The Twitter breaking-news feed
November 25, 2007
Steve Outing has an interesting suggestion for how news sites might use Twitter:
Here’s what you do next time a BIG story hits: As you send your reporters out to cover the story, get them to post short bits of news (limited to 140 characters) to a Twitter feed that either you’ve set up for this story, or that you keep ready for significant breaking news. With reporters filing short bits from their cell phones, you’ll be able to offer your audience new information even faster than you could with a breaking-news blog. “Rescue crews just pulled a body out from under the 12th Street Bridge.” “Police are chasing an apparent suspect on foot near the downtown library.”
Feed this to your site and to subscribed cell phone alerts. Urge your readers to “follow” your breaking-news Twitter stream from their own Twitter accounts.
The Twitter breaking-news feed
November 25, 2007
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November 21, 2007
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BBC News reorganizes into multimedia newsroom
November 15, 2007
BBC News has reorganized its news division into a “multimedia newsroom” that combines radio, TV and online.
Beat reporting with a social network
November 14, 2007
Jay Rosen has initiated an interesting experiment in which he’s recruited 12 news organizations to particpate in a social network beat reporting experiment.
He says:
Maybe a beat reporter could do a way better job if there was a “live” social network connected to the beat, made up of people who know the territory the beat covers, and want the reporting on that beat to be better.
Court TV to Move Web Content to CNN
November 14, 2007
Court TV will be eliminating 16 Web staffers and shifting all digital trial content to CNN.com, as part of a larger strategy that includes rebranding the network as truTV and the site as truTV.com, MediaWeek reports.
Tips from viral web greats
November 14, 2007
Lee Gomes interviews some of the folks who have created some of the most popular viral videos online to see what advice they have on how to make successful video online:
“The Internet moves very fast,” says Gary “Numa Numa” Brolsma. “Your video has to be funny, or get to the point, very quickly. People are clicking all the time. If you don’t hook people in the first 15 seconds, they’ll move on.”
Journalism jobs
November 14, 2007
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Wall St. Journal to Make Web Site Free, Murdoch says
November 14, 2007
Update: After reports Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the News Corporation, says he expects to make access to The Wall Street Journal’s Web site free, a top Dow Jones executive told Editor and Publisher the comments were premature.
New York Times adjusts article update policy
November 14, 2007
In response to complaints that information in old New York Times articles that is wrong, incomplete or embarrassing is getting attention in search engine results, The Times has adjusted its policy.