Nov
2
Some really early blogging to start the day, subdivided by topic, so you can pick and choose.
New-to-me websites worth looking at/subscribing to:
- Teaching Journalism Today. Associate professor Mary McGuire from the School of Journalism at Carleton University has launched a blog that will “share my observations and pass on tips and advice to my students, past and present, about the practice of journalism in Canada today, especially mutimedia journalism.” Welcome, Mary. Via NewsLab.
- Shoot the Player. An Australian site, apparently modeled on a French site, featuring short films about Aussie musicians. There’s a great model here for local music coverage, which I would jump all over if I had the time.
- Journalists Toolkit. Minimalist-looking web site with lots of links to resources for multimedia storytelling. Invaluable.
The business
- Armageddon for newspapers? Don’t bet on it. Richard Siklos of Fortune mag, writing in the Globe & Mail, says “there is a difference between a contracting, fast-changing and overcrowded industry and a dying one.”
- The state of independent local online news, part 1: Sites on the rise; business models remain elusive. David Westphal kicks off an in-depth series that looks for the business model for all those journalist-driven online startups.
- Credit crisis hammering debt-laden Canwest. The latest on Canada’s struggling media giant, CanWest. And I would have pointed to this even if I weren’t the hook for the story. Related: CanWest slide good for media democracy? from Marc Edge, former reporter and the expert on CanWest in Canada.
- Revenue Crisis: Here Come The Pro Accounts. More and more online services try to pull in revenue by adding pro accounts. My questions: Is there potential here for online media? What are the possible extras that could entice folks to cough up a buck or two?
- Net beats newspapers for election news. Pew’s findings are hobbled by a lack of detail on exactly where on the net folks are going for their news. But David Weinberger’s post still is worth reading, especially for the concept of “the audience” as ants.
Journalists and journalism
- Journalists Killed So Far in 2008. A Google Maps mash-up from Emily Kostic that honours those who’ve fallen in pursuit of the story.
- Reporters Getting Burned Out With New Technology, Journalists Tell National Press Club Forum at University of Missouri. When I first caught wind of this on Twitter, the journalists in question weren’t getting a lot of sympathy from the media digiterati. The complaints point, I think, to the need for media organizations to approach all these new-fangled toys with a solid, defensible plan for their use.
- 10 Reasons There’s a Bright Future for Journalism. Mark Glaser has an interesting list, and the commenters have added some more.
(I have a bunch more browser windows open, with post and articles waiting to be read. There may be more later today.)
