The academy for journalists in St. Pete plans to unveil its redesign, nine months in the making, later this week. Cleaner, yet still busy, the site changes to more horizontal navigation and provides access to Romenesko from all pages. It looks like Poynter has also added personalization tools. Online director Bill Mitchell describes the changes […]
And you thought editors are jerks. ValleyWag celebrates the ten terrible tyrants of technology. Somehow Oracle’s Larry Ellison was left offt. But the Michael Arrington video makes up for it. Dale PeskinDale is co-founder emeritus of We Media. www.wemedia.com
Years after the rest of of us knew it, New York Times literary critic Michiko Kakutani coronates Jon Stewart as “a genuine cultural and political force.” The three-page spread, nearly literary in scope, acknowledges the fake anchorman and his satirical The Daily Show as an important news source. Stop the presses. “Is This The Most […]
Making Online News, a scholarly and serious new book, claims that “the more relevant bloggers become in terms of audience and influence, the more their production routines resemble those of professional journalists.” Where’s the fun in that? Dale PeskinDale is co-founder emeritus of We Media. www.wemedia.com
Meet TAMi, an index that measures audience across media platforms. NBC unveiled the index yesterday to tout the reach of its Olympics coverage on seven television networks, the Internet (computers and cellphones), and video-on-demand downloads. An acronym for Total Audience Measurement Index, TAMi measures cross-platform viewing and combines data from existing trackers such as Nielsen […]
Days into Olympics coverage, NBC continues to wrestle with unexpected competition. The network paid $894 million for exclusive rights to broadcast what is becoming the first Summer Games of the broadband era. Viewership is off the charts, nearly a 40 percent share. Traffic to NBCOlympics.com has already surpassed the 229 million pageviews from the entire […]
Amid whispers that it will close or merge its stealth Washington operation, The Examiner chain of free-distribution newspapers (DC, Baltimore and San Francisco) is reaching out to the real people for content. Here’s the deal, a pitch for locals (not bloggers, mind you) to become “examiners“: “If you can write three concise, timely and relevant […]
Who can forget the front page of the New York Post about this time four years ago? You remember, the screaming headline that proclaimed Dick Gephardt as John Kerry’s choice for vice president. Turns out it that Kerry had actually picked John Edwards, the former presidential candidate who has been back in the news lately. […]
In what could lead to an online privacy Bill of Rights, several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers. The revelations came in response to a bipartisan inquiry by the House Energy and Commerce committee of how more than 30 net companies have gathered data to target customers through […]
Amid the conflict near the Black Sea, come new voices describing the situation on the ground. WordPress has a posted a page with blogs about South Ossetia. On Global Voices, several bloggers describe life in Tbilisi over the past few days. PRI’s The World has produced an excellent background page that explains the conflict in […]