Save the Media

I’ve come across some new Twitter tools that I’ve found useful as a journalist, so I’ve decided to compile a new post of my favorite tools for Twitter. (Read my earlier list of favorite Twitter tools here.) Blip.fm: A colleague of mine, @LauraTRyan, turned me on to this  great tool. It allows you to search [...]

New York University journalism prof Jay Rosen tweeted a video today that I think is a must-see for any journalist trying to understand the “Internet revolution.“  Basically, he compared the static experience of watching TV to the interactive experience of connecting with people, news organizations and newsmakers through the Web. I think calling this an [...]

Today’s short takes focus on a common theme: improving journalism. Enjoy. Improving newspaper Web sites: Scooping the News offers five tips for make newspaper Web sites better: communicate with readers, link out, display readers’ comments prominently; explain more about the writers behind the stories and blogs; and don’t worry so much about design. I really [...]

One way to really get a sense of what people in your niche are interested in is to create a newsletter for your readers. (Now, I’m not talking about an e-mail subscription to your blog or an RSS feed, although those are great ideas you should be doing, too.) This is something more personal, where you [...]

One of the points I mentioned in my tips for fostering an online-first newsroom is that journalists need to connect with readers by creating communities. I think it’s a point that requires more elaboration. What does it mean to create a community of readers? You build out in your geographic area. This means that you create your [...]

OK, have to brag a bit here. Today, I was featured on Beat Blogging, an initiative of NewAssignment.Net, a research project based at New York University. It’s an informative blog that I read frequently — and that I’d encourage all journalists to read. So I felt pretty proud when NYU student Daniel Marrin contacted me on [...]

I’m finding so much useful stuff on the blogosphere,  I just had to do another short takes. I hope you find them as useful as I did. Crowd sourcing: If you have no idea what crowd sourcing is or how it could work for journalists, you must read this post on Beat Blogging. The post [...]

Here’s part three of my series, what’s an online-first newsroom look like. Today, I’ll talk about what a typical day should/could be like in an online-first newsroom. (Be sure to read the rest of the series: Part one examines the over-arching ideas that form a f0undation of an online-first newsroom; part two examines the nitty [...]

Here’s another round of short takes of tidbits I’ve found around the blogosphere that could be useful to journalists dipping a toe — or hopefully the whole foot –  into the new media waters. Enjoy. Self-correction: If you’re a Twitter fan, you may have heard this week that the Dalai Lama was on Twitter and [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about exactly what an online-first newsroom is. And I’ve come up with six points, although I don’t think that tells the whole story. So I sense another series coming on. In today’s post, I’ll discuss six attributes that form the foundation of an online-first newsroom.  Next post, [...]