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My first proper foray into journalism was, at age 14, writing a restaurant review column titled “Morse’s Morsels” for Oceanside High School’s Sider Press. I have continued to write about food and restaurants, both professionally and for fun.
Stephen Robert Morse
Publishing 2.0
RSS is NOT dead … it just needs to be reborn: Take down the partial text RSS feeds from your website — they are useless, and nobody uses them. (Refer the four people still using them to 2 or 3 below.) Post your best content to Twitter and Facebook — they are infinitely more user-friendly, mainstream, and social than RSS readers, making them infinitely more useful and valuable. And keep that old, reliable email newsletter… email will outlive us all.
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. "When a new medium comes along, embrace its possibilities." -- And other lessons from Mike Wallace's life (Forbes) 2. NBC News presidents explains Zimmerman tape-editing snafu (Mediaite) 3. More than 67 percent of U.S. libraries now offer downloadable e-books (PaidContent) 4.
MediaShift | PBS
RT @umairh: You know, I know. If Apple reimagined "factories", "money", "organisation", that would be interesting, matter. More iStuff? iYawn.
Tom Foremski
Center for International Media Assistance | Let the people know the facts and the country will be safe. - Abraham Lincoln
On March 13, more than 50 people attended the CIMA discussion on press freedom in Turkey, which NED's Middle East and North Africa program co-organized. Turkey’s formidable economy and political will to expand its regional influence have led to a more assertive posture while several of its neighbors are locked in painful struggles for democracy. Yet Turkey may not be the model it seems, particularly for freedom of expression. Arrests of journalists, vague laws on criminal defamation and insult, Internet censorship, and concentration of ownership have had a chilling effect on press freedom in Turkey, which is one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists.
Constellation Research Group
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WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS
Alfonso Nieto died yesterday in Pamplona (Spain) but his legacy as a person, friend, writer, thinker, mentor and leader will last for many years. Without credibility, values and compelling service to readers, advertisers, audiences and communities, press and media were “cathedrals without soul”. When I went to New York’s Columbia Journalism School as a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in 1978, his frequent letters to me during that year were always inspirational, challenging and really friendly.
Editor & Publisher ®
James Rainey | Los Angeles Times | 5/18/2012 The Los Angeles Times will use a $1-million grant from the Ford Foundation to expand its coverage of key beats, including immigration and ethnic communities in Southern California, the southwest U.S. border and the emerging economic powerhouse of Brazil. Nu Yang | 5/18/2012 In east central Iowa, two local media groups, The Gazette Co. and Corridor Media Group, have teamed up with community leaders to create a regional brand.
A Guide to the Media Industry - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com
5:45 p.m. | Updated CBS News on Sunday morning put in motion its plans to honor Mike Wallace, a pioneer of American broadcasting who died on Saturday night. He was 93. The network said it would acknowledge Mr.Bloomberg News is one of the few news operations that’s flourishing, and Knowledge@Wharton provides a glimpse of the editorial strategy that fuels its remarkable engine . Founded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 1982, the financially oriented global information network today produces more than 5,000 stories per day from 146 news bureaus in 72 countries. Its TV network reaches 310 million people and it is in the middle of turning around BusinessWeek , which it bought from McGraw-Hill for $1 in 2009. Underlying the unique Bloomberg style is a 376-page style manual written by editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler (right). The most recent edition is the first that Bloomberg has made public ( buy it on Amazon ), and Wharton writes that it is a marvel of clarity and consistency. Some people might cringe at the manual’s many hard-and-fast guidelines, but consistency is a virtue when serving a time-pressed audience like equity traders.
Newspaper Death Watch
To support a recruitement campaign for the Dutch army, more than 150 uniformed soldiers in 21 major cities assisted the regular distributors of free daily Spits (Telegraaf Media Group) with distributing the newspaper today. According to Spits editior-in-chief Jan-Jaap de Kloet, the action, which was initiatied by the Dutch ministry of Defence, generated a lot of free publicity on websites, tv and radio. The free newspaper contained an eight-page section (left) sponsored by the Ministry of Defense. Job opportunities, schooling, options for foreign missions were covered in interviews and editorial contributions.
Newspaper Innovation
For the second week in a row, the shooting death of Trayvon Martin was widely discussed with many focusing on the role of race in the incident. In another debate that touched on racial themes, bloggers took issue with complaints from some fans that characters in the popular movie, The Hunger Games, were played by African American actors.
Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) | Understanding News in the Information Age
In 2011, the digital revolution entered a new era. The age of mobile, in which people are connected to the web wherever they are, arrived in earnest. More than four in ten American adults now own a smartphone. One in five owns a tablet. New cars are manufactured with internet built in.