• Know Your Rights: Photographers | American Civil Liberties Union

  “Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right – and that includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties. Unfortunately, there is a widespread, continuing pattern of law enforcement officers ordering people to stop taking photographs from public places, and harassing, detaining and arresting those who fail to comply.”

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• Four observations (and lots of questions) on The Boston Globe’s lovely new paywalled site » Nieman Journalism Lab

  “I’m most interested in how BostonGlobe.com fits into the newspaper industry’s larger thinking about paywalls and how its digital and print products differ. And I think there’s a lot that’s really interesting about what they’ve done, in terms of technology, in terms of design, and in terms of their business model. So, after having played around with the site for a while and talked with Globe leaders in the lead up to launch, here are a few thoughts on what I think works, what I think doesn’t, and what questions we’ll be looking to answer in the months ahead.”

  tags: boston globe journalism businessmodelsforjournalism

• Apps vs. eBooks: Where can newsrooms and journalists make the most money?

  “EBooks are content. They’re the work of content companies that create words and narratives for people who want information. Any special section, extended report or beloved series of 20,000 words or more than you create or have created for your newspaper or website can become an eBook. If you’re covering a geographic community, you should have an eBook guide to that community that you’re selling to travelers or people relocating to the area. If there’s a special event or sports team in your community that brings in visitors, you should publish a fresh edition of an eBook covering them each year. If you’re creating content, then why not leverage that content through the eBook market, as you do through the Web and other media?”

  tags: apps ebooks journalists

• Finally, YouTube Will Let You Edit Your Videos Online

  “YouTube is rolling out the new feature in the form of a simple “Edit Video” button on your My Videos page. It’s a little like if they just took their cloud-based editor and sucked it back into the site. All you have to do is select one of your videos, and it’ll let you trim away excess footage, rotate, stabilize to get rid of shake, and changes the attributes to make things brighter, warmer, or more saturated. You can also add Instagram-style filters to make things look old-timey.”

  tags: videos youtube online

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• McGuire on Media » Speech to Society of Features Editors argued for a changed journalism mindset

  “We have to have the open minds of entrepreneurs. We have to have the innovative imaginations of liberated explorers. We have to embrace risk like bungee jumpers. We have to listen to young people as if they are our saviors, because they probably are.

  If journalism is to be saved by newspaper practitioners who bring the right values of truth-telling, minimizing harm, independence and accountability, then newspaper mindsets must escape the prison of day-to-day crises spawned by business troubles.”

  tags: journalism mindset futureofjournalism

• All the PR That’s Fit to Print — Mixed Media — Utne Reader

  ““The muscles of journalism are weakening and the muscles of public relations are bulking up—as if they were on steroids,” he says.”

  tags: PR media journalism

• deck.js » Modern HTML Presentations

  Javascript library for creating presentations using basic HTML/javascript.

  tags: javascript html5 presentations

• OFF THE BEAT: It’s not you, it’s me – The Daily Californian

  “Here is the truth: it’s not you, it’s me. It’s not Craigslist’s fault for taking classified advertisements away from the domain of print. It’s not the blogosphere’s fault for writing and spreading news for free.

  It’s not the market’s fault for turning journalism upside down, for cutting all of The Daily Californian’s reporters’ pay, for cutting our Wednesday publication and for making us indebted to the ASUC for forgiving a portion of our rent. It’s not even the sales reps’ fault for not selling enough ads to keep newspapers afloat.

  All of that stuff is on us, the journalists. It’s our fault.”

  tags: journalism newspaperbusinessmodels

• Common Sense Journalism: Bleacher Report U – a great resource

  “Yep, it’s brutal. It’s pointed.

  And Bleacher Report’s new training site, Bleacher Report U, and its other editing resources really should be part of your tool box if you are teaching journalism in a digital age.”

  tags: journalism resources blogging sports

• Common Sense Journalism: What he said … John McIntyre’s first-day-of-class speech

  “John McIntyre, whom I am proud to call a friend has posted the first-day “welcome” he gives to editing students.

