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The theme of this year’s World Economic Forum meeting at Davos was “rethink, redesign, rebuild.” When a friend recited that list for me, I responded that given the institutions there, the more appropriate slogan is “replace.” Last year when I arrived at Davos, I wondered whether we were among the problem...
First, the news: Google told me today that they would consider giving more transparency about revenue splits in Adsense. At a private meeting with a dozen and a half media people at Davos with CEO Eric Schmidt, President of sales Nikesh Arora, search boss Marissa Mayer, YouTube founder Chad Hurley,...
The European, a German online news service, asked me to write a commentary for a debate on paid content. Here it is in German. And here’s the English text: I have nothing against charging for content, if you can. After all, I’m selling a book. But I believe building pay walls...
Just as The New York Times announces its pay wall, Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger gives an important speech on the topic — indeed, on the very nature of journalism — arguing against pay walls. Charging, Rusbridger says, “removes you from the way people the world over now connect with each...
My column in the Guardian argues that we have a right to link and that the link is the basis of freedom of speech online. The issues are important and so I’m posting the entire column here: * * * Linking is more than merely a function and feature of the internet....
Entrepreneurial journalism on the air
On this week’s On the Media, Bob Garfield interviews me about CUNY’s entrepreneurial journalism program and the idea of teaching journalism students business. See our conference (call) with J-schools around the world that are starting to teach entrepreneurial journalism. We also discussed the New Business Models for News Project....
CJR
“Smokestack Effect” garners another prize for outstanding reporting...
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The Ethics of Undercover Journalism
Why journalists get squeamish over James O'Keefe's tactics...
Two Louisiana political reporters on why James O'Keefe's Landrieu story wasn't news to them...
Hearts, Minds, and the Satellite Dish
America's televised message in the Arab world is dull and poorly managed...
The Journal Reveals Yet Another Mortgage Bug
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MediaShift
Google News to Publishers: Let's Make Love Not War
In the view of some traditional media execs, Google is a digital vampire or a parasite or tech tapeworm using someone else's content to profit. As that rhetoric heated up in the past year, Google has responded not with equal amounts of invective but with entreaties to help publishers. Google launched...
For years, the digerati have been declaring the end of email as a useful tool. Back in 2003, experts said RSS feeds would spell the death of the inbox. In 2007, Wired and CNET said younger generations were using IM, Facebook and MySpace instead of email. More recently, PC Magazine's John...
On-Demand Publishing Opens Up Magazine Industry
Publishing a magazine independently used to mean spending a lot of money ordering hundreds or thousands of printed copies, and then hoarding the unsold inventory in dusty boxes in your garage for the next decade. The new pioneers in on-demand magazine publishing hope to save aspiring publishers from this expensive and...
4 Minute Roundup: iPad Mania; Yelp Scores $100 Million
This episode of 4MR is brought to you by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration, web hosting and 24/7 support. Visit GoDaddy to learn more. Here's the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week's edition, I look at the hype...
GlobalPost Expands Partnerships, Struggles with Pay Service
A year ago, GlobalPost launched online with an ambitious mission to "redefine international news for the digital age...with a decidedly American voice." The idea was to hire freelance stringers around the world to report back to the U.S., and thereby fill the gap left by the closure of traditional media's...
College Media Should Ignore Siren Song of Pay Walls
The drumbeats are growing louder, as Rupert Murdoch, Steven Brill, and now the New York Times have confirmed: Pay walls or metered pricing systems for online news content will soon be coming to a high-profile website frequented by you. Too little, too late? Journalism's savior? A final nail-in-the-coffin separation between...
Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) - Understanding News in the Information Age
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Christie's to auction Michael Crichton's art works
LONDON (Reuters) - Works from the art collection of bestselling U.S. author Michael Crichton will be sold by Christie's in New York in May, the auctioneer said on Friday....
