Sunday, August 9th, 2009

What if newspapers charged for ad-free sites?

Tweet It appears the new era of paid online news is coming. Fast. The New York Times has been considering a monthly Web access fee. Rupert Murdoch has announced he’ll be charging for online content on News Corp. sites. The Boston Globe has told its union bosses it will start charging for Boston.com. Britain’s Financial [...]

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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

How to break into online video journalism

Tweet Today, I’m turning over my blog to a guest blogger. Jackie Hai, is a freelance videographer and Web designer who will graduate next month with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and philosophy from UMass Amherst. She blogs at Convergence Commons about the changing role of the media. Her blog is among the many in [...]

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Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Tips to improve newspaper Web sites

Tweet 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 [...]

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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

The future of newspapers: print v. digital

Tweet Time for another Short Takes:  Five articles worth reading that relate to journalism as it transforms. Are staff cuts good news? That’s the provocative question Mathew Ingram asks at the Nieman Journalism Lab. This is the kind of post that can’t help but raise emotions. Pretty much anyone in journalism today knows someone who [...]

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