Jul
10
A few more bits and pieces from the web:
- Newspapers losing the most ad bucks to the web. There doesn’t seem to be much good news for the print folks these days.
- 5 News Aggregation Methods Compared. Josh Catone takes a look at five different methods for getting your news fix (or, in this case, sports fix) the aggregated way.
- New rituals for new media pt 2. In a look at newspaper use of video, this line caught me eye: “The viewing rituals that allowed TV stations to run a 30 minute news show with five minutes of news are dying. Ironically as the market for folksy featurettes is disappearing, production of them is booming.” Could it be we are still giving readers what we want, not what they want?
- Great Expectations. Andy Dickinson looks at the expectations being raised on both side of the management/worker divide.
- Eight Analogies for Community Journalism. Pick the one you like to explain the reality and the potential. I like the musical jam session, although heavens knows I’ve seen enough of those degrade into cacophony.
- Ben Shapiro. There’s a whole course-load full of learning in Transom.org’s in-depth report on radio and video maker Shapiro.
- Model Journalism Curricula for Developing Countries and Emerging Democracies launched. I’ve downloaded the PDF from UNESCO and put this on my reading list. Reactions to come.
Eight Analogies for Community Journalism: The party analogy is still my favorite (as I mentioned in the post). It just seems to be the easiest to grab on. You can’t party by yourself — and the best parties have a community vibe: A group of friends all there for a common goal.