Posts filed under “Blog Carnival”
Who needs a business model, anyway? Online journalism does. #jcarn
This post is for the Carnival of Journalism. Every month some of the top journalism thinkers around get together to debate topics in journalism. What’s the biggest problem facing journalism today? Lack of journo-hackers? Not enough staff resources? Too little focus on mobile? Not enough data? Print curmudgeons? Lack of free coffee for employees? No. The [...]
News organizations need to rethink staff resources in order to promote innovation
It’s a simple question: What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for innovation? And it’s a simple answer: News organizations should stop pretending like it’s the pre-Internet days. Most news organizations are still legacy-first. Newspapers still care more about the print edition than the Web edition. Beats are still centered [...]
Rewriting (rethinking) written content on the Web
The inverted pyramid might still have a place in journalism, but it doesn’t make sense as the dominant writing style on the Web. In fact, the beauty of the Web is that each story can have a different writing style. And story lengths are no longer dictated by arbitrary space constraints in print publications. The [...]
Journalism students need to know marketing
Maybe you’ve heard the news by now about how traditional journalism — especially the print side — is having a tough time. This is not the time to despair. This is the time to create new ventures and take journalism to a new — better — level. (This post is a follow-up to Journalism students [...]
Podcasts can drive traffic for newspapers
Newspapers have really done podcasting wrong, and that’s a shame because a lot of people listen and watch them daily. Papers have either ignored podcasts or have managed to do them really poorly. But a good podcast is a great way to inform people, and there are several really good podcasts out there. It’s no [...]
You can’t teach culture (Carnival of Journalism No. 2)
Not every staff member can become an online or multimedia journalist. And if they aren’t really great in their traditional media role, they probably don’t have a long-term role in your news organization. That’s the sad reality, but it’s the only way for newspapers to evolve. You can’t teach culture. A lot of journalists are [...]
Tear down barriers to convergence
Newspaper employees have to stop thinking about just their traditional roles and begin embracing convergence much earlier in the process. This mean thinking of different ways to tell a story before reporting or interviewing, not after. It means bringing in Web people before a project is done, not after it is ready for publishing. And [...]
Outsourcing will help a lot of newspapers
If you haven’t been following the Carnival of Journalism, what have you been doing these past few days? Nothing of importance I’m sure. I’m going to be commenting on all of the carnival posts in due time, but there is one that editors, managers and publishers should read over at Journerdism ASAP. Will Sullivan blogged [...]
The Web is the greatest thing to ever happen to journalism
Carnival of Journalism – This was my first post for the blog carnival dedicated to journalism, founded by some of the leading voices in online journalism. Don’t let the graybeards and naysayers sway you, the Web is the greatest thing to ever happen to journalism. This is the turning of the tide. It’s when journalism [...]