By Tim Carmody Changing technology is changing journalism in more ways than we can probably even understand. One of those changes concerns the definitions of “journalist” and “journalism” themselves, the question of who’s permitted to make or contest those definitions, and the other question of whether those lines are fair to draw in the first place….more
Archives for the ‘Journalism’ Category
Kara Swisher, Michael Arrington, and me: New conflicts, and new opportunities, for the tech press
maandag, 16 mei 2011
The app divide between casual readers and news junkies
dinsdag, 19 april 2011
By Andrew Phelps Can a single app please both casual news readers and news junkies? That’s the question I found myself asking upon rereading that report from a couple weeks ago on iPad users’ reactions to The Daily. The report was put together by knowDigital, a division of market-research firm Coleman Insights, which asked more than 40 iPad owners [...]
The newsonomics of the digital cafeteria
donderdag, 14 april 2011
By Ken Doctor Here’s how newspapers sell what they do to would-be readers. You can get the whole paper, now sometimes including digital access. We’ll sell you Sunday only, or the weekend, or 7-day, but you have to take our whole paper. That’s what we sell; that’s our one-size-fits-all product. It fit your grandparents and your parents, [...]
Bing’s new iPad app is a newspaper in disguise
woensdag, 13 april 2011
by Damon KiesowPublished Apr. 11, 2011 Updated Apr. 12, 2011 Microsoft’s new Bing iPad app, released Thursday, does more than search — it begins to remake the newspaper experience in digital form. The app is not being marketed as a news platform, but journalists should consider it one because it offers a great local information utility for the [...]
Free weeklies turned online only by publisher
maandag, 28 maart 2011
by Helen Lambourne A regional publisher which has scrapped the printing of most of its weekly freesheets and transformed them into e-editions says it has seen a 50pc increase in web traffic in three months.…more
Paywall or no paywall, print is still what pays
woensdag, 23 maart 2011
Peter Preston The Observer, Sunday 20 March 2011 The New York Times’s model for online charging will no doubt be widely copied. But according to one analyst, print will still be providing 86% of UK newspapers’ revenues even in 2017. So, at long, long last, we have the paywall policy all Americannewspapers – and many [...]
Selling Video Scoops Online
dinsdag, 22 maart 2011
Citizenside, other websites collect and syndicate amateur videos to professional news groups By MAX COLCHESTER PARIS—French website Citizenside recently sold a grainy video of British fashion designer John Galliano conducting an anti-Semitic rant to news organizations around the world. Mr. Galliano lost his job, and Citizenside pocketed a six-figure bounty. This was just the latest scoop [...]
Bob Woodward: ‘You get the truth at night, the lies during the day’
woensdag, 16 maart 2011
by Mallary Jean Tenore Published Mar. 15, 2011 6:34 pm Updated Mar. 16, 2011 9:56 am During a visit to Poynter on Tuesday, Bob Woodward talked about Watergate’s original code name, why he likes his iPad, and the best time of day to access hard-to-reach sources. Below, I’ve highlighted his thoughts on these topics and others. The quotes are drawn [...]
The State of the News Media 2011
maandag, 14 maart 2011
By Tom Rosenstiel and Amy Mitchell of the Project for Excellence in Journalism By several measures, the state of the American news media improved in 2010. After two dreadful years, most sectors of the industry saw revenue begin to recover. With some notable exceptions, cutbacks in newsrooms eased. And while still more talk than action, [...]
Japan Quake Shows the Limits of User-Generate Content
zaterdag, 12 maart 2011
by Erik Sass One of the big promises of the digital age was that journalism would be transformed by an army of amateur videographers – namely, all of us regular citizens – who might just happen to be nearby when something important goes down. And it’s true this kind of user-generate content has provided some pretty [...]
Why iPad Won’t Silence The Newspaper Presses
woensdag, 30 juni 2010
Benedict Evans, Enders Analysis Apr 18, 2010 12:00 AM ET The iPad is a beautiful device that offers new ways to consume and interact with content. Newspapers are piling in with paid services that some – like Rupert Murdoch - hope will offset the decline of their print businesses. But, while there is real money to be made here, it [...]
Putting a Price on Words
dinsdag, 29 juni 2010
By ANDREW RICE Published: May 10, 2010 Last year, Sam Apple got the idea into his head that what the world needed was a new kind of newspaper. This was, to put it mildly, at odds with the consensus of the marketplace. At the time, several large media companies were in bankruptcy, others were trading at penny-stock [...]


