Apr
30
A few quick links before I dash out:
- A Taste of Citizen Journalism Lite. Len Witt does a photo-and-sound bit of reporting in a local festival. Interesting use of something called BubbleShare and BubbleSlider, which I’m going to have to check out when I have a bit more time.
- FAS-FAX Circ Numbers for the Top 25 Dailies and Sunday Papers. Latest circulation figures for big American newspapers. Some are up, some are down (and some of the percentages are big). Overall, another 2.1 per cent drop in daily circ. Via Jim Romenesko.
- Newspaper Video: do’s and don’ts. A short lesson from Andy Dickinson, with appropriate links, in how newspapers should be approaching video. Worth reading and passing around the newsroom.
- News Photographers Association of Canada announces pictures of the year. Some nice work, but this is almost an instructive use in how not to use the web. The list of winners appears at canoe.com, without a single image. To see the finalists’ images, you have to download a PDF of what seems to be a print publication, meaning you have to zoom in and out to see the images. There is an online gallery of all 1600 entries. That’s an awful lot of work for something that, in 2007, should be relatively straightforward.
- One Hundred Things Completely Right About Our Job. Chip Litherland of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune cuts through the doom and gloom about the future of photojournalism with a great — and amusing — list at SportsShooter. Via A Photo a Day.
