The Berkman Center has launched a cool new tool called Media Cloud designed to help track how news stories spread through mainstream media and blogs.
Can SEO’s and Journalists Really Be Friends?
Search engine optimization (SEO) makes journalists groan if my experience of a busy newsroom in a national paper is anything to go by. Journalists will bristle at the idea of ‘stuffing keywords’ into their copy, while managers who often don’t understand SEO themselves rail about falling circulation figures and the need to get the extra [...]
Old growth media and the future of news
In a speech at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Steven Johnson says that “steady transformation from desert to jungle may be the single most important trend we should be looking at when we talk about the future of news.”
Filed Under: Essays and Commentary, Future of Media Tagged With: Blogs, New York Times, newspapers