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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
I.F. Stone's lessons for Internet journalism
Bloggers are taking up where the great rebel journalist left off, but if the news industry is to thrive on the Internet, reporters and editors shouldn't be far behind. Dan Froomkin writes that news organizations would do better online by replacing their bored monotone with a passionate adherence to traditional journalistic values.
Jul 12, 2007 | E-MAIL THIS | PERMALINK | DISCUSS
Old-time radio reporter learns new tricks, new clicks
Longtime NPR reporter Howard Berkes is a master at painting pictures with his voice. But for a story on a man who photographs rural scenes, he turned to the web to tell the story with multimedia. Poynter's Al Tompkins has a nice Q&A with Berkes explaining how and why he used the web for the story, and how he had to think differently to make it happen.
"While the slideshow works on its own (I wrote it as a self-contained story, selecting images and interview audio that fit together, and writing narration to make it all work), and the radio piece works on its own, each is greatly enhanced by the other," Berkes says. "And since I wrote both, I don't mind if some are attracted to one more than the other."
Jun 14, 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
Copy Editors: The Missing Link in the Online Newsroom
Chris Wienandt, ACES president and business copy-desk chief at The Dallas Morning News, said he thinks leaving copy editors out of the process reflects an online model in its infancy.
"We're disrespecting online readers by not giving them the same level of editing," he said. "I think people expect a newspaper site to be an extension of the newspaper, so I think the quality of the editing and thoroughness of the editing on the Web site should match the thoroughness of the editing that you get in the newspaper."
May 7, 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
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