worldspy - 25.05.12 00:02 USA Today
USA Today reporter Tom Vanden Brook and editor Ray Locker both had complained of a number of fake online presences created in their names — fake websites, Facebook and Twitter accounts, a Wikipedia entry and “dozens of message… Read more mehr bei poynter.org

worldspy - 08.11.11 15:42 Jeff Sonderman offers a suggestion for journalists using Twitter to retweet thought-provoking comments without appearing biased - the "neutral retweet."∞ Permalink mehr bei poynter.org

KMR - 22.09.11 22:04 News organizations whose mobile apps only provide users with their articles or videos are missing a big opportunity.

An application, by definition, should be applied to perform a task, to solve a problem. Most news doesn’t do that.

Rather than just feed readers recent stories you wrote about their problems, apps can provide tools and data... mehr bei poynter.org

KMR - 17.08.11 19:33 Some might wonder why anyone would pay to read the Times online, since it’s so easy to get it for free. Readers can view up to 20 articles a month before being asked to subscribe. They can also view any article they arrive at through search results or a social network. mehr bei poynter.org

KMR - 10.05.11 15:32 When Steve Kroft interviewed President Obama last week about the raid on Osama bin Laden’s headquarters in Pakistan, the “60 Minutes” veteran violated many of the guidelines that we teach about how to conduct an interview. And it worked.

Why? Kroft kept the questions short and constantly mixed up the types of questions he asked to alternately... mehr bei poynter.org

KMR - 26.04.11 22:50 So far those opportunities have gone largely unexploited as media companies try to figure out exactly what tablets are good for. As I noted last month, most of the U.S. newspaper apps to launch recently on the iPad are replica editions — basically PDFs of the printed product. mehr bei poynter.org

KMR - 17.03.11 13:35 Longtime Post investigative reporter Sari Horwitz was suspended for three months for plagiarizing Arizona Republic stories about the Tucson shootings. She says: “Under the pressure of tight deadlines, I did something I have never done in my entire career. I used another newspaper’s work as if it were my own. It was wrong. It was inexcusable.” mehr bei poynter.org

KMR - 22.02.11 07:56 When I first started on the BeatBlogging.org project almost three years ago, very few journalists and news organizations were using social media. In fact, you were considered kind of strange if you used social media. Now, it’s strange if a news organization or a journalist doesn’t use it. mehr bei poynter.org

KMR - 09.08.10 14:23
Newsstand sales have been in sharp decline in recent years -- falling 27 percent from more than 71,000 in 2008, reports Jeremy Peters. He notes that 45 percent of Economist subscribers are customers for six months or less.


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KMR - 24.06.10 15:34
If you are like me and see the great paid-content-business-model-search as 18 months of throat clearing so far, you may have noticed that the harrumphs have gotten longer and louder lately. Two related events in the last several weeks signal that the pace is picking up, and bigger experiments by bigger players may at last be ready for rollout.
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