• Journalists File Lawsuit Against City of Fort Lauderdale

  “Noted South Florida attorneys Norm Kent and Russell Cormican of Kent & Cormican PA, along with the South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging Fort Lauderdale’s ban on all photography – amateur or professional – within several hundred yards of the filming of the Hollywood movie Rock of Ages, starring Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Alec Baldwin.

  Fort Lauderdale police have told at least two professional photographers they cannot shoot from a public area, and the policy precludes anyone from taking pictures even as they dine at restaurants that are within a city block of Revolution, the nightclub movie producers have rented for the past few weeks.”

  Via Michael Koretzky

  tags: journalists firstamendment

• Community: A New Business Model for News

  “This isn’t a brilliant new insight. We have long known communities are powerful and that local media thrive when they bring together and serve their community. Somehow though when it comes to the challenge of online media, we forget this. We search for new business models that involve paywalls, more video, the iPad, and wealthy donors, while the most powerful emerging business driver in the new economy is community.”

  tags: community journalism local onlinenews

• Less of less: FCC-commissioned report finds a “surprisingly small audience for local news traffic”

  “Local news outlets get less than one half of one percent of all pageviews in a typical market, according to a new report (pdf) called “Less of the Same: The Lack of Local News on the Internet.”"

  tags: FCC-commissioned journalism local news future onlinenews

• Has the Internet “hamsterized” journalism?

  “Hey there newspaper reporter—has your broadband-powered job got you filing not only conventional stories, but blogging, video blogging, Facebooking, podcasting, picture posting, and Tweeting? If so, you’ll be happy to know that the Federal Communications Commission earned its keep this week by coming up with a term for this ever growing set of digital duties: the “hamsterization” of American journalism.

  “As newsrooms have shrunk, the job of the remaining reporters has changed. They typically face rolling deadlines as they post to their newspaper’s website before, and after, writing print stories,” the FCC notes in its just released report on The Information Needs of Communities. “

  tags: journalism onlinenews socialmed

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• Analyzing the metered model | Monday Note

  One the dirtiest little secrets of the online media business is the actual number of truly loyal readers — as opposed to fly-bys. No one really wants to know (let alone let anyone else know).

  tags: onlinejournalism paywalls

• Introducing iChromy

  tags: apps ipad diigo socialbookmarking

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• …the deadline – What I Learned In Joplin

  “It was my first time covering — more accurately, trying to cover — a disaster. The National desk knows I am a weather geek, so I came close to covering the tornadoes in North Carolina in April, and then the tornadoes in Alabama earlier this month. But the timing wasn’t right in either case.

  This time, it was. I happened to be awake at 2 a.m. for a 6 a.m. ET flight to Chicago on Monday morning, just 12 hours after the tornado struck in Joplin. While in the air, I wondered if I should volunteer to go there. When I landed, I looked at the departure board and saw that a flight was leaving for Kansas City in 45 minutes. On a whim, I walk-ran to the gate and asked if I could buy a standby ticket. The agent said yes.”

  tags: joplin journalism stelter breakingnews

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• The State of iPad Usability

  “The latest report from web usability guru Jakob Nielsen is about iPad usability. It’s the second such report from Nielsen Norman Group and it features in-depth analysis about how people are using iPads. As is usual with Nielsen reports, it also lustily lists all the design flaws that his users found – such as touchable areas that are too small, low discoverability and “swipe ambiguity.”"

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• Please come into journalism and take it over – THE OUTSIDER… and the rueful dilettante

  “But to the rest of you I say: PLEASE come into journalism and take it over. “

  tags: journalism

• LiveShare – Free MMS – Android Market

  “Free MMS — Easily create group photo streams on the fly anytime, anywhere.

  It’s free MMS with Facebook friends and more.”

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• The Smashing Cartoons – Smashing Magazine

  “Smashing Cartoons is a regular section on Smashing Magazine. Every Friday we publish a new cartoon created by Ricardo Gimenes, the creative mind of Behind the Websites. The cartoons are dedicated to design and Web development, but also have a comic twist about everything happening around the Web as well as give you some insights behind the curtains of Smashing Magazine.”

  tags: cartoons design illustration webdesign

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• The Power of Photojournalism | Brain Pickings

  “The Power of Photojournalism is a two-part documentary by the Annenberg Space for Photography investigating just what the title promises through the work of the 66th annual Picture of the Year International winners.”

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• A reporter’s view on the news industry’s broken commenting system – 10,000 Words

  “Alex Schmidt, a freelance reporter and producer working for NPR, Spot.Us and other outlets, has dealt with broken commenting first-hand, in a way that has negatively impacted her chances at future reporting for certain communities. This guest piece from her outlines some of those experiences and how they’ve affected the work she does.”

  tags: comments onlinejournalism

• Cheezburger Network founder turns his attention to online news | Poynter.

