RELATEDFrat House Meets Debate Club When It's News and It's Fark A recent deal between a heavyweight newspaper Web site and a [...]
RELATEDWith two weeks left in an unexpectedly late deadline, the 2010 Knight News Challenge is still looking for a few (thousand) good ideas to help save journalism.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, sponsor of the 5-year contest which awards up to [...]
When I heard that The Washington Post had let go two well-known video journalists, Steve Yelvington's tweet summed up my initial reaction: "WP online layoffs are sad and self-defeating, a step backward as printies seize power."
While the Post isn't officially talking about individuals affected, I've confirmed that Travis' [...]
Poor video. For a while, he was the hot boyfriend of the online world. His buddy, pre-roll advertising, was touted as the way to save the industry. Now, like a guy who dumped us, people are trashing-talking video content on news sites and telling all their girlfriends that [...]
Google Latitude, a service that works with your mobile phone to enable people to see where you are, has launched 2 new services with interesting potential for mobile journalism: Location History and Location Alerts.
RELATEDLast week's demise of 702.tv in Las Vegas generated a lot of discussion about the quality and cost of newspaper Web site video. The jury's still out, but the verdict is not looking good.
"I've never seen a newspaper-produced TV show on the Web that has ever been successful,"' [...]
The BlackBerry has long been the smart phone of choice for many newsrooms, particularly for large news organizations.This week, Google announced the launch of SideWiki, a browser add-on that allows users to annotate Web pages with their own insights. "Wiki" is a misnomer; the tool doesn't let you edit content, only add to it. In practice, as others have noted, it resembles a comment thread' [...]
You already know why news organizations need a Facebook strategy. Here's how that strategy works for some news sites and could meet your social media goals.
The tech news and information site CNET.com, for example, "wants it to be as easy as possible to engage with our content and'" [...]
Free or paid? Ads or subscription? And what about e-commerce? Everyone in the news business -- and many who aren't -- knows of the storm over how and whether news organizations can support themselves. One thing is clear: the people studying the models and trying to use them believe there' [...]
A university in the United Kingdom is leading the way in 21st-century journalism education.
Birmingham City University has added several master's degrees starting this school year.
New degrees at the Birmingham School of Media are in:
Creative Industries and Cultural Policy Freelance PhotographyFreelancing and Journalism EnterpriseOnline Journalism Social MediaNext year, the university' [...]
As Facebook ramps up its offerings and takes on both Twitter and Google, you may need a hefty presence there to capture an audience you might not easily reach other ways. The hugely popular and still growing social networking site this week made three big advances, interpreted as steps in [...]
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RELATED Also from the recent Knight social media seminar: "How News Organizations Can Measure the Value of Social Media," by Amy Gahran Recalling his days as the sole news producer for the Rocky Mountain [...]
uShow, a free service that allows you to specify jump frames for online [...]
ESPN.com's Graham Watson has written an interesting article about college coaches who are using social media platforms (specifically Twitter) to connect with fans and get news out to recruits.
People [...]
That's what Ken Ward [...]
Earlier today, The Wall Street Journal posted this bit of breaking news on Twitter:The Journal, like some other news organizations, uses a popular service called Twitterfeed to [...]
Dan Pacheco, creator of Printcasting and winner of $837,000 from the 2008 Knight News Challenge, announced last week that the project is going national with new partners from MediaNews Group.

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Experimental Search launched in 2007, and since then Google engineers have kept expanding and tweaking these offerings. When you select one of these' [...]