links for 2009-11-03

• Romenesko: "@FakeAPStylebook creators 'a bit surprised this little joke of ours took off'"
  (tags: apstyle journalism humor)
• Newspaper Next: "How newspapers are thinking about paid online content"
  (tags: newspapers businessmodels onlinejournalism online)
• Mashable: "4 Ways News Organizations are Using Twitter Lists"
  (tags: journalism socialmedia socialnetworking news organizations twitter twitterlists)
• Old Media, New Tricks: "The Google Wave news community"
  (tags: journalism innovation google communityjournalism)
• Mastering Multimedia: "Ten ways to make your photos better"
  (tags: photography photojournalism journalism advice)
• 10,000 Words: "7 Essential multimedia tools and their free alternatives"
  (tags: journalism onlinejournalism tools multimedia)
• Poynter: "Seattle Times, Hyperlocal News Sites Collaborate on Coverage"
  (tags: collaboration hyperlocal SeattleTimes Poynter news newspapers websites)
• Online Journalism Review: "Starting your news website: A checklist for students and mid-career beginners"
  (tags: onlinejournalism websites development)

links for 2009-10-29

• Editor & Publisher: "Report: Many Newspaper Journos Want a Faster Transition to Digital"
  (tags: journalism newspapers online digital)
• MediaShift: "The Right Way For Media Companies to Create Social Media Policies"
  (tags: onlinejournalism socialmedia socialnetworking policies)
• MediaShift Idea Lab: "The New Era of Media Development, Part II"
  (tags: onlinejournalism media MediaShift development)
• Multimedia Shooter: "10 Projects you MUST see, NOW!"
  (tags: multimedia onlinejournalism video storytelling)
• Advancing the Story: “12 Things I’ve Learned about Online News”
  (tags: onlinejournalism newspapers)

links for 2009-10-21

• Betatales: “5 simple ways to engage users on a small news site”
  (tags: websites onlinejournalism interactive)
• Poynter: “News Orgs Make Gradual Progress in Site Navigation, Use of Social Networks”
  (tags: onlinejournalism websites socialmedia socialnetworking)
• Save the Media: “A journalist’s guide to the ethics of social media”
  (tags: ethics socialmedia journalism)
• CJR: “The Reconstruction of American Journalism”: About This Report”
  (tags: journalism)
• Romenesko: “New York Times to cut 100 newsroom jobs”
  (tags: nytimes stateofmedia)
• E-media Tidbits: “High Cost, Low Quality Plague Newspaper Video Efforts”
  (tags: journalism onlinejournalism video)
• Nieman Journalism Lab: “New York Times, still uncertain on charging, sets seven digital priorities”
  (tags: journalism nytimes onlinejournalism)
• Romenesko: “Seattle Crosscut completes its migration to a new, nonprofit model”
  (tags: nonprofit businessmodels journalism)

links for 2009-09-10

• Romenesko: “Newseum to launch 10-part ‘Future of News’ TV series”
  (tags: Newseum future journalism news)
• Mashable: “The New York Times Syncs its Social Network With Twitter”
  (tags: journalism onlinejournalism twitter socialmedia nytimes)
• Nieman Journalism Lab: “Google developing a micropayment platform and pitching newspapers: ‘Open need not mean free”
  (tags: Google micropayments newspapers businessmodels publishing)
• Reportr: “US newspapers, not TV, seek web skills”
  (tags: web skills onlinejournalism)
• Reportr: “Study finds US news media use Twitter as shovelware”
  (tags: Twitter, online journalism)

Online Journalism Links: 8/18/2009

Here are some links to recent articles and posts about online journalism I found interesting:

-Editor & Publisher: “More than 170 dailies sign on with Journalism Online“:  More than 500 newspapers, magazines and other sites have agreed to work with Journalism Online, a company that plans to help news organizations monetize online content. Affiliates select their own pay models.

-J-Lab: “Five news organizations join networked journalism project“: Several news organizations including the Seattle Times and the Miami Herald agreed to work with at least five hyperlocal news sites or produces in their communities to gather ideas and lessons for future content collaborations.

-Inside NPR.org: “The role of research in the NPR.org redesign“: Read this to find out more about what went in to NPR’s Web site redesign, including interviews, surveys and usability tests.

-NewsPay: “New York Times invites discussion of paid content“: Readers have joined an Insight Lab to discuss the Times and its endeavors.

