Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff
Whenever journalist-programmer extraordinaire Adrian Holovaty speaks at a conference, newspaper executives approach him to ask, “Where can we find another…
Photojournalists Will Survive in Era of Citizen Photogs
Newspapers will die. Radio will kick the bucket. The packaged music CD is on death’s doorstep. There is an irresistible…
How much audience participation is right for a news site?
Because the established powers in the media industry have a history of setting the news agenda, it has taken a…
Give Me the Ad That I Want
Every day, I am inundated with unwanted advertisements. If I turn on my car radio to a commercial channel, the…
Top 5 Week Fifty-Seven
USA Tomorrow USA Today redesign to tap nation’s conversation FirstPerson Another citizen media effort from MSNBC Free Kareem Egyptian blogger…
Your Guide to Podcasts
From time to time, I’ll give an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of…
Community Is Key to Participation in Citizen Media
There are so many citizen journalism sites that seem to be in search of communities to populate them. A site…
Are newspaper photojournalists an endangered species?
We are living in a time of transition for the old-line media and journalism, with new technologies and Internet distribution…
Imagining a Future Tense for Newspapers
It’s easy to criticize the humble newspaper as being outmoded, out of style and out of business options. What’s far…
Top 5 Week Fifty-Six
XM + Sirius Legal hurdles to satellite radio merger — but do the kids care? Reuters Africa Pioneering site to…