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Joint AP, Yahoo News poll
The Associated Press and Yahoo! News teamed up to poll Americans about the upcoming presidential election. A survey of more than 2,000 people found that Democrats and Republicans alike have strong opinions about who has the best chance of capturing...
New York Times adjusts article update policy
In response to complaints that information in old New York Times articles that is wrong, incomplete or embarrassing is getting attention in search engine results, The Times has adjusted its policy....
Changing Media Landscape webcast
The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Hearst Foundation will present their annual look at the changing media industry Tuesday evening, with an emphasis on new media and online journalism. This annual program takes the form of discussion led...
Citizen journalist's work cited in Congress
Blogger Roger Shuler writes in to say that his work as a citizen journalist was cited in last week's U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing on selective prosecution. The Don Siegelman case in Alabama and the Cyril Wecht case in Pennsylvania...
Jump in the river, the water's fine
"News is a river, not a lake. It is active, not static. It's what's happening, not what happened. Or not only what happened," writes blogger Doc Searls in a post about the future of news and of newspapers. He's inspired...
Columbus Dispatch: 'The ABCs of Betrayal'
Comments: The Columbus Dispatch kicked off a four-day investigative series Oct. 14, 2007 on Ohio’s flawed system of disciplining and tracking teachers, coaches, aides, counselors and administrators. In “The ABCs of Betrayal,” the newspaper also made available on its...
Online Journalism Award winners
The Online News Association announced the winners of the 2007 OJAs Friday night in Toronto....
Knight News Challenge deadline nears
The Knight News Challenge is open to community-minded digital news innovators worldwide -- journalists, software designers, bloggers, and students of any age. This competition is sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, who fund excellence in journalism...
Survey of news media's use of Twitter
Curt Hopkins, the founder of the Committee to Protect Bloggers, has created a survey on how traditional news media use Twitter and it's located here: I set up a survey to track Twitter use at news organizations. If you use...
Interview with Associated Content founder
Associated Content solicits and publishes content from its users and pays them, on average, between $3 and $20, plus royalties based on the number of page views the content generates. Here is an Assignment Zero interview with Associated Content founder...
Kerry Taser Video Brings Record Traffic To 'Gainesville Sun'
If any newspaper doubts the value of shooting video, look to The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, which shot the footage of the University of Florida student tasered at a John Kerry event that has become the most viewed video of the...
Marc Cooper joins OFFTHEBUS.NET
The Huffington Post and NewAssignment.Net today announced that Marc Cooper, a veteran political journalist and author, has joined OffTheBus.Net, their new joint venture in campaign journalism. Cooper will be editorial coordinator for OffTheBus.Net and will also serve as special correspondent...
2007 Online Journalism Awards - Finalists
Finalists for the 8th annual Online Journalism Awards, honoring excellence in digital journalism, have been announced by the Online News Association and the USC Annenberg School for Communication....
The New York Times introduces online learning program
The New York Times has expanded its Knowledge Network by adding a new online initiative that pairs Times content with faculty course material for both credit-bearing and continuing education courses. Educators will now have the opportunity to select Times articles,...
Washington Post, Bonneville end joint radio venture
“Washington Post Radio was an experiment in stretching the idea that it doesn't really matter through what platform you get your news — what's important, rather, is who the storytellers are,” says Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher. “The idea that...
The Wall Street Journal Online Adds First Video Podcast, 'Tech Diary'
The Wall Street Journal Online today announced the launch of a new video podcast, "Andy Jordan's Tech Diary." In a regular video segment that can be viewed free at www.wsj.com/techdiary, WSJ.com technology reporter Andy Jordan chronicles the (often odd) stories...
Bloggers blasted by J-school prof, and blast back
J-school prof Michael Skube complained in an LA Times opinion piece about bloggers' lack of fact-checking, perserverance and restraint, citing respected blogs such as Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo as an example. No stranger to criticism, Marshall was nevertheless...
MarketWatch.com wins Loeb Award
MarketWatch.com correspondent Alistair Barr has received the Gerald Loeb Award in the News Services or Online Content category for his series “Who Are The Short Sellers?” “Who Are The Short Sellers?” revealed the upside and downside of short-selling while shedding...
NYTimes digital editor on moderating reader comments
Interesting reader Q&A with Jim Roberts of The New York Times, who answers questions about digital storytelling, how reporters are adjusting to handle breaking news online, and how The Times handles reader comments....
Maury Povich launches online newspaper
Maury Povich, who has had a home in Montana for more than 10 years, has launched a new daily online newspaper with a weekly print edition to cover Flathead Valley, Montana. NewWest.net founder Jonathan Weber says it "has the potential...
CNN, IBS partner
CNN and Internet Broadcasting have formed a partnership, in which they will link to each others' content and work together on online ad platforms. This means CNN will link to local news stories from IBS member TV station sites and...
The high price of user-generated content
The New York Times: Companies have found that inviting consumers to create their advertising is often more stressful, costly and time-consuming than just rolling up their sleeves and doing the work themselves. Many entries are mediocre, if not downright bad,...
Knight News Challenge First-Year Winners Announced
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced more than $10 million in grant money to fund innovative ideas for using digital news and information to build and bind community in specific geographic areas. Winners of the Knight...
Medill program aims to create more 'Adrian Holovatys'
As part of the Knight News Challenge, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University was given more than $600,000 to create an academic program blending computer science and journalism, designed to fill a staffing void at many digital news...
Nearly 25% Of Newspaper Visits Driven By Search
Nearly a quarter of the traffic newspaper Web sites are getting comes through search engines, according to a new Hitwise report. The Hitwise report also found that news consumption is beginning to fragment, with the share of visits to the...
An online Boston Tea Party?
Digg.com, the user-powered news site, had a bit of a meltdown this week. CEO Jay Adelson posted a message explaining the site was deleting articles that included the newly cracked HD-DVD encryption key. Users rebelled, flooding the site with HD-DVD...
Two readers win trips to report with Nicholas Kristof in Africa
The New York Times has selected two readers to join New York Times Op-Ed and TimesSelect columnist,Nicholas D. Kristof, on a reporting trip to Africa this summer. The three will travel to Rwanda, Congo and Burundi, with all expenses covered...
Wikipedia emerges as key source for Virginia Tech shootings
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia,served as an essential news source for hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet trying to understand the shootings at Virginia Tech University last week, The New York Times reports. According to the foundation that runs...
How the net exposed Imus
In a story on Imus's sacking, the L.A. Times points out one reason why the shock jock's racist comments may have gotten him in trouble this time, when he'd gotten a pass on so many racist and anti-Semitic comments before:...
Multimedia Training Seminar
The Knight New Media Center Multimedia Training Program is accepting applications for 20 fellowships for journalists to attend this expenses-paid seminar that combines practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of issues in online publishing....
Huge interest in 'Assignment Zero' crowdsourcing experiment
NewAssignment.net founder Jay Rosen says more than 800 people have signed up for "Assignment Zero," a crowdsourcing experiment with Wired.com. The biggest unknown—will we get participation?—has been answered. The ams and the pros have shown up. Now we have to...
Free copy of 'News, Improved'
“News, Improved" is a new book by Michele McLellan and Tim Porter of the Knight Foundation. The book covers the Knight Foundation's $10 million Newsroom Training Initiative since 2003, showing how training linked to actionable goals can drive innovation by...
Topix reinvents itself as a citizen news site
News aggregator Topix -- jointly owned by Gannet, McClatchy and Tribune -- has reinvented itself as a citizen media site....
New citizen media site for Catholics
A new site intends to harness the citizen-journalism powers of Catholic lay people, who have seen their church rocked to its core by sex abuse scandals....
Behind washingtonpost.com's redesign
Jim Brady, washingtonpost.com Executive Editor, explains some of the key changes to the site's home page and the thinking behind it....
2007 National Magazine Award finalists for online
Here are the online finalists for the 2007 National Magazine Awards....
Conservative Wikipedia launches
Andrew Schlafly, son of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, has founded a new site called Conservapedia.com, which describes itself as "a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American."...
State of the News Media Online
The Project for Excellence in Journalism's fourth edition of its annual report on the state of the news media says that journalists are being slow to adapt to the changing needs of the news consumer and that some of the...
Exiled journalists circumvent censors by SMS
Journalists writing about Zimbabwe's repressive government have found a new way to circumvent their censors: sending text messages via cell phone....