  I suspect versions of this will be showing up in classrooms across the nation – maybe the world “

  tags: journalism copyediting

• College students stumped by search engines, research finds | The Lookout – Yahoo! News

  “The members of the generation that is sometimes dubbed the “millennials” are alternately reviled or lauded by the news media for their tech-savvy, gadget-loving ways. But a new ethnographic research project on students in five Illinois universities may put a dent in that reputation. It found that many college kids don’t even know how to perform a simple internet search.”

  tags: college search engines

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• Campaign Reporters Are Younger, and Cheaper – NYTimes.com

  ““This is an increasingly sophisticated and hazardous media world,” said Mr. Tapper, who as a rising media star often found his career and even his personal life the subject of interest by blogs and media critics. “Undermining a 27-year-old reporter — if it is in the interest of a campaign or a party that wants to discredit a news organization — it’s impossible for me to believe that’s not going to happen.” “

  tags: NYTimes.com journalism politics

• Showcase of Creative and Entertaining 404 Error Pages

  “Visiting an error page is not a pleasurable experience for a visitor but web designers can make it pleasurable by designing beautiful and creative error pages. All it needs is a little bit of creativity and some quality time, and your error pages will stand out. Here is a list of some creatively designed error pages that will inspire you.”

  tags: fun inspiration

• If your website’s full of assholes, it’s your fault – Anil Dash

  “As it turns out, we have a way to prevent gangs of humans from acting like savage packs of animals. In fact, we’ve developed entire disciplines based around this goal over thousands of years. We just ignore most of the lessons that have been learned when we create our communities online. But, by simply learning from disciplines like urban planning, zoning regulations, crowd control, effective and humane policing, and the simple practices it takes to stage an effective public event, we can come up with a set of principles to prevent the overwhelming majority of the worst behaviors on the Internet.

  If you run a website, you need to follow these steps. if you don’t, you’re making the web, and the world, a worse place. And it’s your fault. Put another way, take some goddamn responsibility for what you unleash on the world.”

  tags: socialmedia blogging comments community

• Guide to Moving Online | jeadigitalmedia.org

  “Moving online? Start here. We’ve compiled the most helpful articles to ease the transition. And if there are any topics you’d like to see addressed that aren’t, or any sections expanded, please contact us at info@JEADigitalMedia.org.”

  tags: jeadigitalmedia.org journalism onlinejournalism

• Getting that first job in journalism « Teaching Online Journalism

  “Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it.

  Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there that you can afford to make excuses for why you didn’t get it done.”

  tags: journalism interviews jobs

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• ’100 Interviews’ project puts new twist on old adage: Everybody has a story | Poynter.

  ““I bet there are 100 stories I could write, but I don’t have a place to write them,” she remembers telling her dad last September. “My dad was like, ‘Well, why don’t you write down all the ideas?’”” Via @mathewi on Twitter

  tags: interviews project journalism

• Google Plus forces us to discuss identity | Technology | guardian.co.uk

  “Google argues that people behave better when they use their real names. Google also states it is offering an identity service, not a social network, and therefore needs to know who you are and, thirdly, that no one is forcing you to use Google Plus.

  However valid the first two points may be, they are eclipsed by the monumental intellectual dishonesty of that last one – no one’s holding a gun to your head, so shut up if you don’t like it.”

  tags: guardian.co.uk google plus identity

• Meet The Young Designer Behind The Washington Post’s Infographics – Forbes

  “When most of us under a certain age think of newspapers, we think of dead trees fueling a dying business. Not so at the Washington Post. There, media is evolving to meet the demands of an increasingly digital-savvy consumer base who require information being presented in unique, digestible and shareable ways. At the helm of that effort is Wilson Andrews, the Post’s Information Designer.”

  tags: infographics multimedia

• ACP – Contest Winners

  Multimedia Story of the Year Finalists

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• ifttt tool for data journalism | Editors’ Blog | Journalism.co.uk

