studying the media ecosystem
(Josh Wolf is a freelance journalist and anarchist. He has been jailed since September 22, 2006, for refusing to turn over videotapes of a protest being investigated by a federal grand jury. Lots has been written about his case. On Friday, December 1, 2006, I ran a reminder of his incarceration. I’ll do the same every Friday until he is freed. What can you do to let Josh know that he [...]
I will be taking a couple of days off! See you later in the week. Tom Abate
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(Josh Wolf is a freelance journalist and anarchist. He has been jailed for refusing to turn over videotapes of a protest being investigated by federal authorities. Lots has been written about his case. On Friday, December 1, 2006, I ran a reminder of his incarceration. I’ll do the same every Friday until he is freed. If you are a media blogger consider doing the same. Josh needs [...]
If newspapers die, at least they’ll go down experimenting. That was the message I took away from a Sunday afternoon lecture at UC Berkeley’s New Media program. Four print veterans from the Ventura County Star talked about their foray into multimedia storytelling — and how on peak days they can get three times the number of [...]
Help wanted ads have long been a mainstay for newspaper revenues. Now the media market research firm Borrell Associates says online recruitment revenues surpassed print for the first time in 2006 – with no reason to suspect anything but more losses for old media in the future, A MediaPost report summarizing Borrell’s findings notes that:
“Much of the online growth is expected to come [...]
Slashdot is one of the fist, best examples of a user-built site. In an article titled, “Five rules for building a successful online community,” Robin Miller editor-in-chief of Slashdot’s parent, the Open Source Technology Group, offers his credits and his prescriptions:
“As part of the management team behind the famous Slashdot discussion site . . . I’m not saying that you should follow slavishly [...]
(Today’s question came from a citizen journalist who asks to remain anonymous. If you have a journalistic, technical or business question regarding your citizen blog send it to tomabate_book (at) hotmail.com. I’ll look for help and share it here.)
Question: How would I be able to get a listing of retired journalists who might be willing to serve as mentors [...]
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