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 2009-10-29

• 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 2009-05-06

• Mashable: “5 Ways Traditional Media is Going Social”
  (tags: journalism newspapers media socialmedia)
• Cyberjournalist.net: “Time spent with online newspapers rises”
  (tags: onlinejournalism newspapers readership)
• MediaShift: “Advice from the Pros to Journalism Graduates”
  (tags: journalism advice education)
• Save the Media: “Tips for journalist bloggers”
  (tags: journalism reporting blogging online)
• Online Journalism Blog: “Online audio and podcasts (Online Journalism lesson #5)”
  (tags: onlinejournalism tools video podcasts audio)
• E-Media Tidbits: “How Is Your Newsroom Using Social Media?”
  (tags: journalism socialmedia socialnetworking newsrooms)

Online Journalism Links: 3/13/09

Poynter: “Ex-WaPo Editor Jim Brady to News Sites: Experiment More, Now”: Steve Meyers posts his e-mail exchange with Jim Brady, former executive editor of washingtonpost.com. Brady talks about the need to experiment and the state of online news.

TIME: “The Ten Major Newspapers That Will Fold Or Go Digital Next”: This article from Time magazine takes a look at newspapers that are in the most danger of closure. Based on their analysis, 8 of the nation’s largest 50 daily newspapers could close in the next 18 months.

Mashable: “10 Ways Newspapers are Using Social Media to Save the Industry”: Woody Lewis looks at ways newspapers are using social media effectively to increase their chances of survival, including links to examples of successes.

New York Times: “Talk to The Times: Martin A. Nisenholtz “: Martin A. Nisenholtz, senior vice president, digital operations for The New York Times Company, answered reader questions this week, including questions about what journalism students should be learning and the state of the media job market.

E-media Tidbits: “Reimagining J-School Programs in Midst of Changing News Industry”: Maurreen Skowran outlines what a successful college journalism program in civic media would involve — lots of multimedia.

Online Journalism Links: 2/5/2009

Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists: “TNTJ December: Brand yourself and join the conversation”: Greg Linch talks about the steps he’s taken to create his online brand.

E-Media Tidbits: “Nieman Reports: ‘Journalism’s Digital Future’“: Maryn McKenna highlights and summarizes some of the Nieman Reports explorations of the digital future of journalism.

Old Media, New Tricks: “5 steps to get started on Digg”: This post provides a four step guide to getting started on social media site Digg.

The Future Buzz: “49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats”: Adam Singer provides statistics on Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Digg.

Journalistopia: “10 Things Online Editors can do to Save Their Jobs”: Danny Sanchez gives advice to web editors of things they can do to remain valuable. Actually, these suggestions and resources would be great for any journalist to pay attention to and play with.