By Mindy McAdams
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What the iPod has done to the music business, another device will do to the newspaper business, writes Charles Arthur, a technology editor at The Guardian. This is not a new notion, but Arthur’s post is particularly well written and thought provoking. More important, Arthur writes about the idea of change — not merely about [...]
With so many newspapers focusing time, money and other resources on online video, it’s great to see some real-life stats for how many people watch this stuff:
Since the video was posted on the [Gainesville] Sun Web site, [Executive Editor Jim] Osteen said, it has drawn more than 20,000 hits, a sharp rise from the usual [...]
One of the nice things you can do online (that you can’t do well at all in a printed newspaper) is gather up a big bunch of stories and present them as an orderly set, a mini library. I’ve written before how sometimes these collections come off as disorderly warehouses. Today’s example is the opposite: [...]
Our university became the focus of national attention on Monday when campus police shot a student with a Taser during a public forum with U.S. Senator John Kerry.
One story I heard after the event: An experienced reporter was assigned to cover the forum but begged off because it was “just a speech.” An inexperienced reporter [...]
My friend Mary McGuire, who teaches online and broadcast journalism at Carleton University, in Ottawa (the capital of Canada), has posted a wonderfully clear and concise list of guidelines for editing audio that all journalists can use. Bookmark it now!
In it, she answers questions that I am asked every time I teach journalists (or [...]
Among the finalists for the Online Journalism Awards category “Outstanding Use of Digital Media,” three of the seven packages center on popular music: Forty Years of ‘RESPECT’ (Detroit Free Press), a tribute to the Aretha Franklin song; Hip Hop 101 (Wisconsin State Journal); Wonderful World (The Honolulu Advertiser), a tribute to Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. Let’s take a closer look —
It’s fun to see a list of finalists for a big award. I’m always interested in the Oscar nominations, even if I don’t agree with the choices.
In our field, the Online Journalism Awards are the biggies. The complete list of links to finalists went out a few days ago. The categories include, for example, “General [...]
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