Category Archives: 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 … Continue reading
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Tagged business models, Craigslist, Facebook, Groupon, jcarn, Knight Foundation, Knight News Challenge
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Carnival, Blogging, Mainstream Media, new media journalism, newspapers, online media, State of journalism
Tagged Innovation, Ryan Sholin
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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. … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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