ProPublica launches
June 26, 2008
ProPublica has launched its nonprofit news web site — “an investigative publishing platform that will produce original stories focusing on betrayal of the public trust and abuse of power.” The site launched in tandem its first big story, “The investigation of Al Hurra,” which it did in partnership with “60 minutes.
New-Media Focus Splits Associated Press Members
June 26, 2008
Some newspapers are getting frustrated by The Associated Press, as the 162-year-old newsgathering cooperative increasingly focuses on new outlets such as Yahoo and Google, which are now among the AP’s biggest customers. Read more »
New York Times and I.H.T. Study Web Merger
June 25, 2008
The New York Times is looking at merging nytimes.com with iht.com, the Web site of the International Herald Tribune. Read more »
Top news sites for May 2008
June 25, 2008
Here are the top news sites in the U.S. for May 2008 according to Nielsen Online. Read more »
Blogosphere = a giant wire service
June 25, 2008
Clyde Bentley, a Missouri School of Journalism professor who researches user-generated news, suggested at a Future of News conference that editors should treat the blogosphere like a giant wire service. What a great way of looking at it.
Why Google should buy the Associated Press
June 24, 2008
Wired poses an interesting idea: What if AP re-organized as a cooperative, not of newspapers, but of online content providers such as Google and Yahoo!? The end of the story notes that the idea is unrealistic, but it’s intriguing. The story, btw, compares AP’s current business model as selling drugs to late-stage cancer patients. Ouch. Read more »
Newspapers create public notices Web site
June 23, 2008
South Dakota’s weekly and daily newspapers have created a free, text-searchable Web site that includes thousands of government public notices from across the state, The Brookings Register reports.
The site, www.sdpublicnotices.com, is a database of public notices such as the minutes of school boards, city councils and county commissions. Once the public notices are published in the local newspaper, The Brookings Register says, they are uploaded to the Web site where viewers can search by keywords, county , city or newspaper.
Canada’s journalism schools emphasize multimedia
June 19, 2008
Canada’s journalism schools are putting more emphasis on online journalism and multimedia, The Financial Post reports. David Beers, founder of online news magazine theTyee.ca and unstructor at UBC, recommends keeping the following pointers in mind when students are job hunting… Read more »
DailyMe.com launches new news site
June 18, 2008
DailyMe.com launched a new news site today. Read more »
BBC News’ journalists converge
June 18, 2008
BBC’s online journalists have moved into the newly configured BBC Multimedia Newsroom, next to their TV and radio counterparts, and the newsgathering teams who deploy the BBC’s news reporters, BBC News website editor Steve Hermann says. Read more »