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Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, And The Desperate Need For Better Journalism

Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch Google, Newspapers, Future of Newspapers, The Future of News, News Corp Google Deal, Journalism, Online Media, Mathias Dopfner, Content Aggregators, Aggregated News, Web Journalism, Media News

The new paths to media success are still being charted, and much remains uncertain. But this much is clear: we can't use an analog map and expect to find our way in a digital world.

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But Does Twittering Really Sell Books?

Debbie Stier | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Marketing, Tumblr, Twitter, Gary Vaynerchuk, Ustream, Facebook, Wordpress, Online Media, Online Marketing, Personal Branding, Internet, Online Branding, Books, New Media, Crush It, Books News

Gary Vaynerchuk built his brand using these free tools (Facebook, Twitter, Ustream, Tumblr, etc.) and he used the tools that he wrote about in the book to succeed with the book itself.

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Purity, Integrity, Inspiration: Possible in 2009 News Online?

Sheila Shayon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Religion, Newspapers, Media, Online Media, News, Yellow Journalism, Journalism, Pulitzer Prize, Craig Newmark, Joseph Pulitzer, New York World, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Monitor, Media News

In 2009, the Christian Science Monitor, a 100 year-old news organization, became the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website.

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Let (WaPo) Reporters Really Tweet!

Matt Lewis | Posted 12.01.2009 | Technology

Read More: Washington Post, Twitter, Online Media, Technology News

...One can't help but see the imposition of Twitter "rules" as a step backwards for a media company seeking to compete in the new media world of the 21st century.

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Exciting Times For A 14-Year-Old Journalist

Scott Campbell | Posted 12.01.2009 | Technology

Read More: Sky News, Twitter, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Online Media, Technology News

Being a journalist in these times excites me. It's reporting the news as it happens, talking to everyday people with fascinating stories and seeing the media industry evolve and migrate before my eyes.

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Nerds, News and Neat Stuff

Jan Schaffer | Posted 12.01.2009 | Technology

Read More: New York Times, Sunlight Foundation, Propublica, Online Media, Knight-Batten-Awards-for-Innovations-in-Journalism, Technology News

Documents and data are becoming key ingredients for creating entry points into the news.

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The Pentagon Gives Us a Teachable, New Media Moment

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Web, Pentagon, New Media, New York Times, Online Media, Bloggers, Blogs, Newspapers, Afghanistan, Reporters, Iraq, Media News

The Pentagon plans to issue new restrictions that will make a serious attempt to restrict access to social networking sites.

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How Bing and Twitter Can Save Journalism

Maegan Carberry | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Twitter, Search Engines, Bing, Online Media, New Media, Search Engine Optimization, Journalism, Yahoo, Media News

The emergence of Bing and Twitter mark the first formidable competitors to Google, which until now has monopolized the market on search, and thus the diversity of thought in journalism's Internet era.

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An Experiment in Web Serialization

David Doody | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Online-Publication, Guernica-Magazine, Indigest Magazine, Online Media, Media News

The approach to getting his novel into the world is an experiment in web serialization. Scanlon has brought on board 42 web sites to publish Forecast in twice-weekly installments.

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How We Got Here and How We Get Out of Here

Kenneth Lerer | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Ken Lerer, Future of Journalism, Print Journalism, Online Media, New Media, Printing Press, Web Journalism, Columbia Journalism School, Journalism, Online Journalism, Media News

Journalism isn't in jeopardy; it's just in another transition to a new and better place. And as long as the public puts a premium on quality information and analysis -- and the public always will -- journalism will thrive.

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Does Information Want to Be Paid For?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Online, Content Aggregators, Online Media, Print Journalims, Media News

The old news media believes that all of the stuff it's been giving away for free for a decade or more it ought now get the reader to shell out for.

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Why We Need the New York Times

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Newspapers, Media, Online Media, Online Journalism, Journalism, Alec Baldwin, Media News

People are saying the newspaper model as we know it is in its death throes. Papers will fold or go digital. The Times will survive only online. I hope this is not true, now more than ever.

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All the Blogging That's Fit to Print

Michael Boland | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Boland, Internet, Newspapers, Online Media, Online Advertising, Blogging, The Kelsey Group, Newspaper Industry, Media News

Blogs, in their timeliness, tone and quality are quite fitting (indeed, a product) of their medium. How will they play on the printed page?

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Why Old Media Can't Deny New Media

Ari Herzog | Posted 02.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Janis Krums, Television, Newspapers, Twitter, Online Media, US Airways Crash, New Media, Aviation, Media News, Journalism, The Internet, Us Airways Hudson River, US Airways Plane Crashes, US Airways Crash Photos, Plane Crash Hudson River, Hudson River, Plane Crash in Hudson River, Old Media, Iphone, Internet, New Jersey, Old Media Death Watch, Hudson River Plane Crash, Technology, Hudson River Crash, Citizen Journalists, Old Media vs. New Media, US Airways, Citizen Journalism, Tweets, Plane in Hudson River, Portland Oregon, Media News

Twitter is a subset of new media. Your evening news and morning papers aren't quite there, lacking internet technologies, commenting, and synchronous interactivity.

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Ready or Not: Obama Transition Team Publishes Reproductive Health Community's Agenda

Emily Douglas | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heather Mills, Transition, Obama Transition, Unfpa, Prevention First Act, Online Media, Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Health, Politics News

Dozens of transition documents drafted for the transition team by advocacy groups... are now up on the change.gov website.

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