Category: Media
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Only hire the best.
From Yoni Greenbaum, on the topic of outsourcing applications, the division of print and online newsrooms, and the hiring of online journalists: “We all know that, increasingly, online is where the money is, but it will take talent to earn it. I would urge newspapers to make sure they’re paying their online employees appropriately; if…
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Watch out for secondary characters with more interesting stories than your protagonist
That’s good advice up there in the title of this post. I got it from a screenwriting teacher, and it’s been a running joke around our house for the last week based on a couple movies we’ve watched lately. And it’s also good advice for narrative journalists. But that’s not what this post is about.…
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Participation counts.
If you’re in the online news business, you’re in the participation business. If you’re a journalist, starting conversations is your job. So what are you doing standing on the sidelines? Start blogging here: wordpress.com Start sharing your photos here: flickr.com Start sharing your bookmarks here: del.icio.us Start developing a social network here: facebook.com That’s the…
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Citizen journalist killed in Iraq
{ Those of us that were in the room during the ‘Video’ session at the Networked Journalism conference in October remember witnessing Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad basically make a plea to anyone from the numerous large, profitable news organizations at the conference to help out the cause of citizen journalism in Iraq with…
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Everybody’s Talking Heads
I’ve seen David Byrne’s blog post about a visit to the New York Times in too many places today to figure out where I saw it first. Here’s my favorite graf: “At present, it is mostly the ads in the Style section, and the glossy Sunday and T magazines that pay for a disproportionate amount…
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Manifestology
{In the spirit of the journalism blog carnival, I’m linking to posts by some of my fellow barkers on display today as I have time.} Pat Thornton lets fly with a manifesto + examples in “The Web is the greatest thing to ever happen to journalism.” A clip: “Go local – Many papers are adding…
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How do you cover snow?
{In the spirit of this whole carnival atmosphere, I’m going to post links to my fellow circus acts as my mental and temporal bandwidth allow today.} Yoni Greenbaum has some suggestions for how a local newspaper might bring readers into the fold when it comes to covering the weather. Apparently, Back East you people have…
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Map thyself
{Carnival! There’s a journalism blog carnival under way, hosted — if you can wrap your head around that concept — by the folks at Scribblesheet, some sort of collaborative writing tool I haven’t had a chance to look at yet. Here’s a review of their product at the Online Journalism Blog.} I’ve written pretty extensively…