Tag: convergence
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Making the ’24-hour newsroom’ work – inlandpress.org
Notes from the Lawrence Journal-World on adapting to the 24-hour news cycle. via Editors Weblog, who got the name of the paper wrong in the headline. Sigh. Making the ’24-hour newsroom’ work – inlandpress.org
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Myths and Realities of Convergence – Nieman Reports
Randy Covington in the Winter 2006 ‘Goodbye Gutenberg’ issue: “The truth is convergence costs money because usually it requires additional staff and more technology….Convergence needs to be undertaken as a growth strategy, not a cost-cutting measure.” Myths and Realities of Convergence – Nieman Reports
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‘Convergence’ is dead – Teaching Online Journalism
“What I’m against is a lemming-like rush to do something to which you can apply the latest buzz word so that you seem to be adapting and evolving.” Damn. And here I was just getting folks to stop using the word ‘synergy.’ ‘Convergence’ is dead – Teaching Online Journalism
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Vanderbilt student media site opens up to the community
In Nashville, Vanderbilt University‘s student newspaper has completely retooled and reimagined what a college media Web site should look like and what its purpose should be in the university community. InsideVandy.com is the result. Straight news and blogs written by the staff mingle with reader photos, stories, and blogs. The site is run with Drupal,…
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10 things I heard at the AEJMC convention today
Let me tell you about my first time … at the AEJMC convention. Seriously, I had never been to a conference or convention that was about my own field before today. I mean, I’ve hung out with the physicists and the photographers and maybe even the real estate data information professionals back when I was…
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Online and print partying together
via E&P: Editors from the Washington Post and USA Today talk about “the continuous news desk” and “platform-agnostic coverage” on a panel at an Interactive Media conference. One j-school professor in the audience asked what the panelists were looking for in young journalists — should they already be focusing on multi-tasking, shooting video and the…
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Is ‘convergence’ the next media disaster? — Miami Herald
“Ironically, the same news media chiefs who fret constantly about credibility and the declining appetite for news are diving into this 24/7 news cycle. Does that make sense?” Is ‘convergence’ the next media disaster? — Miami Herald
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Convergence Conference 2005: Unconvergence at BYU
Podcast and PowerPoint from a conference last October. Profs from BYU explain how and why convergence didn’t work so well at their J-School. Convergence Conference 2005: Unconvergence at BYU