LA Times reporter ventures into ‘Girls Gone Wild’ world
Claire Hoffman of the LA Times has written an amazing piece on soft-core porn Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis. What is interesting about this story is that it is told heavily from Hoffman’s point...
View ArticleNYTimes reports on metrics mess
The New York Times has a must-read story about the discrepancies between publishers’ own data and the data put forth by firms such as Nielsen/NetRatings and ComScore. From the story: Online advertising...
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Knight News Challenge runner-ups announced
The Knight Foundation announced its list of best runner-ups for this year’s Knight News Challenge. Here, you’ll find proposals for community content management systems, initiatives to prevent...
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The case for using Twitter
Technology columnist and Sentinel coworker-o’-mine Etan Horowitz outlines on his blog how and why journalists should start using Twitter. Etan writes: “If you are a technology journalist, you need to...
View ArticleEPpy award finalists announced
Editor & Publisher has announced this year’s EPpy Award finalists. Mosey on over to the list to see some of the best online news has to offer. [Tip 'o the hat to Will Sullivan]
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Associated Press launches iPhone news service
From the Associated Press: The AP and more than 100 of its member newspapers are launching a service today that will make news stories available on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and other mobile devices. Among...
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List of crime maps is updated
Hey Journalistopians, just a quick heads up that the Journalistopia Crime Map Directory has been updated with a slew of new crime maps. A lot more folks are getting into the crime map act, including...
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Save Newspapers! Top 5 MacGyver Uses for Old Newspapers
With so many of my journalism colleagues out there facing layoffs, I though this might be a good time to highlight the many understated uses for newspapers. In the spirit of the ever-resourceful Angus...
View ArticleNot-to-miss Multimedia Training Workshop Coming to Miami
[UPDATE: There are actually six workshops taking place at the University of Miami. Check out BeyondBootcamp.org for the complete listings. (Thanks to RIck Beckman from UM for the heads up.)] The...
View ArticleReport: Women 55+ Facebook’s Fastest-Growing Demographic
From the Shaping The Newspaper Blog, sourced from a Morgan Stanley Research report: “To the surprise of many, Facebook in not just the privilege of tech-savvy kids – the college and post-college folks...
View Article25+ Useful Online Media Infographics [Webdesigner Depot]
Remember all of those awesome inforgraphics you’ve found across the internet? You know like the giant social media map or the subway map of Internet trends. They’re all compiled here. [Update 4-29:...
View ArticleKnight-Batten Award Winners Announced
The Knight-Batten Award winners have been announced, and Sunlight Live took the $10,000 grand prize for its experiment in providing real-time data context to the live health care reform hearings. Other...
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