Carlos Virgen rounds up some thoughts on wiki use by news organizations, but I always get the feeling that most reporters and editors stop reading at the word “wikitorial,” freak out, and hide under the desks.
Still here?
Good. Carlos has a great idea about using a wiki as a “contextual archive” for related stories. (Matt Thompson [...]
All about local-news
Wiki what? Wiki who? Wiki why?
February 2, 2009
Carnival of Journalism: Are we asking the right questions about online revenue models?
January 19, 2009
As is my habit, I’m running behind on my Carnival of Journalism post this month, set to the timely and tuneful whistles and bangs of talk about whether a newspaper’s online revenue could support the newsroom, how long the newspaper of record will keep the press running, and what a major metro in a failed [...]
Looking back: My year at the Santa Cruz Sentinel
December 29, 2008
For those of you unfamiliar with my personal and professional timeline, I worked at the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 2006 through the end of September 2007, first in a position accurately titled Webmaster, and later as the Online Editor, working in a mostly bright, young newsroom in downtown Santa Cruz, blocks from the Pacific [...]
Carnival of Journalism: Five positive predictions for new media in 2009
December 21, 2008
For this month’s Carnival of Journalism, Dave Cohn is asking for positive (if possible) predictions for the new media world of 2009.
How about 5?
Mobile video streaming goes mainstream: Probably tied to disaster/breaking news reporting from non-professionals, a la 9/11 blogs, the YouTube tsunami of 2004, Flickr bombings of 2005, and the livetweeted siege of #Mumbai [...]
Dear Blogosphere, There’s more to newspapers than The New York Times
December 2, 2008
I’ve been holding back on this for a long time, and I write enough about the Web development team at nytimes.com enough to be held to this as well, but really, I’m incredibly tired of reading media and technology bloggers debate the future of news as if the only existing newspaper in the world is [...]