Ken Sands, online publisher for the Spokane Spokesman-Review, is feeling good about one of the paper’s editorial bloggers. Sands is a good person to listen to; he is a long-time public journalist, who has gotten his paper deeply involved in the digital revolution. Indeed, it recently received the prestigous Online News Association Award for General [...]
Australian IT quotes Gaurdian Newspaper official telling a World Association of Newspapers meeting in Madrid:
“We are getting the whole organisation ready for a digital future,” said Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing at Guardian Newspapers, whose Guardian Unlimited site is by far the most popular British newspaper online site, ahead of The Sun, The Times [...]
This from the Seattle Post Intelligencer:
Newsvine Inc. is looking to transform the way people write, edit and consume online news — a tall order given that deep-pocketed companies such as Google, News Corp. and E.W. Scripps Co. are trying to do the same thing.
Backed with less than $5 million from Second Avenue Partners, the Seattle [...]
This from Ad Age:
Other companies have fired people for blogging, but IBM is encouraging it, said Christopher Barger, Big Blues unofficial blogger in chief.
The list offers simple, almost common-sense pointers, such as follow the IBM business code of conduct; respect copyright laws; and dont reveal proprietary information. The company now has 15,000 registrants on [...]
The Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is sponsoring an open discussion on “What’s Next for Newspaper?”, and what’s going to happen to journalism education.
Here is the discussion introduction:
Once upon a time newspapers held a central place in the civic and social lives of their communities. [...]
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Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.