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Links for 2008-05-09 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-10 07:00:00 Pew’s journalism center is right to take comedian Jon Stewart’s Daily Show seriously « The Future of News Jon Stewart?s show is just like the mainstream media, only more entertaining. It may not fit Modern Journalism?s definition of news, which requires a serious, authoritative, quasi-scolding style, but who gave them the right to define what news is? More About: Links , 2008
Off topic: Voting on TV - a basic problem
2008-05-08 15:00:00 Channel 4?s Grand Designs Live, is built around asking viewers to vote on three properties. Here is the problem: the first property featured has a massive advantage over the last property in terms of motivating people to vote. [Updated] Two three four nights out of three four five, the first property featured has won… Can Channel 4 ... More About: Topic , Basic , Problem , Voting , Cloud
Links for 2008-05-07 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-08 07:00:00 New York Times and the media, five years after the Blair fiasco - MarketWatch "Declining circulation, falling advertising revenues, and the swooning stock value of traditional news organizations, coupled with expanding consumer choices, prompts slashed newsroom budgets..." says cheery Ken Auletta Husband dies after appearing on Wife Swap - Telegraph A voluntary participant writes: "The TV company has an image of you they want to portray and they goad you into behaving how they want you to behave." How do you measure a blog’s success? « Online Journalism Blog A lot of ways, is the answer. But missing is the amount of grief you get from your family for blogging... Journalists are like elk hunters "[He] compares journalists with elk hunters, they don't hate the elk, but they don't have very much sympathy for the dead elk either." WSJ Plans Closer Ties With London Times; May Offer Business Tools | paidContent.org Last week, The Times said it w... More About: Links , 2008
The future of investigative journalism?
2008-05-07 19:23:00 The future of investigative journalism? Books, according to ex-WSJ Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine. Pearlstine doesn?t believe the newspaper business model will support the kind of long-form, investigative journalism that many of the top reporters and editors have spent their careers pursuing. Case in point: the Washington Post?s recent 17,000-word, four-part series on IED?s in Iraq. Great story, ... More About: Journalism , Future , The Future
Courage and impotence in journalism
2008-05-07 10:04:00 There is an exceptional and very poignant post from a sacked Chinese journalist translated and reproduced at the China Digital Times. I am afraid of other people praising me as a brave newspaperman, because I know I am full of fear in my heart. I did write some commentaries on current affairs, and edited some articles ... More About: Journalism
Business bad. Journalism good.
2008-05-07 09:46:00 Jon Friedman has a walk down ethics lane today, prompting Ken Auletta to come out with this distinctly non-counter-intuitive take on why ethical lapses occur. (And in the words of the song - ?Stop me if you think you?ve heard this one before.?) ?Declining circulation, falling advertising revenues, and the swooning stock value of traditional news ... More About: Business , Journalism , Good
Links for 2008-05-06 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-07 07:00:00 Media Passes on Times Pentagon Piece | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) No one bought the NYT story... More About: Links , 2008
Links for 2008-05-05 [del.icio.us]
2008-05-06 07:00:00 Peter Wilby: The mob power of the commentariat | Media | The Guardian Though the British press prides itself on its variety of opinion, the range among established commentators is actually quite narrow and, frequently, they all charge together in the same direction. That is why politicians treat them seriously. Publisher Tested the Waters Online, Then Dove In - New York Times The journey beyond print is uncertain and perilous, but the experience of I.D.G., the world?s largest publisher of technology newspapers and magazines, suggests that it can be done. U.S. magazine wars prove a bonanza for celebrities - International Herald Tribune "People.com briefly doubled its usual number of online readers when it featured Lopez's twins, with about four million viewers in a single day. That kind of traffic can translate into more advertiser interest..." All of Inflation’s Little Parts - The New York Times Stunning info-graphic from the NYT... FT.com / World - Repton Dubai bla... More About: Links , 2008
Two views of ITV
2008-04-22 10:19:00 James Murdoch bought ITV shares for 135p not too long ago. Now, you and I can pick them up for about half that.Murdoch didn’t exactly buy them hoping them to make a quick buck. But now he has moved to Wapping, how does one of his papers cover the ITV story? Dan Sabbagh plays a pretty straight bat laying out the territory in the Times: On fundamentals, ITV is expensive, even at these superficially bombed-out levels. The shares trade at 14 times earnings, a premium to European peers, and there are real worries that the high street advertisers on which ITV depends will start to rein in advertising as the economy tightens.That has not happened yet, but economic sentiment is so poor that the worry is that dependence on retail advertising is a weakness waiting to be exposed, rather than a strength.However, most quoted European broadcasters cannot be bought, because they are tied up with a strategic investor; ITV is the exception. For that reason alone, ITV, with its unique dominance of ... More About: Views
