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Huffington Post Blows It in France
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics on June 12, 2010
Advertising blunder raises interesting questions about ad sales and content farms.
Observed from France, where ads are localized, the Huffington Post’s homepage recently hosted what appears to be a gigantic advertisement featuring the rump of a nude cartoon. The product being sold here was (drumroll please…) a flatulence application for the iPhone. Indeed.
The ad, clearly not of the Rolex-variety, illustrates a blatantly poor choice from HuffPo’s ad sales team, but also seems to highlight what Paris-based writer and media consultant Frédéric Filloux says “demonstrates a tragic inability to understand the true power of the Internet, i.e, making contents globally accessible to a solvent population.” Read the rest of this entry »
Green is the New Blue
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics, New Media on June 11, 2010
The Los Angeles Times now embeds e-commerce links within online articles in hopes of revenue boosts.
The new e-commerce links for sites like Amazon.com appear within the text of LAT articles but in green, rather than the old standby blue. According to StinkyJournalism.org, the green links are only published in health, image, food, travel, books, entertainment and sports articles, in addition to photo galleries and select blogs. Each story with an embedded link is to be accompanied by a disclaimer statement. Read the rest of this entry »
What Happened to Headlines?
Posted by Kate Nacy in New Media, Quality Management on May 21, 2010
Has online news perverted the wit of headline writing?
David Carr, who writes “The Media Equation” for the New York Times wonders the same. In a world of search engine optimization, are we trading the classy snap of old school headlines for cheap name-dropping and keywords? Carr reminds us of the New York Post classic, “Headless Body in Topless Bar” in making his case. Seen anything that good lately? Didn’t think so. According to Carr, “the need to attract attention from computer-generated algorithms sometimes makes the headlines seem like a machine thought them up as well.”
For more on headlines, see the Media Equation.
Online Journalism: How to Live Well and Make Money
Posted by Natascha Fioretti in Media Effects, New Media on May 21, 2010
Adrian Michaels, Group Foreign Editor with the Telegraph Media Group, discusses winning strategies behind the printed press and the Web.
Profitable English daily the Telegraph boasts 40 million readers a month and has a free-access Web site continually investing in conversation and interaction with its readers. In fact, the Telegraph has a highly advanced blog where 40 full-time workers including both journalists and editors contribute. To give just one example, the section devoted to the May 6th general election offers everything: debates with readers, social networks, comments, videos, sophisticated infographics, Read the rest of this entry »
The Little Difference: Print v. Online News
Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Media Journalism, New Media on May 19, 2010
For the Austrian website Der Standard it was only an April Fool’s joke, but many other quality newspapers proceeded to take the gloves off.
The London Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch, Le Monde and Le Figaro as well as the Axel Springer AG in Germany will try to implement paid online content in Europe within the next few months, and the New York Times announced a similar move in the U.S. As it stands, no one can predict whether this about-turn of the about-turn will be successful. Yet still another issue itches at many: How much information will be accessible for free on news sites, and what can be said about quality if a pay wall should be introduced?
Several clues are offered in a study conducted by Scott Maier of the University of Oregon. Maier analyzed content published by five leading U.S. news websites Read the rest of this entry »
Internet Boosts Interest in News
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics, Regional Studies on April 12, 2010
According to research conducted by the McKinsey group, the Internet is the driving force behind an increase in UK news consumption.
Two surveys conducted in the UK in 2006 and 2009 reveal that consumption rose to 72 minutes per day, up from 60 minutes in 2006. The Mckinsey report eyes newfangled pay models with caution, concluding that experimental revenue structures for online content will fall short of compensating for the lost print revenue, stressing that even if online-only versions of newspapers cost 75 percent less than original versions, only 14 percent of those surveyed would actually pay. See here for more on the report.
Reality TV at the Times
Posted by Kate Nacy in New Media, Newsroom Management on April 12, 2010
TimesCast captures newsroom missteps.
Last month the New York Times launched TimesCast, a daily video produced during morning meetings in the newsroom. The mini program summarizes major stories and includes interviews with the staff, offering readers a peek at the paper’s inner workings. The idea was to jump on the technology train in order to showcase the Times‘ journalism, taking a unique stab at transparency. As anyone could guess, “uncut” newsroom footage is a stretch from the cool, polished reporting the Times is known best for. Several recent incidents – heated Tweets, sensitive discourse, fumbled facts – highlight the difficulties in introducing less-forgiving, real-time platforms for newsgathering.
Read more from NYT’s pubic editor Clark Hoyt at nytimes.com.
Media Accountability in Romania
Posted by Tina Bettels in Ethics, New Media, Regional Studies on April 7, 2010
Interview with Mihai Coman of the University of Bucharest’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Q: Are there successful examples of media accountability in Romania?
It depends on perspective. On an institutional level there are a few examples one could call successful. There is a code of ethics in Romania that has been accepted and implemented by all journalistic associations. Now there is also an ombudsman in public television. From a social, sociological perspective we have to ask ourselves who controls the journalistic profession. There is a constant struggle between top and low-level journalists, between media owners and journalists, between politicians and journalists – they all want to control the field. We are involved in the process of transformation in Romania. We believed that the transition to capitalism would occur quickly, however we discovered that such a change takes Read the rest of this entry »
Antoni Maria Piqué on Journalism 2020
Posted by Judith Leitner in New Media on April 1, 2010
Interview with Antoni Maria Piqué, media consultant and associate professor at the the International University of Catalunya’s School of Journalism.
Q: How do you think journalism will change in the next 10 years?
The challenge for all of us, journalists, academics, consultants, is to reinvent journalism, not daily newspapers, TV and radio. They are only instruments. Journalism is supposed to serve the public’s right to information. We have to discover new ways in which journalists may better serve the people. We need to learn, for example, how to create journalism on Twitter and how to deal accurately with instant information. We’ll have to relearn our values as journalists. The challenge is to reinvent journalism. The era of newspapers, TV and radio will be over in 10 or 15 years Read the rest of this entry »
The Guide to Online Journalism
Posted by Natascha Fioretti in Media Journalism, New Media on March 28, 2010
Alan Rusbridger
Philip Meyer, author of The Vanishing Newspaper, and Alan Rusbridger, director of Guardian Media and News, open the second day of Journalism 2020 emphasizing the need to approach online journalism with a digital mindset.
Merely transposing a paper edition onto the Web site simply won’t work. With this in mind, Meyer highlights the importance of professionalizing online journalism. The United States offers online certification programs for high schools to help establish quality standards and to regulate online information, while sites like Factcheck.org and Snopes.com are pioneers in this area. Speaking of his experience at the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger advocates Jeff Jarvis’ fundamental concept of online journalism, “Cover what you do best, link to the rest,” and lists 10 principles of online journalism: Read the rest of this entry »
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