Sep
25
Trying to get caught up:
- I have the Canon 5D MKII in my Hands!!!!!! ..and I can’t wait to see what Richard Koci Hernandez (congrats on the Emmy, BTW), does with it. He writes, “We have just turned a HUGE corner in visual story telling tools!” Related: SIon Touhig’s If Your Pictures Ain’t Good Enough, Your Mike Ain’t Close Enough.
- Is the ‘Sun’ about to Set? Reports are that the New York Sun, the attempt at a right-of-centre daily for NY, may close as early as Monday.
- Check out kobréguide.com …which is an aggregator for “the best multimedia on the web.”
- Writer’s Residence et al: just how stupid do you think journalism students are? A perfect rant from Paul Bradshaw about attempts to separate young journalists from their money for something they can get for nothing. Read and heed.
- ‘Make or break’ time for newspapers. That’s advertisers talking. Alan Mutter reports that the NAA Retail Advertising Forum figures newspapers have only 18 months to wrap up local market share. Related: The Ultimate Cost Saving: Quit Publishing.
- Video: Quality vs. Quantity Debate Rages On. Colin Mulvany has a very sharp take on the debate over how newspapers should do video.
- How to write. My lord, this is good. Page after page of articles at The Guardian on how to write, including some very good pieces on journalism. Bookmark and keep clicking. Via David Akin.
- Journalists may increase participation …but not simply by reporting, writes Serena at the AEJMC Members Forum. (Sorry, I couldn’t figure out how to find Serena’s last name.)
- Our hyperlocal experiment and why it works. TV guy Cory Bergman gives a basic how-to on starting a local news website that breaks news, beats the local weekly’s website in traffic count and — maybe soon — makes money.
- India profits from newspaper outsourcing. From Roy Greenslade: “Research into production outsourcing by US and UK newspapers estimates that it is worth £1.9bn to the Indian economy at present and could reach £6.5bn by 2012. Go east, young journalist?
