Tag: JOURNALISM

Wikileaks has been a hot news topic for several months now, largely due to Bradley Manning and his 260,000 page contribution. There are plenty of people in corporate and government positions who want the site shut down (and prosecuted), but most all, they want their leaked data and they want the sources for those leaks. WikiLeaks' legitimate ability to protect those sources and the data they've ...

More sad news from the world of journalism: looks like Time Magazine is experimenting with putting its web content behind a very odd type of paywall starting with the next issue. Instead of being able to pay for a subscription to read the full content of Time in their browsers, web visitors see the beginning of each article, and this: "The following is an abridged version of an article that ...

Haven't we been through this before? The New York Times is apparently getting ready to charge readers for online access. According to sources close to Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Two main models are being considered. One is the Wall Street Journal's part-free, part-paywalled plan, where users pay for access to a lot of the paper's content. The other, more likely solution is a metered ...

Just in case you had any doubt that the newspaper industry is in trouble (or needs to change the way it thinks about content and revenue), Pew has released a study showing that for the first time more Americans get their news from the internet than from traditional newspapers. To be fair, television still trumps them both. 70% of respondents said that they get most of their national and ...

Blogsmith : brad.linder@weblogsinc.com After two years, the Associated Press is shutting down its multimedia service aimed at 18 to 34 year olds. As a measure of just how successful this service was, the first time we'd heard of it was when we found out it was being closed. AP called the service asap, presumably because it sounded edgy and important. On October 31st, the site, which features ...

Juperter Media has agreed to pay $23 million to purchase journalism job site Mediabistro. The site, which was founded in 1996 grew out of a series of parties founder Laurel Toby had been throwing since 1993 for media professionals. Now Mediabistro is more than just a site for job listings. It's also a clearinghouse of news about journalism and media jobs. For a subscription fee, users can also ...

Anybody can slap together a website that lets you vote on news stories or other submissions with a simple thumbs up or down. But what does that really tell you? NewsTrust is a social news rating site that takes a different approach. Rather than finding the most popular stories of the day, NewsTrust is a non-profit site aimed at finding the best examples of journalism each day. When you submit a ...

There's an old saying that "everyone has a story to tell." Of course, nobody really has time to collect everyone's stories. Or do they? 6 billion Others is massive project to "create a sensitive and human portrait of the planet's inhabitants." Six directors traveled across the globe to interview a variety of people on various topics. No, they're not going to get 6 billion interviews under their ...