The hot news from SXSWi (South by Soutwest interactive), a tech conference in Austin, Texas, is how a journalist put herself into the interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg instead of simply interviewing him from a distance, as planned.
CNet reporter Daniel Terdiman writes:
"The reality is, I thought the substance of her interview was pretty strong. […]
Folks from a news and blog project in Somerville, Massachusetts, will be the guests at Thursday’s blog group. This meeting might appeal to some of you local journalists.
"This week, Barry Rafkind and other folks from Somerville Voices will join us talk about what they’re doing. Somerville Voices is a new collaborative news & features blog […]
The Knight Citizen News Network has posted an excellent guide called “Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive:
A digital literacy guide for the information age” by Mark Briggs:
http://www.kcnn.org/resources/journalism_20/
Briggs also has a companion weblog called Journalism 2.0:
http://www.j-learning.org/briggs_blog
Link via LISNews:
http://www.lisnews.org/
Posted by Rich
The Boston Globe tells us how Jeff Kiernan, the new news director for CBS affiliate WBZ, has changed the station’s newscasts to improve their ratings and the challenges of keeping the station’s rank.
“Agence France Presse banned its reporters from using Facebook and Wikipedia as sources last week, as news organizations still struggle to safely use online (re)sources,” according to journalism.co.uk
“Some newspapers picked up pictures on Facebook about Mr Bhutto, which turned out to be fake.”
Clarifying this point, Lesourd said that journalists couldn’t use these sites as sole […]
I learned The Boston Globe’s newsstand price will increase just after reading in the print Globe online US newspaper readers increased 6%. Below that article is one indicating The Wall Street Journal will keep its subscription model.
A project to grow their own journalists to add pizzazz to the channel’s political coverage, MTV hired and trained one young journalist for each of the 50 U.S. states and Washington, DC.
“The idea behind MTV’s project, known as the Street Team, is having citizen journalists across the country bring a fresh perspective and grass-roots […]
While going through unread messages from the blog group, I found one Andy Carvin sent a while back about a presentation he gave on why journalists should care about Web 2.0. It’s definitely worth a read because he not only explores what some of the popular Web 2.0 technology is and how people use it, […]
Tom Weber shares the news from the December 1 and 2 editions of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he found cushioning the carpet of his house. We frequently hear about people finding all sorts of neat things when they renovate. I think this use of newspapers for carpet padding is a clever way to recycle newspaper, […]
I heard the piece on tonight’s All Things Considered about the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to allow broadcasters in the top 20 markets to own a broadcast organization and a newspaper in the same market. For some organizations, this change is positive, but many people are concerned about the same parent organization controlling too much […]