Apr
27
Lots of folks writing media-related stuff today. Here’s some of it:
- Publications alter Va. Tech victim photo. According to a couple of publishers, altering photos is all right if you think you (wrongly) see a penis.
- Users — take back the media! Mathew Ingram picks up on a post that calls the creative folks to the barricades. After reading it, I promise to try to stop using the phrase “user generated content.”
- News Improved: Newsroom Training A Must, But… Len Witt says Michelle McLellan’s and Tim Porter’s book News, Improved maybe be a CPR manual for a patient that’s “already down and clutching his chest.” An instructive post. (And read the book.)
- @ EconSM: Focusing On The Health Of Journalism In The Social Media Age. A report on yet another panel talking about the present/future of journalism. The usual mix of pessimism and optimism and this great quote: “Other than taping a joint to each page of the newspaper, I don’t know how you get kids to buy paper”
- New data bodes ill for newspaper advertising, but a few notes of positive news. Ben Compaine pokes and prods the latest data on newspaper economics and says there may be a pony somewhere in there.
- Rumours of newspapers’ demise . . . A Toronto Star business column that covers familiar ground ina nicely comprehensive way. Via The Canadian Journalism Project.
- Breaking-News Blogs: Where Old and New Combine. Chip Scanlan looks at blogs used for hard news coverage and finds there’s still life in the inverted pyramid.
- The Plight of Newspaper Bloggers. A report on the reasons why so many newspaper blogs are so bad. Hint: it’s institutional.