Wall Street Journal M.E. to Resign - TIME [del.icio.us]
2008-04-22 09:44:00 Sources at Dow Jones & Company Inc. say that Marcus Brauchli, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal , is submitting a letter of resignation, with his departure to be announced as early as Tuesday morning. More About: Time
Off topic: The Billionaire’s Vinegar
2008-04-22 01:45:00 There now follows an advertising announcement on behalf of Benjamin Wallace, who has the story of a very expensive bottle of plonk.THE BILLIONAIRE’S VINEGARThe Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of WineSlate calls it “terrific.”Food & Wine finds it “riveting.”GQ says it’s “what everyone will be talking about.”The Billionaire’s Vinegar is available now for pre-order, and will be in bricks-and-mortar bookstores everywhere as of May 13.You can catch up with Benjamin here:NEW YORK: May 15, 21, and 22PHILADELPHIA: May 18WASHINGTON, DC: May 20SAN FRANCISCO: June 1, 3, 4 and 5BOSTON: June 9 and 10SONOMA: July 16For times and venues, see his website.The answer to all those Father’s Day gift conundrums... More About: Topic
Bloomberg Buying 'NYT'? Don't Hold Your Breath [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 23:26:00 "I know nothing about the production of a newspaper. I know something about reading it. Sometimes I like it. Sometimes I don't. I buy it everyday retail. But I am not going into the newspaper business" More About: Buying , Bloomberg , Breath , Hold
Business Daily Africa - Superstition threatens scientific growth in Africa
2008-04-21 22:48:00 Rampant and increasing belief in pseudoscience is endangering progress in curtailing scientific ignorance in developing countries. More About: Business , Daily , Africa , Growth , Superstition
Retired generals - not the neutral fence-sitters we all thought...
2008-04-21 21:16:00 The day’s big media story belongs to David Barstow and his epic NYT story, Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand, on the Bush administration’s hearts and minds campaign.Yes, retired generals on army pensions and with a lifetime of military service turn out not to have been the neutral thumb-suckers we all assumed they’d been transformed into when they took the network shilling.OK, so that is a bit mean given the weight of material Barstow has assembled.Still, Terry Heaton is unimpressed and throws in George Creel’s illuminating 1920 account of life running the Committee on Public Information - the Pentagon propaganda machine in WW1 - the modestly titled How We Advertised America.In case you don’t have a copy, here is Creel explaining his mission in terms that even Torie Clarke might find a tad over-enthusiastic: What we had to have was no mere surface unity, but a passionate belief in the justice of America’s cause that should weld the people of the United States... More About: Thought , Fence , Generals
Off topic: Signs the global economy is tanking
2008-04-21 20:28:00 So you know times are bad when the Harvard Business Review starts asking potential entrepreneurs to check their health insurance before cutting the corporate cord: Take the case of my brother who was 55 and a former CEO when he took early retirement. To his great chagrin he discovered that he couldn’t find health insurance. A millionaire several times over, Mike had the money to pay whatever premiums a health insurance company might ask. The problem: he had pre-existent conditions – diabetes and high blood pressure. No one in the state of New Hampshire would touch him.Millionaires without health insurance. Always good to come across a previously ignored political demographic in this election year... More About: Economy , Global , Signs , Topic
GASP! The Pentagon “used” the media! [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 20:23:00 Having just finished George Creel’s 1920 book, How We Advertised America: The First Telling Of The Amazing Story Of The Committee On Public Information That Carried The Gospel Of Americanism To Every Corner Of The Globe, the idea that the Pentagon would More About: Media , The Media , The Pentagon
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Ethiopia severs ties with Qatar [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 19:38:00 Al-Jazeera recently broadcast a series of reports from the Ogaden, to which the Ethiopia n government took great exception, describing them as propaganda films for a terrorist organisation. More About: News , World , Africa , Qatar
Bloomberg.com: U.K. & Ireland - ITV bid? [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 18:37:00 ITV shares rose 3.9 percent on May 25 after a report said BSkyB might swap its 17.9 percent stake in ITV for control of Channel Five... More About: Ireland , Bloomberg
Rupert Murdoch's Newspaper War | Newsweek Business | Newsweek.com [del.icio
