Posted on October 8, 2007 by Deborah Potter
News aggregators like Yahoo!, MSN and AOL have supplanted network television as “power hubs for news,” Rachel Rosemarin reports in Forbes. Two out of every five people who use Yahoo! look at its news, finance and sports sites–50 million people every month, according to Internet tracking firm ComScore.
Broadcast television still reaches more people in a [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2007 by Deborah Potter
News organizations are in a constant battle for online traffic, but what actually works to draw readers? Blogs, live chats and interactive databases, according to industry leaders quoted by Editor&Publisher. Jennifer Carroll, vice president of new media for the Gannett newspaper division, told the annual Associated Press Managing Editors conference that searchable data is particularly [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2007 by dhwenger
Rob Curley is the outspoken, pull-no-punches vice president of product development for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. At the Society of Professional Journalists Convention on October 4, Curley offered a list of what it will take newspapers (though this applies to TV stations as well) to “win” in the multimedia world.
Own breaking news.
Offer hyper-local content. Curley says this means covering [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2007 by dhwenger
The Federal Communications Commission says just because you’re not getting paid to air it, doesn’t mean you get a free ride when it comes to identifying VNRs for viewers.
According to Broadcasting & Cable, the FCC has issued four more proposed fines against Comcast for airing four video news releases (VNRs) on non-controversial topics for which [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2007 by Deborah Potter
Journalists sometimes miss or underplay big stories by trying to be objective in the wrong way, says UNC’s Phil Meyer. Instead of presenting “both sides” and letting the audience decide, Meyer argues in the new Yale Climate Media Forum that journalists should be objective in their method, not their result.
In other words, journalists should [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2007 by Deborah Potter
Being a good journalist does not mean you can’t have personal opinions; you just can’t let those opinions creep into your reporting. But how do you stay independent from what you are as opposed to what you think? By being a journalist first, says Tom Avila, a staffer for the National Lesbian & [...]
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