Extras:

• E-media Tidbits: “Why news organizations need a Facebook strategy“
• MediaShift: “Four Minute Roundup: Facebook takes on Twitter; iPhone backlash“
• E-media Tidbits: “Journalism schools introduce new degrees focused on future“

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Online Journalism Links: 8/11/2009

Here are some links to recent articles and posts about online journalism I found interesting:

-Poynter: “Business Insider looks at how people share content online”: This post highlights a recent chart that broke down how people share content online.  The highest percentage, 24 percent, of survey participants use Facebook. This kind of information, Will Sullivan points out, is useful for news organizations in understanding where and how people get driven to to their sites.

-Poynter: “Bloggers, reporters handle user comments differently on news sites”: This article highlights trends that bloggers are more likley than reporters to interact with their audience and engage particpants. This creates confusion for readers and unmet expectations, Patrick Thorton writes.

-MediaShift: “How computer-assisted reporters evolved into programmer/journalists”: This post examines the rise of computer-assisted reporting and the emergence of data as an important part of online journalism.

-Knight Digital Media Center: “Pitfalls of the paywall”: This post is one of many debating the benefits and disadvantages of paying for content online. Michele McLellan poses five questions local publishers should consider before constructing a paywall.

Food for thought

Here are some additional links with ideas for newsrooms to help improve their work online and across platforms:

• MediaShift: “Five ways to use mind-mapping tools in the newsroom”
• Mashable: “The Journalist’s Guide to Facebook”
• Landing page optimization: “30+ principles to a better landing page design”

A month hiatus from blogging: What I learned

Those of you who follow this blog more regularly may have noticed that I’ve been missing in action for the past month. While I blame this partially on my lack of Internet at my house, the intensity of my job in July and feelings reminiscent of summer vacation, I also wanted to take a break to reevaluate my media habits (Thank you, Jim McPherson).

Here’s what I learned about my media consumption in a month hiatus from blogging:

Online Journalism Links: 6/28/2009

Here are some links to recent articles and posts about online journalism I found interesting:

-Knight Foundation: “News Experiments to Help Transform Community Life”: This year’s 2009 Knight News Challenge winners were announced earlier this month. This is the foundation’s news release on the awards. The largest winner is DocumentCloud, a project aimed to create an online database to share and analyze source documents.

- Journalistopia: “5 Must-Read Online Media Books”: Danny Sanchez highlights five books he often recommends to colleagues and workshop participants that he says gave him useful knowledge.

- Poynter Online: “Tracking Journalism Startups”: David Shedden produces another great links list. This time it’s information on recent online startups.

- 10,000 Words: “Journalism Grads: 30 Things You Should Do This Summer”: This includes a checklist of things to work on this summer to improve your journalism skill set. I think it’s applicable not just for journalism students and recent grads, but all journalists and journalism educators.

- Editor & Publisher: “SPECIAL REPORT: More Newspapers Drop Print Editions — And Now Online Must Carry the Day”: This report looks at the effects of dropping print editions on newspapers content, production and online product. It also examines what the challenges have been and what has worked well. (Disclosure: The newspaper company I work for is also mentioned)

Online Journalism Links: 6/16/2009

Here are some links to recent articles and posts about online journalism I found interesting:

-Journalism 2.0: “How to bring a startup culture into the newsroom”: Mark Briggs applies a post by Scott Porad of FailBlog.org and I Can Has Cheezburger? to newsrooms. This post looks at the difference between corporate culture and the culture at a startup organization. Briggs gives three ways to bring a startup culture into the newsroom.

-Save the Media: “The ‘hyperinterest’ approach to online news”: Gina writes about the idea of a portal Web site that provides access to what people are interested in as well as hyperlocal content. She proposes that this is what news Web sites should do. She later created a follow up post answering questions she received from the initial post.

-MediaShift Idea Lab: “How Video Volunteers Improved Women’s Rights, Sanitation in India”: Jessica Mayberry highlights some of the impacts of Video Volunteers‘ work training community producers in disadvantaged areas. This post includes the stories of two people’s experiences.

-AP Press Release: “New edition of AP Stylebook adds entries and helpful features”: The new edition of the stylebook includes entries about Twitter and texting.

-MediaShift: “10 Steps to Saving Newspapers”: Mark Glaser rehashes the 10 tweets he sent from his hospital bed about saving newspapers and local news. Two of my favorites: (4) “Find out what the community wants in real face-to-face meetings, not focus groups. Then do what they want” and (10) “Create a bottom-up organization where innovation is encouraged and rewarded at the edges. Use good ideas from anyone.”

Conversations on funding journalism

In the past few weeks the business models used to fund journalism have again been popular topics of discussion. Within that,  ideas about how to profit from online journalism are at the forefront of the conversation.

This week, newspaper executives met and discussed charging for online content.

Need to brush up on the subject or find out more about the conversations going on? Check out the set of links I have compiled in my delicious links under businessmodels.