2008-04-21 09:21:00 The fight could escalate in unknown ways if billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ends up acquiring the Times. As NEWSWEEK has learned, top associates of the onetime information executive are encouraging him to do just that. More About: Business , Newsweek , Newspaper
How to make your video editing easier « Mastering Multimedia [del.icio.us]
2008-04-21 09:14:00 The way you shoot your story will either lead to an efficient edit, or a nightmare... More About: Video , Multimedia , Editing , Make , Video editing
China Media Blog » Hail to the elite? : Aggregated China Media News &
2008-04-21 09:09:00 "Does anyone else find the weekend Australian gabfest for 1,002 of the country's best and brightest disturbing?" Yup.. More About: News , Media , China , Blog , Elite
Israeli troops may have targeted Gaza newsman: watchdog - Middle East Times
2008-04-20 22:23:00 "The Reuters truck was clearly marked 'TV' and 'Press' and drove by the tank twice, so it's hard to believe the Israeli tank crew didn't see the pickup contained only journalists" More About: Middle East , Gaza , East , Middle , Times
Xpress: News | Sky News sets sights on Dubai [del.icio.us]
2008-04-20 21:47:00 Sky News , the big daddy of rolling news, seeks to join other international TV news channels that established bureaus in Dubai , senior officials said. More About: Sights , Sets , Xpress
Message force multipliers: Third-party advocates and the Iraq war [del.icio
2008-04-20 19:36:00 Trying to recruit the support of third-party advocates is an accepted public relationstactic. When third-party advocates can't be recruited, simulating them, such as by the creation of "advocacy groups" that are often thinly disguised industry organizatio More About: Iraq , Party , Iraq War , Force , Message
Zen Traveler: Applause Of A Nation [del.icio.us]
2008-04-20 19:33:00 Down the escalator emerged a snaking line of tired looking uniformed soldiers and Marines...The applause started as a ripple and grew to a sustained, heavy crescendo as the hundreds of passengers in the terminal, US Customs agents, flight crews, and airpo More About: Nation , Applause
Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand - New York Times [de
2008-04-20 19:28:00 "Analysts...often got more airtime than network reporters, and they were not merely explaining the capabilities of Apache helicopters. They were framing how viewers ought to interpret events. What is more, while the analysts were in the news media, they w More About: Military , New York , York , New York Times , Times
The decline of newspapers - nothing to do with journalism 3
2008-04-20 01:05:00 More grist to the mill from one of my favourite reads, John Robinson. Here is Robinson, (who edits the News-Record in Greensboro, North Carolina) explaining why he missed a retired editor speaking about the good old days and proposing another old-fashioned remedy for the news industry’s ills: Doubling the size of reporting staffs would certainly serve the community. The more journalists reporting the good, the bad and the ugly, the better.But those are the effects of problems facing newspapers not the cause. While good journalism has not changed markedly since the 1990s, technology has.So has the audience. So have people’s habits.Not addressing those changes in discussions about journalism and newspapers is like talking about television as if there were still only three channels.Those changes: the economic distress faced by traditional newspaper advertisers such as department storesthe loss of classified revenuesthe splintering of the attentions and interests of the audiencethe... More About: Journalism , Newspapers
Our lonely planet, 3: ambient emotions [del.icio.us]
2008-04-19 21:51:00 "You can fill your life with vicarious pleasures, watching the actions of other people through a filter. It has the potential to unfurl our horizons, but also the potential to limit it massively." More About: Planet , Emotions , Ambient , Lonely , Lonely Planet
The Other McCain: Blue-collar TV news? [del.icio.us]
2008-04-19 21:02:00 "when Peter Smith (who is, in point of fact, an advertising executive) writes about "all those tax brackets between" journalists and the working class, he's propagating a dangerous myth." More About: News , Blue , Collar
ITV News: now edited by everyone
More articles from this author:2008-04-19 19:51:00 I understand that today is the day ITV News moves to a system where reporters edit their own TV packages.How can you tell someone new to video editing? Well, it’s always the sound that gives it away. That, and the going to black and flash frames.Having pioneered multi-skilling in TV newsrooms what would my thoughts be? Well, for one video editing has become a lot simpler. We’re not quite at the point where it’s no more complicated than word processing, but it’s getting there.For a well-resourced news programmes - on one level - it makes sense. But working to deadline, the ability of a number of people performing synchronously to outperform one individual is pretty much given. And, if you have a news channel, the economies of scale are pretty simple. Peter Horrocks is unlikely to view this move as giving ITV a competitive advantage in news.Still it is going ahead, and the real measure of any multi-skilling effort is the number of hold-outs. Which high profile correspondents m... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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