McClatchy to Feed News to Yahoo
March 29, 2007
McClatchy Co., the nation’s third largest newspaper publisher, will begin providing international news coverage and commentary to Yahoo. McClatchy will provide news from four international bureaus — Baghdad, Cairo, Jerusalem and Beijing. Many of the stories will also appear in McClatchy’s newspapers as well as their Web sites. McClatchy’s correspondents also will provide exclusive information and commentary to Yahoo for blogs.
Howard Weaver, Vice President, News, The McClatchy Co., says, “Called “Trusted Voices,” we’ll encourage them to color outside the lines of traditional journalism in their blogs, offering readers a boots-on-the-ground perspective from the Arab street in Egypt or the increasingly crowded slopes of Everest (to name two of their recent datelines). Maybe Hannah Allam will provide a list of the Egyptian websites or blogs she finds most useful in understanding politics there; Dion Nissenbaum might help you unravel the political connections of those Israeli newspapers you always hear quoted. Tim Johnson, who covers China and Asia from Beijing, could offer insight into obstacles facing people thinking about going for the Olympics in 2008.”
How to win a multimedia contest
March 29, 2007
Great video from Richard Koci Hernandez, on his wonderful site, MultimediaShooter.
Breaking the News: Behind the scenes at Channel 4, UK
March 28, 2007
Breaking the News offers exclusive behind the scenes video of a day in the life of Channel 4 News and a unique opportunity to make your own version of the news using real rushes (raw footage) from ITN in an easy to use online editing suite. Breaking the News includes video masterclasses from Channel 4 News journalists, and an engaging online media literacy course.
Online news design - awful or brilliant?
March 28, 2007
News Organizations Forge New Relationships with Communities
March 28, 2007
A new report from the Center for Citizen Media looks at the first generation of traditional-media innovators in community engagement online. It includes nice profiles of a number of citizen journalism ventures.
Is there a role for newsweeklies online?
March 27, 2007
Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham, who says his Web site roughly equates to a daily paper and the print edition to a Sunday paper, uses an assembly-line analogy to describe the shifting place of weekly newsmagazines in the media pantheon over the last two decades: “What’s happening now is that headlines are delivered by the Web. That has pushed newspapers to become more like the newsmagazines were in ‘82, and it’s pushed the newsmagazines to produce a monthly-quality product on a weekly basis, and it’s pushed the monthlies into the place of the great quarterlies, and now the quarterlies have become books.”
Knight Citizen News Network Launches
March 27, 2007
The Knight Citizen News Network, a free web portal to help both citizens and journalists create and responsibly operate community news sites, launched today with an array of learning and resource modules contributed by a network of participants.
Among the site’s initial offerings are:
• A unique database of U.S. citizen media sites, searchable by keyword, town or state and displayed on a Google map.
• A “Things We Like” feature, starting with more than 20 cool ideas from sites around the country.
• An interactive overview of the “Principles of Citizen Journalism,” with more than 40 audio and video interviews and scores of resources.
• The latest citizen media research.
• Mini case studies on how to train citizen journalists.
• A list of resources to jumpstart reporting.
News Organizations Forge New Relationships with Communities
March 27, 2007
A new report from the Center for Citizen Media looks at the first generation of traditional-media innovators in community engagement online. It includes nice profiles of a number of citizen journalism ventures.
New tools help TV newsrooms go multi-platform
March 26, 2007
From Broadcasting & Cable:
As newsrooms’ head count remains the same, or even declines, automation, editing and graphics vendors are taking on stations’ challenge. They are offering an array of software-based tools that streamline many facets of the news-production chain.
Typetester
March 26, 2007