  “What is it? This tool is still in private beta but it is worth applying for an invitation and waiting to see when it goes public as it promises interesting possibilities for journalists.”

  tags: data journalism

• Flooding and Power Loss Plague Some New England Campuses, in Wake of Storm – Facilities – The Chronicle of Higher Education

  “Tropical Storm Irene left a long path of toppled trees and flooded roads through the Northeast on Sunday, cutting off some colleges from electrical power and essential roadways. On Monday, many institutions delayed classes and warned returning students to wait until repair crews could clear roads and rebuild bridges. And while many escaped without major damage, some reported extensive flooding in and around campus buildings.”

  tags: new england storm flooding education

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• Eric Schmidt: If You Don’t Want To Use Your Real Name, Don’t Use Google+

  • Google+ will change this at some point to survive. – post by Center for Innovation in College Media
  • G+ was build primarily as an identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they’re going to build future products that leverage that information,

• 9 Reasons Why Your Content Is Not Shared on Social Networks: New Research | Social Media Examiner

  “Do you wonder how to get your content seen amidst a sea of information?

  What if you could understand why your audience shares some information and not other? That would make your content stand out from the competition.”

  tags: social networks research

• Did We Drop the Ball on Unemployment? – NYTimes.com

  “When Americans are polled about the issue they care most about, the answer by a two-to-one margin is jobs. The Boston Globe found that during President Obama’s Twitter “town hall” last month, the issue that the public most wanted to ask about was, by far, jobs. Yet during the previous two weeks of White House news briefings, reporters were far more likely to ask about political warfare with Republicans. “

  tags: NYTimes.com unemployment Journalism

• Skills for journalists: The basics « Teaching Online Journalism

  This Mindy McAdams post is from April, but it’s worth reading even today.

  tags: skills journalists basics teaching onlinejournalism education

• The Future isn’t the Present: A J-School Grad’s Roadmap to Journalism | Center for Sustainable Journalism

  “The fact is there is no career path in journalism today. Basically you get in wherever you can and figure it out from there. A year from now I’ll probably write another one of these posts about how wrong all of this is, but for now it’s what I see from my seat a year into the industry.

  So, what’s an aspiring journalist to do? Take everything with a grain of salt, and I mean everything. Industry news, trends, rejections, compliments, success, advice and even this post. No one knows the future of media, but I can guarantee the trade of journalism isn’t disappearing anytime soon.”

  tags: journalism J-School careers

• 5 Traits of Effective ‘About Us’ Pages | ClickZ

  “It’s often the most neglected page on your website; if you even have this page. However, if you do, it is very likely among the most visited pages. I may be dating myself, but it is the Rodney Dangerfield of web pages. It gets no respect. Do you have an “about us” page? Is it performing at the level it should be?

  As brands, we should want people to like us, to share our values, to feel validated by doing business with us. How are we supposed to get them to do this if we don’t connect to them on a human level in a “human voice”?”

  tags: webdesign

• Teaching Online Journalism

  “I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in my own department, to my current preparations to teach journalism at a university in Indonesia, I have been thinking a lot about what students need to learn today.

  Here are six proposals in three distinct areas of journalism that are increasingly important today.”

  tags: education Teaching onlinejournalism Journalism branding

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• Are live blogs as useful as we think they are? – Editors Weblog

  ”
  The question for journalists is: how are we learning about the situation? Most likely, if you have gained your news from any major news site, you will have looked at a live blog.

  Popular as live blogs are, they do raise some pertinent questions about journalistic methods and the value of practically instantaneous information. “

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• Let’s train journalists for the future, not for the past

  “What concerns me is that there are a whole generation of students who are being encouraged to pay for qualifications that will equip them to work in a 90s newsroom, because the people designing the courses and the industry input they receive are all from people who cut their teeth in a 90s newsroom.”

  tags: journalists future education

• The 2011 Mind-Set of Faculty (Born Before 1980) | LinkedIn

  tags: Mind-Set faculty education college

• The Beloit College Mind-Set List Welcomes the ‘Internet Class’ | LinkedIn

  tags: college Mind-Set education

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• Student Journalism | The Value of School Newspapers – NYTimes.com

  “In this precarious time, those who study journalism, teach it or just value it must be extra-vigilant and extra-prepared to defend the continued importance of journalism education, even when salaried newsroom jobs are melting away faster than the polar ice caps.

