November 2011
3 posts
How They Did It: Al Jazeera’s The Stream →
onaissues:
Al Jazeera English was looking for a fresh take on global issues and culture, with a decidedly modern spin. After a year or so of incubation, the Doha-based network launched The Stream, a web-integrated show based completely around user-generated tips and feedback, across platforms like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook and Google+. We give you an exclusive look at a day at the office on...
September 2011
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“We didn’t have to see live video footage shot from inside the collapsing...”
– Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth, addressing what 9/11 would have been like if social media existed on 9/11. Poynter’s Jeff Sonderman has more on what she said about citizen journalism and “new media.”
WatchThe Seattle Times has been featuring live webcasts of performances by local musicians, usually in timing with local music festivals. Last week, music blogger Andrew Matson had lined up two artists to perform — Truckasauras and Justin Deary, lead singer of the band Whalebones. Seattle Times’ Bob Payne tells Poynter: “The Times had originally planned to stage the webcast outdoors...
August 2011
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Media stocks drop more than the market as a whole
Stocks fell across the board Thursday in the worst day of trading since 2008. The drop was fueled by a global credit crisis and a weak U.S. economic recovery, with the expectation that Friday’s jobs report will add to the worries. The Dow fell 4.3 percent, S&P 500 fell 4.8 percent, and the Nasdaq fell 5.1 percent. Media stocks took a larger hit than the market as a whole. “Many...
“While in some situations the press may have no greater rights than those of the...”
– Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, protesting the arrest of a news photographer arrested while videotaping the police.
July 2011
12 posts
“New Yorker covers as icons are all but doomed. Online distribution has already...”
– “The New Yorker Goes Digital – But Leaves Its Iconic Covers Behind,” Mediaite
Felix: There’s been a lot of shamefacedness and... →
Agree?
felixsalmon:
There’s been a lot of shamefacedness and embarrassment on Twitter from people who tweeted the false news that Piers Morgan had been suspended from CNN. … That said, one of the things I like about Twitter is that it behaves in many ways a lot more like a newsroom than a newspaper. Rumors happen there, and then they get shot down — no harm no foul.
“Basically, court proceedings are no longer news but entertainment. …...”
– Judge Belvin Perry in explaining why he is withholding the names of the jurors in the Casey Anthony trial for three months as a “cooling off” period.
“The News of the World is in the business of holding others to account. But it...”
– James Murdoch, announcing the closure of News of the World after allegations of phone hacking and police payoffs.
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File this art project under things that are creepy but interesting. Kyle MacDonald created an app that snapped photos of people who were using computers in Apple’s retail locations in New York, and uploaded them to his site. He logically called the project, People Staring at Computers.
“If you think of legacy newspapers as department stores — with all kinds of news...”
– “How The New York Times learned to stop worrying and love the blog,” excerpted from “Page One: Inside the New York Times and the Future of Journalism,” edited by David Folkenflik
June 2011
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“Journalists are now drowning in documents and data. The tools we have to deal...”
– Jonathan Stray, interactive technology editor for The Associated Press, which won a Knight News Challenge grant to develop data visualization tools so that journalists can find the stories contained in mountains of data and documents.
“There’s a desperate competition which leads newscasts to provide what the public...”
– Ted Koppel talks with Howard Kurtz about the “CBS Evening News” with Scott Pelley, not Katie Couric
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“You cannot promote your private, paid speaking business on the basis of your NPR...”
– Jim Cameron, volunteer program director for public-access station Darien TV79, about NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston’s refusal to allow a talk to be videotaped.
“This “competition” between HuffPo and the NYT is a false one, whether comparing...”
– Top news sites lose unique visitors in May, while traffic peaks for many
“Good luck playing hopscotch in the bureaucratic minefield that is the FCC. If...”
– Comment posted on Steve Waldman’s blog in 2009 after he announced that he would lead an FCC taskforce on the future of the media. The FCC report came out yesterday, and it shows how support for government journalism subsidies has fizzled. Romenesko has a roundup of reaction and analysis.
“The FCC team that wrote the report coined the term “hamsterization” (based on a...”
– FCC report: Local TV ‘more important than ever,’ but thin on accountability reporting
“it’s like whispering to your companion during a dinner party: you might not get...”
– Susan Orlean on sending private messages via social media (via newyorker)
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You know who's sick and tired of bad press? →
utnereader:
The millennials, that’s who.
“Mike: Do you think that ProPublica is partly responsible for the growth of non...”
– From the transcript of an interview with ProPublica’s General Manager Richard Tofel.
Interesting conversation, and of course we were happy to see the MinnPost mention.
(via minnpost)
May 2011
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