One of the new jurno jobs in Webworld is community manager. It’s rapidly becoming a must-hire at news organizations, and it can be an opportunity for journalists to do journalism at non-news organizations. (“Community manager” seems to be the term that’s sticking. It’s also been called “social networking coordinator”.) What does a community manager do? [...]
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….to talk again in six months? That seems to be the main suggestion from the three reports my fellow RJI Fellow Bill Densmore sent around yesterday: From Editor & Publisher: API Summit Concludes: Industry in ‘Crisis,’ Needs Outside Help From Presstime, an NAA blog: API Summit on Saving an Industry in Crisis From the American [...]
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Is Google’s Flu Trends site cool, or what? Say Google didn’t figure this out. Say a jurno did. Hey. It could happen. This is how: One day, a snuffly, misable, virus-laden jurno types in “flu symptoms” to see if what she has is indeed the flu. She searches for the latest remedy floating around cyberspace, [...]
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On Friday, a jazzed-up Dave Cohn waxed poetic about the future of journalism. I agree wholeheartedly. Except with this statement: What we need right now is 10,000 journalism startups. Of these 9,000 will fail, 1,000 will find ways to sustain themselves for a brief period of time, 98 will find mediocre success and financial security [...]
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Check out Lesley M. M. Blume’s article in Slate’s The Big Money about Condé Nast pulling back from the Web by firing many of its staffers from CondéNet, which oversees such sites as epicurious.com and style.com: What is behind Condé Nast’s bellicose approach to the Web? Other traditional media outlets properly regard the Internet as [...]
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Hey-ho! Check out this tidbit from Editor & Publisher: The American Press Institute (API) will host an invitation-only, closed-door “summit conference” Nov. 13 in which 50 CEO-level executives will ponder ways to revive the newspaper business. The one-day conference at API’s Reston, Va., headquarters will be “a facilitated discussion of concrete steps the industry can [...]
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OK. Election’s over. The best guy won. We can get back to business. Or, in my case, get on with tricking out this blog and catching up! So, check out Steve Myers’ article, “FiveThirtyEight Combines Polls, Reporting and Baseball”, for a description of two model nujurno beat writers, Nate Silver and Sean Quinn of FiveThirtyEight. [...]
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Online Media Daily had a short article about Huffington Post’s success: Third-quarter revenue is double that of first quarter. A year ago, the HuffPo began launching new verticals, business and entertainment among them, and this September the site showed a 600% increase in unique visits over a year ago, according to Nielsen. Media, style, green [...]
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