Feds still troubled by Google's digital book deal
SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. Justice Department still thinks a proposal to give Google the digital rights to millions of hard-to-find books threatens to stifle competition and undermine copyright laws, despite revisions aimed at easing those concerns....
Turn Off Windows 7 'Compatibility Mode' for iTunes
Back in December I told you about Windows 7's little-known application-compatibility troubleshooter, which I'd used to try to resolve a problem with iTunes....
Democratic lawmakers question Comcast and NBC executives about proposed merger
House and Senate Democrats grilled top executives of Comcast and NBC Universal in hearings Thursday on the companies' proposed $30 billion merger, with some lawmakers expressing concern that the deal could hurt consumers and stifle competition....
Doggone it, Franken doesn't like NBC-Comcast merger
NBC's worst nightmare came true Thursday -- the other, non-Conan nightmare -- when a former NBC on-air talent/producer turned senator went off on network and Comcast suits during a Senate hearing about the proposed merger of the two media behemoths....
Publishers, Amazon in flux in e-book pricing fray
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The chief executive of book publisher Macmillan said on Thursday his company is still in talks with online retailer Amazon.com Inc over the pricing of its books, even as Hachette Book Group vowed to protect its authors through a new model for prices....
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The Scoop
Using Geocoders with GeoDjango
Update: Simon has updated his library to make it easy to reverse the order of coordinates. Thanks! For a “15-minute project“, Simon Willison’s geocoders library is pretty handy if you’re doing geocoding with Python. It offers a common interface to the geocoding services provided by Google, Yahoo and other sources. When...
Readers aren't dumb; they want to know what we know, and they know that the web makes it possible for us to share with them at a national and even local level. The level of commitment and effort that we put into responding to their need for relevant and meaningful...
Anyone in journalism who knows me knows how much of a debt I owe to an organization called Investigative Reporters and Editors. Sure, I liked playing with data before I found out about IRE, but the knowledge and support that I’ve received from IRE training, conferences and members has been...
I haven’t mentioned Fumblerooski in awhile, but rest assured that work continues, especially during college football season. I’ve added more coaching information (still a long ways to go on that, though) and will be unveiling player rankings soon. But the biggest thing I’ve done lately has nothing to do with...
The job cuts at the Washington Post on Friday have produced a round of comments, broadly summed up by Steve Yelvington earlier today. They certainly begged the question that occurred to me as a former employee of both the Post and WPNI, its soon-to-be merged online operation: “What explains this...
Buying Into Computational Journalism
Update: Duke’s Sarah Cohen responds in the comments. The intriguing title of a recent report from scholars at Duke is “Accountability Through Algorithm: Developing the Field of Computational Journalism“. Semi-related to CAR, Computational Journalism is defined as “the combination of algorithms, data, and knowledge from the social sciences to supplement the...
Advertising Age - MediaWorks
Commercial TV (Literally and Figuratively) Rules Ratings
MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) -- DVRs. Mute buttons. PBS. There are a lot of ways viewers seek to avoid commercials. Except, that is, when the commercials are good. Every year people pay the price of a movie ticket to see spots from "The British Television Advertising Awards." And just last night more...
When a Reviewer Loves the Promo More Than the Show
With all due respect to "Deal or No Deal" and Larry King, "Extra" is the single most weightless program on television today. By comparison, it makes lite-entertainment doppelganger "Access Hollywood" look like "Frontline Presents: Solzhenitsyn Unbound." ...
Some guys need a bit of help when chatting up the ladies, so Lynx fragrance launched a series of apps as part of its "Get in There" campaign to help men break the ice. In "Perfect Man Revealed," the user asks a girl to take a multiple choice test to...
Subaru Puts Dogs in the Driver Seat for New Campaign
LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- To encourage pet owners to drivers its cars, Subaru has gone to the dogs -- literally. ...
Maxim Magazine Goes on Sale in the App Store
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Maxim has become the latest major magazine to sell digital versions of regular print issues that are tailored for display on the iPhone and iPod Touch, following Conde Nast's GQ and Hearst Magazines' Esquire to the App Store. Even with the impending arrival of Apple's iPad,...
