Sep
30
A few links before I trot off (well, bus off) to the college for afternoon class.
- 30 Amazing photoblogs (and a few tips for creating one). Mark S. Luckie at 10,000words has a compilation of photoblog links, in part crowd-sourced on Twitter. Great stuff here and, for me, more blogs to follow.
- Photos and notes from Bangladesh. Geoffrey Hiller, documentary photographer and a pioneering multimedia storyteller, is teaching visual communication and interactive media in Bangladesh and blogging both the results and his explorations. Fascinating.
- Switzerland: One integrated newsroom for all Blick titles. Three newspapers and online, sharing one newsroom, with all reporters expected to work on at least two of the four titles.
- A right-sized newspaper. Not sure I’d call a once-a-week, one-topic-at-a-time publication a newspaper, but this is interesting.
- Who is Going To Bail Out Newspapers? That’s a question that Philip Stone at Follow The Media says at least deserves to be debated, given the concept that newspapers are important to democracy.
- ‘NY Sun’ Editor: I Think We’ll Publish Tomorrow. As of 9:04 a.m. EDT today, some confusion over when the Sun will actually set.
- Newspapers First Need to Redefine ‘News’ to Move Forward Online. Steve Outing says he may be breaking new ground with this E&P column. I think he is, but his concept relies on newspapers establishing themselves as the go-to site in the community. Can that still be accomplished?
- The economics of moving from print to online: lose one hundred, get back eight. One of the best analyses I’ve yet seen on what moving from print to online actually means. Truly enlightening and a little frightening. (Once again, I’ve lost track of how I found this link, one of the hazards of living in the middle of a river of information.)
- How journalism failed America at a most critical time. Howard Owens on how badly the American (and I’d add Canadian) people are being served at a time of wild financial news. Where, he asks, was journalism’s much-vaunted skepticism when it was needed? Somewhat related: Drudge shows how to do news, by Alan Mutter.
- Local coverage of elections uneven. An interesting, anecdotal, unscientific look at how well (or, mostly, not well) suburban and smalltown newspapers are dealing with Canada’s federal election. Related: Why Media Is a Big Election Issue, at The Tyee.
