The founder of Monster.com, Jeff Taylor, is planning the launch of an online obituary site. In the article, Taylor is quoted as saying that he’s built his career on migrating the newspaper to the web, piece by piece. The piece he’s missing is the obit section.
Check out this Editor and Publisher story about the all-important “time spent” metric. If your visitors spend more than seven minutes on your site, congratulations! You’re beating the Chicago Tribune!
E-Media Tidbits, a Poynter blog about guess what, online media, has a post about journalists rebelling against changes in media techniques. Has some interesting perspectives on the nature of journalism and new approaches.
Adding to Holly’s post about Twitter, new media blog, Read Write Web, has a piece up on how they use Twitter for journalism. I’ve got my Twitter account set up.
“When Vannevar Bush first dreamt of hyperlinks back in the 1940s, surely he envisioned something tidier than the link riots that erupt on many of today’s Web pages, ” writes Jack Shafer for Slate yesterday.
Shafer rails against useless links, but his own is worth checking out.
Links that Stink: Grumbling about the misuse of hyperlinks on news sites.
This is home base for Medill’s New Media Storytelling course. Here you may access all of the class news blogs. You will post comments on the readings, ask questions and share tips as you enter into new media publishing. Matt and I will also use this space to post comments on the blogs and answer your technical questions here. Welcome aboard!
An interesting piece in the New York Observer points out that journalists can now become their own brands.
Gawker wonders if it’s time for every journalist to act like a blogger.
Howard Owens, a digital pioneer who is now an executive with Gatehouse Media, has a great post about the changing nature of journalists’ jobs. Our class might take note, particularly, of point 1:
Become a blogger. By this, I don’t necessarily mean “start a blog,” but that is never a bad idea. More importantly, become an avid blog reader. Blogs should be a daily routine for every dedicated journalist. They should read every blog related to their beats. They should read blogs about their own interests and hobbies. They should read blogs about their profession. To get blogging is to get how things have changed.
If you’ve never blogged before this class, take stock of your thoughts about blogging now and — when the class is over — be ready to reflect on what you’ve learned about the relationship between blogging and journalism.