June 18, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
How neurological elements of arousal play into news According to Jack Fuller, author of What is Happening to News? The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism, we can count indefinitely on fear and sex to attract the eye. While...
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June 18, 2010 •
Business Models •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
New research may allow advertisers to sigh with ease and erase the gap between words and actions. Emily Falk of the University of California Los Angeles and her colleagues have managed to predict the actions of research participants better...
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June 12, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
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...
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June 11, 2010 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
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....
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June 9, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
We know the differences between YouTube and the Financial Times are voluminous. And yes, we’ve also learned that people are doing more with YouTube than searching for videos of spastic housecats swinging from ceiling fans. But...
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June 7, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Die Furche, Nr. 18/2010 Research institutions are following their own inherent laws. If they weren’t, it would be difficult to understand why a particular academic discipline has been neglected in the three capitals of the...
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June 7, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Poynter chronicles the moments that transformed journalism. Drawing from researched compiled for their New Media Timeline – a timeline of developments in journalism and new media dating from 1969 to 2010 – Poynter devised this...
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June 2, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Die Furche, May 27, 2010 Newsjunkies surfing the blogospere are occasionally surprised by the amount of attention certain blog postings achieve. For example, a recent article published by American journalist James Fallows in The Atlantic...
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June 1, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Natascha Fioretti
Ethical Space, Vol 7 Nos. 2/3, 2010 Natascha Fioretti examines Italy’s extraordinary ‘Berlusconismo’ phenomenon – and the response of the international media to it. When elements of popular culture meet elements of political...
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