Editors warned against complacency
May 31, 2005
At the World Association of Newspapers conference this week, the world’s biggest annual print media gathering, organized by the (WAN), speakers were upbeat about the prospects for print, but “cautioned against complacency, predicting that free papers, online news sites, and the spread of blogs and other non-mainstream news sources would put growing pressure on the readership of traditional newspapers,” BBC reports.
Online media salaries compare well
May 31, 2005
A media salary survey from MediaBistro.com says that “online/new media” professionals make a median salary of $60,000 in the Northeast and West and $53,000 in the South and Midwest — higher than most similar jobs in newspapers and broadcast media.
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Online news story life short
May 31, 2005
A team of U.S. and Hungarian scientists say the majority of online news stories have a lifetime of just 36 hours.
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Eyes on the Internet 2005
May 31, 2005
The Online Publishers Association is offering free sessions in eight cities designed to update executives in the advertising, marketing and publishing communities on the most recent research and trends in online media and marketing.
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latimes.com eyeing new story forms
May 31, 2005
New latimes.com General Manager Rob Barrett says the site has big plans for its Sunday opinion section online, working with the newspaper’s editorial page editor Michael Kinsley, who knows a lot about telling stories online from his years running Slate.
“To build a strong opinion magazine with Michael Kinsley, part of what we have been doing is talking with the USC game lab about coming up with new story-telling formats, and hopefully we will be producing things that no one has ever seen before online,” Barrett said.
KQED Digital Storytelling winners
May 31, 2005
Here are the winners of the KQED Digital Storytelling Initiative contest, open to high school students in the SF Bay Area. (via J.D. Lasica)
Memorial Day multimedia news packages from around the world
May 30, 2005
• Associated Press: Memorial Day History and Traditions, including clickable infographics, panoramic image of National Cemetary and more.
• washingtonpost.com: World War II remembered
• German TV broadcaster ZDF: A multimedia look at the new holocaust memorial in Berlin (in German). And a panoramic look at the memorial.
• El Mundo: A multimedia package about the end of WWII in Europe
Digital media round table notes
May 30, 2005
Hear are some notes from the “Digital Media Round Table” session at the 12th World Editors Forum, as reported by Robb Montgomery of the Chicago Sun-Times…
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Jeff Jarvis’ proudest moment
May 30, 2005
The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz profiles Jeff Jarvis. Jarvis says he recently told former FCC chairman Michael Powell that his proudest moment was when he used his Treo smartphone to blog news of the commission’s fine against Stern as he was about to begin choir practice. Powell, he says, “looked at me like I was nuts.”
Gillmor: Mainsteam, citizen journalists must learn from each other
May 29, 2005
In a speech Dan Gillmor has prepared for the World Editor’s Forum annual conference in Seoul this week, Gillmor says competition between mainstream mass media and with people in the emerging citizen journalism sphere can make all journalists better at what they do…. and offers some tips.
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