[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. From http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=26650404&brk=1 “Online news, 10 years later “The facts of business life have blunted some of the promise of the Internet when it comes to publishing news online. “Writing in the Online Journalism Review, Nora Paul recalls that the first “New News” seminar held at the Poynter Institute, a journalism education group, was filled with ideas. One was
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Brief but interesting reflection by Simon Waldman on how “citizen journalism is brilliant for colour – but terrible for context”: “A BBC staffer on holiday in Pi-Pi describing what happened. Basically, there was a load of panic and shouting, followed by everyone running up onto higher ground. From there, everyone got onto their mobiles, to call people back
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Four consecutive days away from the computer and my RSS Reader is overflowing with news items. Here’s my round-up of the best: “BBC News Interactive will lose 12 journalists as part of the recent job cuts, according to news site editor Pete Clifton”. [from Journalism.co.uk] “Jay Rosen explains in his latest PressThink article, the local paper in Greensboro,
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. From the OPA: “The mega-report “The State of the News Media 2005″ offers up many positive points about the business of online media: more people going online for news and blogs, rising ad revenues, and increased customization and personalization of news. But on the flip side, the old-line news organizations that are funding the top sites are bleeding
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. The San Bernardino Sun has won an award for its online coverage of “land use and influence peddling” This included “flash-animated maps, first-person audio, photo galleries and a chat with the county’s fire marshal”. The address: lang.sbsun.com/projects/fireflood.
Keyword: onlinejournalism. Worth reading for anyone with an interest in RSS or the future of online publishing.
Keyword: onlinejournalism. I’m a great fan of the email newsletter (see my previous posting on this topic), so it’s good to see the OJR reporting that the form is seeing a resurgence, with quotes such as this: ““E-mail is still the ‘killer ap’ for the Internet,” as far as Michael Odza, the Web publisher of Santa Fe’s New Mexican, is
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. There’s an interesting posting at ProBlogger about being a professional blogger, namely the hard word that it requires. Key quote: “Yes you CAN make a lot of money from Blogging – read the stories that are going around on blogs of people making decent money from blogging – but also read about the hard work and time that
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. My previous posting about a possible moral panic around blogs seems to have been a good hunch, as more anti-blog news stories start to pour in, including: “Cyberbullying, in which school children anonymously spread gossip online using blogs, is an “epidemic” according to the Oregonian,” [source: Blog Herald] “Juror’s blog alleged to have denied rapist a fair trial“
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Keyword: onlinejournalism. So reports journalistic.co.uk with the admission that “The BBC is a bit vague as to how many “online” roles will be cut.” (numbers given are news jobs in general)
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