Jan
18
The media-related stuff from the internet that caught me attention today. Subject to updating:
- Time Warner Cuts Magazine Jobs to Focus on Web. Not sure how cutting jobs allows greater focus, but there you have it. Via I Want Media.
- New Journalism Heroes. Following on some web chatter over the need for new role models for journalism students, Bryan Murley has posted a list. Mindy McAdams has added 10 more names. Both lists are filled with admirable folk worth checking out, and emulating. One thing I have to add: Mindy points to Melissa Lyttle for her great work with the A Photo A Day blog. As her website shows, Melissa is also one helluva photojournalist.
- Types of online video: redux. Andy Dickson revisits an earlier post, expands it, amplifies and winds up with a thoughtful and highly useful guide. Highly recommended. Also recommended is the link Andy provides to a list of newspapers that use video.
- Update 1:What a journalist needs to know. John Robinson of Greensboro adds to the debate and reports we at j-schools may not be doing the job we need to be.
- Update 2: Data Points Aggregate Into Trends Facing Media Old and New. Ben Compaine recaps the bad news and says what almost everyone is thinking: these are datapoints that indicate a trend.
- Update 3: When even the successes can’t succeed. Tom Abate says not having money might be a good thing for those trying to figure out the placeblog/hyperlocal business model.
