Huffington Post:
Twelve journalists in the southern Philippines have been slaughtered, in what will surely be remembered as the worst single day in the history of journalism. The journalists were accompanying a local political family - the Ma (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Plato’s Forms, a San Francisco startup that describes itself as “a professional messaging platform focused on the problem of the rapid proliferation of misinformation in media,” just announced raising a $545,000 seed round. T (Read More)
NY Post:
You have to say this for The Associated Press -- it is a card-carrying member of the extended-pinky crowd and an educational outfit, to boot ("The AP's Palin Panic," Editorial, Nov. 20). Who knew that honesty was conferred (Read More)
L.A. Times - Business:
As Miss Teen South Carolina reminded us so memorably in 2007, "Some people in our nation don't have maps. . . . " So true. But you can't blame the National Geographic Society. For more than a century, the House That Grosvenor (Read More)
Daggle: Danny Sullivan's Blog:
Ahead of next week’s FTC workshop on journalism and the internet, I gave an informal briefing to several people from the FTC about the differences between how search engines, aggregators and news blogs all gather content (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Deal would give Bing exclusive rights• Times will have paywalls in place by next springRupert Murdoch is considering a tie-up with Microsoft which would see the technology group pay for exclusive rights to content from his (Read More)
Submitted by adamsherk
from Google Reader:
It is a very small world. You may recall back in June The Daily Show sent correspondent Jason Jones to Iran just ahead of the elections to film a series of “funny” spots about how the country was dealing with the election. (Read More)
Romenesko:
Memo to NPR employees 11/23/2009 10:22 AM After 30 years of waking up at 1:05 a.m. to anchor the top of the hour newscast during Morning Edition, Carl Kasell has decided the time has come to sleep in. He will leave his newsca (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
One of the points we've tried to make around here regularly is that this blog is not a traditional journalism effort. I am not a "reporter." I do not go out seeking stories to report on. I write about what I find interesti (Read More)
Submitted by adamsherk
from Google Reader:
Demand Media has advertising-driven content down to a science. Instead of creating content for the Web and hoping that it generates revenue, the company works backwards by determining how much revenue each piece will generate (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The first issue of Caijing magazine following the departure of outspoken editor Hu Shuli and most of its staff hit newsstands, with its publisher acknowledging that the publication wasn't up to par but reaffirming its goal of (Read More)
News from Journalism.co.uk:
Shane Croucher is a journalism student at the University of Lincoln and assistant deputy editor of student newspaper, The Linc. Student politics may seem like a trivial thing, but when you take into consideration that studen (Read More)
Submitted by Motown_Terri
from blog:
Author : Anne TorresBlogging has become a lucrative career for some people these days Most of them have quit their day jobs just to concentrate on writing posts which are earning them huge commissions from the ads they post (Read More)
paidContent.org:
The reports say Microsoft is offering to pay newspaper publishers for indexing their stories, if Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is blocked from doing the same.But how real are the talks? One source familiar with discussions advised us c (Read More)
Submitted by frinsen
from Google Reader:
Rupert Murdoch has taken aim at Google for “stealing his content”. Google has riposted by saying that news content “is not a big part of how we generate revenue”. Observers have argued that Murdoch doesn’t get the Internet an (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Last Friday, about 35 of us got together at Ohio State for an informal symposium about the local implications of Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age, which was the final report of the Knight Commiss (Read More)
News from Journalism.co.uk:
#FollowJourn: Dave Lee Who? Broadcast journalist for the BBC World Service. Former co-editor of the BBC Internet Blog. What? Online journalism advocate who can be found on a variety of blogging and social media platforms. W (Read More)
News from Journalism.co.uk:
Mobile: Downloading the Tweetdeck app on an iPhone means you can easily publish and share pics with Twitter accounts - great for photos from events and breaking news stories. Tipster: Laura Oliver. To submit a tip to Journali (Read More)
News from Journalism.co.uk:
The companies have declined to comment, but the FT reports that Microsoft – which owns search engine Bing – has entered discussions with News Corp ‘over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to ‘de-index’ (Read More)