Whose photo is it? Boston.com runs a Getty Images picture from the Beijing Olympics on its The Big Picture. Pass it on. Update: WSJ’s photo blog, which went hiding following the flap, has been renamed Photo Journal and can be found with difficulty. Director of Photography Jack Van Antwerp Director of Photography offered an explanation, […]
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.
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?
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 […]