links for 2009-11-19

• MediaShift: “Profiles in Courage: Social Media Editors at Big Media Outlets”
  (tags: journalism socialmedia editors media onlinejournalism)
• MediaShift: “The Shutdown of UWIRE and the Implications for College Media”
  (tags: UWIRE collegemedia newspapers journalism wires)
• Multimedia Shooter: “5 Things Your News Org Should Check Out”
  (tags: journalism onlinejournalism media mapping RSS Youtube newspapers)
• Editor & Publisher: “AP Drops at Least Eight in Photo Staff”
  (tags: journalism layoffs associatedpress)
• Poynter: “Don’t Give Up on Online Video Yet”
  (tags: journalism onlinejournalism video multimedia)
• Steve Yelvington’s media weblog: “Keller’s list of 7 priorities should be every newsroom’s list”
  (tags: journalism newspapers future convergence web onlinejournalism)
• Steve Yelvington’s media weblog: “Some advice to designers of news websites”
  (tags: journalism newspapers design webdesign websites media)
• Idea Lab: “Changes in Media Over the Past 550 Years”
  (tags: journalism media change)

links for 2009-11-10

• Nieman Lab: “How a blog, a camera, and a court are feeding journalism’s long tail”
  (tags: journalism onlinejournalism blogging hyperlocal)
• Online Journalism Blog: “Five factors that foster innovation in the online newsroom”
  (tags: journalism onlinejournalism innovation newsroom media convergence)
• Editor & Publisher: “Newsroom Interns: Helped, or Hurt By Cuts?”
  (tags: journalism interns cuts businessmodels)
• Poynter: “Fort Hood Shooting Shows How Twitter, Lists Can be Used for Breaking News”
  (tags: twitter socialmeda twitterlists poynter news forthood)
• 10,000 Words: “5 Ways to find, mix and mash your data”
  (tags: journalism onlinejournalism database tools)
• Reportr.net: “The disconnect between newspaper execs and readers over paid content”
  (tags: newspapers businessmodels paidcontent readership onlinejournalism)
• Mashable: “How Social Media is Taking the News Local”
  (tags: journalism twitter socialmedia local)

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”

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: 5/13/09

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

-Teaching Online Journalism: ” Multimedia journalism teaching: 10 things I learned”: Mindy McAdams discusses what was effective and ineffective in the 1 credit multimedia journalism class that was taught in addition/conjunction with a reporting class. She has also linked her syllabus and examples of her students’ work. Journalism educators should take a look at this and comment section for ideas in how to build multimedia into your courses.

-MediaShift: “Building the Ideal Community Information Hub”: Mark Glaser provides eight tips on how to create a community hub for local information that aggregates it all in one online source. His tips include cracking open government data and access and bringing stake-holders together for face-to-face discussion.

-contentious.com: “Hashtags: Your Social Media Radar Screen and Magnet”: Amy Gahran highlights ways to use hashtags to your advantage including how to monitor them through Twitter clients and services and how to start them.

-MediaStorm: “Advice to Multimedia Producers”: Eric Maierson gives tips compiled by members of the MediaStorm team on the underlying ideas that shape their production process ranging from equipment and production to inspiration and organization.

-Editor & Publisher: “Worldwide Study Finds Newspapers Do Have Future — and Here’s How”: This article examines a new report on the global outlook of the newspaper industry by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC), along with the World Association of Newspapers. It surveyed nearly 5,000 consumers, 30 newspaper publishers and 10 advertisers/media agencies around the world. It that access to capital and a willingness to try many experiments is key to survival, and newspaper companies with the long-term viability are those that can invest in several digital strategies at once.