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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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May 26, 2010 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Before the newspaper industry actually makes it to the media graveyard, experts predict another medium (television) may face the Reaper as well. In his blog “Reflections of a Newsosaur,” Alan Mutter, a media and technology...
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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 19, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
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...
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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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