Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
Google News now links to wire stories from the original source (AP, AFP, etc.), hosted by Google, in addition to the 5,137 versions of each wire story posted at individual news sites.
Three reasons why this is good for newspapers:
Newspaper.coms no longer have to spend time, money, and resources on trying to build the best semantic, [...]
If posting gets a little light around here, it’s because a few projects are working their way toward completion. One is nearly finished (more on that within the next few weeks) and another I just made a big change to get started on in earnest. There’s a third that’s on hold for a few [...]
Red Herring reports a British e-paper company locked up $100 million in venture capital.
“The company plans to build the plant, with an initial capacity of a million displays a year, in the eastern Germany city of Dresden and start production in 2008. The company said demand for electronic readers is expected to climb to 41.6 [...]
[Ed. note: Yeah, so that post title sounds like a clever research paper title, which it could certainly be, if I had the time and the inclination.]
The Knight Foundation is giving away $25 million over five years to people like you with hyperlocal community news site ideas.
Now that I have your attention…
Online newspaper execs might [...]
This one came from Google. Drumroll please…
“ideas for baseball handshakes”
Actually, that’s not a bad idea. I was never much of a forearm-smash kind of guy myself.