Obama Introduces iPad, Steve Jobs Gives State of the Union Address ...
Apparently the president of the United States is giving some sort of speech later. But that hasn't stopped Steve Jobs from briefly overtaking him once already today as a Twitter trending topic. ...
Robb Montgomery
Designing with the iPad in mind
How to travel with an iPad will be a real nightmare unless you have clothes with bigger pockets. Now we have a vest that is suited to the task....
Poster design for Web workshop at KircherBurkhardt Akademie
Poster design for Robb Montgomery's "Writing for the Web" seminar at KircherBurhardt Akademie in Berlin, Germany....
Haiti: Visual data helps relief workers see hardest hit areas
Haiti: See this highly-detailed 3D post-earthquake image that Google is making available. Visual data helps relief workers see hardest hit areas....
Robb's workshop is an essential step for anyone making the move from print to video journalism - and, let's face it, that's everyone in media today....
Joe Raffelberg (Egypt Media Development Program)
Robb is not only a very professional trainer in multimedia subjects he is also a visionary that translates his ideas into money-spinning strategy...
Janet McNally (Pennsylvania Newspaper Association)
"He can work with a roomful of people who are all in different stages of development, and somehow make it all come out very well."...
News Videographer
I have new respect for my readers
When I started this blog and committed to it in a serious way, I was a full-time videographer at a major newspaper in Texas. Even though I had to self-teach a lot of my video skills — Which was very hard — I had it easier than a lot of...
My dirty little secret: I have no tripod
Around May of last year I took the plunge and bought my own video set up. I got the Sony A1U, a Sennheiser wireless kit, a nice light, and a jiffy bag. Around that time my workplace had two tripods I could borrow any time. Plus, I really didn’t know what...
Ten ways to make your photos better « Mastering Multimedia Colin's giving great advice! Read it all. (tags: photography tutorial) a links for 2009-11-12 a links for 2009-11-12 ...
One door closes, another opens
Until about two months ago I really didn’t know what would happen to my journalism career. I had put it on pause so I could move to the same city as my fiancee. I took a job in another industry and spent a lot of time missing journalism. Finally that...
Here’s a cool new site to ask and answer questions about video: VideoWTF? The site has great functionality. Anyone can post questions, answer other people’s questions, rank them, tag them, etc. It seems like there are some really knowledgeable people contributing to this site. Check out this one. I learned something new! a VideoWTF? a VideoWTF? ...
Regular readers may have noticed recently I haven’t been writing regularly. You may be wondering what’s going on! Or maybe not. But I’ll tell you anyways. For the past month, I’ve been getting accustomed to my new job! I was hired on Sept. 21 at Neighborhood Media, a company that runs...
Random Mumblings
The new Scripps Convergence Lab at the University of Tennessee is being quickly put to use by the public as well as students. The Knoxville Digital Strategy Winter Summit will be held in the Convergence Lab on Feb. 24 and......
Seeing the journalists of the future
I spent most of last week at Hampton University at Scripps Career Days. The students I met were extremely bright and they have a wonderful facility to work in at the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications. There are......
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Bulldog Calacanis bites comScore's leg
Jascon Calacanis gets his rant on comScore, calling them "the technology industry's biggest bully."It has always baffled me why people continue to rely on comScore when its data is so flawed, particularly when the data drills down to local markets.......
They'll have to tow Ruffin McNeill away
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Ruffin McNeill didn't say a word. He just walked into the room filled with reporters and fans waiting to hear from East Carolina's new coach and repeatedly pumped his right fist in the air.He was home,......
Hurry, antidote needed for dreaded 'Knoxville Syndrome'
Too often, we let the sources set the terms. Even as (WBIR News Director) Bill (Shory) states this obvious truth, the crowd of his peers nearly shouts him down, yelling "Yes, he does!" That's absurd. This group of reporters in......