AP partners with citizen journalism site
The Associated Press has partnered with a citizen journalism site, NowPublic.com, to integrate user-generated content into the wires. AP bureaus will work with NowPublic communities in selected locations on ways to enhance regional news coverage, and national AP news desks...
Newspapers search for Web headline magic
CNET reports on how news organizations have been training journalists to rewrite print headlines in order to make them work better on the web and show up higher in search results. "Pithy, witty and provocative headlines--the pride of many an...
Internet 101 training at Los Angeles Times
Here are some early details about the effort to combine and improve the Los Angeles Times' newsgathering operations across print and the web, from newly appointed Innovations Editor Russ Stanton:...
Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?
A new report from J-Lab, "The report, "Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News: The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism," finds that most citizen media ventures are shoestring labors of love, funded out of the founders' own pockets,...
TV news stations air incorrectly identified ferry video from YouTube
A number of Canadian television news broadcasts aired a user-submitted video clip falsely labelled as a ferry battling rough seas in the Cabot Strait, reviving questions about how news organizations handle user-submitted content. The reports prompted some passengers to cancel...
Digital Edge Award winners
The Digital Edge Award winners for this year were announced. Congratulations to Steve Yelvington for winning the Online Innovator Award. Here is the complete list of winners of the Digital Edge Awards....
Free Multimedia Training Seminar
The Knight New Media Center Multimedia Training Program is accepting applications for 20 fellowships for journalists to attend this expenses-paid seminar that combines practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of issues in online publishing....
Deadline for Sidney Hillman Awards
The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2007 Sidney Hillman Awards, honoring journalism that investigates issues related to social justice and progressive public policy. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2007....
YouTube to Share Revenue With Users
Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, says that the wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users....
L.A.Times shifts its focus to Web
The Los Angeles Times is going to combine the operations of the newspaper and its Internet site, and the top editor called on the paper's journalists to view latimes.com as the paper's primary vehicle for delivering news....
User-generated video doesn't pay
Market research analyst Screen Digest predicts that although 44 billion video streams -- 55 percent of all video content consumed in the U.S. -- will be created by 2010, the market will only account for 15 percent of total revenues....
Bloggers get press seats at Scooter Libby trial
For the first time in a federal court, two of the seats set aside for media will be reserved for bloggers next week when I. Lewis "Scooter" Libbey, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, goes to trial on charges...
Backfence co-founder: 'Very excited about where we're going'
Backfence.com Co-founder Mark Potts tells CyberJournalist.net he's returned to the citizen media company to lead the core management team and employees through the transition, after a number of people were let go and the other co-founder, Susan DeFife, resigned. "We're...
Citizen journalism site Backfence downsizes
BackFence.com, an interesting citizen journalism start-up, has let 12 of 18 employees go and CEO and co-founder Susan DeFife has resigned from the company. It's unclear what this means for the future of that company or of citizen journalism business...
Online NewsHour on the future of media
The Online NewsHour had a good discussion of citizen journalism and what it means to the future of media....
Bet ya didn't know: Digg.com uses moderators
Many sites are debating the merits of moderation versus no-moderation these days, and pointing to sites like Digg.com of examples of how users can create a quality site without moderation. A little known fact, though, is that Digg.com actually does...
Bivings: Magazines not using Web 2.0
The Bivings Report analyzed the top 50 most circulated magazines in the United States and found that magazines are not making use of Web 2.0....
Pulitzer Prizes to allow more online material
Starting this year, The Pulitzer Prizes will now allow newspapers to submit a wider array of online material -- such as databases, interactive graphics, and streaming video -- in nearly all of its journalism categories....
TV news sites "best destinations" on election night
The best destinations for news on Election Night 2006 were the Web sites of TV news operations, according to a new report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism. "They offered a combination of quick access to results plus the...
Best of the Blogs awards given
The Deutsche Welle 2006 Best of the Blogs Awards gave the top award for Best Weblog to the Sunlight Foundation....
Dow Jones launches new video player
Dow Jones has launched a new video player across three sites -- Barron's Online, MarketWatch.com and the Wall Street Journal Online -- in partnership with Brightcove. Highlights: - Videos are produced in-house at Dow Jones studios in Manhattan and San...
Multimedia training workshop
The Knight New Media Center Multimedia Training Program is accepting applications for 20 fellowships for traditional mainstream journalists to attend a expenses-paid seminar that combines practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of media convergence and other critical issues...
Wired News: How to Catch a MySpace Creep
Six months ago, Wired News launched an investigation of MySpace with the goal of comparing the company's 120 million user profiles against public sex offender registries to see how many matches we could find....
Wikipedia founder to launch rival wiki
Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger is launching a rival to Wikipedia, called Citizendium, which he says will offer more editorial oversight by restricting who can create articles. The site is in alpha testing now and will launch publicly by the end...
PBS Frontline's "The Enemy Within"
PBS Frontline has launched an impressive print/TV/web project. Produced in Berkeley, CA, in “The Enemy Within” FRONTLINE and New York Times correspondent Lowell Bergman and producer Oriana Zill de Granados interview top FBI and Homeland Security officials to assess U.S....
2006 Online Journalism Awards winners
Here are the winners of the 2006 Online Journalism Awards....
Craig Newmark: 'No substitute for professionalism in journalism'
At a panel discussion at American University tonight in conjunction with the Online News Association conference, called "An American Forum: The Future of News is Here, Now What?" Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said he's trying to push the state of...
'Wizard of Oz syndrome' of citizen media
At the J-Lab Citizens Media Summit at the Online News Association conference, Lisa Williams, the founder of H20Town.com, said that community sites can do a lot with just a few contributors....
Placeblogs and Placeblogger.com
At the J-Lab Citizens Media Summit at the Online News Association conference, Lisa Williams, the founder of H20Town.com, said gaps in coverage have "created an ecological niche" for sites like hers and hundreds of local "placeblogs."...
Citizen journalism aggregator model
At the J-Lab Citizens Media Summit at the Online News Association conference, Jeremy Iggers, founder of TCDailyPlanet.com, says the goal was to create a local news web site for the Twin Cities – Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. It brings...
Newspapers are missing online opportunities
A survey of top newspaper companies found that nearly three out of four senior executives think newspapers are missing major opportunities online because of a relative lack of cooperation among publishers....
Slashdot asks Jay Rosen about future of 'Citizen Journalism'
"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...
Finding 'the next Google guys'
"When we look back at the great discoveries, the Google guys were just working out their garages. We're looking at trying to help the Google guys become the next Google guys." -- Gary Kebbel, journalism program officer for The John...
$5 million for digital community news projects
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has launched a new competition that will award as much as $5 million in its first year in community news projects that best use the digital world to connect people to the...
Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Adds Online Editing Internship
The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund has added an online editing internship program for college students. The application postmark deadline is Nov. 1....
Citizens Media Summit
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the Online News Association are hosting a Citizens Media Summit, Oct. 5, the day before the ONA conference....
'Journalism in a 24/7 World: Decision-making for the Online Editor'
The Knight New Media Center is accepting fellowship applications for its special expenses-paid workshop for online and portal editors from top online current event and global news destinations....
Los Angeles Daily News launches citizen journalism site
The Los Angeles Daily News has launched a new citizen journalism site, alleynews.com - a dozen Web sites that cover more than 40 neighborhoods that make up Daily News country. Eight sites serve the San Fernando Valley and one each...
Online Journalism Award finalists announced
Here are the finalists for the 2006 Online Journalism Awards, which include a number of Hurricane Katrina entries. The winners will be announced at the OJA Awards Banquet during the 7th annual national conference of the Online News Association, which...
Newspapers turn to video online
Broadcasting and Cable looks at how newspapers are turning to video online - "taking the fight to TV stations on the Web" - and cites a study that found 39 of the top 40 daily newspapers in the U.S. use...
Morris DigitalWorks announces offshore launch of photo tool
Morris DigitalWorks announced today the first offshore launch of its photo blogging tool, Spotted....
New Yorker: Journalism without the journalists
Long piece in The New Yorker about internet journalism, focusing on citizen journalism, by Columbia's J-school dean, in which he says, "the Internet's cheerleaders are practically laboratory specimens of maximal self-confidence" and wonders, "This is what all the fuss is...
Make Your Blog Popular
Tips from David L. Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, on Wired.com....
