Oct
14
All sorts of interesting reportage and opining on the web today.
- Recording phone calls: For reporters. Mindy McAdams rounds up some info on tools for recording telephone interviews.
- Understand newsroom problems. An interesting post from shooter Mark Hancock that says the loss of the human touch is one of the causes for the decline of newspapers.
- Prediction: How geezers will adapt to web, mobile for news. The short version of Steve Outing’s post: lower-quality, flashier-designed newspapers will turn off older readers and turn them to the web and mobile sources of serious news. A thought: this is a conundrum I hadn’t thought about — the core readership is the older set, while newspapers are reinventing for younger readers.
- TV ad rates fall to 15-year lows. This is from the UK but, given that misery loves company, it may make newspaper execs feel a little better.
- Living the dream, but for how long? Hilary Lehman loves her work with her college newspaper but wonders if the journalism joy will continue, or if this will be her only chance to work in journalism. Hang in there, Hilary, good things come to passionate people.
- Icelandic free 24 Stundir merges with paid paper. The global meltdown, which hit Iceland particularly hard, has claimed a victim or two.
- Nikon D90. David Leeson, the newspaper video pioneer, has produced a stunning piece of art with his D90 and a thoughtful look at the hybrid video-still cameras. Worth watching; worth reading. (His piece is part of this month’s Digital Journalist, which is always worth spending some time with.)
- 10 reasons why newspapers won’t reinvent news. I may have pointed to this earlier (memory is a fragile thing at times). You really need to read this piece, and the comments, too.
- Today’s Guest Editor: A Witness and His Testimony. James Nachtwey is the guest editor at YouTube today, continuing the spread of his campaign against XDR-TB (extreme drug resistant tuberculosis) and highlighting other uses of video to tell important stories.
- Lauren Rich Fine: ‘Online No Longer Safe Haven’ But Might Be Only Category That Can Still Post Gains. Shorter Lauren Rich Fines: A good portion of the market share shift to online has already taken place, there’s a shakeup coming and traditional media has the near-term advantage.
- Creating a handmade newspaper. Artisans, mainly illustrators, hand-draw a limited edition, four-page newspaper for London.
- OpenOffice 3.0. Now native for Macs. Demand is so high, the OpenOffice servers can’t cope.
