May 2012
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“Young reporters tend to think they need a byline from The New York Times to make...”
– Samantha Swindler, managing editor of the Corbin (Ky.) Times-Tribune, explaining how 2 twentysomething journalists brought down a corrupt Kentucky sheriff
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“We’re switching to Facebook comments because building or maintaining our own...”
– Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo
April 2012
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How tech’s giants want to re-invent journalism →
Who or what exactly is The New York Times’ R&D... →
By Nieman Journalism Lab
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“Social media platforms are like different countries with different languages and...”
– New York Times social media editor Lexi Mainland, in How The New York Times does social media
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“The fact that the president is now incorporating hashtags into his speeches...”
– Twitter becomes a key real-time tool for campaigns - The Washington Post
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads....”
– Former Facebook employee Jeff Hammerbacher, in This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek
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“Big media might be cumbersome and occasionally numb-skulled when to comes to...”
– Hamish McKenzie, It’s Time to Stop Talking About the Death of Big Media | PandoDaily
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March 2012
9 posts
“The way I do most of my posts is I think, how can I get someone to press ‘like’...”
– BuzzFeed writer Matt Stopera on writing for sharability, via Businessweek
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“Aggregating and rehashing stories might trick Google’s algorithm, but for a...”
– Jonah Peretti, BuzzFeed founder, quoted by Forbes
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“Perhaps instead of killing stories he didn’t like about the sale of the company...”
– Philadelphia newspaper guild leaders, protesting 19 layoffs today, after 21 buyouts
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Google's revenue now greater than the entire... →
Google made $37.9 billion in 2011; Newspapers made $24 billion in advertising and about $34 billion overall.
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“More and more newspapers are erecting paywalls, thinking they are zoos filled...”
– Wayne MacPhail, Giving up on newspapers
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Adam Maguire on the FOJ crowd
The ‘future of journalism’ industry must be worth more than the journalism industry itself at this stage.
— Adam Maguire (@AdamMaguire) March 8, 2012
February 2012
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“Online news experiences share unique design challenges due to the large amount...”
– Veronika Goldberg, design director of The Onion, to The Society for News Design
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“Complaining about someone re-writing reporting is kind of like kvetching about...”
– New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg, to Jim Romenesko
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Now THAT's a news diet
From the Scottish Sun:
MUM-to-be Ann Curran’s pregnancy has left her with a bizarre craving for a taste of her local NEWSPAPER.
She can’t go a day without munching on the Dundee Evening Telegraph.
Ann, 35 — who is expecting her fourth child — even stashes shredded copies in her handbag for emergency snacks. And she insists the publication is the only newsprint with the proper...
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The new 'bloggers vs. journalists' debate is...
“Twitter did/did not break news” is the new “Bloggers vs Journalists”
— Martin Belam (@currybet) February 15, 2012
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“Basically, there [were] two ways to do it: get the product perfect in one market...”
– The original sin of Patch, according to an anonymous former AOL executive directly involved in the company’s strategy (via Fortune Tech)
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“This whole concept of journalist has to be rethought. I’m sorry, I don’t...”
– MSNBC President Phil Griffin, on why many of its anchors are not trained journalists (via Poynter)
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“Big media companies love when their employees hit Twitter… Until something...”
– David Carr, Twitter Is All in Good Fun, Until It Isn’t - NYTimes.com
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MG Siegler: Why most tech coverage is BS
parislemon:
The Wall Street Journal wrote it. Or The New York Times wrote it. It must be true! That means dick. A human being wrote that story. A human being that likely knew very little about the topic before they started writing — and maybe even less after.
Two different situations lead to the the same problem.
1) We have bloggers who sometimes are deeply embedded in the technology...
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“When I was managing editor of The Washington Post, everything we did was better...”
– Robert G. Kaiser, senior editor and writer at The Washington Post, in a New York Times article
“For this year’s first Knight News Challenge, we intend to harness the momentum...”
– John Bracken, Knight Foundation. Announcing the Knight News Challenge: Networks.
The News Challenge will be open for applications starting February 27 and close March 17. Info at the link above.
(via futurejournalismproject)
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Who the Washington Post wants to get rid of
Washington City Paper posted a guild memo detailing which positions the Washington Post is targeting for its latest round of buyouts.
Here’s a breakdown of 33 positions targeted by the Post’s offer:
- Up to three employees from News Operations, Research and News IT
- Up to three employees from Style and Features
- Up to three employees from Investigative
- Up to three employees from...
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Will quality or quantity win for news sites? →
futurejournalismproject:
Two opposing newsroom strategies are flaring up today.
First, comes good news from Salon. Editor in Chief Kerry Lauerman wrote yesterday that as the online magazine committed more resources to original reporting and reduced its aggregation efforts, the site’s page views and unique visitors skyrocketed.
His takeaway is something that makes news junkies smile: quality...
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“We should focus, then, on the ground of knowledge from which an opinion rises,...”
– Jay Rosen on reporters expressing opinions, in a comment on The Buttry Diary
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“At some news organizations, the social media editor role is one based largely in...”
– Mandy Jenkins, Of Social Media Editors and Twitter Monkeys
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Iowa journalists' view of aggregation
The dirtiest word at the Iowa Newspaper Association convention? Aggregation. #journalism
— Dave Schwartz (@daveschwartz) February 2, 2012
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“I was on an wild art assignment as an intern for the Boulder Daily Camera a few...”
– Jeremy Papasso shares his internship story, among many on David Carr’s NYT post
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Turbulent change coming to AOL's Patch hyperlocal...
That’s what NYU’s Jay Rosen hears:
What I heard about Patch: Freelance budgets mostly gone. Editors told to move to the HuffPost model. More re-purposing of news across sites.
— Jay Rosen(@jayrosen_nyu) February 2, 2012
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