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Wall St. Journal to Make Web Site Free, Murdoch says

Update: After reports Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the News Corporation, says he expects to make access to The Wall Street Journal’s Web site free, a top Dow Jones executive told Editor and Publisher the comments were premature.

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Nov 14, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS

What Jay Rosen Learned from Assignment Zero

A good summary in this post from Jay Rosen:

Division of labor is the key creative decision in acts of distributed reporting. Grok the motivations or it can’t be done. Watch for ballooning coordination costs as ramp up succeeds. Where the small pieces meet the larger narrative the alchemy of the project lives. Shared background knowledge raises group capacity. Extant communities already coordinate well.

Oct 30, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS

Dealing with Comments: A Few Interesting Approaches

News organizations are dealing with comments in a number of different ways. Poynter looked at three newspaper Web sites, a news aggregator and a radio program Web site. Here are their approaches.

Jun 5, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS

Citizen Journalism: From Pamphlet to Blog

Cambridge Community Television hosted a 3-month documentary production course that resulted in this short documentary on Citizen Journalism.

The 15-minute documentary Citizen Journalism: From Pamphlet to Blog is a guide to US citizen journalism through the ages - from Thomas Paine in the 18th century to the more modern hows and whys of being an anti-establishment news hound.

The film features interviews with talking heads from the blogging world - including Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices - discussing, among other things, how newspapers have gone through major cost-cutting exercises as their revenues are leeched by sites like Craigslist.

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Apr 25, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS

Sports journalism blog

Joe Gisondi teaches journalism at Eastern Illinois University and writes the On Sports blog, which focuses on all areas of sports, from kids playing pick-up basketball to the NFL. The blog also include tips for anyone who wants to cover sports for fun or a career.

Apr 19, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS

Online Anonymity Lets Users Get Nasty

The Orange County Register has modified is public comments policies six weeks after launching the feature, in response to staff concerns about inappropriate posts. Now language is more specific about what the site expects from those who post and about how a comment can be deleted.

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Mar 21, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS