paidContent:UK: Emap Will Raise The Paywall In Next Few Weeks
Sunday, 1 November 2009, 14:03
David Gilbertson: “We’re shifting the balance of the marketing message from, ‘this is a magazine and it has a website’ to ‘this is an information brand that delivers content across a range of media”.
McGuire on Media: Let’s not let Medill Innocence Project be another Hazelwood
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 18:38
"To attempt to redeem itself for its ignorance and sloth on [Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier], the mainstream press needs to rally to protect and defend the Medill Innocence Project."
Nieman Journalism Lab: Writing the novel, then the CliffsNotes
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 08:26
Gawker posts a bullet-point version of a 2,000-word piece: "the full story has generated 480,000 pageviews and 189 comments. But the CliffsNotes version has generated another 39,193 pageviews and 83 comments on its own … there’s real value in taking the longer pieces we journalists love to write — and defend — and creating parallel versions that less dedicated readers can more easily take in."
MetaFilter: How To Save Media
Monday, 19 October 2009, 12:45
List of common reasons a plan to Save Journalism may not work: a checklist. (via Boing Boing).
Wikipedia: Streisand effect
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:44
Already amended with references to Trafigura and Carter-Ruck: "The Streisand effect is an Internet phenomenon where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized. … Mike Masnick originally coined the term Streisand effect in reference to a 2003 incident where Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for US$50 million in an attempt to have the aerial photo of her house removed from the publicly available collection of 12,000 California coastline photographs, citing privacy concerns."
BBC News: When is a secret not a secret?
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:36
Nick Higham: "No injunction has been served on the BBC, but ever since the Spycatcher case in the 1980s, news organisations which knowingly breach an injunction served on others are in contempt of court – so the corporation too is bound by the Guardian injunction. But the lawyers in this case clearly reckoned without the blogosphere. In the anarchic, anything-goes world of the internet, where freedom of speech is a frequently heard rallying cry, injunctions banning publication of anything are unpopular. This one seems to have acted like a red rag to a bull."
One Man and His Blog: The Day Twitter Destroyed a Gagging Order
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:33
Adam Tinworth: "a disparate, disaggregated group of individuals were able to work out the basics of what happened, and use Twitter to make the gagging order meaningless. That was mass, connected journalism at its finest."
ZDNet UK: Twitter, Trafigura, trends and treason
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:31
Rupert Goodwins: "Over the past 24 hours, the news about the injunction and the injuncted material was more effectively distributed across the planet than any army of PR merchants and marketing gurus could have hoped to have achieved … It will be a while before the implications of the Trafigura affair are fully absorbed: if nothing else, it will make litigous parties think twice before issuing the sort of absolute injunctions which have been growing in popularity even as their powers to hide from scrutiny have increased. "
Telegraph: Trafigura tops list of Twitter trending topics
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:28
Hmm. I wonder why?
One Man and His Blog: On The Web, Social Media is Just Media
Monday, 12 October 2009, 20:06
Adam Tinworth: "It's only our blinkers from working in traditional media that allow us to see the web this way, as a social bit and a traditional publishing bit, but it's a fallacy. On the web, social media is media. The ability to share, comment, discuss and annotate to fundamental to the way publishing is developing on the internet, and we have to treat the new medium as what it is, not what some of us wish it was. … [From] its earliest days, the internet was a social medium: usenet, irc, BBSes, e-mail discussion lists and forums were all early ways of socialising the internet experience. We in the traditional media took a detour into shovelware websites that emulated our print products."
Wired UK: Imagining a future without journalists
Monday, 12 October 2009, 17:35
Peter Kirwan: "At its most basic, business journalism involves interpreting the dynamics of an industry. Yet if these shifting dynamics can be reduced to data points, and if those data points can be sold in digital format to subscribers, the value of external interpretation – and journalism – inevitably declines."
The Content Makers: Note to Reporters: Let MSM Control Your Social Network, and You Disappear
Monday, 12 October 2009, 10:50
Margaret Simons "I have some clear advice to journalists. Do not allow your employer to prevent you from having access to Twitter, Facebook and the like. Be very cautious indeed about signing anything that restricts your ability to network online. … We all know, as journalists, that our reputations are the foundations for our career. Our reputations belong to us, not our employers."
Observer: James Murdoch’s club offers few real plusses
Monday, 12 October 2009, 10:47
Peter Preston: "in print, singling out your devotees in this way also shucks off engaged readers who want to buy two or three different papers a day, as millions still do – or would do if they could be bothered to operate via the myriad different, and mutually exclusive, subscription schemes now sprouting. That hurts sales in the industry as a whole. It also introduces market rigidities that hamper what the trade calls 'promiscuous' purchase, usually sparked by a belting front page."
Guardian: Cancer jab fantasy closes down a debate
Saturday, 10 October 2009, 08:25
Ben Goldacre on the Express "Jab as deadlin as the cancer" story: "The article has now gone from the Express website, and Harper has complained to the Press Complaints Commission. 'I fully support the HPV vaccines,' she says. 'I believe that in general they are safe in most women. I told the Express all of this.'"
