We wanted to be as independent as possible, and that’s why we developed a three-pronged revenue model: advertising, memberships and consulting work. We keep our expenses low so that whatever revenues come in go right back into content …

As much as anything it is a cultural shift: a mental challenge for traditional journalists. And I’m not just talking about 20-year veterans of the industry, but those young pups who have completed their NCTJ courses and moved into the …

Want to be featured or get the top buzz on Yahoo? Make a list. Want to drive page views and lower your bounce rate? Make a list. Want to get tweeted? Make a list. Want to get stories written about your organization? Make a list.

This is another video tutorial by Jan Ozer from the Streaming Learning Center. It’s a 10-minutes overview which he says, "details how to configure the most important H.264 encoding parameters (profiles, levels, entropy encoding and b-fra…

an important dictionary to understand some expressions that are about to become out of use

What the Newspaper Industry Can Learn From the Adult Entertainment Industry

But what are nichepapers? Haque explains:

They’re a living example of the institutional innovation that is the key to 21st century business. They’re not the same old newspaper, sold a different way. They are 21st century newspap…

This series, “Pulitzers lost, what a cost,” explores the impact of thousands of journalists losing their jobs by asking some of those who have shown themselves capable of producing work of the highest caliber – winners of the Pulitze…

Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher, has announced details of their grandly titled Article of the Future project. Their prototypes, published at http://beta.cell.com, are the result of what Emilie Marcus, Editor in Chief, Cell Pres…

But where’s the Web-based business model for it?

We’re still figuring that out.

Good luck — a future that won’t support itself.

The banner ad was invented right here in this office in 1995. That was the first answer to your question….

A proposta de trabalho aqui apresentada fala sobre a certificação, em particular, de sites de meios de informação jornalística. O tema partiu da ideia de Patrick Thornton que defende a criação de um selo ético online para blogs e…

Twitter-made news

When we consider the technicalities of getting income from the consumer, the secret may not be HOW to get people to pay for news, it’s WHEN that counts. Let me explain, although bear in mind that I am economically illiterate. Like mos…

There are few, if any, people doing real journalism off their own back and publishing it unpaid on their own sites. Good journalism is, I imagine, often dull, laborious, unglamorous and time-consuming. There are new ways that journalism …

Sure,journalists can be pushy louts, too hurried or self-important to worry who gets in their way. But movies and pop culture tend to fixate on the reporter as loud, conniving or politically sold-out, at the expense of images that are mu…

Which all leaves me with this, as I tweeted also today:

in the end, we’ve had aggregators & blogs for what, 5 healthy years? is that what’s really killing newspapers?

Really. All this doom and gloom and op-ed pieces and stories…

Wordpress plugins are pieces of addon code that extend the functionality of WordPress, either behind-the-scenes or extra visual code. Widgets allow these code segments to be quickly and easily added to predefined sidebars on most themes….

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It’s easy to be daunted by this scale and diversity but the truth is that all the options in After Effects are built upon a simple set of foundations; from the simplest effect to the most complex, they are all extensions of these basics….

Journalism
How to do it

1. Based on your knowledge about what the reader is interested in, decide what you want to tell and then tell just that.

2. Form follows data. Show, don’t tell.

3. Interesting is the new important.

If you want to learn everything you can about journalism’s business models — the ones that are collapsing and the ones that are emerging — then load your RSS reader up, my friends. These are some of my favorites:

Back in June, I decided to try a little experiment in how I receive and read the news. My goal was to read news exclusively through a newspaper every day for two weeks. That meant no web news, no NPR in the car, and no TV (including TMZ,…

News organizations need to be guided by economics, not emotion or nostalgia, as they seek a business model for the future.

The reason is that the laws of economics are ruthless and the sole arbiter of the marketplace. They don’t bend to…

Nos últimos dias houve mosquitos por cordas devido ao texto “Um festival sem festa”, de João Bonifácio, publicado na pág. 8 do P2 de 20 de Julho (e na véspera no PUBLICO.PT). Tratava-se do relato crítico de um concerto do grupo…

We’re going to have plenty of media and journalism in coming years and decades. I take this for granted. But will we have enough information and journalism that we can trust?

We can, and I hope we will. But we’ll have to rethink our rel…

It is interesting to consider the implied journalistic ethical question: If a news event is contrived, should the media cover it? But guess what? In the age of social media and citizen journalism, for many events, especially on a local s…

In this new information ecosystem, the lines between content and journalism are blurred. Journalism is a specialized type of content that attracts a certain type of audience. Consider the activity in the comments sections on many news si…