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10 Things News Organizations Don't Understand About NewsCloud - The NewsCloud Blog

http://blog.communitystarter.org/2011/07/10-things-news-organizations-dont-understand-about-newscloud.html

During the past few years, we've partnered with a number of news organizations. Here are the 10 things they commonly misunderstand about NewsCloud. Note: #10 is actually the most important.

(Photo: Danny Kim/New York Magazine ) T wo weeks ago, I went to the New York Times ’ gleaming, modernist, Renzo Piano–designed headquarters on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan to discuss some good financial news with Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the paper’s publisher and the chairman of the New York Times Company. Good news has been in short supply in the world of dead-tree media, and for the Times in particular.

http://nymag.com/news/media/new-york-times-2011-8/

How the New York 'Times' Came Back From the Brink -- New York Magazine

The seven steps to a successful aggregation strategy for your news organization | Poynter.

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/137285/the-seven-steps-to-a-successful-aggregation-strategy-for-your-news-organization/

Media have changed in ways that now make aggregation essential to the mission of almost any news organization.

Speaking of hoops, A.V.

Gapers Block - Slow down & check out Chicago!

The essential question facing newsrooms today is this one: Does more speed and more content come at the cost of creativity? Does the “ hamster wheel ,” as described by Dean Starkman in this month’s Columbia Journalism Review cover story, reduce journalists’ capacity to move stories forward instead of playing catch-up online? And does the demand for speed and the hunger for clicks come at the cost of thoughtful editing and crafting of stories?

In a hamster-wheel world, is there room for journalistic creativity? Evidence from The New York Times » Nieman Journalism Lab

http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/09/in-a-hamster-wheel-world-is-there-room-for-journalistic-creativity-evidence-from-the-new-york-times/

In the last few weeks there has been some interesting and exciting news in the journalism startup world.

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/09/an-anaylsis-of-six-journalism-startups263.html

MediaShift Idea Lab . An Anaylsis of Six Journalism Startups | PBS

If I've learned one thing from watching the internet over two decades, it's this: prediction is futile. The reason is laughably simple: the network's architecture and lack of central control effectively make it a global surprise-generation machine .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/sep/12/networker-naughton-internet-journalism

Good journalism will thrive, whatever the format | Technology | The Observer

I'm not certain what we're to make of the hush-hush unit being set up for News Corporation under the aegis of the Wall Street Journal 's managing editor Robert Thomson , as revealed in a memo posted by Romenesko (well done again, Jim).

Is Murdoch preparing to launch two 'tablet newspapers'? | Media | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/sep/15/news-corporation-robert-thomson

Radio Business Report/Television Business Report - Voice of the Broadcasting Industry

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-17/apple-said-to-negotiate-with-publishers-over-digital-newsstand-for-ipad.html

Apple Said to Negotiate With Publishers Over Digital Newsstand For IPad - Bloomberg

Apple Inc. is developing a digital newsstand for publishers that would let them sell magazines and newspapers to consumers for use on Apple devices, said two people familiar with the matter. The newsstand, designed particularly for the iPad, would be similar to Apple’s iBook store for electronic books, said the people, who declined to be identified because the negotiations are private.