Slate‘s Jack Shafer thinks America’s Pulitzer Prizes — announced today — are mere “industry peacockery.” Shafer says Joseph Pulitzer was “one of the inventors of yellow journalism,” and today’s prizes are too narrow: “Even the Academy Awards are more ecumenical than the Pulitzers, honoring foreign films, short subjects, technical achievement, animated features, and even the…
A new Canadian organization is putting a spotlight on the physical and emotional safety of journalists. It’s aiming to change some traditional thinking in newsrooms across the country, writes Cliff Lonsdale, and to give support to the freelancers many news organizations will rely on more heavily in hard economic times.
Freelancers have won the right to be heard before the Quebec Superior Court in their ongoing battle for compensation for republishing articles online. It’s been 12 years since the Electronic Rights Defence Committee began their class action lawsuit. Tanya Gulliver’s article Rights and rates: an ongoing battle for freelancers is a good source of background…
“ The narrative in the news business in India couldn’t be more different. Only 60% of the Indian population is literate, about half of the literate population reads newspapers, and the penetration of English language newspapers is in single digits. The Indian economy has been growing at a brisk rate, and the global financial crisis…
A solid synopsis of a speech given by New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen on the future of journalism. “In his talk he focused on the “crisis of the press”. He first talked about the problems that the old press media is facing today and he summed it up very nicely in three words…
Here are a few more articles about the Journalism Online venture. Steve Brill to save journalism The UK Guardian
Great little “how-to” article on using public voting records in an effective manner.
“My dream is to have a citizen journalism group like this in every community,” he told me recently. “And a greater dream is that they would be linked. The web is such that there could be some really fascinating things done.”
“In an article on the Boston Phoenix’s Web site last week, Adam Reilly argued that The New York Times Company should retain its money-hemorrhaging property, the Boston Globe, and use it “as a guinea pig—in the best possible sense of the term—for all the bold innovations it might be pondering for the Times, but isn’t…
This is a different analysis of journalism from a digital marketing expert. “A lot of the discussion around the future of journalism has to do with business models and money. But is there more to the discussion of business models than how to generate revenue? Is it possible that the product of journalism needs to…