Links to Check Out 06/21/2011
June 20, 2011 in industry news
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Roundup of plagiarism & fabrication cases | Poynter.
When it comes to deciding how to handle a plagiarism or fabrication case, there are a variety of factors that news organizations might consider.
We don’t have enough data to identify trends in sanctions, but a look at some plagiarism/fabrication cases from throughout the years shows the range of actions news organizations have taken and some of the factors they’ve considered when making these decisions.
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Web apps v native apps v mobile sites: a guide | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog
“Users expect a seamless experience whether they are accessing websites on a Android device, a BlackBerry, iPhone, tablet, laptop or desktop.
It is therefore essential that news sites understand the future of mobile and work out whether to spend money developing a range of native apps: for iPhone, iPad and Android, for example; a web-based app such as the much-discussed web app launched by the Financial Times less than a fortnight ago; spend time building an m.site or opt for a mobile-friendly site.”
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Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share
Intuitive learner’s code-building experience developed by MIT. (via Daniel Sato)
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The Many Killers Of The Music Industry: The Analog Era | Techdirt
The music industry has been around for as long as anyone cares to remember, and not for a lack of trying. Industry killer after industry killer has taken a shot at bringing down this mighty foe, but it still continues to limp along, bitterly writing most of the internet community out of its will. With this two-part post, separated between the Analog Era (or “Golden Age”) and the digital era (or “the Apocalypse”), we take a closer look at this rogue’s gallery of stone cold killers, each one less successful than the last.
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Book Reveals Ugly Details of Press Deals – NYTimes.com
James O’Shea, the former editor in chief of The Los Angeles Times, found a classic of the genre in the course of reporting out “The Deal From Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers,” his deep dive into the two deals that tipped over the companies that owned, among many other newspapers, The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune.
Here’s the capsule version: in 2000, The Tribune Company, owner of the Tribune and many other papers, bought the Times-Mirror Company, owner of The Los Angeles Times, for a then-record $8.3 billion. The merger never yielded much in the way of synergy, and the combined company put itself in play in 2007, when there were few buyers left.
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FCC study finds ‘surprisingly small’ local news traffic – Lost Remote
A new report commissioned by the FCC discovered a “surprisingly small audience for local news traffic.” How small? Less than one in five news pageviews goes to local news sources — that’s a combination of newspaper sites, local TV sites and large independent news sites in a given market — and the average user spends just 0.45% of total internet time consuming local news.
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How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs – 10,000 Words
A former colleague of mine, William Davis, understands what a “web first” workflow is, and has made it happen through software at his newspaper in Maine. The Bangor Daily News announced this week that it completed its full transition to open source blogging software, WordPress. And get this: The workflow integrates seamlessly with InDesign, meaning the paper now has one content management system for both its web and print operations. And if you’re auspicious enough, you can do it too — he’s open-sourced all the code!
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New York Post paywall face/palm
It must have sounded like a great idea to someone at News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) at the time: “Hey, I know how we can sell more subscriptions through the New York Post iPad App! Let’s block access through iPad Safari and make them go to the app instead.” What they should have heard: “Hey, let’s make our editorial content as inaccessible and irrelevant as possible and send iPad users to other options. Oh, and at the same time, let’s take three giant steps back.”Even better, apparently no one there noticed or cared that users of other iPad browsers like Skyfire and Opera Mini can slip right in.It is one of the most poorly conceived paywall efforts I’ve come across—and I’ve seen more than a few.
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