Joseloff Suggests CBS News Look To Its Past To Map The Future
In an essay for CBSNews.com's Public Eye, Gordon Joseloff -- a former CBS News correspondent, producer and Moscow and Tokyo bureau chief and the publisher and founding editor of WestportNow.com -- says news division standards of 30 years ago remain...
Craig Newmark funds NewAssignment.Net with $10K
Jay Rosen explains a new concept, NewAssignment.Net, that's funded by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark with $10,000. What is it? Rosen says: In simplest terms, a way to fund high-quality, original reporting, in any medium, through donations to a non-profit called...
One-third of bloggers see blogging as a form of journalism
A national phone survey of bloggers from the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and that only a small proportion focus their...
Newspaper sites attracting newspaper readers
Belden Associates, a newspaper research firm, reports that just 37 percent of newspaper site users are regular visitors, and only 27 percent visit daily, according to Media Life Magazine....
Knight New Media Center survey
The Knight Foundation has given USC Annenberg School for Communication and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism a $650,000 pilot grant to create the Knight New Media Center. The Center's mission is two-fold: provide multimedia skills training for traditional journalists...
Web extends reach of all media
Consumers often use the Web consecutively or simultaneously with television, radio and other media, allowing it to offer significant support, according to a study by the Online Publishers Association. The research showed that the Web is a powerful tool for...
NYTimes.com Editor named IHT Deputy ME
NYTimes.com Editor in Chief Len Apcar has been appointed the new deputy managing editor of the International Herald Tribune for Asia....
IHT to run OhMyNews headlines
The International Herald Tribune is going to start running headlines from OhMyNews, the South Korean citizen journalism site, on its website....
Journal News wins award for transit strike coverage
The Journal News of Westchester, N.Y., won the SPJ's Deadline Club Web News Exclusive award for its online coverage of the New York City transit strike in December....
Ruling in Apple case bolsters Web reporters
A California appeals court has ruled that online reporters are protected by the same confidentiality laws that protect traditional journalists, The New York Times reports....
New York Times, USA Today Reverse Roles
CJR Daily compared the home pages of The New York Times and USA Today last week and found, "The paper whose newsboxes were originally designed to look like TV sets just crushed the one with the 'All the News That's...
Yahoo launches tech site
Yahoo has launched a new tech site, Yahoo Tech, aimed at taking on technology news and reviews leader Cnet Networks....
Bloggers push for MLB press access
MLB Fair Press is a movement to force Major League Baseball to open up its press pass policy to include the world of legitimate blogging....
'Can Newspaper Journalism Survive Blogs, Fox News, and Karl Rove?'
In a speech at Yale titled "Can Newspaper Journalism Survive Blogs, Fox News, and Karl Rove?", David Wessel, The Wall Street Journal's deputy Washington bureau chief, says he's optimistic about the future of journalism....
Knight Foundation launches new media training center
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is launching a Knight New Media Center to offer training. Funded in the first year with $650,000, the center will offer customized week-long "boot camps" in multimedia reporting for traditional print and...
State of the blogosphere
Technorati founder David Sifry ponders the state of the blogosphere and finds (once again) that it is strong. Among other tidbits: on average, one new blog is created every second of every day, and 55 percent of those bloggers continue...
Backfence acquires Bayosphere
Backfence Inc., which is building a network of hyperlocal citizens’ media community Web sites, is acquiring Bayosphere, a site cofounded by citizens’ media pioneer Dan Gillmor, and expanding to the San Francisco Bay Area....
Online video catches on, especially for news
A new study by the Online Publishers Association found that 24 percent of Internet users access video at least once a week, while 46 percent watch video at least once a month. News leads the way in frequency of viewing,...
Writing headlines for Google, and your readers
The New York Times looks at how news sites are rethinking their approach to headlines in order to improve search engine listings and click-throughs by readers from search engines....
Auto-converting news articles into podcasts
The Arizona Republic has set up a system to automatically convert newspaper articles into podcasts using text-to-speech technology....
New West secures more publishing
New West Publishing, a site covering the Rocky Mountain West founded by Industry Standard editor in chief Jonathan Weber, has just secured funding and added Montana landowner Maury Povich to the board....
FIFA World Cup Restrictions Lifted for Web Media
World football¹s governing body, FIFA, and the World Association of Newspapers, WAN, today announced that they had reached agreement to lift all restrictions on digital publication of photographs of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany....
Citizens Media Summit II
On June 12, J-Lab and the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation will be hosting Citizens Media Summit II, a one-day workshop on citizen media ventures — content creation and revenue strategies....
AP Online Video Network launches
After two months in beta, the AP Online Video Network ad-supported service has launched. The service allows AP member Web sites to offer a free online video service to its audience....
Newsvine launches publicly
After eight weeks in beta, Newsvine has launched publicly. Here's a look at the features Newsvine already offers and some thoughts, plus a look at what's in store in the near future....
Craiglist's founder: no substitute for professional journalism
"There's no substitute for professional-level writing and fact-checking and editing. One of the tenets of the effort I'm involved with is to drive more traffic to professional news sites. People have gotten too excited about citizen journalism, and they're not...
Office Pirates set for launch
After several years in development, Time Inc. will finally launch its much-hyped men's online magazine Office Pirates on Feb. 22....
The Tyee
Readers of The Tyee, an investigative local news site in British Columbia, care about journalism so much they donated $36,000 to create two fellowships: one for investigations and one for "solutions" reporting. "The goal of each is to educate and...
Rob Curley's latest redesign
Online pioneer Rob Curley -- who earned widespread praise and many awards while running the Lawrence Journal-World's Web site -- is at it again, making his first big splash at his new paper with a redesign....
washingtonpost.com rocks TV awards
washingtonpost.com's multimedia team rocked the White House News Photographers Association "Television" awards yet again, winning 31 of 90 awards....
Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Seminar
The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism in partnership with the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation is accepting applications for this expenses-paid seminar that combines practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of media convergence and other critical...
Knight Foundation names Kebbel journalism program officer
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has hired Gary Kebbel, AOL's former news director, as Journalism Initiatives Program Officer. Most recently, Kebbel worked at Education Week’s web site, edweek.org, where he was in charge of content development, strategy...
Newsvine.com: New type of news site
Newsvine.com, a new type of news site created by four former Disney/ABCNEWs.com employees, is now up and running in beta. CyberJournalist.net has been invited to join the beta and is impressed with what it's seen so far....
Toledo.com
The community site ToledoTalk.com, which started three years ago, has launched a companion wiki project for the Lake Erie West region....
Everything I Really Need to Know about the Web...
Everything Greensboro News & Record editor John Robinson really needs to know about the Web, he learned from Robert Fulghum's book, "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten."...
Horse sex and fluff are online hits
Seattle Times editors published a list of the most clicked online stories of the year and found that the top story -- and five of the top 20 -- were about a man who died from a perforated colon while...
Knight to fund PBS digital channel, Public Square
The Knight Foundation is giving PBS a $2.5 million grant to help fund a 24/7 online digital service aimed at engaging citizens, including a new project called Public Square. A distinctive feature of Public Square will be its interactive elements....
Study: Wikipedia almost as accurate as Britannica
An investigation by Nature magazine compared Wikipedia's and Britannica's coverage of science and found Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in accuracy. The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not...
Wikipedia founder: Don't cite site
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales tells Business Week, "I don't think people should cite it, and I don't think people should cite Britannica, either -- the error rate there isn't very good. People shouldn't be citing encyclopedias in the first place....
Pulitzer Prizes to allow online journalism in all entries
The Pulitzer Prizes will start accepting online material along with print material in all 14 of its journalism categories starting with the 2006 competition. Online submissions will be limited to stories and images in all categories except for Public Service....
Can you trust Wikipedia?
The debate over the reliability of Wikipedia has been renewed, after John Seigenthaler Sr., a former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville, read in his biography on Wikipedia that he "was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy...
Robert Scheer launches online magazine
Columnist Robert Scheer has launched a new online magazine called Truthdig, which aims to provide "expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view."...
Craig Newmark's new media venture.
Craigslist.com founder Craig Newmark is working on a new media technology project aimed at helping people "find the most trusted versions of the more important stories," he says. "This kind of technology is intended to preserve the best of existing...
Internet users more likely to read traditional media
One of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted on Internet users in Canada found that people who get their news online are more likely to read newspapers, books and magazines than people who don't use the Internet....
