Aug
26
Doesn’t anyone take a weekend off any more?
- How to tell a story. Mark Hancock has some down-to-earth advice on finding an telling stories. Solid.
- Rasmussen: Just 14% Get News from Print. Len Witt passes along some numbers that are only surprising in how fast the ‘net is closing on television. Newspapers shouldn’t be surprised: TV has topped this list for some time now. As interesting are the stats on social networking. It’s a young folks game and those of us over 50 who are doing it are a tiny, tiny portion of the whole.
- The Difficulty of Putting a Number on Journalism Jobs. Mark Glaser follows up on last week’s post on the growing number of jobs for online journalists, answering some critics and trying to draw a fuller picture of the journalism job scene.
- Detailing the story. Ron Sylvester has two great posts that track his recently published multimedia piece. Combined, they are a nice walk-through of what’s involved when print folk add new tools and skills. Start with Staring down the deadline, follow up with Deciding what to show and what to tell, which has links to the story and the videos. It’s good stuff.
- How to be a rebel (and other myths). Great post from Jeremy Littau on college media use of citj, which includes this: “I have my doubts that citizen journalism as we are doing it now at MyMissourian is viable as a long-term economic model for the industry, let alone as a medium that our audience-writers will stick with. But as with all trends, the critical thing for us to to keep researching the basic reasons driving this particular form of the trend, because that is what has lasting power.” Hard not to agree, particularly with the last sentence.