  Fortunately, the case is an easy one.”

  tags: student journalism education splc

• Daily Dot

  “The Daily Dot is the hometown newspaper of the World Wide Web. It is the paper of record of the digital community. From the virtual street corners, town squares, and back alleys that make up the online world, it reports the noteworthy daily occurrences and provides a forum to debate the day’s issues. It is the story of this new and vibrant place.”

  tags: dailydot journalism innovation

• Advice for this year’s incoming journalism students

  “I’m making this an August tradition, so here is my advice for this year’s incoming journalism students. These tips are given to encourage new students to look beyond the typical j-school curriculum, to help them develop the skills that they will need in their future careers, but that j-schools too often fail to teach.”

  tags: advice incoming journalism students

• Tool of the week for journalists – Duedil, ‘Lexis-Nexis-meets-Google-meets-LinkedIn’ | Editors’ Blog | Journalism.co.uk

  “It’s still in beta but is a kind of social network for company information; transparent data available on a site with an intuitive user interface.”

  tags: tool journalists

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• Ten things every journalism student should know | Editors’ Blog | Journalism.co.uk

  “If you are about to start a journalism course, here are 10 things you should know to give you the best chance of succeeding and getting a job in journalism.”

  tags: journalism basics journalismeducation

• From paper to persona | RJI

  “Making the new digital market: A case for an Information Trust Association” Bill Densmore’s white paper on journalism sustainability.

  tags: RJI futureofjournalism billdensmore

• “Pandora For Books” BookLamp Launches Today :: Books :: News :: Paste

  “Booklamp.org went live earlier today, offering a free service similar to the wildly popular Pandora Internet radio service, but for books.”

  tags: pandora books

• Open Journalism

  “Here’s a question: why are we still consuming the news like it’s 1989? Enter the Moby Dick Project. ” (via @jayrosen_nyu on twitter)

  tags: futureofjournalism

• U.K.’s Daily Mail uses blogger’s photos after she denies them permission | Poynter.

  There has got to be a better way than this kind of stuff.

  tags: daily mail photos permission

• Bottlenecks in the brain limit our ability to multitask

  “Researchers previously thought that different processes in the brain were subject to separate bottlenecks. For example, the process of reading a map might be limited by a very different mechanism than the act of evaluating ideas and forming opinions. However, new research in PNAS suggests that a “unified” bottleneck may restrict our ability to perform very different cognitive processes simultaneously.”

  tags: brain multitasking timemanagement

• What is journalism worth?

  “What is journalism worth? That’s the question journalism managers and entrepreneurs have been trying to figure out ever since it became clear, years ago, that the Internet was disrupting local publishing monopolies.

  And so we’ve endured years of conference panels, email exchanges, and blog posts about paywalls and paid content strategies, as publishers try to figure out exactly how much people are now willing to pay for news content.

  Lost in this is the realization that people have been telling us – for generations – how much they’re willing to pay for news. “

  tags: journalism businessmodelsforjournalism

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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.

  tags: plagiarism roundup journalism poynter

• 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.”

  tags: mobile guide sites web apps Journalism.co.uk

• Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share

  Intuitive learner’s code-building experience developed by MIT. (via Daniel Sato)

  tags: programming education

• 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.

  tags: music industry business

• 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.

  tags: newspapers business tribunecompany

• 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.

  tags: FCC local news reference research

• 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!

  tags: wordpress publishing workflow

• 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.

  tags: nypost facepalm paywalls

• The Data Viz Quiz

  See how many you can get.

  tags: data data mining visualization

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