CUNY and Convergence
Dean Stephen Shepard of the City University of New Yorks graduate journalism program talks about developing a graduate journalism program with convergence and new media in mind in this intervew published in Convergence Newsletter published by The College of Mass...
washingtonpost.com now vidcasting
washingtonpost.com is now offering users video "podcasts" of select original video news programming. Users can subscribe to existing and newly released video directly from washingtonpost.com or via software such as iTunes. Video available so far includes news and short-form documentary...
Get news releases via RSS
PR Newswire has launched hundreds of industry and topic specific RSS feeds with links to full news releases....
Gotham Gazette's Community Gazettes
With all the talk about citizen journalism initiatives these days, it's easy to forget about one of the first online ventures, Gotham Gazette's Community Gazettes. Jonathan Mandell, the editor of GothamGazette.com, writes to CyberJournalist.net: "We were launched way back in...
The downside of 'citizen journalism'
David Coursey says that lack of editorial oversight opens the door to unfounded allegations that damage credibility, harm reputations and waste time. He gives an example of a listener who thought NPR was censoring its reports because it ignored his...
We Media Audio
Here is audio from the We Media conference in New York City, courtesy of Paid Content: • Al Gore's keynote speech • Opening session with AP CEO Tom Curley, CBS Digital Media CEO Larry Kramer, Richard Sambrook, Director, BBC Global...
Study: Online readers loyal to newspaper sites
A new report from Nielsen//NetRatings says online readers in nine out of the top 10 local markets are loyal to the city's top newspaper Web site, as of in July 2005....
CARR Boot Camp at the National Press Club
The Media Bloggers Association is hosting its second Database 101/201 CARR Boot Camp Sept. 23-24 at the National Press Club, hosted by The Heritage Foundation's Center for Media and Public Policy. Attendance is free and there are a limited number...
Aid for journalists affected by Hurricane Katrina
Here's a list of relief funds set up for for journalists suffering from the effects of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, as compiled by the Council of National Journalism Organizations:...
IfraNewsplex Europe opens
After IfraNewsplex's success in South Carolina - in particular, in attracking many European publishers -- Ifra has built a European training and conferencing center, which is opening today. Unlike the facility in the USA, IfraNewsplex Europe is not designed as...
Jeff Jarvis to run CUNY new media program
Blogger Jeff Jarvis has been named the director of the new media program and associate professor at the new Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. Jarvis has been developing the new-media curriculum for CUNY's journalism...
Search Hurricane Katrina missing persons' sites
Lycos has built an excellent searchable database that aggregates search results from more than 35 Hurricane Katrina missing persons' sites. You can search for missing or found people. What a great use of the Internet. LOCATE MISSING FRIENDS AND FAMILY...
Katrina PeopleFinder Project
With dozens of Web sites now online listing people missing after Hurricane Katrina, it's difficult for people looking for lost friends and family to find the information they need. Imagine how much more useful the information would be if it...
Hurricane Katrina missing persons lists
Here is an excellent collection of links to Hurricane Katrina missing and found persons lists, pulled together by Online Journalism Review readers on a wiki on the site....
Hurricane Katrina faith links
Diane Connolly, the editor of ReligionLink, says her site has put together a useful set of links about Hurricane Katrina: "ReligionLink.org offers a page of story ideas, links and sources for topics related to religion and faith in the aftermath...
BBC Swahili launches site that 'speaks boldly' about sex
BBC Swahili and the BBCs international charity, BBC World Service Trust, recently launched a Swahili language Web site - bbcswahili.com - which aims to break down taboos and myths around sex and sexuality and reach a wider, younger audience....
Men, women see Web differently
A recent study at Glamorgan University Business School in Wales found that different Web design elements appeal to men and women: "Women seemed to like pages with more color in the background and typeface," according to AP. "Women also favored...
Kids data online
For 16 years, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has published an annual KIDS COUNT Data Book that uses data to measure child well-being in America. Now the foundation has published the entire contents of the book online, making it far...
Online salaries higher than other media industries
Online publishing salaries of recent graduates are higher than broadcast or print media salaries, according to the 2004 Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates conducted by The University of Georgias James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass...
Debating the value of citizen journalism
NPR's Talk of the Nation aired a debate on the pros and cons of citizen journalism. Listen to the segment here, which includes opinions from: Marc Glaser, columnist at the Online Journalism Review; Vin Crosbie, president and managing partner of...
Wikipedia to tighten grip
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the wiki Web encyclopaedia written and edited by Internet users from all over the world plans to impose stricter editorial rules to prevent vandalism of its content. Following the election of the new Pope Benedict...
Digital editions going strong
Digital editions of newspapers are doing surprisingly well. The latest numbers show that 327 of America's 1,422 newspapers now produce digital replica editions and their sales account for 1.75 percent of their circulation, according to the U.S. Audit Bureau of...
Citizen journalism 'lacking'
Vincent Maher, a new-media lecturer at the Rhodes University School of Journalism & Media Studies in South Africa, tells E-Media Tidbits he observed the citizen reporting of today's London strikes and found it lacking. "I was forced to conclude that,...
Online media class blog
Class blogs are growing increasingly common. One worth checking out is run by Barry Friedman of the Lakeland, Fl., Ledger Online, who set it up for an online media class he teaches at Florida Southern College: hollingsworthrambles.blogspot.com "This is my...
Lenslinger: 'The two-person news crew is an endangered species'
Blogger and TV cameraman Lenslinger describes the fascinating experience of shooting a building implosion while watching "personal journalists" shoot it as well -- "the rabid bloggers, the plugged-in pundits, the citizen press corps - whip-smart individuals whose very nature drives...
San Francisco Chronicle adds podcasts
The San Francisco Chronicle is adding a series of new podcasts. They include......
Journalists rely on blogs
A new Euro RSCG Magnet and Columbia University study finds that more than 51 percent of journalists use blogs regularly, and 28 percent rely on them to help in their day-to-day reporting duties, Clickz reports. According to the study: Journalists...
How the Web extends reach
Two new reports on how the Web extends news organizations reach (pointed out by Morris Digital Works' Steve Yelvington): • A Scarborough Research analysis found that newspaper websites are contributing significant numbers of readers who do not necessarily read the...
New tools, improving ad market a boon to citizen media sites
The combination of growing online ad revenue and cheaper technology is positioning stand-alone citizen news sites (like these citizen journalism efforts) to take on traditional media, AJR says....
Brown named director of 'News21'
The Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education has appointed Merrill Brown national editorial director of News for the 21st Century: Incubators of New Ideas, also known as 'News21,' E&P reports. Brown, MSNBC.com's founding editor in chief, will work...
Study: One-fifth of Web users prefer online news
Nearly one-fifth of Web users who read newspapers now prefer online to offline editions, according to a new Nielsen/NetRatings study. The first-time study found that 21 percent of those Web users now primarily use online versions of newspapers, while 72...
'This Is Not a Blog'
Check out "This Is Not a Blog," a webzine exploring online journalism and, yes, blogging. The publication includes interviews with Kurt Andersen, Bill Grueskin, Craig Newmark, Jim Romenesko, Lockhart Steele, Jacob Weisberg and others. "This Is Not a Blog" was...
SAJA reporting fellowships
SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, has launched a brand-new program open to all journalists (freelancers or staffers in any medium) to support reporting projects in South Asia. Up to $10,000 will be given out in 2005 to projects that...
Online News Association and CyberJournalist.net partner
The Online News Association and CyberJournalist.net have entered into a partnership intended to further active discussion of journalism issues and further the association's goal of promoting excellence in online journalism....
WeatherBug launches network of backyard 'citizen weather reporters'
WeatherBug is forming a "nationwide network of weather reporters who will collect, report and share weather information from their own WeatherBug Backyard Tracking Stations....
News sites send each other traffic
A new report from Hitwise says 26.2 percent of all visits to Web sites in its "News & Media - Print" category originated from another news site in the four weeks ending May 21, 2005. Meanwhile, 18.8 percent of visits...
Cool uses of Google Maps
Lately a number of sites and developers have been tapping into Google Maps to create great new tools. Any of these ideas would be fantastic on news sites. Here are some of the coolest ones:...
New York Times blog ethics editorial
Adam Cohen mentioned CyberJournalist.net's model Bloggers' Code of Ethics in an editorial in Sunday's New York Times calling for bloggers to adopt ethics policies: A few bloggers have begun calling for change. There have even been fledgling attempts to create...
