news pages. Lawyer Keith Hempstead filed the complaint stating that the changes had…
Covered By: techdirt.com, editor.blogspot.com, ksjtracker.mit.edu, poynter.org
13. Spot the difference: AFP withdraws ‘digitally altered’ missile shot
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Agence France-Presse (AFP) has retracted a photo of Iranian missile tests published this morning, stating the image had been ‘apparently digitally altered’ by Iran’s state media, the New York Times’ Lede section…
14. Google as the new pressroom
When I saw Edward Roussel, head of digital for the Telegraph, on my last trip to London, he said over breakfast that he’d been thinking about my book title’s question — What Would Google Do? — in relation to…
15. Newsquest relaunch local newspaper websites… is that it?
Newsquest has begun the roll out of a relaunch of its websites with the Lancashire Telegraph, Bradford Telegraph & Argus and York’s The Press. Hold The Front Page describe it as a “modernised and revamped look”.…
