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Is ‘convergence’ the next media disaster?

In an interesting article [http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/14581081.htm], Knight professor of journalism ethics Edward Wasserman sounds a little bit like he’s trying to catch the horse after missing the open stable door. I don’t really agree that it’s the involvement of

Big media blogs: know your place.

A nice post by Kevin Anderson on the Corante [http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/04/] web site about fostering community turns out to be more about getting buy in from the old media rather than takeover: > [But] the last few weeks have only reinforced my fundamental view that

Tagging- a tool for journalistic transparency

Here’s an interesting article on tagging as a transparency tool [http://www.lavanguardia.es/public/series/20060417/51244437619.html]. Transparency is a hot topic at the moment. I’m convinced it’s as much a tool for protecting the ownership and so financial interests of news organisations as it

China’s new regulations to curb media

An interesting article from Reuters about China’s increasing attempts at media regulation [http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-04-17T074819Z_01_KNE727501_RTRUKOC_0_UK-CHINA-MEDIA.xml] , reveals a worrying imapact on online resources > …news Web sites collectively agreed to censor themselves to eradicate

Final Salute wins awards

Final Salute – an special report from Denvers Rocky Mountain News has won several awards; rightly so. I showed the multimedia part to my students a while back as they got started on their own multimedia projects. I have rarely heard a class so quiet when it finished. I'm

Keyword headlines

> Journalists, they say, would be wise to do a little keyword research to determine the two or three most-searched words that relate to their subject–and then include them in the first few sentences. “That’s not something they teach in journalism schools,” said Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch,

Text to voice podcasts - as crap as you think they would be?

Jemima over at dotjournalism has a great comment about the rise of text-to-speech podcasts: > So yes – an inevitable innovation, but not one that does anything at all for the medium of podcasting. This technology must be ergonomic, rather than built around the convenience of the producer. It will only

Web users vote for print front page

After my thoughts yesterday [http://digidickinson.net/2006/04/12/web-users-vote-for-print-front-page/] regarding the web setting print agenda; this from CyberJournalist.net [http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/003283.php] > Lots of sites let readers pick their favorite stories, but The Wisconsin State Journal [http://www.madison.com/wsj]is taking

Get thee online.

There never has been a better time to get into Web journalism. We are making money, we are hiring, and we are actively searching for new, innovative ideas. After ten years, there are no veterans in this field. This is your chance to be among the first. So says Anthony

Pulitzer Prize Board considers online

The Pulitzer board is meeting to decide its 2006 winners and a rule change means online content is being considered. In an article at Editor and Publisher, Pulitzer Administrator Sig Gissler, had this to say on the subject. > Beyond that, Gissler followed the same secretive approach as the board