Wireless news popular
Finding news and information is the third most common content use for mobile phones, after sending and receiving text messages and downloading ringtones, according to a report from M:Metrics. The report found that 12.9 percent of U.S. mobile users --...
Blog conference focuses on reporting
More than 300 bloggers went to Nashville this weekend for a blogging conference sponsored by the Media Bloggers Association (of which CyberJournalist.net is a founding member). The Associated Press described the conference, which included seminars on computer-assisted reporting, as "heavy...
Daily Kos blogs for Guardian
The Guardian hired Markos Moulitsas to help write its British election blog. Moulitsas is founder of the U.S. political website the Daily Kos, one of the most popular weblogs in the world. He spend the the final week of the...
Craigslist founder eyes journalism
CraigsList founder Craig Newmark told The Associated Press he hopes to develop a pool of "talented amateurs" who could investigate scandals, cover politics and promote the most important and credible stories. Articles would be published on Internet sites ranging from...
Webby Award winners announced
The Webby Award winners were announced today, and include four for the BBC, including for news in both the Webby and Popular Choice categories. The Webby Awards will present former Vice President Al Gore with The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award...
Grants awarded for innovative new local media ventures
Ten "New Voices" award winners from across the United States will receive $12,000 grants to launch innovative local media ventures. The 10 were selected from 243 proposals seeking inaugural New Voices funding, said Jan Schaffer, director of J-Lab, which administers...
New multimedia site launches
A new site, the Open Media Network, has launched with the aim of letting users "easily access movies, music, video blogs, podcasts and public television and radio programming offered by producers for Internet distribution." Open Media Network (OMN) was founded...
Mobile phone use soaring
Two-thirds of US households have at least one mobile phone, according to a new study from Forrester Research. And the study found wireless data functions, such as the ability to access email and share photos, are becoming increasingly important. Twenty...
Live online news symposium Webcast
The University of Texas School of Journalism is hosting the Sixth International Symposium on Online Journalism Friday and Saturday to discuss issues that face multimedia and online journalism today. You can watch a live Webcast here. Speakers include: • Len...
Google to host personal video
Is Google going to get into the business of hosting personal content? PaidContent.org: Google co-founder Larry Page told NCTA attendees this morning that the company is about to launch a test of personal video submissions. Details are sketchy but people...
Pope experts available for interviews
Here's a list of experts on Pope John Paul II's legacy and the future of the papacy who are available for media interviews, from ProfNet....
Flickr and the 'democratization of information'
Yahoo's purchase of Flickr is so interesting because Flickr is a pioneer in tagging, which is not just the latest fad online, but has the potential to revolutionize the way information is found and distributed online. "The democratization of information...
Newspapers buy Topix.net
While AFP is busy suing Google News, other media companies just got wise to the power of aggregation and bought Google News' competitor with a local twist, Topix.net. CNET: News publishers Gannett, Knight-Ridder and Tribune Company have acquired controlling interest...
The state of the media online
The Project for Excellence in Journalism's State of the News Media 2005 report is out, and it's fairly critical of how the media is tackling the Web. The report found that news organizations are imposing more cutbacks in their online...
Loss for online publishers
From the Mercury News: In a case with implications for the freedom to blog, a San Jose judge tentatively ruled Thursday that Apple Computer can force three online publishers to surrender the names of confidential sources who disclosed information about...
Coverage of 'Whose News? Media, Technology and the Common Good'
The Media Center at the American Press Institute and The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University invited leading media thinkers to discuss the topics CyberJournalist.net focuses on — the future of news media, the changing relationships between media and...
BackFence's 'bottom-up' approach
Greg Sterling of The Kelsey Group spoke last week with the founder of BackFence, a hyperlocal site mentioned on CyberJournalist.net here and here. He got a little more insight into this very ambitious citizen journalism project. He says "they're not...
Study: Online news use grows
A rapidly growing number of Americans are increasing their use of online sources for news and information at the expense of other media , according to a national segmentation study conducted by washingtonpost.com in partnership with Nielsen//NetRatings and Scarborough.......
What works and what doesn't in washingtonpost.com's new design
Greg Edwards of Eyetools Research did a fascinating heatmap of a group of 19 new visitors viewing washingtonpost.com's new front page to see what can be learned from its design. He concluded that the main content area in the top...
Emerging technology video
Video recently posted on The Media Center site includes clips from talks from a recent "Emerging Technology" seminar by Dan Gillmor and by the very entertaining Tim Barsky, an Ashkenazi storyteller who blends hip-hop street theatre, and Jewish folklore. Other...
Why 37,000+ citizens report for OhMyNews
Since OhMyNews was founded 5 years ago in S. Korea, more than 37,000 "citizen reporters" have filed for the grass-roots news site. For the past year the site has been working on an English-language international edition, and to get a...
Salon founder steps down
Salon founder David Talbot is stepping down as editor in chief and CEO, just as the company announces its first profitable quarter since it was launched in 1995. He will be replaced as editor by Joan Walsh, his deputy, and...
Teaching digital journalism
What topics in digital journalism should students explore? Patrick Phillips, the founder of the media roundup site I Want Media, is teaching an undergraduate course in digital journalism at New York University this spring and wondering what he should teach....
News sites 'back in vogue'
From The New York Times: The four-way frenzy among ... companies to own MarketWatch outright may be the strongest sign that news and information sites, long thought to be dot-gone relics of 1999, are making a big comeback in 2005....
Blogger, journalist 'schism' is as old as America itself
Vin Crosbie points out that the schism between those who believe that future of news publishing belongs to 'citizen journalists' and those who believe readers will still prefer to have professionals investigating and reporting the news is as old as...
Bloggers' ideas about ethics
Some ideas on what ethical practices bloggers should follow, from today's WSJ.......
Engage citizen editors
From Poynter's Jill Geisler : This part of the CBS saga is a great reminder to newsgatherers: today there is someone out there who is completely versed in the topic you are covering, and that person is not only watching;...
Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative
The Media Bloggers Association (which CyberJournalist.net is a founding member of) today launched the Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative, a public service offered in response to concerns over bandwidth issues facing bloggers posting tsunami videos. The Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative is...
Google explores printed material searches; opportunity for news sites?
One of the problems with services like Google News is there is no easy way to monetize them -- displaying contextual ads next to content raises legal questions and publishers might push back (though Topix.net does this a little with...
Reporter covers Peterson verdict with live text messages
The judge didn't let video cameras in the courtroom for the Scott Peterson sentencing, though KCRA-TV aired a live audio stream of the verdict being read. But there are some things courtroom audio can't capture. Throughout the event, KCRA-TV's Edie...
Backfence.com's local ambitions
Some more details on the Backfence.com citizen journalism project planned for early next year, from Howard Kurtz: Backfence.com will be launched in two towns in Fairfax County, Va. -- McLean and Reston -- and then, if successful, in 16 other...
Abrams: Bloggers shoud get same shield law privileges as journalists
Floyd Abrams, one of the most noted First Amendment lawyers around, says he thinks many bloggers should be entitled to the same protection against revealing sources traditional journalists get under the First Amendment. "I think a blogger who communicates with...
CBC.ca wins 2 OJA awards
CBC.ca won two Online Journalism Awards at the Online News Association conference -- the only organization to receive two awards at the competition. CBC.cas online newsroom won in the "specialty journalism" category for Canada Votes, its coverage of the federal...
Military.com buys DefenseTech.org
Military.com has purchased DefenseTech.org, a blog founded and written by freelance journalist Noah Shachtman. Shachtman says it's a lot of work but worth it. "My day job as a freelance writer has been cross-feeding this, too," he tells MarketWatch. "Blogging...
Kristof wins for interactive op-eds
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof won the Online News Association's award for online commentary this past weekend for his amazing multimedia op-ed packages, but much of the credit also should go to Naka Nathaniel, the NYTimes.com producer responsible for...
30 percent of newspapers have partnerships with TV stations
Almost 30 percent of daily newspapers in the United States have partnerships with television stations, and those newspaper-television partnerships exist at all circulation levels, according to the first nationwide study of daily newspaper editors regarding their newspapers convergence routines. The...
