Keyword: onlinejournalism. In which Simon Waldman neatly summarises three models of funding for bloggers – although it seems most of the opportunities are for businesses, not the bloggers themselves.
Keyword: onlinejournalism. Editor & Publisher reports on The Washington Post pondering the demise of print (demographics and lifestyle changes are said to be the real problem) at the same time as Journalism.co.uk gives an overview of the same concerns, including the strange assertion in Press Gazette that internet TV news could spell the death not only of print, but of
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. Granted, most of us don’t live in the middle of a war zone, but it’s heartening for bloggers everywhere that Salam Pax – the Baghdad Blogger – has won a Royal Television Society award for the programmes he made with Guardian Films and Newsnight. Added to the increasing success of Super Size Me-style documentaries it seems there’s a
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. Credit to Journalism.co.uk for picking up on the idea doing the rounds to make your vacancies listings an RSS feed. It’s one of the few sites to have a good range of online journalism jobs listed (the Media Guardian Jobs is normally the only other place to find them), so well worth subscribing to.
Keyword: onlinejournalism. The Search Engine Journal sings the praises of TurboScout, a website that allows you to search a good dozen or so search engines – but not at the same time. It’s a bit of a cheeky way to make some money – piggybacking on the search technologies of others – but could be attractive for those of us
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. That’s the upshot of this report from the Online Publisher’s Association, which also has the useful stats that, “The largest proportion, 66 percent, report viewing streams of news and current events, while 49 percent see movie trailers, 29 percent eyeball music videos, and 27 percent check out sports highlights. Those figures might be somewhat skewed, however, because many
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. If you’re a news organisation with a website, there can be far better uses of your resources than creating an email newsletter. It creates a constant relationship with your audience, reminds them of your existence, and can even create a feedback loop that leads to better stories and more participation in discussion. Radio 4′s The Message is one
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I’ve been mulling this one over in my head: what makes a good blog posting? Here’s my bullet point list, based on a mix of reading and browsing: Firstly, it should have a clear headline. None of this cryptic, punny rubbish – tell me what it’s about. Now. Chances are I’m reading this in a list of headlines and I
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. I’ve been clearing out my Bloglines subscriptions as they seem to have grown out of control to the extent where I never actually get around to reading them. So, if I don’t see me reading them every day, they’re gone – or at least moved to a place where I’ll still check it, albeit less often. Out goes
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. I was pretty amused when a contact emailed me Paris Hilton’s phonebook, which has been hacked and distributed online. Tempted as I am to call her dad and ask for a loan, or ring Fred Durst for a casual chat there wasn’t much I could do with it. Mainly because it’s not journalism – just a hacker who
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