Top Stories

Online Journalism Awards entry deadline extended to July 8

The deadline to enter the Online Journalism Awards has been extended to Wednesday, July 8.
Read more »

Wired Editor: Newspapers can learn from Club Penguin

Wired editor and “Free” book author Chris Anderson said, in a talk to the Guardian newspaper, that newspapers need to find a “pet for their penguin” – “freemium” things that they can charge for to support journalism. Read more »

The Daily Show visits The New York Times

In case you missed…
Read more »

New Twitter site designed for journalists

JournoTwit was created by  Andrew “Spode” Miller, a technology journalist, “to suit the fast paced, nomadic lifestyle of a journalist - but may well suit others.”

Read more »

Colbert pokes fun at Twitter and Goldblum death rumors

Watch here:
Read more »

Online Publishers Association new ad units go live

The Online Publishers Association (OPA)  announced 37 OPA member companies are making new ad units available and several are running major advertising campaigns across a variety of sectors including consumer packaged goods, automotive, and financial.

YouTube launches Reporters’ Center

YouTube today launched a new resource to help people learn more about how to report the news today, called The YouTube Reporters’ Center.

Read more »

Online newspaper experiment in Seattle fails

The Seattle Courant, an experiment in building an online-only newspaper in Seattle, has shut down. Keith Vance, who founded it, said it failed because he wasn’t able to get the project the funding it needed to survive.
Read more »

Michael Jackson Death News Coverage resources

Poynter has pulled together links to resources to help you cover Michael Jackson’s death.

Online coverage of Michael Jackson’s death

Here are screengrabs of major news organizations’ websites when story of Michael Jackson’s death was breaking.

Read more posts »

Full archives »