Publish2′s Ryan Sholin: “We did not set out to kill the Associated Press” This week, with much fanfare, Publish2 announced its News Exchange service. Using the new platform, CEO Scott Karp wrote, “newspapers can replace the AP’s obsolete cooperative with direct content sharing and replace the AP’s commodity content with both free, high-quality content from the Web and content from any paid source.” With the result being “a new efficient supply and distribution chain for high quality content brands.” The “obsolete cooperative.” But now that we’re moving beyond the initial flurry of announcements and analysis of the News Exchange, it’s worth noting the nuances in Karp’s publicitytastic “New Associated Press for the 21st Century.” And there’s another word worth noting: distribution. And — whew! And that content includes…the AP’s. Chutzpah! During our conversation, Sholin also provided some background info on the structure and goals of the — indeed, quite fascinating — News Exchange. The general mechanics:There’s two big pieces to the News Exchange.
@SREE'S SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDE - a work in progress | Sree Sreenivasan * @sree * sree 7 Ways Journalists Can Use Foursquare Tech-savvy journalists usually go where the crowds are, and were quick to jump on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. As Foursquare climbs toward critical mass, with over one million users, 40 million checkins, and counting, it's also becoming a hot new tool for the digital journalist. Last week, for example, a single checkin on Foursquare by The Wall Street Journal pushed notifications to approximately 2,600 phones during the Times Square evacuation scare. Clearly, Foursquare can no longer be considered just a game. With all the recent hype, journalists and media companies are itching to find their own ways to use location-sharing apps to bolster their trade. 1. Foursquare pegs real people to real places. Additionally, when you check in at a venue on Foursquare, you can see who else is there at that moment. "David Nikel, a political candidate in Birmingham, 'checked in' at Birmingham New Street train station 5 minutes after I had. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Conclusion
Teaching mobile journalism: It’s not just the tools, it’s the mindset April 05, 2011 Mobile is playing an increasingly important role in how people access the internet and keep up with what’s happening. How can journalism schools prepare the next generation of journalists to use mobile tools and media well for reporting, publishing, and engagement? Staci Baird, a journalism instructor at San Francisco State University and an instructor for KDMC@USC’s upcoming Mobile Symposium, shares some lessons and ideas from her experience teaching mobile journalism… By Amy Gahran In 2010, Baird taught Contemporary News Media—SFSU’s first-ever mobile reporting class. Students should learn how to use their mobile phone as a tool for gathering, producing and publishing digital content. “It’s important to cover both bases: Mobile tools for reporting and publishing, and mobile as a medium,” said Baird. Baird emphasized that, so far, mobile mostly serves as a supplement to print, broadcast, and computer-based media. Such comparisons bring to light useful history lessons. Corey
Geo-Location Services Provide New Opportunities for News Knowing where someone is as they consume media can be a powerful tool in the hands of a journalist, publisher or advertiser. And as use of GPS-equipped mobile devices has grown, so has interest in and competition to provide location-based services such as tailored news and information, advertisements, coupons, travel guides and more. Recently, it seems like every digital media and advertising conference has sessions about things like “geo-location” and how to provide local services on mobile devices. The Ad:Tech conference earlier this month in New York, for example, had three geo-location seminars with executives from: Geo-location services Foursquare, Loopt and Gowalla, all of which let users “check in” from where they are, give and receive recommendations, receive rewards and communicate with friends on the services. Notably absent from the panels was Facebook. The promise Deals and its competitors are providing has been a holy grail of marketing. Opportunities for News Organizations
Part 3: Tumblr Serves “5.3 Billion Views Per Month,” Explains Mark Coatney [Video] Could Vogue afford to be a bit snobbier with their Tumblr? In the third and final part of our Media Beat series of interviews with Mark Coatney, the media evangelist for Tumblr, Mark answers this and discusses the new job opportunities popping up due to social media. Furthermore, Tumblr itself has always been particularly interested in journalism, and Mark discusses how that came about, and how it will progress. Take a look at the video below, and let us know what you think in the comments! I had a great time interviewing Mark, and hope to check back in with him in the future. For more information on the interview, check out the first part of the series here and the 2nd part here.
The Public Laboratory Creating a Navigational Guide to New Media In their new book, “Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload,” Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, who previously partnered as the authors of “The Elements of Journalism,” explore the evolving relationships, responsibilities and roles of journalists and news consumers in the digital age. In their concluding chapter—“What We Need from the ‘Next Journalism’”—Kovach and Rosenstiel describe “eight essential dimensions or functions that the new news consumer requires from journalism.” With permission, we are presenting an adapted version of their words. The news has become unbundled from the news organization. What those who want to provide the news must understand is that this new lean-forward consumer requires a new kind of journalism. Authenticator: We will require the press to help authenticate for us what facts are true and reliable. Investigator: Journalists also must continue to function as public investigators, in what many call the watchdog role.
The Newsonomics of NPR’s Next-Gen Network First published at Nieman Journalism Lab Tell me if you’ve heard this one. The head of media company says: Why are we reinventing the wheel? Why are we — we who know how to create stuff our audiences love — spending so much time and money on stuff we don’t know, like technology? It seems so simple, yet the tale of the development of new, digital technology for publishers and broadcasters has been a tale of almost uninterrupted woe. NPR Digital Services is trying, against some odds, to set a new model. The effort that was once called Public Interactive is now called Digital Services and could become…a network. As we look at the newsonomics of NPR Digital Services, we can see big potential impacts and dollars. NPR’s digital growth is impressive. So what is Digital Services? It’s intended to be a full-service center, rooted in technology and branching out to wider, collective, and collaborative, deal-making. That bigger intention builds on a number of recent public radio experiments.
Why newspapers can’t stop the presses With newspaper ad sales falling at an unexpectedly abrupt rate, many publishers at mid-year were laying off staff, requiring unpaid furloughs, consolidating plants and taking other measures to buttress their bottom lines. Although some analysts have interpreted these expense-cutting tactics as a repudiation of the print newspaper business by publishing companies, they are anything but. Publishers have undertaken these measures in an effort to keep their traditional businesses as strong as possible to fund the transition to digital publishing. But they have a long way to go. Fifteen years after the commercial debut of the Internet, publishers on average still depend on print advertising and circulation for 90% of their revenues. Stop the presses and newspaper companies are out of business. There’s no time to lose. Unfortunately, as you can see from the graphic below, U.S. newspapers have made only the barest progress in the last 10 years in migrating to the digital media.
Time to bring back a P.M. news product Back in 1940, 80% of the 1,877 of the daily newspapers in the United States were published on the afternoon cycle, meaning that editions were printed some time prior to noon for delivery to consumers coming home from work. And it was good. By 2000, 52% of the nation’s 1,480 newspapers were publishing on the morning cycle to accommodate people who worked later, had longer commutes and were more interested in watching TV than reading a paper when they got home from work. And things were still pretty good. In 2009, according to the latest statistics published by the Newspaper Association of America, 62% of the remaining 1,387 newspapers were produced overnight for delivery around 6 a.m. Now, a bit of interesting market research suggests that going back to an evening news product may be one way for newspaper publishers to build new audiences and revenues. Here’s why a Nightly eNews product could hit the spot: Fortunately, the ComScore research contains a hopeful nugget.
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