Answers.com, nytimes.com partner
September 28, 2006
Answers.com and The New York Times have partnered to integrate Answers.com reference content into NYTimes.com.
More turn to net for politics news
September 28, 2006
On a typical day in August, 26 million Americans were using the internet for news or information
about politics and the upcoming mid-term elections, according to a new report from Pew. That corresponds to 19% of adult internet users, or 13% of all Americans over the age of 18. This is a high-point in the number of internet users turning to cyberspace on the average day for political news or information, exceeding the 21 million figure registered in a Pew Internet Project
survey during the November 2004 general election campaign.1
‘Technology Is Now an Important Part of Media’
September 27, 2006
The New York Times Co.’s new futurist-in-residence predicts that a new generation of newspaper readers will soon be accustomed to reading news on a screen and won’t possess an “emotional attachment” to paper.
Michael Rogers talks about his new, interesting role in this interview with IWantMedia.
JW to launch mobile edition
September 27, 2006
Jornalistas da Web (JW), the leading Brazilian digital media news provider, is launching this week a mobile edition. Developed exclusively for smartphones and PDAs with Internet access and HTML support, JW Mobile displays the last 30 news published in the site, the last 30 posts from Ponto JOL - JW’s collective weblog - and links to other mobile publications.
New York Times, Washington Post launch new mobile editions
September 27, 2006
The New York Times and Washington Post have launched new mobile editions.
You can access The Times mobile site here.
You can find out how to access The Post’s mobile editions here.
Slashdot asks Jay Rosen about future of ‘Citizen Journalism’
September 27, 2006
“People ranging from Doc Searls to J.D. Lasica to Dan Gillmor to Craig Newmark have talked about how ‘citizen journalism’ is supplanting and/or augmenting professional reporting…. This week’s interviewee, NYU professor Jay Rosen, is not only a long-time proponent of civic journalism, but has now started NewAssignment.net with seed money from Craig Newmark, a $10,000 grant from the Sunlight Foundation and, last week, $100,000 from Reuters. Jay Rosen is obviously not just an academic or theoretician, but is actually doing things, which means he can answer almost any question you may have about citizen (or civic) journalism.”
Your Guide to Citizen Journalism
September 27, 2006
MediaShift has produced a handy guide to citizen media, including historical background, arguments on terminology, and plenty of links and resources.
2006 Knight-Batten Award Winners
September 26, 2006
Global Voices Online, a web site about how news affects daily life and conversations in more than 130 countries, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
What is Web 2.0, anyway?
September 26, 2006
InformationWeek offers up a definition for Web 2.0 that Steve Rubel says is difficult to argue with.
“Web 2.0 is all the Web sites out there that get their value from the actions of users.”
The New York Times extends online archive to 1851
September 26, 2006
The New York Times has made all articles dating back to Sept. 18, 1851, when the paper started publishing, available online at NYTimes.com.