Jul
18
My, oh my, there’s a lot on the internet today:
- How do you choose stories for video? Angela Grant takes a look at the question of when to turn to the video camera. With examples.
- Miro launches: Democracy Player evolves into a 1.0 product! This new internet TV player with the now-standard iTunes like interface, looks like it’s worth spending sometime with.
- Google Expanding Newspaper Ads Program; 225 Newspapers Involved. Giving back?
- Browse the Nation’s Front Pages. This could be the start of something interesting: a chance to flip through the front pages of Canadian daily newspapers.
- Young readers also active citizens. Another study that states what seems to be the obvious. The press release from the study sponsors, the Canadian Newspaper Association, has some interesting spin.
- Notre Dame fights back in battle for internships. Here’s one way to get your student interns into the big-name newsrooms: pay their salaries.
- You can’t own conversation. Andy Dickinson has some thoughts on the newspaper stampede to hyperlocal, one of which is that the local conversation is already happening and no one can or will own it.
And, as a bonus, three posts on the state of the business as media companies begin reporting their second-quarter results:
- Jim Romenesko: The downturn in the newspaper industry is getting worse
- David Kaplan at Paid Content: As Newspapers Ready Q2 Earnings Reports, Overview Finds Industry Slump Accelerating
- Mark Potts: A perfect storm
