[Keyword: online journalism]. The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) should be re-named The Association of Good News for Online Publishers, given how many positive reports they seem to have released in the last year. The latest research predicts the UK’s web publishing industry will grow “by 37 per cent in 2006 thanks to a growth in online advertising”, reports Journalism.co.uk:
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My colleague Andrew Dubber has posted a fantastic (and amusing) post entitled ‘How to go to university’ on his blog. It may sound obvious, but advice like ‘turn up’ and ‘read books’ is really worth listening to…
[Keyword: online journalism]. The EPpy Award Blog Finalists have been named. Here’s a rundown: Best Media-Affiliated News Blog Cincinnati.com (BorgBlog)http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/borgman/ JSOnline.com (DayWatch)http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1 KansasCity.com Crime Scene KC Bloghttp://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/ Best Media-Affiliated Sports Blog TheNewsTribune.com (Mike Sando’s Seattle Seahawks bloghttp://thesportsjunky.blogspot.com/ Web site of the Houston Chroniclehttp://blogs.chron.com/sportsjustice/ Boston Globehttp://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/reiss_pieces/ Best Media-Affiliated Business Blog USATODAY.com (Today In The Sky Blog)http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/ BusinessWeek (Blogspottinghttp://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/ USATODAY.com (Kevin Maney’s
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[Keyword: online journalism]. Steve Outing is offering some tips for news organisations to give the audience a space of their own, making the compelling argument: “MySpace and Facebook are among the most successful media-related enterprises on the Web right now [...] Yet with rare exceptions, the newspaper industry is avoiding this personal-page and social-networking trend“. His tips include: “Give every
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[Keyword: online journalism]. “The New Orleans Times-Picayune won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting today for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the resulting flooding of the city,” reports the OJR. “What makes this award so significant for online journalism is the fact that the Times-Picayune published its award-winning coverage only online for the first three days after
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[Keyword: online journalism]. I’ve long been aware of Scoopt, but shame on me for not being aware of fellow Joe-Public-takes-the-photos-we-negotiate-a-fee websites Splash, thesnitcherdesk.com and cash4yourpics.com. You can find more articles at The Times, Press Gazette (again) and The Guardian.
[Keyword: online journalism]. Another one from the latest Press Gazette on the latest internet demon: “They’re stealing our content!” scream publishers, comparing their plight, strangely, with illegal downloading of mp3s and the alleged effect on music sales (much challenged (PDF), by the way). Now, while Google News is no Napster, the one concern worth exploring is “about the rise of
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[Keyword: online journalism]. The latest issue of Press Gazette features a fascinating double-page interview with the vice president of Google Europe, Nikesh Arora – the angle being Google’s impact on news production, and the internet’s impact on the news industry generally. You can find a chopped-down version on the Press Gazette website (presumably to force readers to subscribe) and sadly
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There’s an article on sister blog Web and New Media on creating a search engine for your site – or sites.
[Keyword: online journalism]. You can read a review of sorts at Poynter, which seems particularly happy with the ‘simplicity’ of the design (it doesn’t seem to simple to me, but then perhaps I’m used to British newspaper websites like The Guardian), but more importantly gives some useful links at the end to comments from the design director, among other things.
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