The community is caught in perpetual crossfire from drive-by decision making such as staff reductions, content overhauls and consolidation. Newspapers are killing themselves and they don’t seem to care if they take the rest of us down with them.
Amid a mood of despair at many newspaper companies, Gray offers hope that newspapers can find new ways of engaging customers and generating the revenue they need to offset declines in key advertising categories such as real estate, automotive, recruitment and department stores.
Great work here! Congrats, Alyssa Brian.
Sure, YouTube gets owned in quality but the reason they dominate the market is because they re stuff is so quick to load.
Unless you re doing a side-by-side comparison like this example, only broadcast snobs are going to thumb their nose at it. As long as it loads quickly, most users will accept a little fuzziness. (via )
Cuban says to go local.
Whether you are a standalone newspaper, or a local media conglomerate with Paper, TV and more, the one thing you have without question is a salesforce. Under the agreement with YouTube (terms of which were not disclosed by either party), the $15 per month Vcast fee will now get users access to selected video clips and the ability to post videos straight from phone to YouTube more easily
The Pulitzer Prize Board announced today that newspapers may now submit a full array of online material such as databases, interactive graphics, and streaming video in nearly all of its journalism categories. Yea, uh 10 years in the making.
MTV’s Music and Logo Group is now developing at least 20 “hyper-programmed experiences,” which translate into narrow online channels, set to debut during the first half of next year, many apparently heavy on aggregating and promoting user-generated Be involved in your community and transform everything from the quality of your product to the audience it receives 30 percent of the newsroom!? That s a lotta cheese steak getting trimmed.
A judge in Canada has ruled that a blogger is a journalist. What’s interesting the ruling is the judge doesn’t wade into the fray of the journalists vs. blogger debate.
He merely makes the assumption that a blogger is a journalist In a way, the tenure of a chief digital genius weirdly mirrors the fickle nature of the Web itself: hits can appear very quickly, but only a few stick around for the long haul. I m astonished that he even gave a B-
Did you check for a virus on your system?
Result: The Zune will be dead and gone within six months.
Good riddance. (via ) UPDATE: After exchanging a couple emails with the column s author, Tom Grubisich, he s made the factual correction regarding Scripps ownership of YourHub.com.
Thanks, Tom for fixing things. 
176 newspapers join Yahoo! Hotjobs, Craigslist unleashes 135 more cities for free classifieds.
Interesting timing with the Yahoo/Newspapers partnership announcement, yet no one seemed to note it. The Yahoo deal really seems like too little too late. (via )
Dan Gillmor, Here’s one reason.
College newspapers are relentlessly local. They cover essentially one thing — the school where they are based — and they often do it well. There s been a lot of jibba jabba about how hyper local sites may not have the highest ROI, but one thing newspapers can learn from them is to go local, local, local, local to build passionate, invested readership.
Speaking of
Great follow-up on citizen journalism sites, although I question a couple facts: Scripps owns YourHub? When did that happen? I always thought they were still separate companies.
Also, GoSkokie.com is now Skokie Talk at it didn t exactly die, the Skokie Library took it over, which is probably better in the long run than a bunch of college students in Evanston. (No offense to my GoSkokie homies reading this.
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Wikipedia is ahead of all English language news and media sites, excluding youtube. Some of the Chinese and Japanese language sites which are ahead of Wikipedia may fall into this category too, though it appears that most of them are portals or search engines.
Some 12% of internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at a later time.
However, few internet users are downloading podcasts with great frequency; just 1% report downloading a podcast on a typical day.
AWESOME. As I ve said before, I LOVE it when they make the judging available online!
Although, Joe Weiss voice for the first 30 seconds of his intro sounds remarkably like mine. It really freaked me out. (Via )
::drool:: Thanksgiving schmanksgiving.
HOLD ALL MY CALLS. Many of the clips are from CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show, and the network says ratings have risen 5 and 7 percent respectively since the YouTube deal began.
Should be required reading for every reporter in every newsroom.
Arts critic notes industry friends getting pwnd by outsourcability/wireability. (Via )
Cauthorn is back and I can t get enough.
Nice lede: Newspaper companies beware!
The journalists you are increasingly willing to let go may come back to haunt you. In today’s Internet world, all it takes is a little budget and a lot of ambition.
Cauthorn: Let s create a brand new product that is smarter than the existing products because no one is ever going to win and recover rights from Google.
That s like saying you re going to monetise linking - it s unrealistic. Also called tabbed browsing, slides, etc. None the less, lots of sites use them.
They re great for visually displaying top stories without just dumping a bulleted list of links.
One of the best ways to collect, organize, and even share your web research is the social networking bookmark site del.icio.
us. 602 shows you how to set up a free del.icio.
us account, and introduces you to some of the site s most useful features to help make your newsgathering even more effective.
