Time for some short-takes, my version of cool stuff you should read from around the journo/techie blogosphere: Measuring your site’s value: With all the tools available to measure the worth of your blog or news site, it can get confusing. Are page views more important than unique visitors? Would you rather have fewer visitors who [...]
A few short-takes of interesting finds around the blogosphere. Hope you find them useful. Be authentic: Sure, news organizations try to be authoritative, reliable and popular. But Ryan Sholin, director of news innovation at Publish2, writes at Invisible Inkling that authenticity is vital as news organizations try to engage their community in the social media [...]
First, a personal note. Sorry, I haven’t been blogging for a while. I’ve been quite ill, with a suspected case of swine flu. (I say “suspected” because at least in my community, doctors are only giving the “swine flu” test to hospitalized patients, which, thankfully, I was not.) I am starting to feel better now. I [...]
I'm Gina Masullo Chen, a 20-year veteran newspaper journalist who is a Ph.D. candidate in mass communications. I want to see journalism survive. I believe news organizations need to embrace new media, change their thinking, improve their content and innovate. Read more about me here. I also blog once in a while at Harvard University's Nieman Journalism Lab.
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