Newspaper Death Watch
Alan Mutter is stirring things up again with a spreadsheet that journalists can use to value their work. His thinking: Stop debasing yourself by working for peanuts. Figure out what your time is worth and charge accordingly. With his characteristic eye for detail, Mutter figures such factors as the self-employment tax...
Newsday Paywall Nets Just 35 Subs
Publishers who cheered The New York Times decision last week to build up a wall in front of its content should be considerably less cheery about the news emanating from Newsday. The Long Island daily has admitted that it has signed up just 35 paying subscribers since it put most...
NY Times Swallows Paywall Pill
The New York Times is building a paywall despite the 2005-2007 disaster that was TimesSelect. On Wednesday, the Times announced the decision to start charging for access beyond a specified number of articles beginning in 2011. Details, including the fee and the access threshold, weren’t revealed. The Times is leaving...
Who Will Tell Haiti’s Story in the Future?
Watching the heart-rending images and stories coming out of Haiti over the last week, we’ve found ourselves worrying not only about the human tragedy but also about how much we really know about what’s going on down there. The Haitian earthquake is a vivid example of how the world still relies...
Forecasting Daily Print’s Demise
It’s now generally accepted wisdom that, at some point, the population of people who are willing to pay for printed newspapers will decline to the point that print will no longer be a viable medium. Alan Mutter hauls out the spreadsheets and applies his trademark statistical eye to the data...
Documentary Explores Industry’s Decline
Adam Chadwick and Bill Loerch are two filmmakers who are trying to chronicle the decline of the US newspaper industry for a documentary film called Fit to Print. Chadwick is a laid-off New York Times copy editor and Loerch has spent most of his adult life making films. We spent several...
Open
Following last Decembers post, I've collected a slightly larger round of links from my colleagues as well as solicited links from our readers - from Flash on the iPhone to official New York City subway data....
More Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud
Today we're pleased to announce the addition of approximately 5,000 new subject headings to data.nytimes.com: organizations, publicly traded companies and geographic identifiers....
Article Search API Enhancements
The Times Article Search API already had a rich set of data attributes, but we couldn't resist adding a few more....
This post is the first in a new series that offers a look at what NYTimes.com developers are reading and sharing online....
Nominations Data Added to Congress API
We've added civilian nominee data to the Congress API, to allow you to track the progress of presidential nominees as they move through the process....
NYTimes.com developer Nick Thuesen recently chatted with the Yahoo Developer Network about his work with Times APIs, TimesPeople and more....
Twitter / themediaisdying
themediaisdying: Facebook is now the fourth largest distributor of news content on the web - http://bit.ly/91k4W9 (RT @KellyPaterson:)...
themediaisdying: Axel Springer German titles latest to introduce paywalls : http://bit.ly/dsuune (RT @jessica_barlow: RT @NewMediaAge)...
themediaisdying: #FF JimMacMillan (smart), @newmediajim (new media!), @dannyborwn (good heart), @gawkerdotcom (NY/media), @ed2010news (interns)...
themediaisdying: INTERESTING/MUST READ: Why it makes sense for newspapers to give a $250 iPad coupon to print subscribers. http://is.gd/7IL0r (RT @Poynter)...
themediaisdying: SECONDED: Reading: Unleavened Media | Building a culture of innovation http://ow.ly/13JGf nice piece by @levshapiro/ RT @gleonhard...
themediaisdying: GEEK Magazine not looking that healthy on Facebook : http://bit.ly/cgEFrn (via @zerochan)...
washingtonpost.com - Tom Shales TV Column
The last time I tossed off programming advice for network executives was to suggest that NBC put Jay Leno on every night at 10 o'clock. Gosh, what a swell idea....
Tom Shales on TV: President Obama is tough during the State of the Union
Americans watch the State of the Union speech largely to check out the state of the president. And the state of Barack Obama appears to be rough, tough and undaunted, though it would be going too far to say it's now "No more Mr. Nice Guy."...