Vote by Issue
PBS NewsHour and WBUR, Boston, have just launched a blind-quiz, votebyissue.org, where you choose the position that most closely reflects your own on 20 issues, and then get a report card that reveals the candidate who most reflects your views....
$1 million to launch community news ventures
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism will launch a pioneering program to seed community news ventures around the country with a new $1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Over the next two years, the...
A J-School Year
More than two-dozen students at the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications are keeping a blog chronicling their year in journalism school at http://jschoolyear.blogspot.com. They are posting observations about class, balancing school with work and about...
Community paper's editor's blog
Chris Cobler, the editor of the Greeley (Colo.) Tribune, is writing an insightful editor's blog about what his community newspaper does and why. "I've found it an excellent way to promote transparency and to increase readership among an emerging audience,"...
New Yahoo embraces RSS
Yahoo! unveiled a new home page design and My Yahoo! page today, which looks a lot sharper, but the real news is how much Yahoo! is embracing RSS and Atom feeds. (Here's a tour of the changes.) The site has...
Online news rates well
Online media rate highly in head to head comparisons with offline media across all age groups, according to a new study from the Online Publishers Association. The study reported that 83% of Americans say reading a story on the Internet...
International Video Reporting Award
For the first time, there is an international award for films made by independent video reporters who work on small digital video cameras and powerful laptops. The International Video Reporting Award is an international competition for short, innovative, non-fiction digital...
Spokesman-Review.com harnesses readers for election blog project
Looks like Washington State might have the market cornered on innovative election blogging projects. First The Seattle Times unveiled its Backyard Blog project; now Spokesman-Review.com has rolled out "Searching for Democracy," a set of eight bloggers seeking "meaningful conversations about...
Highlights of new eyetrack research
New eyetrack research shows that text, not photos, grab readers attention first online; that people do people do typically look beyond the first screen; and horizontal navigation is more effective than vertical navigation. The Eyetrack III research was released by...
Niles named new OJR editor
Award-winning online journalist Robert Niles has been named the new editor of USC Annenberg's Online Journalism Review (www.ojr.org). Niles had been a senior web producer and staff writer for the Los Angeles Times (where he was a regular contributor to...
Students document hyperlocal citizens' media project
Master's students at Northwestern University have put together a valuable new report documenting the building of GoSkokie.com, a community news site they built using primarily citizen-contributed content to cover a nearby suburb. In the report, "Hyperlocal Citizens' Media: Connecting Communities,...
Wildfire forces newspaper into enlightening blogging experiment
The Nevada Appeal newspaper launched its first Weblog as part of its coverage of a local wildfire and it quickly took on a life of its own, with minute-by-minute updates coming from the entire newsroom. In the end the content...
MediaBistro buys CableNewser
Brian Stelter's CableNewser blog has been bought by media networking company Mediabistro.com. Stelter tells Jossip he met with Mediabistro.com last month and editor in chief Jesse Oxfeld offered him a monthly retainer to write for the rebranded blog TVNewser. Stelter,...
Newspaper sites update infrequently
New research at the University of Texas at Austin shows that newspaper Web sites are still having trouble breaking out of the once-a-day publishing cycle. The study found that of 30 news sites monitored, only 12 updated their home pages...
Northwest Voice: Behind the scenes
The Northwest Voice is a new community print and Web publication in Bakersfield, Calif., in which nearly all the content is contributed by people in the community — one of the most ambitious participatory journalism efforts in the United States...
Net surfers use Web to bypass media
1-in-4 go online to find news traditional media skips In the strongest evidence to date that Americans are routinely using the Internet to bypass traditional media, a new report finds that about one quarter of Net users say they go...
Backyard Blog election project
The Seattle Times is launching a "Backyard Blog" grass-roots campaign coverage effort for the election, in which it will give contributors it selects blogs on seattletimes.com and even occassionally include their content in the newspaper. This is a FANTASTIC idea....
Behind the Scenes: BBC's Stuart Hughes' 'Blog exclusive'
The BBC's Stuart Hughes was one of the first journalists to report the surprise early handover of Iraqi sovereignty Tuesday, filing his report to the BBC and then posting an entry on his blog. Hughes, who lost his leg to...
Fastest, most reliable news searches
Internet performance tracking company Keynote has creating a News Media Index to track the speed and reliability of leading news sites. The index measures the complete end-to-end process of going to a news site, selecting a particular news-related category, searching...
Black College Wire gets $200K grant
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to NABJ to support Black College Wire, an online news service for and about students at historically black colleges and universities. The one-year award will enable Black...
Questions the press should ask
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University has launched a new site, NiemanWatchdog.org, aimed at highlighting questions journalists should be asking, but aren't....
Boston.com buys Sox fan site
Boston.com has acquired Boston Dirt Dogs, a popular Red Sox fan Web site, and will incorporate its content into Boston.com's sports section in June. As part of the deal, Steven Silva, founder of Boston Dirt Dogs, will join Boston.com starting...
Great Sun-Sentinel multimedia interactive includes closed captions
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel spent nine months examining the marine park industry using federal records, and found that "more than 3,850 sea lions, seals, dolphins and whales have died under human care, many of them young." The package includes an...
How should you teach convergence?
Educators still haven't figured out how to teach convergence -- or even if they should be teaching it, Elizabeth Birge reports in SPJ's Quill. Jack Zibluk, an associate professor and photojournalism coordinator at Arkansas State University, surveyed photo editors in...
Executives gravitate to online news
The Wall Street Journal Online says a new survey (conducted for WSJ by Harris Interactive, Inc.) shows the most popular use of the Internet for senior executives is reading business news (95%). It also found that senior executives spend 12%...
What local Web sites earn
What Local Web sites Earn. Local newspapers and TV stations increased their online ad revenues significantly in 2003 and are projecting high growth rates for 2004, indicating that the local online marketplace has begun to catch fire, Borrell Associates reports....
Online news readers politically active
People who read online newspapers tend to be more active in politics than general online users, according a new survey by the Newspaper Association of America. Conducted by Nielsen//NetRatings Political View, the survey found people who read papers online are...
Belden: Sites have fewer visitors, but more loyal readers
Belden Associates is about to release a new report saying that commonly accepted unique visitor counts based on logfile analysis and cookie-tracking are wrong. Basically, Belden found that major traffic-monitoring software underlying all current tools are unreliable because they rely...
Web site wins Peabody
Transom.org recently became the first online site to win a Peabody awarded exclusively to a Web site. "Transom.org provides clear guidance both technical and conceptual on how to create original radio productions. The site also makes those productions...
Cyber Paperboy founder dies
David Akerley, the creator of the popular news and information site Cyber Paperboy, has died. "The site has one of the most extensive listings of news anywhere on the Net and David threw his life into it, updating it dozens...
Got purpose? Get cash
Journalistic reporting and other writings about public policy and related issues are being sought as entries for The Power of Purpose Awards: A Worldwide Essay Competition, by the John Templeton Foundation. This international writing contest is intended to stimulate a...
TVW.org: Pioneer in posting editorial board interview videos online
Posting video of editorial board interviews with candidates online is becoming more common (see postings on The New York Times and SFGate.com), but is not entirely new. This was done as long ago as 1996......
New sites' designs flawed
Alan Jacobson, an outspoken Virginia newspaper and Web designer, says newspaper Web sites' designs are seriously flawed, in that they are too cluttered and suffer from link and content overload. But his solution -- avoiding scrolling pages altogether -- creates...
Best of Photojournalism Web entries
Here are all of the submissions for the National Press Photographer's Best of Photojournalism 2004 Web division.... soooo much great work, we're glad we don't have to pick. Check 'em out......
WSJ.com's new Today's Paper page
The Wall Street Journal Online has rolled out an enhanced version of its page summarizing what's in each day's newspaper, making it much easier for online subscribers to "flip through" the site and especially for print readers accustomed to the...
Blogs still rare, but foster community
44% of Net users create content online One of the great promises of the Internet always has been that anyone can be a publisher online. Now a new study shows that promise is being fulfilled. CyberJournalist.net takes a look at...
Targeted e-mail newsletters work
E-newsletters that are "informative, convenient, and timely" are often preferred over other media. But a new study found that only 11% of newsletters were read thoroughly, so layout and content scannability are important....
latimes.com: Mortal Wounds
As part of a series on homicide called Mortal Wounds, The Los Angeles Times analyzed more than 6,000 homicide cases over 15 years to find a start disparity in where killers run free. Unpunished killers, the series found, is pervasive...
