studying the media ecosystem
What constitutes ethical behavior in online journalism? Are print and broadcast norms relevant online? As viewers and advertising dollars migrate to cyberspace, should editorial and sales departments work together to figure out how to make money in new media and, if so, how can this be done without ethical conflict? What are the rules and who makes them?
About 15 years ago I sold [...]
I meant to blog this sooner but better late than never . . . The New Voices grants, which are administered through the University of Maryland’s J-Lab, are ”helping to fund . . . micro-local news projects with $12,000 grants and help foster their sustainability through $5,000 second-year matching grants.
But there isn’t much time to apply! The deadline is [...]
(Josh Wolf is a freelance journalist and anarchist. He has been jailed for refusing to turn over videotapes of a protest being investigated by a federal grand jury. Online Journalism Review has written about his case; here is a bit more from Wikipedia. On Friday, December 1, 2006, I ran a reminder of his incarceration. [...]
Let me briefly introduce two items today and invite you to click through this cover page for more.
I’ll take a third and final look at the new (as in more efficient) media by citing a few snippets from, and taking a few snipes at, a piece by Slate’s Jack Shafer in which he tells newsroom whiners [...]
It’s a pity sociologists seem to have stopped studying newsrooms, New York University professor Eric Klinenberg laments to his academic colleague in a paper titled, “Convergence: News Production in a Digital Age.” I stumbled across a 17-page PDF of this paper. It was published in the January 2005 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. But now [...]
Current Federal Communications Commission rules prohibit newspapers from owning television stations that broadcast in their local market area. Policy wonks use the term “cross-ownership” to describe this ban, and for the second time since 2002 this cross-ownership ban is under review. A recent article by USA Today media reporter David Lieberman takes what amounts to a Godzilla versus Mothra view [...]
Okay, so you’ve got money to hire some online journalists. What skills should you look for? And what sorts of personal traits are best? Or perhaps you’re a job seeker who wonders what constitutes the right stuff in online newsrooms? Both sets of questions ask the same uber-question: what is an online journalist’s job?
The typical online journalist is a generalist, [...]
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