14th Jun - 12th JulMonthly Top Blog Posts on Journalism

11 Jul

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…

Bzzzzt! Wrong! Community should be job #1 [del.icio.us]

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“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…

Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

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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…

10 Jul

newsobserver.com | N&O subscriber sues the paper for cutting staff

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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…

04 Jul

When social media meets art and creates a new business model

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Twit2art is one of those wonderful ideas that captures the age we’re living in - and heading towards. A project by Belgian artist Jan Leenders, it works like this: you send a tweet @twit2art and he’ll make an…

03 Jul

Teaching Online Journalism Best newspaper Web sites

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The World Editors Forum asked five prominent newspaper designers to pick their Top 5 newspaper Web site designs:elpais.com (Spain)guardian.co.uk (Britain)globeandmail.com (Canada)24sata.hr (Croatia)Times Online…

30 Jun

Things PRs Hate #1: Disappearing Journalists

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My post from pre-hols about the invisible PR phenomenon struck a nerve with a couple of PR readers - most notably David in the original post’s comments and Susannah over at Lighthouse PR. Both responded by criticising…

If it’s raining, learn to work wet and then get dry

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Great comments have been arriving here with increasing frequency over recent weeks. Last night two particularly good ones — Jim Richardson (again) and Anonymous 5:26pm — moved me to this longer reply.(I’m now working…

BBC local web video could boost local news diversity

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Peter Preston in his Observer media column today writes about the BBC’s plans for local on-demand web sites with up to 20 minutes a day of video and the opposition from the regional newspaper giants. “It is,” he…

29 Jun

WWLG: Where Will Leno Go

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The Hollywood Reporter puts together all the possible options for Jay Leno’s future after NBC pulls Conan up to the 11:35 slot. Some you’ve heard of: shows on ABC or FOX; some you haven’t: Leno replacing Letterman…

28 Jun

Common Sense Journalism: The week that was … moving along the grief stages

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Perhaps this last full week of June 2008 just past will be looked back on as the week the final death throes of the newspaper industry began — 900+ layoffs, copy-editing jobs to India (and more details on an earlier…

26 Jun

Again, McClatchy Does Real Journalism

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The McClatchy Washington bureau series, Guantanamo: Beyond the Law, puts to shame almost all the other reporting by other news organizations. It’s falling through the cracks, because of the NIH syndrome in journalism…

Recovering Journalist: Death of Almost 1,000 Cuts

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This has been a particularly rough week for the newspaper industry, whose decline seems to be gathering speed. As Richard Perez-Pena wrote in The New York Times at the beginning of the week:For newspapers, the news has…

24 Jun

Why Media Gets Community Wrong - One Man and His Blog

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I’ve been thinking (and talking) about community a lot recently, and it was while speaking to about 50 people at a seminar held by Sift last Friday that I had an epiphany: most media people don’t realise that blogging…

Associated Press vs. Drudge Retort and blogosphere: facts and outcome - editorsweblog

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Chances are you’ve heard all about the now-’resolved’ dispute that opposed the Associated Press to social news sharing site Drudge Retort, over the fair - or unfair - use of AP quotes. Even more likely is the…

22 Jun

Google trends for websites

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Google Trends has for some been giving us a glimpse of trends around what people are looking for on the world’s favourite search engine., now it is letting you do the same for website traffic or “insights into the…

20 Jun

June Carnival of Journalismbyandydickinson.net

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I have the pleasure of hosting this months Carnival of journalism, a monthly extravaganza of posts from the journalism blogasphere. (You can find out more here). Last month Ryan Sholin suggested a theme: “What should…

Unintended consequences of the Mozart Effect

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I just rang up my bank to try and blag some (admittedly pretty minor - £25) charges back. They put me on hold and played Mozart at me for five minutes.A brief and amicable argument about implications of the outstanding…

19 Jun

MoveOn ad, Obama camp topics for derision on FOX and Friends with Ham

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Mary Katherine Ham made it to FOX and Friends this morning 6/18/08 to comment on “issues” including MoveOn.org’s recent ad and the Obama campaign volunteers who wouldn’t seat Muslim women wearing headscarves where…

18 Jun

Connecting The Dots Of The Web Revolution - Publishing 2.0

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For several days my brain has been connecting the blogstorm over AP trying to dictate how much of their content can be quoted on the web with the “quote” that Nick Carr lifted from one of my blog posts in his…

Newspaper industry layoffs

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Fantastic Google Map that tracks buyouts and layoffs at newsrooms across the … [visit site to read more]

17 Jun

If you think online news is difficult… Invisible Inkling

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If using a Web-based content management system is difficult, try putting together a print edition in an old version of Quark and then come back and tell me how hard it is to push the Publish button.If editing video…

Wikipedia doesn’t always beat AP

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There was this big deal about how Wikipedia beat Associated Press on Tim Russert’s death.Well, I just thought I’d note — it’s been, what, two weeks since the world learned that Rob Curley left the Washington…

Newsdesigner.com | More Ado About Orlando

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OK, here’s a passel of additional before-and-after Orlando prototype pages for the upcoming redesign, again thanks to Bo Burton. More pages after the jump. Local Sports Features…

16 Jun

Innovations in Journalism - Zemanta will find the online context of your article

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We give developers the opportunity to tell us journalists why we should sit up and pay attention to the sites and devices they are working on. In the spotlight this week is Slovenian start-up Zemanta. 1) Who are you and…

15 Jun

Travels

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Flying to London Monday. In Paris Tuesday to see la Sorbonne for CUNY and then Paulo Cuelho for my book and folks from AFP for drinks. Then back in London for the Guardian’s Future of Journalism sessions Thursday and…

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Jocks plan shock for Trib Co. readers

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Thanks to a terrific new blog published anonymously by someone who identifies herself or himself as an employee of the Los Angeles Times, we have the first reported sighting of the radical new format planned for the…

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