Category: Media
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Reporting with Twitter: Orange County is on fire
The Orange County Register is aggregating tweets about fires in the area right now. This is advanced reporting with Twitter, jumping way ahead from using it as a tool to push out headlines, and serving a very different information need than the promotional / community building of a Colonel Tribune, as much as I admire…
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Help a journalism startup out
Why We Should Feel Bullish For the Future of Journalism: “Go ahead. Go get lost on the web for 20 minutes, find a journalism startup you like and email the founder to let them know you support what you are doing. You’d be surprised how much that means to them and how much that can…
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Community-funded news launches at Spot.Us
Fellow Knight News Challenge 2008 winner David Cohn took the wraps off the latest iteration of Spot.Us over the last few days, launching an engine for community-funded reporting from donation to publication. Here’s the explanatory video: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2041615&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1 Spot.Us – Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo. I love the idea that Spot.Us could do…
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Packaging national election headlines for local news sites with Publish2
Happy Election Day-After! I’m still up to my neck in post-election analytics, gathering stats and data from hundreds of news sites I work with to do a little postmortem on what worked, who learned some new tricks, and what the readers thought of it. One of the things we put together here at GateHouse for…
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Print is dead. Long live print!
A brief inventory. Things I never read in print anymore: Bank statements Newspapers Opinions Things I always read in print: Books Alt-weeklies Magazines Things I often read in print, but not always: Recipes
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Richard Koci Hernandez in slides
For weeks, I’ve been meaning to get Richard Koci Hernandez on the phone for a quick podcast about his move from the San Jose Mercury News to the faculty of UC Berkeley. That phone call hasn’t happened yet, but hey, here’s a story about Koci put together by Cal Poly journalism student Lauren Rabaino. The…
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A short manifesto on local linkblogging
Brittney Gilbert blogs for a TV station in the Bay Area. I’ve mentioned her before, and even though I’ve moved geographically far from her coverage area, I keep up with her tweets and various postings. Today she writes: I am not a journalist. While I disagree (the curator is a journalist and the journalist is…
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October Carnival of Journalism: How to move the needle in your newsroom today
Journerdist-In-Chief Will Sullivan hosts this month’s resurgent Carnival of Journalism, asking the following: “What are small, incremental steps one can make to fuel change in their media organization?” I’ve mentioned some incremental steps you take to grow a little revenue at a time recently, and there’s a list of free or cheap tools for online…
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Newspapers: Vanishing faster than you think
Philip Meyer, author of The Vanishing Newspaper, in AJR: “The town crier’s audience was limited to the number of people who could be assembled within the range of an unamplified human voice. Printing changed everything. It made the size of the audience theoretically limitless and, by the creation of multiple records, enabled more reliable preservation…
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Cross-pollinate or shrivel
I’m profoundly enthralled by things like rapid news-driven development in Django, and building a CMS that can switch from a beautiful feature layout to a Drudge-like breaking news linkbomb on a dime, and of course, leveraging the steady stream of free embeddable tools showing up online every day for your own newsy purposes. But none…