Posts Tagged ‘media’

Via Media Shift
by Bryan Murley, November 19, 2008
With the swift pace of change in the media landscape, it’s easy to overlook how far college news media has come in a short time. There has been some great innovation in college media, even as some lag behind.
I was prompted to reflect on this last month, after [...]

Via Mashable
October 1, 2008 - 9:30 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins
The buzz has more or less died down, at least in the pages ofGawker, MediaShift, TechDirt and Romenesko. But our very ownAlana Taylor did a feature for PBS blog MediaShift, a commentary really, on the lack of New Media savvy amongst the students and faculty at NYU in a class called [...]

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September 23, 2008 - 12:28 am PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 6 Comments

It’s rare that I find a short article with so many things wrong with it as I did this evening. As per usual, after I put out an editorial on a topic I tend to get [...]

Via the New York Times
By Miguel Helft
In the early hours of Monday morning, the World Association of Newspapers posted a lengthy communique on its Web site calling the Google-Yahoo advertising partnership anti-competitive and urging regulators to block the deal. According to its Web site, the World Association of Newspapers represents 76 national newspaper associations [...]

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September 17, 2008 - 3:04 am PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 1 Comment

The Wall Street Journal rolled out their long awaited new look over the weekend, and I actually had a chance to take a look at it yesterday due to all the AIG/Lehman brothers mess as I [...]

Via MediaShift
by Mark Van Patten, 2:18PM

Mark Van Patten

The Bowling Green Daily News doesn’t have a “web first” strategy in the way we run our newspaper. That means that we don’t post articles to our website before they appear in print. Apart from some breaking local news, most major stories don’t appear on the Internet [...]

Via the New York Times
By Vindu Goel
The venerable Wall Street Journal will activate a revamped version of its Web site, WSJ.com, early Tuesday morning.
The new site isn’t a lot different from the old one, based on screenshots and other details Journal executives shared with me last week. It has a cleaner, more inviting [...]

Via Mashable
by Steven Hodson 10 Comments

There has been a lot written over the past year or so about how the time is coming when social media tools like Twitter will become not just the toys of the early adopters of the tech blogosphere, but break through and become a fixture of [...]

Via the New York Times
By Claire Cain Miller
SpinSpotter, a new start-up, could send shivers across many a newsroom. The Web tool, which went live Monday at the DEMO technology conference in San Diego, scans news stories for signs of spin.
Users download Spinoculars, a toolbar that sits atop the browser and lets readers know [...]

Via Mediashift
by Laura Hertzfeld, 2:35PM

Laura Hertzfeld

Shame on us, the media, for thinking the Republican National Convention would pale in comparison to the Democrats’ show in Denver last week. For bloggers on both sides of the aisle here in St. Paul, what the RNC has lacked in strawberry-lemonade smoothies, it has more than made up [...]