Tag: Newspapers
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Just the FAQs, please
Jeff Jarvis on the Local Challenge: “The biggest challenge facing local news organizations today is figuring out how they can gather more and produce less. That is, how can they help other people produce, so the news organizations have something worth gathering?” Gather more and produce less, indeed. It’s hard for lifelong newsroom types to…
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Newspaper community site philosophy
Steve Yelvington talks about Bluffton Today in an e-mail interview he’s posted, reminding me that there are reasons why community sites work and there are methods to manage and market them to the community: “There’s a lot we can learn from Internet startups if we just recognize that geographic community is actually a special interest.…
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I’m exactly as pompous as I sound. No more, no less.
If, for any reason, you can’t get enough of me prattling on and on about the future of newspapers in text, you can enjoy 33 minutes of me getting interviewed by Cameron Reilly, who apparently is the king of all podcasting in Australia. If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve heard me say all this…
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G’DAY WORLD #249 – The Future Of Newspapers
I’ll have to listen to this later. I’m on it, doing my “get over it” schtick over and over again. G’DAY WORLD #249 – The Future Of Newspapers
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Photojournalists at ‘The Sun’ Launch Protest ‘Strike’ – E&P
Fisking myself in advance: I mentioned in a podcast recorded last night that some photographers were byline-striking over being asked to learn video; it’s actually over reporters shooting stills and video. Which is one notch less dumb. Photojournalists at ‘The Sun’ Launch Protest ‘Strike’ – E&P
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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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Doing Local Right – Simon Willison
One of the Lawrence crew’s notes and links on the databasey hyperlocalness that is the LJWorld and related properties. If you don’t know what I mean by that, check out the post and all the links. Bang around the sites a bit and see what they can do. Doing Local Right – Simon Willison
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Programmin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo – William M. Hartnett
“If you want to work in a newsroom in Miami, you better speak Spanish. If you want to work with data in any newsroom anywhere, you will run into a problem that requires you to start messing around with a scripting language. It’s inevitable.” Programmin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo – William M. Hartnett
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The unglossy truth about what we could learn from magazines – The Inksniffer
Okay, this is officially the best new media blog subscription I picked up from the comments on the 10 Obvious Things post. Great ideas here, great directions to take a newspaper. The unglossy truth about what we could learn from magazines – The Inksniffer
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Journalists need|don’t need to learn programming | mattwaite.com
A journalist/programmer talking about journalists who program and vice versa. If you’re on either side of that equation, or an editor trying to figure out which one to hire next, read this post. Journalists need|don’t need to learn programming | mattwaite.com