August 23, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
Guardian creates governmental truth-tracking tool. Emerging as leaders in “data journalism” and celebrated for launching a sharp bunch of free, simplified analysis tools, The Guardian releases its latest creation: The Pledge...
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July 25, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. The cyberworld, it seems, is condemned to the same ineludible limitations. Facebook users are dying. So are Twitterers, MySpacers, Flickrers and Tumblrers. But as social media users...
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July 21, 2010 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
The Daily Mail‘s website is a humongous success. And it’s free. Let’s skip the pros and cons of the somewhat tired ‘to paywall or not to paywall’ argument for a moment and focus on a website which is quite...
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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 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 •
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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