Posts filed under “new media journalism”
Twitter can drive traffic
If you’re on the fence about signing up for Twitter, know this: Twitter can drive traffic to your site. This blog is less than a year old. I’m 23 years old — hardly an established brand or identity. That’s why I only have a little more than 100 people following me on Twitter. But Twitter [...]
Newspapers, it’s time to panic
“There is a time when panic is the appropriate response.” – Eugene Kleiner of KPCB. It’s about high time that journalists and newspapers start panicking. At least panic will lead to disruption, and often panic is the only way to forge lasting change. Too many journalists think that the Web has just brought on a [...]
A blog for bloggers
MySanAntonio.com has a blog dedicated to helping staff bloggers blog better. What a novel idea! Instead of just telling staff members to blog blindly, they are providing staffers with a resource on what this new medium is and how to utilize it well (and I’m sure blogging is a very new concept to many of [...]
Drudge beats MSM again with Prince Harry story
By now most of you have probably heard that Prince Harry has been secretly serving in Afghanistan. The Drudge Report, not major media outlets like CNN or The New York Times was the first American outlet to break the story (there is some dispute about whether or not Drudge was the first in the world [...]
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 [...]
Mobile is the future of the Web and news
The Internet and the Web are here to stay, but how we connect with both will be changing. The personal computer isn’t going anywhere, but people are increasingly accessing the Internet and the Web via mobile devices like smartphones. The iPhone in particular was a watershed moment for the mobile Web because of the power [...]
NY Times and CNN show how an election should be covered
I remarked to my girlfriend last night how useless the wire stories about Super Tuesday were each time I saw a new one pop up. Every time a candidate won a state, a new story was released. Reading over the wire stories made me realize how inadequate the printed word is for election coverage on [...]
Not wired? Get wired!
If you’re a journalist and you’re not on WiredJournalists.com what are you doing? Well get on it! Wired Jouralists is a social network dedicated to helping journalists get wired. It’s filled with wired journalists like myself who want to help our non-wired colleagues. Why? Because we believe in journalism, and we want to make journalism [...]
My advice for j-students who want to make a difference (and get a job)
I just told you how journalism is not a good career choice for most of you, but I know many of you are going to attempt to change journalism and I salute you. Therefor, I would be remiss if I didn’t offer you advice on how to get a good journalism job and how to [...]
You know, you don’t have to do video
Apparently every newspaper that has a bad Web site got some sort of memo that said, “if you just put video on your Web site, you’ll get tons of traffic and be a modern newspaper. It’ll be totally bitchin’.” But here is the thing: Doing video poorly will only hurt your newspaper. It will cost [...]