The Big Picture: Academy Awards
MSNBC.com has launched the latest in its Big Picture series aimed at broadband viewers, the second one about the Academy Awards, which might just be the perfect subject for this interactive-TV-like treatment. The package includes video clips of the nominees...
Virginian-Pilot not online?
The Virginian-Pilot has always had a very good Web site and has produced some strong packages, but the site, Pilot Online, seemed to be MIA Tuesday night -- especially odd since the site bills itself as "The breaking news service...
Study: Political news sites less useful
The Project for Excellence in Journalism released a must-read report on online campaign coverage today, entitled "ePolitics 2004: A Study of the Presidential Campaign on the Internet." The study compares coverage of the current campaign to findings from its 2000...
NBC, thesmokinggun.com partner
The popular Web site thesmokinggun.com will provide material and exclusive reports for NBC News under a deal announced today. The Smoking Gun and NBC will collaborate on news stories, using the documents, photos and other materials behind the story obtained...
Behind the Scenes: NYTimes' multimedia reporter
New York Times science reporter Andrew C. Revkin has been doing excellent multimedia reporting for nearly a year now (See related entry from last year). Revkin recently filed a fresh multimedia report from the far north, this time from the...
Net's growing role in politics
The Internet and cable news are set to play a larger role than ever before campaign information, as smaller numbers of Americans are turning to broadcast TV and newspapers, according to a new report from The Pew Internet & American...
Crime story covered right
The Winston-Salem Journal's "Murder, Race, Justice: The State vs. Darryl Hunt" is a great example of a crime story covered right on the Web. After DNA evidence overturned Hunt's murder convcition, The Journal conducted a six-month investigation and found that...
Top CyberJournalist stories of 2003
What were the biggest events in the online news world this year? Here's a look at CyberJournalist.net's Top 10 Online Journalism Stories of 2003. Plus compare them to the top stories from previous years....
Poynter Institute timeline
Here is a Flash timeline about Nelson Poynter, the founder of The Poynter Institute, and the former owner and editor of the St. Petersburg Times and Times Publishing Company. It also records the history of the Institute and Times after...
Medicare Drug Benefit Calculator
As Congress debates Medicare drug benefit legislation, here's a nice Medicare Drug Benefit Calculator from the Kaiser Family Foundation. It allows users to enter their annual prescription drug costs and predict what they might pay under the Medicare legislation being...
BBC uses 3G phones for news reporting
SPECIAL FEATURE: BBC teams in Bristol and London have found a way to send video and sound from mobile phones and put them on TV -- and now the BBC is using the technology for undercover reporting. Andrew Harvey looks...
Blogs spreading like wildfire
A recent study by research firm Perseus Development found that 66 percent of the 4.12 million blogs online have been "abandoned'' -- not updated for at least two months. But The New York Times reports on another number not released...
Web-based video ads to dominate
A recent Yankee Group report says the 30-second TV ad will soon lose top billing as our most valuable marketing vehicle and be replaced by Web-based video advertising. Writing in Business 2.0 (subscription required), Industry Standard founder John Batelle says...
American Prospect hires blogger
In addition to Elizabeth Spiers' recent hiring by New York Magazine (reported here earlier this week), Harvard graduate Matthew Yglesias got a job at The American Prospect, a political magazine based in Washington, largely because of his Weblog, The Chicago...
WestportNow: Community publishing via Weblog
SPECIAL FEATURE: Weblogs are an excellent tool for independent publishers to reach large audiences, but few Weblogs regularly break new information online. Gordon Joseloff, a former CBS News and UPI correspondent, started a local news site about Westport, Conn., in...
Weblogs and Journalism: In-depth report
The Fall issue of Nieman Reports, the magazine of the Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, includes an excellent special section on "Weblogs and Journalism" in which 18 journalists talk about the complex issues surrounding blogging and journalism. Among...
Hartford Courant editor: 'Blog away'
In a fascinating essay for the fall issue of Nieman Reports, Hartford Courant editor Brian Toolan explains why he decided to shut down staffer Denis Horgan's external Weblog earlier this year, a move that set off a storm of controversy...
Scoop your own newscasts on the Web
Some may call scooping your own newscast on the Web blasphemy, but Lost Remote's Cory Bergman says TV stations should consider doing so because online revenue could soon help save TV news jobs. "A successful, profitable website will give news...
Slate, NPR radio show debuts
Day to Day, a one-hour weekday newsmagazine produced by National Public Radio in collaboration with Slate, launched today, an unusual collaboration between a Web site and a radio network. Hosted by NPR's Alex Chadwick, Day to Day covers everything from...
Web site affinity drives ad performance
New research from the Online Publishers Association demonstrates that the sites on which advertising appears significantly impact how that advertising performs -- more than than frequency of ad exposure. In particular, the study by comScore Networks found that the three...
Impressive Thurmond obituary package
For the second time this month, readers found an impressive package on the life and death of former U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond on the Web site of The State, South Carolina's largest paper — and this time he died for...
TV stations' "Lack of Internet vision"
It's been said before that many TV stations view the Web as more of a marketing opportunity than a business opportunity, and a new study from Borrell Associates backs this contention up....
Newspaper site cannibalize print readership
Newspaper Web sites are starting to have a negative impact on newspaper readership and sales, according to new study from Belden Associates. The study, which surveyed 8,801 users of five different newspaper Web sites for the first and second quarter...
Online newspaper patent suit dropped
A Calif. inventor has withdrawn a patent infringement lawsuit he filed against a dozen small newspapers, in which he alleged they violated patented technology that allows Web sites to display an abstract of a story with a link to the...
Online newspaper revenue still tied to print classifieds
NewsFuture: With online revenue still largely driven by offline classifieds, and offline classifieds migrating to pure-play competitors that place a greater emphasis on usability, newspapers have a long way to go to solidify their Internet businesses. By Alan Jacobson....
Tradition kills usability
NewsFuture: As the newspaper industry redirects its content to the Web, the very organizational structures that made the paper model effective are killing the usability of the Web model and limiting the potential of online journalism. By Dan Willis....
Strom Thurmond's premature death
Former U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond joins the growing crowd of distinguished politicians and celebrities who have been prematurely killed off online. Savvy Fark.com Net watchers found his obituary package on the web site of South Carolina's largest newspaper, The State...
FCC loosens media ownership rules
The Federal Communications Commission loosened media ownership rules today as expected, allowing a newspaper to own a television station in the same city and broadcast networks to buy more stations at the national and local levels. Here is a summary...
Web site offers black perspective
The North Star, an independent online news and opinion site aimed at African Americans, has gotten a lot of notice lately for its strong criticism of New Jersey political leaders' handling of the nomination of a black justice to the...
Online Newspaper Revenue: Puny AND Persuasive (to broadcasters)?
NewsFuture: Online earnings may be tiny percentages of overall newspaper revenue, but they dominate a growing local online media business. And when U.S. newspaper-broadcast ownership rules change, broadcasters adept at online-on-air combo sales may see a lot of hidden value...
New form of journalism in S. Korea
Three-year-old South Korean Internet news service Ohmynews is creating a new form of journalism, where the public reports on everything from local happenings to national politics.
Google's plans for blog search
Google co-founder Sergey Brin says there are no plans to separate Weblog content from the main search engine results, Dan Gillmor reports.
NPR, Slate to produce daily radio show
NPR News and Slate Magazine announced they will co-produce a new, one-hour weekday newsmagazine, Day to Day. Day to Day is the first program collaboration NPR has initiated with a commercial media outlet in its 33-year history. Veteran NPR correspondent...
Online use varies by demographics, dayparts
The Online Publishers Association released another study today saying that daytime is primetime online. This is pretty obvious by now, but the group continues pressing this issue because the amount of money being spent by advertisers online as compared to...
Cross-country partnership: Seattle, NYC
The Seattle Times and Long Island's Newsday have an interesting partnership: they each promote each other's online content when the Mariners and Yankees are playing each other. This week, for example, readers of seattletimes.com found this link, "Yankees-M's coverage at...
Slate shows how to make money online
Slate has done what no other Web magazine has done before: make money. Here are some interesting insights into how Slate has succeeded.
Newspaper shuts columnist's Web site
After the Hartford Courant demoted columnist Denis Horgan to Travel Editor, he announced last month he was starting his own Web site at www.denishorgan.com and would continue posting commentary there. A very clever idea, and one that was received well...