  “Huh floated the project — and riffed on topics ranging from Fox News to Twitter and democracy — at a Tuesday meeting of the Online News Association and regional chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Afterward he said the news platform is a personal project of his, separate from Cheezburger.”

  tags: cheezburger network online journalism

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• This Is Your Brain on Twitter – NYTimes.com

  “In his latest column for The New York Times Magazine, Bill Keller, The Times’s executive editor, likens clearing the way for his 13-year-old daughter to join Facebook to handing her “a pipe of crystal meth.”

  I can’t say I have ever tried crystal meth, but I do visit social networks on a regular basis. Twitter, which Mr. Keller says he believes could make us “stupid,” has become an irreplaceable part of my daily life; it augments how I report stories, socialize with friends and share and consume everything from store coupons to breaking news.”

  tags: twitter nytimes journalism socialmedia

• Teaching Online Journalism » Ideas for using Encyclo in journalism classes

  “So here’s what I think we could do with students: Assign a different entry to each student in a class and have the student use it as a springboard into an exploration of that subject. So instead of “Write a report about …”, the assignment is to take a report that’s already been written and use it to find examples, exceptions, or even inaccuracies.”

  tags: online journalism teaching encyclo

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• Mozilla Drumbeat | Beyond Comment Threads

  “How can we reinvent online news discussions?

  One of the best things about the web is that it enables many voices to be heard. Blogs, comment threads, forums, and social networks empower people to take part in new kinds of discussion, dialogue, and debate.

  The best discussions around the web can be pretty isolated. Take comments, tweets, and other fragments out of their original context, and they can become meaningless. And take a look below the fold—in comment threads at news outlets, political blogs, YouTube, and elsewhere, you’ll often find that the loudest voices drown out everyone else.”

  tags: mozilla knightfoundation comments communityinteraction

• ASNE guidelines help editors form social media policies | Poynter.

  “The American Society of News Editors says it reviewed the social media rules of leading mainstream news organizations and identified “the best-practice themes at the heart of the best policies.””

  tags: socialmedia guidelines asne media reference

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• Infographic: The Hard Knock Life of an Internet Troll (Social Studies Blog)

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• “Detroit Free Press maps 13-day, 7-state project on Intersect” by Mónica Guzmán Preston: A Story on Intersect

  “The Detroit Free Press is telling a fishy detective story with Intersect.

  “It seemed perfect,” said Director of Digital Audience Development Stefanie Murray, who suggested that a Free Press reporting team use Intersect to chart their 13-day, seven-state effort to investigate the menacing northward invasion of Asian carp.

  “One of the reasons we like Intersect is because it combines geolocation with live blogging and visuals,” Murray said. “Being able to put content against a map, and against a timeline, gives the news consumer more options.””

  tags: maps intersect innovation storytelling multimedia

• Navigating News Online | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)

  To shed more light on Web news behavior, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has conducted an in-depth study of detailed audience statistics from the Nielsen Company. The study examines the top 25 news websites in popularity in the United States, delving deeply into four main areas of audience behavior: how users get to the top news sites; how long they stay during each visit; how deep they go into a site; and where they go when they leave.

  Overall, the findings suggest that there is not one group of news consumers online but several, each of which behaves differently. These differences call for news organizations to develop separate strategies to serve and make money from each audience.

  tags: pew news Journalism online

• One Reporter’s Notebook, Reporting from analytics: Example

  “I’ve written before on writing from analytics, but what happened today was just such a good example, I think it’s worth sharing. Briefly: checking out my site analytics, and taking clues from them led me to an unreported homicide.

  Here’s the step-by-step.”

  tags: analytics reporting onlinenews

• 5 big problems with ‘Navigating News Online’ study « The Buttry Diary

  “You might find some valid research in the Navigating News Online study published Monday by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a project of the Pew Foundation.

  But the study needed lots of context that an organization committed to excellence in journalism should provide.”

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• University of Alabama’s Crimson White Providing Comprehensive Coverage of Tornado’s Aftermath « College Media Matters

  “Kudos to The Crimson White, the University of Alabama’s daily student newspaper, for its comprehensive, real-time coverage of the tornado that tore through UA’s hometown Tuscaloosa two days ago and the death, destruction, and emotional devastation being grappled with in its aftermath.”

  tags: breakingnews onlinejournalism alabama multimedia socialmedia

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• Kindle Publishing for Blogs

  “Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to the Kindle and updated throughout the day. They are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so they can be read even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle contain full text content and most images.”

  tags: publishing blogs kindle

• Crowdynews

  “Automatically collected tweets related to online newspaper articles. The Twitter feeds that most people are acquainted with are static, labor intensive, and unsorted. They are based on manually entered keywords and simple Twitter search is carried out without relevance ranking. With Crowdynews, the shortcomings of such typical solutions now belong to the past.”

  tags: crowdynews socialmedia twitter aggregation

• Wired for Change – Remix – A Remix Video Contest

  “Kansas State’s Digital Ethnography Project & the Berkman Center for Internet & Society invites you to create a short remix video with material from the Wired for Change event that shows what you think about digital culture & Internet rights. Enter your video & get a chance to win a free trip to next year’s conference!”

  tags: remix contest video

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