A recap of how the St. Louis Post-Dispatch got all multimedia on the World Series ass.
Vital in our coverage was the attitudes of the photographers and editors involved, as many wore multiple hats. One of our photographers shot features pre-game and edited during the games.
Cool video tutorial for shooting video professionally.
They need to get a real mic on the freaking cameraman though. Check out this quote: You want to vary your shots. A That gives you more to play with when you re in the edit bay.
Umm and also it just makes your pieces more fun More exotic like naked chicks on a tropical island. Now go watch it.
As we buried our heads in the sand, our industry continued naively down a road marked with signs that said, Bridge Out.
Warnings of future peril didn t stop our presses, still cranking out newspapers from a gazillion sacrificial trees so we could print news everyone else was reading on the web before it even reached a TV newscast. Undeterred, we sent out our aged missives each day to be tossed over the roof of someone s burdened car onto the curb where another member of a fading demographic waited to smell the newsprint. In other words, surely you ve considered that the cultural shifts have pitted us in a battle we can t win using traditional means of journalistic warfare.
“The process has shown us the power of inviting people to the table and the importance of being at the center of the discussion,” Warren says. “Not only did … ‘crowd-sourcing’ unleash the power of people to speak out, it unleashed the power of people anywhere to respond.”
A very comprehensive wrap of everyone talking about this huge news BBC staff can now issue payments for footage from cell phones or digital cameras.
But we do not want to give people the impression that we will pay for hundreds of pieces of user-generated content, said Vicky Taylor, BBC s head of interactivity.
There is big “J” journalism and little “j” journalism, and I feel newspapers have the obligation to provide both for their communities. We have to do all that we can to continue to be the Fourth Estate — to be the watchdogs.
But we also shouldn’t be too big for our britches to cover the little things that mean so much to our readers.
Some of these complaints are insane. OH, woe is me, we must interact with readers!
?! This isn t why I got into journalism!
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A brutally frank memo by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo SVP, leaked to the public calling on management to dump peripheral activities, leaked to the public where he describes their approach as, spreading peanut butter across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world.
The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular. In other news, I m really not a fan of ValleyWag s new design.
A while back I searched for some information on the Cory Lidle plane crash and was completely surprised to see iVillage and the New York Times paying for my attention Newspapers portray the schools, colleges and universities young people attend as incompetent and ill-disciplined Half the courses are in joke subjects.
School leavers are illiterate and unemployable Then there s drugs and sex. Wtf. I m appalled, at a loss for words What journalist wouldn t be curious enough about the Internet to even try it regardless of how curmudgeonly you are Anyway, interesting quote from Rosanne Barr, The thing is you got to be able to read
Whoa A staff of 70-80 now down to 16.
*That s* running lean. Holy mother of christ the lord himself that is one serious developer they are looking for. Java, c#, VB, perl, vbscript, javascript, IIS, apache, COM, DCOM, COM+, WAP, XML, PL-SQL, Oracle, Graphics.
Sure, ok. And I want my girlfriend to be as hot as Jessica Alba and as nice and sweet as my second grade teacher. That is quite a laundry list I m not sure if they re trying to get someone to do 2,389,747 different jobs or if they re just clueless about what they re asking for.
Either way, I want to shake the hand of the man/woman/robot who fills those shoes.
Fear is the Adolf Hitler of creativity killers. It is responsible for suppressing and destroying more brilliant ideas than all of the other creativity killers combined.
Newspapers right now are filled with fear.
A documentary about the importance of journalism in free societies, airing Tuesday, Nov. 21 on PBS stations.
• Embrace the tabloid format • Set yourself free. • Get down to business.• Keep it short, stupid.
• Do something bold: Respect the reader • Do something even bolder: • Think young.• Think local.
A daily newspaper has an obligation to its readers to keep them informed, but we need to continually remind ourselves why our readers subscribe to our newspapers in the first place local news, local names, local events, local sports, local features, local photos, and local opinion.
Lucas get s all Jeff Jarvis-y. (And Jarvis , are a few where I’ve been newspapers to themselves to their essence. But Lucas Grindley is right: This is about making shifts and investments now, before it’s too late.
It s one big love fest.) The digital universe to which young people are migrating in their millions receives scant editorial attention.
I dig Jacobson but could he get a freaking RSS feed.
What is this, like 2001?
Hooray!They re hitting the streets!
Not cool at all I wonder if it ll be upheld.
About a decade ago I came up with this simple prescription, four key targets for any media site: Timely, Useful, Interactive, Enteraining. What are you telling your folks?
The Register will distribute the discs which include movie previews, downloadable songs, and interviews with actors the last Sunday of every month starting Nov. 26. Very English move.
Oh hells yea. One ticket to England, please.
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