Tag: news organization
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May Carnival of Journalism
I’m jumping the gun on putting up this post to serve as the center ring for the May Carnival of Journalism. Earlier today, I asked the list of carnivalers to consider answering this question at the core of driving innovation at mainstream news organizations: What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more…
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Modernize your newsroom today
Many employees at news organizations have a very easy time blaming out-of-date computers, front-end print publishing systems, and Web content management systems on such faceless, amorphous entities as “Corporate,” or perhaps “The Budget.” Nevertheless, there are plenty of free or not-completely-expensive ways you can modernize your newsroom today. Here are 5. Use Google Documents (or…
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Your real competition
You *think* your competition is the guy at the TV station who always rip-and-reads your stories, or the reporter on your beat at the major metro from the big city 12 miles away, or that alt-weekly with the nasty cartoonist, don’t you? Sorry, but that’s simply not the case. Oh, sure, your ad reps and…
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The smartest thing I’ve read in a long time
From Deborah Potter at Advancing the Story comes a short and sweet post about NaplesDailyNews.com. “Print reporters and photographers were all told that they no longer worked for the paper, says Phil Lewis, editor and vice president of naplesdailynews.com/Naples Daily News. They were all transferred to dot.com–which the company now sees as a kind of…
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Remember when I asked you what I should learn next?
A refresher for those of you who weren’t taking notes: An informal poll on what I should learn next (March 10, 2007). Apparently, that was six months ago. Yikes. So after everyone weighed in, multimedia storytellers voting for Flash, programmers voting for programming, and executives voting for business-sense, more or less, I said I would…
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I don’t care what journalists are reading; I care what they’re writing
Scott Karp and friends (and those are some pretty smart friends) are up to something interesting, but I sure as heck can’t tell what it is based on a rambling post at the new publish2.com. It sounds like something that’s supposed to clean up all the doubling and overlapping of social networks the media blogger…
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Why shoot newspaper video?
Have I been over this ground before? Not sure. I think I’ve thrown around some adoption steps for newspaper video, and I’ve spouted all the necessary YMMV caveats for news organizations of varying resources. But here’s the deal: Not so far in the future, you’ll be sitting in a conference room trying to show a…
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Find yourself a nice comfortable niche and sell it like blueberry pancakes
Did ya catch that headline? Don’t sell it like hotcakes, sell it like blueberry pancakes. Be specific. Let’s put that another way: Don’t be an international news service that decides it wants to appeal to the demographic of roughly 18-30. Sell to a niche, not a demographic. Local moms are a niche; Women are a…
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Find a way, any way, to cover breaking news
Howard Owens spent his Saturday migrating a small weekly newspaper site from one content management system to another. On a Saturday? Why? Because the town the paper covers was the one in Kansas that was almost completely destroyed by tornadoes. It’s called Greensburg and the paper is the Kiowa County Signal. Along with most of…
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Inspiration overload
It’s great that everyone in the online journalism/multimedia/interactivity/data layered network of posses (myself included) shares all the cool stuff they find