BuzzMachine WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS Journalism - Citizen Journalism - Reporting - Writing - Journalism Jobs and Careers Poynter Online Everything Under Australia’s Media & Marketing Umbrella - mUmBRE A Guide to the Media Industry - Media Decoder Blog Online - Romenesko An “overwhelming majority” of Huffington Post editorial workers asked management Tuesday to voluntarily recognize that they’ve joined a union, the Writers Guild of America, East. Word of a unionization move at the high-profile digital media company surfaced in early October, and Arianna Huffington indicated back then she was agreeable to voluntarily recognize a union if the majority so desired. Now what the union characterizes as most of the roughly 350 editorial employees, most of whom work in New York City, have signed up with the union, which represents about 4,000 media workers. Those include writers on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” writers-producers in non-fiction TV and network radio and TV copy writers. Voluntary recognition would mean avoiding a formal election process on whether the union was the collective bargaining representative of the workers. Read more Tools: Permalink
bronwen clune Newsonomics - How the emerging business of digital news shapes what we read and know How to use Google Wave to engage readers Most of Google's news tools are fairly self-explanatory. Fast Flip enables users to flick through different news sources. Living Stories collects all the developments about a single story on a single URL. And of course Google News aggregates news, and has been a source of ongoing conflict between Google and news publishers. First launched as an invitation-only preview, Google Wave is billed as both a conversation and a document. It can also be used for community building, and the blog Journalism 2.0 has offered one possible example of what this might look like. Of course, one of the distinctive features of Google Wave is that conversations on the platform are not necessarily linear, so comments can be added higher up in the conversation window, out of sight without scrolling. "A wave with a large number of people is much like being at one end of a long dinner table and trying to catch the conversation at the other end...awkward, lively and full of possibilities," Fosdal writes.
MediaDailyNews, MEDIA and OMMA Magazines The Second Act: Boost your productivity with Hemingway’s hack by Tessa Ivascu I have read many valuable "5 tips", "10 ways", "50 hacks" provided by productivity gurus to help you move forward when you have trouble being productive. To my surprise, none of these lists mentions an easy to grasp rule Ernest Hemingway applied to his writing process. His hack is perhaps too nonconformist to be part of the "getting things done" gospel…The winner of the 1954 Nobel prize in Literature explains in simple words how to keep the momentum going and how to avoid writer’s block, a common affliction amongst authors. But his hack applies to any task related to an important goal. Here’s what you should do to avoid being stuck and maintain the flow state that maximizes productivity. The quote : The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. Ernest Hemingway (You can find Hemingway's tips on writing in Ernest Hemingway on Writing and A Moveable Feast Roald Dahl’s comment : ). And this is not good for your self-esteem.
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