“Perhaps it’s a bit cliché for a panel about the future of news to discuss how humans and computers will interact, but the good news is that the future of journalism includes humans. The tricky part will be figuring out how to pay for them.”
“Last night I chaired a debate at the Frontline Club on the future of regional journalism, with panellists Roy Greenslade (The Guardian), Keith Sutton (former editor of the Carlisle News & Star, Jon Slattery (former deputy editor of Press Gazette and William Yarker (media director of Deloitte)”
“Dwayne Spradlin is CEO of InnoCentive, a company which has been building and managing crowdsourcing platforms since 2001. I asked him what news organisations could learn from InnoCentive’s experiences:”
The New York Times has launched its “Global Edition,” combining the international reporting of the Times and the International Herald Tribune to provide a “24/7 flow of geopolitical, business, sports and fashion coverage from a distinctly global perspective.” But, but, but … I thought that was the purpose of the IHT? Indeed it was —…
Thanks to Reportr.net for sharing a classroom discussion. “The director of CBC Radio 3, Steve Pratt, spoke to my students taking the first-year undergraduate stream in New Media and Society at the University of British Columbia, about the station’s multiplatform media strategy.”
The Tyee asks: “Could New Breed of ‘Low Profit’ Firms Save Our News Media?” A story considers whether hybrid ownership models, now operating in US and UK using charitable and private capital, might work in Canada.
“More cuts this week, this time nine employees in the Kingston Whig Standard’s production department.”
“Three Sault Star vets with over 50 years of experience combined have been pink-slipped, their pre-press jobs being moved to the regional centre in Barrie, says a tipster.”
The Vancouver police department formally apologized to the Province newspaper for “retaining the camera belonging to their photographer Jason Payne for longer than we should have,” Chief Constable Jim Chu told a news conference….
“HometownTimes.com, a national online news and community publications franchisor, launched 513 local online newspapers across the United States back in January.”