Category Archives: multimedia

Online Journalism Blog: Ten ways journalism has changed in the last ten years (Blogger’s Cut)

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Great piece by Paul Bradshaw, from March 2008 - I particularly like this: "Most read, most commented, most emailed. Hits, pageviews and unique visitors. If you felt your editor’s news sense was as bad as his fashion sense, the measurability of the web gave you valuable ammunition; but if you thought Performance Related Pay was bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet."

New York Magazine: The Renegades at the New York ‘Times’

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A look at the Interactive Newsroom Technologies group, the New York Times' team of "journalists-slash-developer": "This team would “cut across all the desks,” providing a corrective to the maddening old system, in which each innovation required months for permissions and design. The new system elevated coders into full-fledged members of the Times—deputized to collaborate with reporters and editors, not merely to serve their needs."

Dave Lee: Regionals given a lifeline. It’s up to them to use it

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"Here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to take a screenshot of 4 key local news websites. Over the next few months, I’ll monitor any changes. I’ll see if the local press are rising to the challenge. I’ll stick my neck out a bit here and predict nothing will happen. The designs will stay the same. The production values of multimedia will not improve, and more job cuts will be announced."