Little more than a year ago Ray Hartley was blogging his experiences at the about-to-be-launched South African paper, The Times, of which he is editor. He is still blogging and has been joined by other staffers working in the paper’s integrated newsroom.
He reflects on the paper’s first year in an interview at RAP21, African press [...]
I am rather sorry that Craig Stoltz has stepped back since posting his simple proposition — “At a time when newspapers must reinvent themselves as New Media, it’s an ideal moment to do away with bylines” — a week ago.
The Washington Post man has added lots of explanation to his original post and produced a [...]
With reports that the New York Times is to pull down the pay wall surrounding its op-ed columnists, and suggestions Murdoch will head towards all free content at the Wall Street Journal, the question is whether the idea of paid text content is dying.
Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 argues that it is. The web and [...]
Archant, the regional newspaper group based in Norwich, may have arrived at a better approach to managing change in the industry than its rivals. It has been steadily developing and buying magazines which in general circulate in the same areas as their newspapers.
The half-year figures show modest increases in both turnover and operating profit. John [...]
Storytelling did not escape Mindy McAdams as she learned to be a video journalist at a boot camp. Her 1 minute 30 second look at an El Salvadorian restaurant in Washington DC provided a cameo of immigrant life in the city.
Although I have never been to south or central America I [...]
Digital editions will never be an important revenue stream according to Neil Thurman of the journalism department at City University in an article on paid content strategies (pre-print version) published in Journalism Practice.
Thurman, a colleague of mine when I worked at City, and his co-author Jack Herbert, of Cambridge Publishers, say there is [...]
The Telegraph has launched a breaking news blog with the aim of rapidly updating developing breaking news stories, according to journalism.co.uk. I took a look at it today and the mystery is, why are they doing it?
Marcus Warren, the Telegraph site editor, is quoted by journalism.co.uk as saying the Making News blog [...]
Jeff Jarvis makes a compelling argument for a rethink of home pages on media websites. Fewer than one person in five now lands on the home page, most arriving directly at story pages through search or other links, he says.
Ironically, having read his column in the Guardian, the easiest way to find [...]
I haven’t been able to find a copy of the new-look Press Gazette yet, so no comment on that. The website has been spruced up too and looks good with clear navigation, but still lacking full content online.
Of course, with an audience that universally has access to the web they need to [...]
The most exciting news in journalism eduction for a long time comes from the Medill j-school at Northwestern University which has got $600,000 from the Knight Foundation for scholarships to attract people with computer programming and development skills.
"Putting the geek into journalism" is how Alfred Hermida neatly put its. He writes:
The idea came [...]
