Tag: Online News
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Making online journalism — Part 5 — Teaching Online Journalism
“The key here is recognizing that one person alone is not going to start the story — or finish it. To get from the reporting to the Web site calls for at least two people in probably 90 percent of cases where the story is anything beyond plain text.” Making online journalism — Part 5…
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Blogging is a community strategy, not a publishing platform
Kevin Anderson, blog editor at the super-blog-happy Guardian newspaper across the pond, writes: “Newspaper publishers and broadcasters often fall into the trap of trying to understand new media behaviour through old media paradigms. Podcasting becomes another distribution channel, and blogging becomes another publishing platform. Adding comments to the bottom of stories or columns is a…
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Making online journalism — Part 4 — Teaching Online Journalism
“Your audience has the ability to jump to a more interesting story in an instant. So you must provide real choices in your story package. Let the users decide and explore. Give up control.” Making online journalism — Part 4 — Teaching Online Journalism
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Making online journalism — Part 1 – Teaching Online Journalism
The beginnings of the basics – when to use each medium for what. Making online journalism — Part 1 – Teaching Online Journalism
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How your newspaper can monetize citizen journalism
The traditional way: Content, community and local search build brand loyalty and page view traffic to sell your standard leaderboards, skyscrapers, squares and tiles. Some fresher ideas pointed out by the NAA Presstime magazine: Charge a little less for small businesses looking to advertise on your locally-targeted pages. Let the community (i.e. the Little League)…
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More on the online skills study that made me say Wow
Rich Cameron at the JACC blog reacts to the finding that college experience with CMS tools, HTML and Photoshop will help j-school students get jobs in online news: “Those papers that post PDF only or use non-content management systems are cheating their students. College Publisher is the cheapest, but not only content management system available.…
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Help us plan for New York – Innovation in College Media
Help Bryan and friends prepare a conference workshop by filling out a quick survey. Help us plan for New York – Innovation in College Media
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Is Gannett blowing up the newsroom or just handing out new business cards?
Everyone is a bit excited about the Gannett thing. Me? Not so much. I know it’s a big deal that an extravagantly large news organization has announced they’re going to blow up the newsroom, re-imagine it as an “information center,” and start calling the editors the “Digital” desk, but frankly, I’ve seen good memos and…
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Still wondering which online journalism skills to learn first? Glad you asked.
Wow. A great study by Northwestern master’s student C. Max Magee surveys Online News Association members and other online journalists to find out which skills are most important for aspiring Web-native producers and managers. Some of the findings are pretty standard: Attention to detail, multitasking ability, and communication skills are high on the list. That…
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Now read this: Inside 4 online newsrooms
Carl Sessions Stepp, senior editor at the American Journalism Review, went inside the operations at four online newspapers to see how the sausage is made. “Most striking are two clear, probably transforming trends: a move toward merging online and print newsrooms, and a surge toward producing news almost around the clock. These changes may well…