Apr
8
So much in the reader, so little time. Here are a few, which may be followed by a later edition:
- Banff looks to newspapers for recycling. To resort to news lede cliché: Here comes the newspaper industry’s worst nightmare.
- Women in Photography. Nothing there yet, but this may become a photo site that’s well worth following. Via A Photo a Day.
- David Pogue totally in love with Casio Ex-F1 camera because it can go back in time. Photography changes yet again: this camera starts grabbing images before you fully press the shutter.
- Dutch site reinvents what news looks like online. Interesting concept. Not sure it will catch on, but it’s worth paying attention to.
- How newspaper managements see the future… Adrian Monck digs some interesting stuff about American newspaper economics out of recent earnings calls.
- Verve Photo. I’ve pointed to this Geoffrey Hillman run site before, but I want to re-emphasize how good it is at bringing a steady flow of images from “a new breed of documentary photographers.”
- Twitter-reviewing – some reflections. Paul Bradshaw tweeted (Twittered?) while he read Clay Shirkey’s latest book. He explains why and what the result was. One of the interesting implications is the ability to share reactions, ideas, opinions, etc. in real time among a widely dispersed interest group.
- Some fine examples of newspaper video. From Mindy McAdams, discovered through her class. Like Mindy, I’m particularly struck by the Las Vegas Sun’s coverage of a hearing into a proposal for a coal-fired electricity plant: long-form video journalism that works. (See the link in her post.)
- Growth and good news for Canadian newspapers. A 2.6 per cent increase in revenue and an average profit margin of 13.2 per cent. That was in 2006.
- On Journalism. Does anyone give a better speech about the importance of journalism than Bill Moyers?
