By Mindy McAdams
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I used to learn a lot from the Listservs I belonged to. There were about five lists from which I gained a lot of information about both the news business and online journalism. But now the list traffic is way, way down. I’m not sure whether e-mail lists are the victim of too much spam [...]
Overall Internet penetration among adult Americans (U.S. only) today is 70 percent. Home broadband penetration stands at 74 million people, or 37 percent of adult Americans, according to a Pew Internet & American Life report released in March. Broadband users appear to be voracious news consumers (both online and off). The report includes nice charts [...]
From Nielsen//NetRatings’ February 2006 report:
The data indicates [sic] that 38.6 million home and work Internet users visited at least one of the New York Times Company-owned sites or launched a New York Times Company-owned application during the month, and each person spent, on average, a total of 15 minutes and 37 seconds at one or [...]
The Editors Weblog has a decent roundup of recent online journalism tidbits today: The obligatory blah-blah about citizen journalism, a good point about the increasing fragmentation of search (especially as related to online video), and a well-deserved dig at the Pulitizers’ back-door approach to online.
Good stuff about international online journalism (Spain and China). The anticipated [...]
Here’s putting it all into perspective:
What the hell is the point of having this means of communication if we are not going to write about what people need to know? We can write about dating when we have our freedom back.
From Nepalese blogger Dinesh Wagle (in AsiaMedia, April 17, 2006).
Elsewhere, Bill Doskoch wrote:
Journalism isn’t just [...]
Read what Steve Yelvington wrote about the Pulitizers being old and tired.
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David Carr got it wrong when he analyzed the meaning of the Star Tribune’s reaction to employees taking copies of the newspaper without paying for them:
There is an implicit broader message. If the people who make the paper believe that an electronic version of the product is just as good as the one readers pay [...]
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