WNYC Radio crowdsourcing project
July 31, 2007
The Brian Lehrer Show on New York Public Radio, WNYC, is working on an interesting crowdsourcing project this week. Associate producer Jim Colgan tells CyberJournalist.net,” We’re asking our radio listeners to commit an act of journalism. We’re asking them to count the number of SUVs on their block, compared to the number of cars. It’s our first foray into the crowdsourcing, and what’s being called Pro-Am journalism. With all the talk of environmental sustainability in the city right now, we’re trying to find out just how many gas-guzzling SUVs are at our doorstep. We’ll look at the results of the assignment on our show later this week (Thursday), and look at what it means with an expert.”
Are you working on or have you completed an interesting crowdsourcing project? E-mail editor (at) cyberjournalist.net or submit it here.
Weekly World News drops print, goes web-only
July 31, 2007
The Weekly World News is closing its print edition and going web-only.
Killed LA Times column ends up online
July 31, 2007
After Los Angeles Times editors killed a column, it ended up on a local website, L.A. Observed.
The story was visited more than 18,000 times, and “many thousands” more subscribers had it sent to them electronically, Roderick said.
“A killed story used to be pretty much dead unless it got leaked to another newspaper,” Roderick said. “It’s very hard to keep secrets in a newsroom anymore.”
“They’re in the business of killing stories these days, not publishing them,” Steven den Beste, one of the Net’s first bloggers, wrote on Instapundit.com. “But they no longer have the ability to close the gate because thousands of bloggers have dug tunnels under the fence.”
MSNBC.com, NYTimes.com partner
July 31, 2007
As part of a new partnership between NBC and The New York Times, MSNBC.com and nytimes.com will share election-related content, with Times stories published on MSNBC.com and NBC video published on nytimes.com.
Note that MSNBC.com already has a partnership with washingtonpost.com, so now the site will have both Times and Post stories on it.
AP to close ‘Asap’ site in October
July 29, 2007
The Associated Press is shutting down its 2-year-old premium multimedia service aimed at youths, “asap,” because not enough news organizations subscribed to it to make it financially viable.
Online Journalism Awards screeners sought
July 29, 2007
The Online News Association is looking for screeners to help screen the first round of Online Journalism Award entries. The first 20 people to complete their screenings will get a free conference pass. You can register to be a screener here.
Gosh, we’re fat
July 27, 2007
This CNN obesity map is a really simple interactive graphic that nevertheless does a fantastic job illustrating how obesity has become pervasive in America over the past 20 years. A good example of how elements like maps and charts, with just a touch of interactivity, can be really effective in telling a story online.
Find more examples of excellent online journalism in the Great Work Gallery… and submit examples you’ve produced or seen here.
Journalists’ blogs list now a wiki: Add your blogs
July 26, 2007
CyberJournalist.net recently converted it’s famous list of journalists’ weblogs (both on news sites and independent ones) into a wiki so that you can update and add to the list yourself.
When CyberJournalist.net started the list 6 years ago, there weren’t that many news blogs to keep track of. Now it’s become virtually impossible to keep up, so hopefully you, our loyal readers, can help.
Check it out at http://wiki.cyberjournalist.net/jblogs and help grow the list!
New online media job board
July 26, 2007
Check out CyberJournalist.net’s updated and improved online media job board at jobs.cyberjournalist.net.
Post your open positions here.
Public Radio’s Social Media Experiments: Risk, Opportunity, Challenge
July 25, 2007
This report from the American University School of Communication Center for Social Media analyzes the results of a survey of public radio stations and highlights the successes and challenges of integrating new social media tools into the mission of public radio.