Tag: Newspapers
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It was the best of MyTimes…
I haven’t seen it for myself yet, apparently not being one of the chosen 5,000 beta testers, but the New York Times aggregator/personalized news page called MyTimes is live. Reviews, analysis, and gripes are up at TechCrunch and PaidContent, including screenshots for the curious. It looks like a flawed but good effort from what I…
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Search Local Events – San Jose Mercury News
Wow. The Merc does something right, finds a Web 2.0 partner to put together an events listing page that feels current, mashes with maps, and has RSS feeds. Excellent. Search Local Events – San Jose Mercury News
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Guest Posting: Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue? | Center for Citizen Media: Blog
“What really makes me twitch is that the amount and distribution of serious reporting that people can read are both dwindling, and they’re dwindling in a way that all but cuts off citizens who are less than affluent…” Guest Posting: Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue? | Center for Citizen Media: Blog
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YouTube – Thomas Friedman at Webbys
Friedman on Times Select: “I hate it.” Short video with important riffs on the monetization problem. YouTube – Thomas Friedman at Webbys
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Does your college newspaper cover the blog beat?
Bryan Murley at Reinventing College Media lays out some instructions for covering the campus blogosphere. I think it’s a good idea, but I look at it another way: Reading blogs written by students, faculty, and alumni should be a way to find story ideas — not necessarily a beat in itself — unless, of course,…
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Geeks for journalism or journalism for geeks?
Lex Alexander, Greensboro News-Record citizen-journalism guru, in a post about a community meetup to talk about the paper’s online CJ section: “We frequently get asked why we don’t do X, or whether we have ever thought about doing Y. Regarding Y, the answer is “probably.” But the N&R’s news department has an appetite for doing…
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News : Kansas City Star Redesign — KansasCity.com
An incredibly smart web page to tell readers the full story of a print redesign at the Kansas City Star. Check out the new presses. News : Kansas City Star Redesign — KansasCity.com
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the blog
That might not be the first (or last) time I use that title, but it seems appropriate enough for the always entertaining discussion that ensues when journalists say things like “Any blog entry counts as journalism if the person posting it says it is, but journalism written by professionals cannot lose its special qualities and…
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American Journalism Review – Getting Over Ourselves
Must. End. Hand-wringing. American Journalism Review – Getting Over Ourselves
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MediaGuardian.co.uk | New media | The new news
Google News engineer makes the case for why newspapers want to be aggregated. MediaGuardian.co.uk | New media | The new news