In dying color: No. 4 NBC has cast itself in the role of the fading peacock
Where there's mire, there's muck, and NBC is just the place to find both. It's long been a kooky little tradition that when TV columnists and critics write about which of the four major broadcast networks is doing worst in the ratings, they say it is "mired in fourth place"...
TV review of the MTV 'Hope for Haiti Now' benefit
As it has for past catastrophes, the entertainment aristocracy marshaled its forces Friday night and used television and the Internet to stage a global fundraiser for the victims of a natural disaster. "Hope for Haiti Now," aired on stations throughout the world, including at least six in the Washington area,...
'Caprica' on Syfy creates a world that warrants a return visit
On the planet Caprica, belief in a single, omnipotent God is considered heretical and naughty children are sent to bed without their Holoband. The Holoband is a gadget that lets users, most of them young, travel to a wicked disco of the mind where the entertainment includes human sacrifice, and...
Tom Shales on the villains in the Leno-O'Brien fiasco at NBC
Back in the late 20th century, when people were getting sick of stories about David Letterman's mistreatment by NBC -- instead of getting sick of stories about Conan O'Brien's mistreatment by NBC -- I managed to get an NBC executive on the phone, which wasn't easy in those days, and...
One Man & His Blog
When is a Blogger not a Blogger?
Isn't it interesting how the broadening of the communication channel causes gatekeepers of all stripes (in this case, the Tory press office) to tie themselves into knots trying to define who is "media" and who isn't? Incidentally, I think they'll live......
I have about three iPad-related posts in my head right now. One of them exists in partial form in my blog software.But I can't bring myself to publish them, and that's for much the same reason as I refused to......
Flighblogger, one of our stable of blogs on Flightglobal, was just shy of 4m pageviews in 2009, from 2.3m visitors.Not bad for B2B. :-)Congratulations, Jon. A solid mix of work and skill there, mate. ......
Participatory Culture and Traditional Media
Kevin Anderson on why people participate in online communities and share content on them: I can tell you why I bother. A global culture of participation has been, for me, key in meeting one of Maslow's hierarchy of needs: Belonging.......
Kodak, Disruption and Economic Inertia
From an article about Kodak's difficult decade: Even though they talked about being in imaging and memories - their financial base was still in film, and even though they could move conceptually, they could see no way to move economically......
Lurking around in my browser tabs:On Makers and Managers - good look at the tension between these two roles that should be familiar to most people in journalismThe Death of Tag Clouds - this has been creating some debate internally......
VideoJournalism
I had an interesting experience this weekend. I found one of my videojournalism postings in its entirety on another site without attribution, although there was a link that just said basically to see original click here. When I emailed and requested that my work be taken down because I believed...
Contest, schmontest. Most contests today are “opportunities” to sell yourself out cheaply or for free. If the cause is worth it, go for it – but otherwise beware. So goes my thinking. However, I’ve found a contest that I do not even plan to enter, but I will watch closely:...
UPDATE: 1/16/10 @ 12:47pdt Check out this link from Imarsat. They’re involved in a big way with first responders, but apparently are also taking the time (see below) to try to help a small group of students in Jacmel, south of the capitol. UPDATE: Inmarsat, the company that provides...
Concentra’s VJ Awards coming up…
Why enter contests? Most photogs I know don’t do it for the cash or trophy…they do it for (a) bragging rights and (b) to see how they stack up. Plus, sometimes – just maybe – it can influence the boss (or prospective boss). The fifth annual Concentra Award deadline...
Cohort Kathy Newell and I spent New Year Day morning covering a local version of the polar bear club story – the Frozen Bun Run in Bethel Island out on the Delta. She was the photog and I took a try at being a reporter – something new for me. ...
I won! – or at least can prove I can write drivel faster than the next person with a keyboard. Thanks to teachj for this fun link to a race against time. Set your goal (mine was two hundred words) and type away and try to beat the...