Social media tools for journalists
Saw this tweet from Mark Hamilton: Great (exhaustive) list of social media tools for journalists, by@macloo Here’s the post: Best social media tools for journalists
Sat, February 18 2012 » Main Page, Media » 1 Comment
John Paton on Digital First
Managed to attend a Feb. 16 talk by Digital First CEO John Paton here in Toronto before an audience that had a number of news managers in it. Here’s my Storify summary.
Fri, February 17 2012 » Main Page, Media » No Comments
Touch screen? Passe. Meet the bendable phone
Wilf Dinnick posted a link to this video via his Twitter account. Watch and be amazed:
Sun, November 13 2011 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Ngramed yet?
If you’re a data visualization geek, you unquestionably have. Google Labs has released its Ngram Viewer. Succinctly put, it maps word or phrase use in books over time and plots it on graph (Read Google’s About Ngram page for details). In a way, it’s a more sophisticated version of Google Fight. :) An example from [...]
Mon, December 20 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Young journos: There’s a reason this vid went viral
I’ll be the last person in the world to post this (from multiple sources): I would suggest the cautionary aspects to this video, while hilarious, are quite true. But it does downplay the rewards of having a great job in the business — which can happen when you’re at a weekly newspaper, and not just [...]
Thu, December 16 2010 » Media, Minutiae, multimedia » Comments Off
Mark Zuckerberg speaks
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, subject of the recent movie The Social Network, granted an interview to CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday. I saw it by watching the video posted at TheNextWeb. The occasion of the interview was to mark the launch of Facebook’s redesigned profile page.
Sun, December 5 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Meet an entrepreneurial journalist
Steve Buttry of Washington’s TBD.com profiles Canadian Craig Silverman of Regret The Error fame — but also a man who has cobbled together a living wearing many hats simultaneously.
Sun, December 5 2010 » Main Page, Media » 4 Comments
Digital first. Then the newspaper
John Paton, CEO of the Journal Register Company (JRC), told the International Newsmedia Marketing Association that newspapers must develop digital-first strategies or suffer the consequences.
Thu, December 2 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Rye High j-students get Android-powered cellphones
From PBS MediaShift, by Ryerson School of Journalism instructor Wayne MacPhail, posted Nov. 29:
Thu, December 2 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
The news diamond
Saw David Akin point to this recently on Twitter: A 2007 blog post by British journalism educator Paul Bradshaw entitled A model for the 21st century newsroom: Pt1 – The news diamond.
Wed, December 1 2010 » Main Page, Media » 2 Comments