Jan
21
I moved over the weekend and fell way behind on my reading. I’ve probably missed some interesting stuff from the past few days, but I have found these:
- CBC parliamentary reporter fed questions to MP, probe finds. The reporter, who seems to have shown an incredible lack of judgment, has been reassigned.
- Ousted Los Angeles Editor Assails Tribune Co. Editor won’t make newsroom cuts, editor gets fired. Howard Owens dissects one of his parting shots.
- The Atlantic, monthly mag, to go free online. The magazine, apparently, just realized the online version is more than just a marketing tool.
- IndyStar.com uses time-lapse photography for NFL. The Star produces some interesting work, using flipbooks because they get around NFL restrictions on video. Can we expect a crackdown on audio slideshows next?
- The truth about free newspapers. Piet Bakker is the guy when it come to understanding freesheets. He has provided some interesting facts and figures to the World Editor & Marketeer conference , including this: “Free newspapers don’t necessarily reach the target audience they claim to reach.”
- Technical skills in journalism jobs. Interesting tag cloud of the technical skills from journalism job advertisements. Are these pointers for the near future for j-school grads?
- Our disgruntled young journalists. Sean Blanda: “I believe that 2008 will be the beginning of a movement in journalism where graduates will opt to carve their own path rather than be another layoff at a slow adopting newspaper or magazine.” Interesting post; interesting comments.
- Be a multimedia McGuyver – 101 DIY tools and techniques for cool, professional photo, audio and video gear on the cheap. Oh my this is a long, interesting list.
- iJournalism: stop the presses, reporters with cell phone cameras. Just because you can cover politicians with a cameraphone doesn’t mean you should, although Dennis Dunleavy sees some value in expanding the visual record. But compare Mother Jones’s happy snapping with some real political photojournalism.
- Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. Kots of people are pointing to this exceptional piece of journalism from the Toronto Star. It truly is astonishing.
You saw the Wired Journalists group on Ning? (via BeatBlogging; Sholin, Owens, Echola et al.)
I’ve never been a reader of The Atlantic — I’m a huge fan of The New Yorker, but now that they’re going completely free I might subscribe to their rss feed and give them a whirl.
The great thing about the Atlantic going on-line is that now I can get its great material on the cheap. Here in the UK its especially expensive, more than double the sticker price in Canada, at about £6 per-copy, or $12.50. So this is sweet news.
Plus having free on-line material creates greater interest in the paper material because it advertises the quality if content the magazine produces.
It has worked well for ESPN with espn.com and it has worked extremely well for the NY Times and others.
Maybe this will convince management at the Globe and Mail in Canada to get their collective heads out of their arses and realise paywalls hurt advertising opportunities.Fewer page hits equals fewer advertising opportunities,