Cash cows don't walk in middle of road

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 5:33 PM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

Guess whose business is thriving with Barack Obama in the White House? His critics at Fox News Channel.

business

MySpace shake-up: Upper hand is elusive in social-media arena

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 5:28 PM EDT (USA Today)

The resignation of MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe late Wednesday underscores the unrelenting pressure it and its rivals face in a down economy: turning their popular social-networking sites into money-making ventures.

technology

Google and Apple ties scrutinized by FTC

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 5:22 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Google Inc. acknowledged Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission was making antitrust inquiries into ties between the search giant and Apple Inc., which are increasingly competing in areas such as mobile phones.

technology

MDs could inject Wikipedia with a syringe of accuracy

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 5:17 PM EDT (geek.com)

A medical student and a post-doctoral researcher have written a report stating that medical doctors could and should spend more time writing and editing Wikipedia pages that relate to medical topics.

technology

Irish student's Jarre wiki hoax dupes journalists

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 5:00 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Journalists learn their lesson from relying on Wikipedia as a source for quotes.

technology

Flipped!: Want to get teens excited about summer reading? Just add video.

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 4:51 PM EDT (schoollibraryjournal.com)

With online engagement such an integral part of their world, Washington state's King County Library System (KCLS) decided to meet kids on their own turf by launching Read.Flip.Win., a video component of its summer reading program for teens.

technology

University of North Texas student's Twitter project sparks debate over citizen journalism

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 4:41 PM EDT (star-telegram.com)

Photography student Wes Baugh wanted to make a point about the ubiquity of public information on the Web, and maybe create a little new media art in the process. But his project quickly became something more

technology

Brands Under Attack: Marketers Can Learn From Domino's Video Disaster

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 4:30 PM EDT (Forbes)

The Domino's story that unfolded last week has been widely viewed as a cautionary tale about how not to handle a growing public relations disaster in a real-time world.

technology

Guerilla Journalism

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 4:25 PM EDT (gtweekly.com)

Cournalists are a new breed of everyday-people reporters, for whom journalism training is unnecessary and the inverted pyramid is one of many "archaic" (in the words of Wilkinson) rules of news writing.

technology

The American Press on Suicide Watch - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 4:15 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Whatever shape journalism ultimately takes in America, make no mistake that in the end we will get what we pay for.

technology

Pew Research Center: Pig Flu and Politics Clog the Blogs

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 4:07 PM EDT (pewresearch.org)

Bloggers and social media last week got swept up in the breaking news story -- to a degree nearly identical to that in the mainstream press.

world-news

Newspapers Failing to Turn the Page -- Politics Daily

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 3:47 PM EDT (Politics Daily)

Yesterday, a Senate hearing billed as examining "the future of journalism" became a eulogy-tinged debate about the future of the newspaper industry itself.

technology

JEECamp: Kyle Macrae describes lessons learned from Scoopt

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 3:36 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

UGC photo site Scoopt founder Kyle Macrae says: The BBC's approach to user-generated content robbed us of revenue.

technology

Fox News, MySpace Team For User Generated Content

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 3:31 PM EDT (broadcastingcable.com)

Fox News and fellow News Corp. property MySpace are teaming up to create a user generated content portal on the social networking site.

business

Is User-Generated Content Out? | Newsweek.com

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 3:27 PM EDT (Newsweek)

By any name, the current incarnation of the Internet is known for giving power to the people. Sites like YouTube and Wikipedia collect the creations of unpaid amateurs while kicking pros to the curb—or at least deflating their stature to that of the ordinary Netizen.

technology

Technology and I

Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:08 PM EDT

As part of a computer literate generation, I love technology. It makes my life easier. Not a day goes by that my nimble fingers do not come into contact with a computer device.

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The Future of Journalism Is Not in the Past

Seeded on Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:57 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

We need to step back and ask some tough questions.

business, journalism

Life and Death in the Google Age Interview With Jeff Jarvis | delawareonline | The News Journal

Seeded on Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:00 PM EDT (delawareonline.com)

In a previous life Jeff Jarvis was a big-city newspaper editor and TV critic who became the creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly magazine.

MediaShift . How to Teach Yourself About Social Media When J-Schools Fail | PBS

Seeded on Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:57 PM EDT (PBS)

It seems that we should rethink not only journalism, but also journalism education: Tomorrow's journalists will need to take the initiative to teach themselves about rapidly changing technology.

technology

Making Old Media New Again - WSJ.com

Seeded on Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:54 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

It's make-or-break time for many newspapers. Denver and Seattle recently lost dailies, the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times are both in bankruptcy, and owners of the Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle threaten closure.

technology

How the EU plans to regulate blogs :: Daniel Hannan

Seeded on Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:51 PM EDT (Telegraph)

The EU is determined to clamp down on blogs. Eurocrats instinctively dislike spontaneous activity. To them, "unregulated" is almost synonymous with "illegal". The bureaucratic mindset demands uniformity, licensing, order.

technology

Ethnic Press Hit By The Recession : NPR

Seeded on Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:45 PM EDT (npr.org)

The economic recession is being felt by all industries, and the news business is no exception. Newspapers across the country are buckling to the bad economy, but many newspapers targeting minority readers are especially struggling.

business

MSU journalism students face world of new media | lansingstatejournal.com | Lansing State Journal

Seeded on Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:41 PM EDT (Indictment: Lansing store owners traded food stamps for cash, guns, drugs | Lansing State Journal | lansingstatejournal.com)

Things are different now. The students who leave Michigan State University's student newspaper this spring may well find work as journalists. But they know that some of them will never work at a newspaper again.

education, journalism

US newspapers need to adapt in order to survive - The Irish Times - Mon, Apr 13, 2009

Seeded on Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:39 PM EDT (Ahern's inclusion in artists' tax-break scheme 'galling' - The Irish Times - Thu, Jan 07, 2010)

The whistling paperboy speeding down the street on his bicycle, merrily flinging rolled up newspapers into front yards, is fast disappearing from the American suburban landscape.

business, newspapers