studying the media ecosystem
In reading the Poynter Institute’s online news digest the other day I came across a note in which Bob Stepno recalled the early days of Nando.net one of the earliest and best attempts by newspapers – to wit, South North Carolina’s Raleigh News and Observer – to use the Internet as a news gathering and delivery vehicle. Nando emerged just as the graphical user interface, Mosaic, [...]
Last fall I wrote about Imooty, a site that aggregates European news feeds. Who would be interested? Anyone who must follow European politics and government; foreign currency traders; language students; European expatriates; others?
The other day a commentor from Italy wrote me to say: “EUFeeds is better!”
You be the judge. Visually the two sites are quite different.
Users navigate Imooty using a map to pick [...]
Documentary film makers should work together documentarist Danny Schechter told an audience of about 175 persons at an alternative media summit in Santa Cruz. I plucked that from a summary of the proceedings written by New England media entrepreneur Bill Densmore who notes that:
“Documentary producer and author Kristina Borjesson suggested establishing a ’standards and practices cookbook’ that could be followed by progressive [...]
Reader Charlotte Yee passed on this bit of humor at the expense of paid newsies like yours truly. Seven Orlando Sentinel reporters contributed to a three-paragraph story about a train wreck.
A blogger named Ranger Bob whose interests include bridges and trains, took issue with the following line: “The conductor saw an object on the tracks and blew [...]
I just registered for NewsTools2008.org, a three-day mashup that will bring together journalists, technologists and entrepreneurs from April 30-May 3, 2008 at the Yahoo! Conference Center in Silicon Valley. Early registration is $295, a bargain for me as I live a short drive from Yahoo HQ. This conference is part of a continuing series titled, Journalism that Matters, and the [...]
Ever since Adrian Holovaty got his bachelor’s degree in journalism from University of Missouri–Columbia in 2001, he has been building Web sites that let people find the information they want in contrast to old media that mass produce content from which readers must choose. His projects and credits include:
the Web-database management and presentation tool, Django, used by the path-breaking Lawrence Journal-World;
a searchable crime [...]
Eric Ulken, who works for LA Times online, wanted to create a visual reference for the types of skills that were most frequently demanded in help-wanted listings. The image above is from his blog entry which I noticed on Amy Gahran’s roundup for the Poynter Institute.
This representation reminds me of a similar survey that I blogged about last year. [...]
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