links for 2010-03-31
March 31, 2010 in industry news
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"Amateurs, happy to accept small checks for snapshots of children and sunsets, have increasing opportunities to make money on photos but are underpricing professional photographers and leaving them with limited career options. Professionals are also being hurt because magazines and newspapers are cutting pages or shutting altogether."
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Keeping track of the discussion going on around your online presence.
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"Journalism schools were made to serve the Church of Journalism and the vanity contained within it (“Oh, I’m a journalist actually.”). The foundations of that cathedral have been shaken to the core because there is less money to validate its existence and shield the inadequacies of some of the people in it. My advice to kids currently in journalism school is to, at the very least, find a niche and expertise that isn’t about content creation itself. If you do, you might be one of the lucky ones to serve the Reader Elite." via Doug Fisher.
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"The multimedia debate needs a new question: How are we using technology to create a more relevant product? We’re not going to “save” media by out-featuring each other. We can and will re-cement media by using the technology to deliver the experience consumers want most: intelligent, meaningful news that’s accessible where they are in the moment." – via Doug Fisher
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Alfred Hermida's five tips for successful blogging: "Have a focus; Offer a critical perspective; Create value for your audience; Engage with the community; Make it personal."
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"Pageviews remain the metric by which we’re all graded at the end of the day because, right or wrong, that’s all advertisers currently care about in the online world.
We all walk a line between pageview pumping and our own editorial guidelines. Some go too far one way, some go too far the other."
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Justin McLachlan has set up an e-mail list with legal reporting tips for journalists. You can sign up at this link. Pretty good stuff.
Housekeeping note: I’ve changed the format of the blog back to an earlier template. Those of you who’ve been reading for a while will notice something familiar. While the Mimbo theme we were using was a pretty good magazine-style theme, there were some bugs, and until I find a magazine theme I like better, we’re reverting to a traditional blog-style theme.
First off, why would any media outlet want to host their video elsewhere? Simple—unless you have a large budget, you can’t afford the bandwidth and storage space. Third-party hosting enables newspaper sites to have virtually unlimited space and bandwidth.
Break is over: The future of journalism, and some curated links
March 22, 2010 in hope for the future, Links
Then, this weekend, I’ll be assisting with the APME/MPI NewsTrain workshop in Arlington Heights, Ill. (details here) The faculty is pretty impressive. Mark Briggs will be there, as will Derek Willis, whom I’ve interviewed, but never met in person. I hope to have some short videos available from that workshop as well.
Meanwhile, here are some random links to start the day off right.
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