According to a new study released by PR Week and PR Newswire, 52% percent of bloggers surveyed consider themselves journalists. This is an increase from 2009’s study, when just one in three had the same opinion. However, despite this, only 20% of bloggers obtain the majority of their income from their blogs; which is a [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
The point is that newspapers have been killing themselves slowly for a long time. So long as the monopoly profits rolled in, the death by a thousand cuts wasn’t paid any attention. When the Internet arrived to eliminate the advertising monopolies, the newspapers already had a foot in the grave. That said, it wouldn’t hurt [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Bay Area News Project’s CEO Lisa Frazier has a $400,000 salary, which reminds me of the news and criticisms about Paul Steiger getting $570,000 to run ProPublica. This begs the question: how much is too much in the pay of top execs at nonprofit journalism startups. [...] “They can spin it any way they want, [...]
One of the tools I use to blog with is a WordPress plugin made by Apture… with it, I choose supplementary content (and yes, authors, videos, pdf files, Wikipedia entries, links to Amazon products, Twitter feeds, etc. that all appear when you mouseover one of many little grey icons within the content here) to flesh out [...]
Thursday, January 7, 2010
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZh258ScT-c[/youtube] Here’s what else he had to say about media back in 1997: The real mass media are basically trying to divert people. Let them do something else, but don’t bother us (us being the people who run the show). Let them get interested in professional sports, for example. Let everybody be crazed about professional [...]
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Also tagged Animal Farm, Censorship, Conformity, Corporatism, Critical Thinking, Democracy, George Orwell, Indoctrination, Internet, Journalism, Newspapers, Noam Chomsky, Old Media, Propaganda, Socialization, Tyrannies
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Last night I taught a class to a roomful of journalists about how to use social media. About 25 of us or so gathered in one of the first-floor conference rooms at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In two hours, we discussed everything from how to search for groups on Facebook to all the reasons it’s so [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The CIA may or may not be interested in what people think about it, per se. However, In-Q-Tel spokesman Donald Tighe told Wired that the organization plans to use Visible Technologies’ service for “early-warning detection on how issues are playing internationally.” He noted that it has no intentions of monitoring activity in the United States. [...]
Thursday, October 8, 2009
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) announces that it will hold two days of public workshops on December 1 and 2, 2009, to examine the Internet’s impact on journalism in newspapers, magazines, broadcast television and radio, and cable television. The Internet has changed how many consumers receive news and altered the advertising landscape. Low entry barriers on the Internet have [...]
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Also tagged Advertising, Blogging, Business, Copyright, Economy, Fair Use, FTC, Funding Models, Internet, Journalism, Policies, Public Comment, Revenue Stream, Taxes, Workshops
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For people who see newspapers as whole institutions that need to be saved, their size (and not the just the dozens and dozens of people on the masthead, but everyone in business and operations as well) makes ideas like Coll’s seems like non-starters — we’re talking about a total workforce in the hundreds, so non-profit [...]
Leo Laporte, creator of This Week in Tech and the TWiT network of podcasts, spoke before the Online News Association this week and presented the very model of the new media company: small, highly targeted, serving a highly engaged public, and profitable. via The model of the new media model by Jeff Jarvis
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/740155[/vimeo] Jennifer Carroll is Vice President of New Media for Gannett. She visited George Mason University for Communication Day on Feb. 7, 2008.
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