CNN posts Reagan, Pope, other obits online
Most news organizations prepare the obituaries of newsmakers before they die, but CNN.com made the mistake of posting them online, according to The Smoking Gun. Even though they didn't link to them, a number of these obituaries were on the...
Internet Changes the Way News Is Gathered
Everyone knows the Internet has changed the way journalists do their job, but now the impact has been measured. The Indiana University School of Journalism American Journalism Survey found: More than 80 percent of journalists use the Web at least...
AOL's personalized war coverage
Its a shame AOL content is only accessible to AOL members, because the company is doing some interesting things with its war coverage. AOL members are uploading photos of and letters from soldiers abroad. And last week AOL News launched...
High-tech way of estimating crowd sizes
Journalists needing the sizes of gatherings such as antiwar protests have historically had to make very rough guesses or rely on estimates from police or organizers generally believed to be inaccurate -- but now technology is removing much of the...
Al-Jazeera more popular than sex
While Arab news network Al-Jazeera had its new English-language Web site knocked offline last week by hackers, it was still the most popular search term last week on Lycos, with three times more searches than "sex" -- showing that Web...
Americans look to Web for Iraq news
Since the war with Iraq has begun, television has been by far the most common way Americans have gotten their news. But Internet users are going online for news more often than ever before -- more than they did even...
Knight-Ridder Runs Weblog Across Network
Knight-Ridder received a lot of criticism last year after it moved all of its sites to one Web publishing system and gave them a similar cookie-cutter look -- but one of the things the new system has enabled it to...
Tip: Covering Bioterrorism
The possible war with Iraq has revived the bioterrorism fears that surfaced after the Sept. 11 attacks. As Americans confront the very real possibility that bioterrorism weapons may be used against our troops abroad or in a terrorism attack at...
Iraq: The Internet War?
Before a war has even begun, the inevitable stories are already being written about how the war will be covered online like no other war before. Reuters reports that the "maturing Web offers focal point for war coverage." The Associated...
Disaster Links
The shuttle crash and the recent snow storm were good reminders of how handy the Web can be when reporting on emergency situations. On such fast-moving stories, useful information can be found on scores of sites -- and here's a...
News From the Readers' Perspective
Recognizing the value of tapping the news consumer community, BBC News has launched a new feature that will showcase reader photography. "BBC News Online wants to report the world from your perspective," the site says in a note to readers....
Full February 2003 archive
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The next front[ier] in the disruption of traditional media
An emerging Web application, Really Simple Syndication, is changing notions about the importance of being a syndicated writer. And big media may be the last to grok its implications. By Rusty Coats....
Dayparts: News Surfers' Changing Habits
A new study finds that news site surfers' habits change throughout the day, with profound implications for the online news industry. "By morning, our users are almost as interested in news breaking, local, national, business and sports as...
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More Business Bytes entries
Pay for Content? Whaddya, Nuts? The Irish Times started charging for breaking news, CNN.com is charging for streaming video -- all while a new study finds that 70 percent of Internet-using adults "can't understand why anyone would pay for content."...
Full January 2003 archive
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Behind the Scenes: Media Unspun's Demise
As Media Unspun prepares to shut down on Friday, publisher Jimmy Guterman says in a Q&A with CyberJournalist.net's Jonathan Dube that the only way for independent Web publishers to survive is by banding together as a network to "preserve our...
Full December 2002 archive
Here is the complete December 2002 headline archive for CyberJournalist.net....
PBS.org: Moyers on Dying
"End-of-life" tools and more, based on a PBS program with Bill Moyers. Winner, Service Journalism: Affiliated, Online Journalism Awards 2001. The judges said: This package, based on a Bill Moyers special TV report, did more than just repurpose a TV...
Telling the Story Online: Aids in the Caribbean
The online version of this award-winning story provides a glimpse of what's possible when online staffers are given sufficient notice of upcoming projects to get involved in a meaningful way. Here's a Q&A with the producer of the package....
Full November 2002 archive
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Behind the Scenes: SonicMemorial.org
The Sonic Memorial Project is a searchable audio archive of immediate, first-person accounts chronicling Sept. 11 from almost every vantage point, collected by NPR's Lost and Found Sound and the public broadcasting community. The project's impressive site, SonicMemorial.org, was built...
Paper publishes wrong info pilfered from Web
Student journalists at Washington State University's student newspaper, The Daily Evergreen, made a foolish error when they reprinted information they found on a Web site without double-checking it. "The first Filipinos landed on the shores of Morro Bay, California, on...
Full October 2002 archive
Here is the full archive for CyberJournalist.net for October 2002....
Watching Convergence Unfold
Journalism student Joseph Van Harken recently found himself in the middle of a breaking news shooting scene, watching news media converge in the field. He quickly learned there are many ways to tell the same story, and each way has...
Sept. 11 Anniversary Coverage Online
Online news sites have spent months preparing for the Sept. 11 anniversary. CyberJournalist.net has compiled a look at some of the most outstanding and most interesting work published online. Continue reading......
Full September 2002 archive
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Dead Before His Time
On July 24, 2002, the Web version of the Dutch daily, the Haagsche Courant, incorrectly reported the death of Prince Claus, the Dutch prince consort currently in intensive care. The Princes obituary wasn't officially published on the newspapers official website,...
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Playing With Fire
Broadcasting unconfirmed reports e-mailed in from viewers is a dangerous game, but many local TV stations do so. WTEN chief meteorologist Steve Caporizzo found that out during a recent night of severe thunderstorms, when he aired e-mailed reports of intensive...
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Internet IQ Checklist for Journalists
Five steps for assessing information quality (IQ) that you should run through before relying on anything found online....
Factual Error Found on Internet
Brace yourselves for this shocking report: "The Information Age was dealt a stunning blow Monday, when a factual error was discovered on the Internet."...
Watch Where You Link
Readers who clicked on a link mentioned in a recent story in The Boston Globe about compact discs "found a banner advertisement featuring a bare-breasted and supine young woman." Globe editors responded with an Editor's Note stating that ''all Web...
Gaming the News
A great city development game designed by KQED, San Francisco's public television station, complements a Bay Area gentrification program and gives users five different decisions to make about how to develop their city. At the end of the game, it...
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Scripps Howard Kills Reagan
Web surfers discovered a 12-page obituary the Scripps Howard News Service wrote for former president Ronald Reagan marked "embargoed until Reagan's death." After the site got cited on a number of Weblogs, including Metafilter, Scripps Howard removed it, but you...
Washington Post, local TV get had
"We were had," wrote Lloyd Grove in The Washington Post. "We fell hook, line and sinker for Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening's April Fools' joke about him and his new wife, former top staffer Jennifer Crawford, expecting twins on Aug. 18....
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Fat-Guy.com: 'A Week in the Gramercy Tavern Kitchen'
"A Week in the Gramercy Tavern Kitchen," Fat-Guy.com. Winner, 2002 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Internet Writing. Steven Shaw, publisher of www.fat-guy.com, won this look at life behind the stoves at the Gramercy Tavern Kitchen. It's the first time...
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Is the News Better Naked?
The stripping anchors on NakedNews.com have got a lot of headlines, but Terry Anzur's take on the sexy newscast for the Online Journalism Review is by far the most clever. Anzur compared the quality of the nude news on the...
The Refugee Trail, Guardian.com
Winner, Best Investigative Reporting, 2000 European Journalism Awards. Guardian journalist Maggie O'Kane and film maker Fiona Lloyd-Davis followed the refugee trail from Afghanistan to Dover. These audio and video reports tell the story of what they found....
APBNews.com: The Great Basin Murders
Winner, Creative Use of the Medium, Online Journalism Awards 2000. Coverage of the unsolved murders of nine women whose bodies were found scattered across the Great Basin desert region of Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. "ABPNews.com made excellent use of...
About CyberJournalist.net
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Wired Journalist
A newsroom guide to the Internet produced by the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation....
More Weblog Blog entries
Are Weblogs journalism? The debate rages on. Even newspapers are "blogrolling" now. And New York Times Digital's CEO has a $2,000 bet on whether Web logs will soon trump newspaper sites in importance. These stories and more in CyberJournalist.net's Weblog...
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Here are some interesting research reports and studies on online journalism......
A slew of useful new media sites
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Major Journalism Awards
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