Great multimedia work in 2008
December 31, 2008
Poynter’s Regina McCombs highlights projects that combine multiple media forms and storytelling techniques to provide journalistic information. Read more »
Top News Sites of 2008 from NewsKnife
December 31, 2008
The Top News Sites of 2008 is compiled by www.newsknife.com from their analysis of listings by news sites at Google News during 2008. Read more »
Ethnic Hyperlocal News Network Launched in L.A.
December 30, 2008
Paul Lamb reports that a very interesting project billed as the “first-ever online network of ethnic citizen journalists” was launched last week in Los Angeles.
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Content Sites Bracing For 50% Revenue Slowdown
December 30, 2008
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington says he thinks display advertising revenue is going to fall of a cliff in January according to a number of content sites he’s spoken with who rely on advertising for revenue.
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Free course on Medicine in the Media
December 30, 2008
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is offering a free 3-day course for journalists that welcomes citizen journalist and blogger applicants. Read more »
Digital Media Leadership Report 2008
December 26, 2008
This report, produced in October 2008, attempts to distill key ideas and lessons from the The Knight Digital Media Center at USC Annenberg School for Communication conferences and its blog. It is organized in the form of lists that will be updated and enriched at least several times a year. Read more »
Cable, Internet News Sources Growing in Popularity
December 26, 2008
Among daily news sources, only cable and Internet news have shown significant gains in popularity since 2006, while all other media are stable or declining, Gallup reports. Read more »
Cute Animal Christmas Song
December 25, 2008
Click to watch. Read more »
A New Jersey Newspaper Shuns the Web, and Thrives
December 23, 2008
Into the teeth of a historic recession, the TriCityNews of Monmouth County, N.J., newspaper has just published the biggest issue in its history, NYTimes.com reports. Read more »
Here Comes Santa Claus — On An iPhone Tracker!
December 23, 2008
gigaom reports: NORAD’s annual Santa Tracker has since gone Web 2.0, in an ongoing partnership with Google that imports Saint Nick’s trajectory data onto Google Maps and Google Earth. Now, iPhone owners have a free app of their own, the Santa Tracker for iPhone, so they can keep tabs on the jolly fat man from the palm of their hand.