Newspaper websites need to improve their readability
“Most newspaper websites are doing a bad design job in making their stories readable.”
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How online sites faired in Pulitzer Prizes
“The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes included online-only news organizations “primarily dedicated to original news reporting and coverage of ongoing stories” for the first time — and the Awards got 65 entries from 37 different online-only entities. One primarily online organization, Politico, was a finalist — in Cartooning. The Awards cited Matt Wuerker of Politico for his engaging…
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“Blended reporting” for journalism online
“[T]he journalistic future I think we’re about to embark upon: that of free-agent professionals who are medium agnostic and can produce text, audio and video for just about any kind of media outlet, including one they individually control. Think of it as blended reporting.?”
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We dont own the news anymore
“This is the first of two reports from the International Symposium on Online Journalism. To get a more extensive look what was said at this weekend’s symposium, go to the the Online Journalism Symposium Blog at or look for tweets from the symposium at #isoj”
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It’s Not the News. It’s the Packaging
“Amid the news industry’s crisis and the attendant fingerpointing over the causes, there is seemingly endless discussion these days of the pros and cons of things like micropayments, pay walls, aggregators, Google and the like. “ Mark Potts reviews the debate over a sustainable business model for journalism online.
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“Not spin doctors,” says RCMP spokesman
Former RCMP spokesman Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre told a public inquiry he did “absolutely not” intentionally give the media inaccurate information following Robert Dziekanski’s death…
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rabble.ca on newspaper woes
Asked a forum organized by rabble.ca, “What’s wrong with our newspapers?” Answers from Peter C. Newman, Linda McQuaig and Wayne MacPhail included, respectively, “boring,” “corporate ownership,” and “anti-union intentions.” “The bad news about the news,” a report of the event by rabble.ca columnist Duncan Cameron, concludes with a call for community ownership.
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More bloggers than bartenders
In the United States, reports the Wall Street Journal, more people now blog for a living than program computers, fight fires or tend bar; there are now nearly as many bloggers as there are lawyers. And “s bloggers have increased in numbers, the number of journalists has significantly declined,” notes the WSJ. Excerpts: Less and…
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NYT massive loss
The New York Times Company reported a first-quarter loss of $74.5 million on Tuesday, compared with a loss of $335,000 in the period a year ago, as it joined the roster of newspaper companies recording the steepest advertising declines in generations, reported the newspaper. Gah.
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U.S. print journo jobs slashed at a record rate
U.S. newspapers hacked 5,900 jobs from their newsrooms last year, the largest round of print journalism job reductions since the American Society of News Editors started counting in 1978. The cuts, representing 11.3 per cent of the workforce, left about 46,700 journalists still working in U.S. newsrooms, down from a peak of 56,900 in 1990.