Interview Voyeurism
August 30, 2002
Here’s a Web site that enables you to basically sit in on interviews conducted by some of the best journalists in America and study their techniques.
‘Rebuilding a Fortress, Rebuilding a Life’
August 29, 2002
WashingtonPost.com videojournalist Travis Fox spent four months with a sheet metal worker who is helping rebuild the Pentagon after his son was killed in the Sept. 11 attack there. The documentary he produced, “Rebuilding a Fortress, Rebuilding a Life,” is first-rate, but what makes it so noteworthy is that ABC News aired his piece Aug. 16, 2002, on “Nightline UpClose.” This is the first time a nationally broadcast television news program was based entirely on a documentary produced by a news Web site, according to Poynter’s Al Tompkins. The video was also presented in five segments on WashingtonPost.com (which includes additional footage not seen on TV), where it can still be viewed.
62 Days from Ground Zero
August 27, 2002
62 Days from Ground Zero, The Times Herald-Record, Middletown, N.Y.
Most Innovative Use of Digital Media: News Event Coverage, Circulation 75,000 to 250,000, Digital Edge Awards 2002. Judges said: Restricted by resources but determined to document the effects of Sept. 11 on its small-town communities, The Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y., developed this simple, moving site. It pays tribute to the more than 60 area residents who lost their lives during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to the heroes of Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties.
Associated Press, “Media Industry News”
August 26, 2002
“The Media Center at the American Press Institute in Reston, Va., and CyberJournalist.net have formed a publishing alliance to jointly encourage better online and multi-platform convergence journalism. CyberJournalist.net is a Web site for journalists that focuses on the Internet, media convergence and new technologies.”
Glenn Reynolds: Officially a CyberJournalist…
August 26, 2002
“HEY, I’M OFFICIALLY A CYBERJOURNALIST! It says so right on CyberJournalist.Net, and I don’t see how you could get more official than that.”
— Glenn Reynolds
WebWatch Survey - What Users Want
August 23, 2002
Fifty-nine percent of users say that it is very important that advertising be clearly labeled and distinguished from news and information, according to a Consumer WebWatch study.
Web Doesn’t Affect Print Readership
August 23, 2002
Newspaper Web sites rarely affect delivery frequency of the print edition, but have a positive impact on single-copy purchases, according to a survey conducted by Belden Associates of Dallas.
Devil in Details
August 23, 2002
Details magazine and writer Kurt Andersen have been the victim of an elaborate hoax. The magazine printed an essay with Andersen’s byline entitled “Dudes Who Dish.” Only problem was, he didn’t write it. After someone posing as Anderson e-mailed the magazine, an assignment was made, the piece submitted and the copy fact-checked entirely through e-mail. “This type of thing-unfortunately, given the frequency people use e-mail ? is scary and can happen to everybody,” Details editor in chief Daniel Peres said. Actually, only to those who aren’t careful and rely too heavily on e-mail. As The New York Observer’s Sridhar Pappu points out: “The irony of Details’ plight is that in the end, his magazine could have avoided a lot of trouble by using an old, underrated device: the telephone.”
InstaPundit.com: “Officially a CyberJournalist…”
August 22, 2002
“HEY, I’M OFFICIALLY A CYBERJOURNALIST! It says so right on CyberJournalist.Net, and I don’t see how you could get more official than that.” — Glenn Reynolds
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/003328.php#003328
E-Media Tidbits: “Cyberjournalist.net, API Hook Up”
August 21, 2002
“Jonathan Dube’s Cyberjournalist.net website, a resource for the online journalism world that covers the Internet, media convergence, and new technologies, has entered into an agreement with the American Press Institute to become a service of API’s The Media Center. Cyberjournalist.net also will be incorporated into other information and training services produced by the Center, according to its director, Andrew Nachison. Dube will continue as editor and publisher of Cyberjournalist.net and becomes a senior editor for The Media Center (AND keeps his “day job” as technology editor for MSNBC.com), and Nachison becomes editor-at-large. (Dube also co-writes a regular column, Web Tips, for Poynter.org, publisher of this weblog. Where does he find the time for all this?)” - Steve Outing