[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Another helpful piece at Poynter, this time about using online social networking sites to help research stories. Here’s a lengthy but insightful quote-within-a-quote: “Ryan Blitstein, a staff writer at SF Weekly and former Columbia Journalism student … shows you why reporters should learn more about such sites (he calls them “a goldmine for sources”). Social networking Web sites
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Fascinating results reported by Poynter: “When reading news online, men follow a zigzag pattern while women tend to cross the page vertically (see illustrations).”
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. That’s the argument of Steve Outing’s article on Poynter, which reports the move of the Press Association’s project to convert regional newspaper journalists into video-journalists. It’s based on a report by David Dunkley Gyimah, senior lecturer at the University of Westminster, “who has been doing some of the training for the program. He explains: “It’s the newspapers’ answer
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Another good pointer from Poynter (sorry): Digg.com “a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control. With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.” It is gaining popularity rapidly. Business Week Online recently featured its founders. “An interesting aspect is that Digg.com
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Poynter reports on the next generation of mobile phones which will: “be the equivalent of today’s high-end digital cameras — featuring an 8-megapixel camera capable of doing excellent-quality video. “Another cool feature that’s coming: Storage will be on tiny SD cards, allowing a more convenient way to get images off the phone than what’s common today (using the
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. “We rate the news sites”, they proclaim. Well, that’s nice. If you want to improve your site’s ranking on Google News, it’s well worth exploring, as that’s what they focus on.
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. As reported in The Guardian: “Advertising guru Sir Martin Sorrell has told newspapers to start charging more for online content to rescue falling revenues.” He seems to be unaware of the fact that advertising revenue from online newspapers is one of the fastest rising sources of revenue for newspapers (and the reason Murdoch was so keen to explore
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Interesting move from the newspaper, as reported at Journalism.co.uk: “As a user, Blinkx allows you to do everything you can do with a tool like Google Desktop, [said Times Online product manager Dan Leonard]. As a publisher it gives you reach onto users desktops so you can make them aware of Times Online’s content.”
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. …another useful link about “informational and storytelling experiences designed and produced for the web”
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Discovered this great article while looking for something else entirely: an overview of outstanding examples of the various forms that online journalism takes – everything from audio and video to Flash, blogs and archives. Well worth a look for some very useful links.
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