July 15, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Susanne Fengler
Several recent studies rank traditional media above newer formats. Concerning interactivity, “old” forms of media function better than their reputations suggest, while new media like blogs and social networks have a lot of catching up...
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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 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 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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May 21, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
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...
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May 21, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Natascha Fioretti
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...
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May 18, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Natascha Fioretti
Paul Steiger, Wall Street Journal icon and now editor-in-chief of Pulitzer-winning news site ProPublica, discusses the changing face of journalism. Paul Steiger has dedicated much of his life to print journalism. The sixty-eight-year-old...
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April 29, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Canada’s Pirate Party receives official status. Take a seat, Tea Partiers. There’s a new batch of troublemakers taking names. On April 12th, the Pirate Party of Canada – a party whose platform includes securing the...
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April 12, 2010 •
Digital News, Newsroom Management •
by Kate Nacy
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,...
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