Apr
17
I have some thoughts on the coverage of the tragedy at Virginia Tech that I’m still pulling together for a post later today. Until then, some media stuff from the web:
- Update 1: “Journalists” boycott Israeli goods. Oh, good grief. These are the people who say bloggers can’t be journos because they don’t meet the standards? Deborah Jones has the details at Canadian Journalist.
- Ad revenue fall plus sales drop add to print gloom. From the UK, where newspapers are also facing the double-barreled threat to their bottom lines.
- More YouTube/newspaper video analysis. Angela Grant has a long and thoughtful look at the up- and downsides of newspaper’s posting their stuff on YouTube. The issues is more complicated than it may seem.
- “Gatsby,” writers and new media. Paul Conley defends his stance that new hires need to show their online chops, not their clips. I’m not entirely on his side on this one: those long-form writing skills are still valuable and not just for print (and not just for producing long-form pieces of journalism).
- ‘In the Pain Cave’: Award-Winning Journos on Long-Form Writing. Speaking long-form, a look at how four writers handle the process of getting the stuff out of the notebooks and into award-winning form. Good stuff.
- POPURLS. A new tool that journalists might want to monitor. It seems to aggregate just about every “Web 2.0″ service out there.
- Part 1: The paperless paper. A must-read report at Editor’s Weblog: e-paper doesn’t just change delivery; it has the potential to change everything and it’s already being tested.
- NAB keynote: ‘The real problem is the vocabulary’. Steve Safran of Lost Remote has a somewhat scathing report on what appears to have been a somewhat clueless speech by the president of NAB.
