"Our news flow has become more of a conversation than a lecture. The technology makes it relatively easy for many more of us to be producers of media, information and opinion and to become an active, participatory audience. Information f…

"Your business isn’t what you think it is. Kodak at its peak looked like a photography company, but it was really a giant chemical manufacturing company. Digital tech rendered the entire chemical photography business irrelevant. By compa…

"In almost a decade of teaching online journalism I repeatedly come up against the same two problems:

people who are so wedded to the idea of the self-contained ‘story’ that they struggle to create journalism outside of that (e….

"Content Precedes Design

Design without content is decoration. It used to be that you worked on look and feel before you thought about content. But it’s actually very hard to do design without content.
It’s important to have…

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Consequently, the paper’s studio is very central to the video effort, although it does also produce videos featuring its correspondents on the ground. Generally, FT journalists and editors have on-camera roles in many of the videos.

S…

"Megaupload got in trouble because it messed with the entertainment lobby’s favorite formats: music and movies. The Pirate Bay, which hosts torrent files, has been a scourge of rights holders for years, since, as its name suggests, it do…

"Esta reforma pasa por estrechar la colaboración entre periodistas profesionales y ciudadanos. Según las declaraciones de Freeman el periódico está trabajando en el cierre de su edición impresa por completo.

A principios de este me…

"There is a place for specialism, and journalism can be a specialism. Rewriting press releases doesn’t take much effort, but taking a complex series of events, synthesising them into a narrative and conveying them to an audience is a s…

"The nice thing is that (most) newsroooms are more enlightened places. They don’t sideline the digital editor to simply be the web monkey who sits in the corner (right?). The input of journalists, who can see the value to their own jou…

"Data nerds from government and academia gathered Friday at Northeastern University to show off the latest version of Weave, an open-source, web-based platform designed to visualize “any available data by anyone for any purpose.” The…

"When you turn copyright infringement into a felony and say that anyone can accuse a website of providing ”infringing” tools (and apply severe penalties whether or not you do something about it), you are essentially making it impossi…

"One of the most important technological advances in the past thousand years was Gutenberg’s printing press. As one Italian bishop put it, it would take three printers working for three months to produce 300 copies of a book – but it w…

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"Now that the big blackout is behind us, does it make sense for us to be buying the products of corporate media here in the US? No, in fact it doesn’t. That’s where the pain really makes sense. Let Hollywood have their share. #

Don’t j…

"Let’s dive into numbers for a back-of-the-envelope exercise.

First, assumptions: The following is based on my observations of markets in Europe (France, UK, Scandinavia) and the US

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"INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012. PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was …

"US online advertising spending, which grew 23% to $32.03 billion in 2011, is expected to grow an additional 23.3% to $39.5 billion this year-pushing it ahead of total spending on print newspapers and magazines, according to eMarketer. P…

"What is the reason for the Kyiv Post’s policy?

It’s simple: We want what we write to be trusted by the public. That requires, at a minimum, a clear separation between advertising and news stories. When it comes to news, journalists…

"Eva Domínguez | 19/01/2012

Photography first, and now 360-degree video have served to experiment with spatial immersion in digital journalism in order to give the spectators the option to see the scene as it revolves around them, in …

"Storytelling doesn’t even properly work in the case of stories — at least those for adults, known as novels. British critic Frank Kermode, who died last August after a numbingly productive career, made the point in his finest book, …

"Most newspapers are stuck in the late 20th century formulas, scarcely varied across the country, for section concepts (even names) and types of coverage. These conventions, moreover, carry over into digital forms, and only in the past c…

"Journalists – 10 Ways not to Look Stupid on the Job

Journalists are always in the public eye. They rub shoulders with elected officials, heroes, and important business leaders, and their words are considered the voice of the communi…

"Jay Rosen has an interview with Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton, who said in a recent column that the Post might be guilty of innovating too quickly, and as Jay highlights, Pexton says:

I am not a person who thinks the fun…

"A simple idea seeds all these examples: It’s time to open up journalism’s processes, not just its outcomes, to more robust and effective interaction with sources, contributors and consumers. A discipline based on bringing informatio…

Publishers have stopped referring to their products as journalism, writing, literature, photography, or art. Today, everything is simply “content”.

Those working in media, especially digital media, can attest to the word’s popular…

Objectivity is a method, not an element of style. In other words:

Do not write stories that give equal weight to each ‘side’ of an argument if the evidence behind each side of the argument is not equal. Doing so misrepresents th…

" Perhaps in journalism it will be like it was in music for a long time: there are a lot of people doing great stuff, but only a handful, the stars, will be able to make a good living out of it. Most will be doing it for a nickel and …

"The mental (and physical) effort that the interactor is subjected to in an interactive documentary is much greater than in traditional viewing. To put it in other terms, it is much more effort to sit in front of a computer screen and …

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"To understand newspapers’ 15-year attachment to paywalls, you have to understand “Everyone must pay!” not just as an economic assertion, but as a cultural one. Though the journalists all knew readership would plummet if their pape…

Welcome to the official site of the book HTML5 Multimedia, part of Peachpit’s Develop and Design series. This site holds all the sample code that’s mentioned throughout the book, as well as some extended examples.

The code is easy to fi…

"The university with supposedly one of the best communications programs in the Philippines argued that it did not respond to Vitug’s request for information on Corona’s UST career because it didn’t know how to respond to “online…

"Daily newspaper delivery will go the way of the milkman in a growing number of communities in 2012 and beyond.

Barring a miraculous turnaround in the economy, a sea change in the thinking of media buyers or a late-breaking proclivity f…

"Las editoriales intentan controlar el tiempo, que es algo imposible. Los actores del sector intentan que las cosas pasen a la velocidad que ellos dicen cuando en realidad las cosas pasan a la velocidad que la tecnología y el mercado ma…

"If, for example, one person researches the regulations relating to an issue, another FOIs key documents

by Mandy Brown for Issue № 1

What is it that we do now?

This question was posed to me by the digital editor of a longstanding print magazine. It came at the end of a discussion that ranged from tablet apps and workflows to business m…