Save the Media

Time for some more short-takes, capturing interesting stuff I’ve found around the blogosphere: Who will will? Deborah Potter at Advancing the Story says “specialized media will win.” I agree with her, and I like how she puts it.  It’s just another way of saying, guess what, we’re not a mass medium anymore. But I like [...]

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s recent announcement that it’s ceasing publication of a newspaper — and going online only — is sad because of the jobs and lives impacted and what it means for the future of journalism. But I’m hoping the P-I’s online experiment can help us all learn a bit more about the revolution happening [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Today’s the last installment in my series on how journalists can use social-networking sites. (If you haven’t been here for the whole series, be sure to read about how to use Facebook, MySpace and Linked In in previous posts.) To me, niche social networks provide perhaps the greatest potential for journalists trying to engage their [...]

Now, finally, I’m back to my series on how journalists can use social-networking sites. Today’s topic is Linked In. (Be sure to check out my posts on using Facebook and MySpace.) Linked In is a bit different than Facebook and MySpace in two significant ways: It’s geared more toward professionals. You can’t “connect” with someone [...]