How Not To Save Newspapers

Seeded on Thu Feb 5, 2009 11:58 PM EST (Gawker)

Micropayments are the future of content! If I had a nickel for every time I heard that one.... It's hard to believe they're still beating this old drum.

media, business, digital, newspapers, journalism, news, web, journalists, time-magazine, digital-media

Life AFter Newspapers- What jobs are laid off reporters getting?

Seeded on Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:58 PM EST (ajr.org)

Seeded by Mike Dojc (Clipped by Hatty Lloyd)

housands upon thousands of newspaper journalists have lost their jobs in recent years in endless rounds of layoffs and buyouts. What happens in the next act?

newspapers, journalism, writing, arts

Heavy Metal In Baghdad

Seeded on Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:56 AM EST (vbs tv)

"This is risky, it's dangerous ... but uh, you know, heavy metal rules." Trailer for a doco that follows the only heavy metal band in Iraq and the dangers these musicians experience every single day

entertainment, iraq, music, saddam, saddam-hussein, documentary, insurgency, freedom, baghdad, danger

Turning the page on Print Ads

Seeded on Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:33 AM EST (Google )

Google can't save newspapers either. Its Print Ads service launched in November 2006 with the idea of helping newspaper publishers create revenue online has finally called it a day ...

google, media, technology, digital, online, newspapers, journalism, news, web, journalists

Fair Go, Fairfax - Don't discount journalism

Seeded on Sat Aug 30, 2008 5:58 AM EDT (fairgofairfax.org.au)

Australia's Fairfax Media has announced plans to cut 550 staff - about 5 per cent of the workforce - including more than 120 journalists from the group's most prestigious mastheads, The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's The Age.

media, digital, newspapers, journalism, news, web, journalists, arts, digital-media, future-of-journalism

Headzup: Murdoch, McClellan And The Media

Seeded on Thu Jun 5, 2008 2:31 AM EDT ()

politics

The Ala Carting of Video on the Net - Will it lead to disaster ?

Seeded on Sat May 10, 2008 10:01 AM EDT (blogmaverick.com)

The Mark Cuban blog referred to by TV Angel in Making Money From Internet TV (see clipped seed below)

media, tv, internet, journalism, television, news, journalists, arts, new-media, internet-tv

Will free media kill journalism?

Seeded on Sat May 10, 2008 9:53 AM EDT (thebusinessofvideo.com)

More comment on Craig Moffett's report on the viability of internet video.

media, digital, internet, newspapers, journalism, news, web, journalists, arts, new-media

How Podcasting Can Expand Your Newsvine Traffic

Fri May 9, 2008 9:28 PM EDT

By Robert Blevins - AB of Seattle (Clipped by Hatty Lloyd)

Podcasting is a reletively new phenomenon, and there are a lot of downright BAD podcasts out there. Users sign up with one of the many services available, and a great number of these folks have no idea what they're going to say, or how to make a podcast that works.

Continue reading this entry ...

newsvine, podcasts, podcasting, newsvine-columnists

Luddite Talese Won't Visit NYTimes.com

Seeded on Fri May 9, 2008 2:28 AM EDT (New York Magazine)

A NYT documentary is being made about the paper's struggles in the digital age by two veterans of old-fashioned journalism, Gay Talese and former managing editor Arthur Gelb, but Talese says he never reads and is not interested in the paper's website.

media, digital, internet, newspapers, journalism, news, new-york-times, documentary, web, journalists

Making Money From Internet TV

Thu May 8, 2008 2:14 AM EDT

By TV Angel (Clipped by Hatty Lloyd)

Sunday on his blog, Mark Cuban wrote about the viability of internet video. Cuban quoted from a recent report titled "Now for the News...The Emperor Has No Clothes," authored by Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research. From Moffett's report:

Continue reading this entry ...

entertainment, tv, television, internet-tv, afterworld, brent-friedman, craig-moffett

How do we fund journalism in future?

Seeded on Wed May 7, 2008 7:48 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

UK Guardian guru Roy Greenslade adds his tuppence worth on the future of journalism summit and gets an interesting discussion going in comments.

media, digital, fund, newspapers, journalism, news, web, journalists, revenue, arts

Building digital life lines

Seeded on Tue May 6, 2008 5:35 AM EDT (BBC News)

Telecom Sans Frontieres is a UN-sponsored organisation that sets up emergency communications links when they are wiped out in disaster areas.

technology, un, refugees, charity, victims, satellite, emergency, relief, disaster, communication

Wired for the Future

Seeded on Tue May 6, 2008 5:17 AM EDT (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

As news media experts discussed the future of journalism at a summit in Sydney this week, the Australian national television carrier, the ABC, caught up with a few of them on its weekly media watchdog show.

media, digital, internet, newspapers, journalism, news, web, journalists, arts, digital-media

Aussie slant on the futue of journalism

Seeded on Fri May 2, 2008 2:14 AM EDT (MEAA and Walkley Foundation (Australia) )

A summit was held in Sydney, Australia, this week at which a collection of news media "experts" gathered to discuss the future of journalism in the digital age.

media, digital, internet, newspapers, journalism, news, web, journalists, arts, digital-media