The Changing Media Landscape: Articles worth noting, names to know, stats you need, etc.
This began as a constantly updated reading list for my Columbia students – ABOUT THIS LIST
= items especially worth noting.
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Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism School
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- Blogs every media pro should know
- Web 101: Understanding blogs, wikis, social networking, and mobile Internet
- Improve Your Web Life: New Sites, New Uses, New You
Also see links from “Figuring Out Blogs & Whatever’s Next”
Multimedia Journalism Examples
- InteractiveNarratives.org
- NYT multimedia section
- WashPost multimedia
- Cyberjournalist Great Work Gallery
- Guardian Unlimited interactives
- Nora Paul & Laura Ruel’s new OJR column on news site web design
- Teaching Online Journalism blog
by Mindy McAdams
Learning About New Media -
short courses you can take online
NewsU.org:
- Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling, Jane Ellen Stevens [FREE]
- Covering Breaking News, Online News Assn [FREE]
- Telling Stories with Sound, Andrew Devigal, NYTimes.com [FREE]
- Online Project Development, Part I & Part II, Online News Assn [FREE]
- Writing Headlines for the Web
Eric Ulken and Mike Castelvecchi of latimes.com [$19.95]
- Writing for the Web: Crash Course in Online Writing, Manoush Zomorodi [$15]
- Web 101: Understanding Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking, Mobile Internet, Sree Sreenivasan [$15]
- Blogs Every Professional Should Know, Sree Sreenivasan, [$29]
- How Online Video is Changing the Internet, Manoush Zomordi, [$15]
- Improve Your Web Life: New Sites, New Uses, New You, Sree Sreenivasan, [$29]
OJR’s “how-to” guides on online journalism
Presentations from TED Conference
Flash Greatest Hits
- Epic 2014 (Googlezon)
- JibJab > This Land > What We Call the News
- Flash Journalism examples from Mindy McAdams
- Iraq War Coalition Fatalities (Flash)
Writing for the Web
Most Popular
About Most E-mailed
- What Shamu Taught Us About Newspaper Readers by Candace Taylor, Columbia News Service, March 13, 2007
- #1 NYT e-mailed story of 2006: What Shamu Taught Me About A Happy Marriage
- Will You E-mail This Story?
by Steve Johnson
Chicago Tribune, July 28, 2006
(see update) - Come on, you know you want to e-mail it to your mom
by Joel Stein
LAT, July 25, 2006
How-Tos
- WashPost Uses Old & New Technologies to Beat Rivals on VT Shooting Story
by Erik Wemple, Washington City Paper, April 25, 2007 - Top 10 tips for newspapers to survive by Doc Searls, Oct. 5, 2006
- How to Turn Multimedia Clark Kents Into Superheroes by Emily Sweeney, E&P, Sept. 4, 2006
- An anonymous newspaper exec’s 17 sacred cows to be slaughtered
Romenesko, Nov. 6, 2006
Blogging
- New Gawker pay policy for paying its bloggers (memo)
- Articles for further reading about blogs and impact on media
- Best Blogging Newspapers (NYU study)
- BlogAds Survey of Blog Readers 2006
- NYT memo on need for more blog contributions
- Time mag memo on need for more web contributions
- Meanwhile, For Whom the Blog Tolls
BG piece by Steve Almond, Sept. 19, 2007 - Sree’s Figuring Out Blogs links
Convergence
Reports by Poynter faculty after visiting online newsrooms
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Breaking News Is Back in Style
But how precarious is the path toward convergence?
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Ten Toes in the Multimedia Waters
2006 is turning into the year of trying everything at once.
Citizen Media
- Amateur Hour: Journalism without Journalists
by Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, Aug. 6, 2006
Reax: Press Think’s Jay Rosen | RMN’s John Temple | Rebecca Mackinnon | Blogosphere reaction
- We Don’t Own The News Anymore, by Edward Wasserman, Miami Herald, Aug. 8, 2006
- Center for Citizen Media http://citmedia.org/
- Interlocals.net
Reax: Rebecca Mackinnon - PEJ Study of How the Public Think is News (Sept. 2007)
Social Media
- Moguls of New Media (includes list of “unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence.”
By John Jurgensen, WSJ A1, July 29, 2006 (behind WSJ pay wall)
Social Networking
- Facebook: What’s In It for Journalists? by Pat Walters, Poynter.org July 27, 2007
- ETP on Newsweek’s Facebook cover Aug. 13, 2007
- LinkedIn for Journalists
by Sree Sreenivasan, Poynter.org, Oct 2006 - How Facebook Profiles Can Help Publications, by Amy Gahran, Poynter.org, July 2007
Social Bookmarking – Digg/Del.icio.us
- A top Digger looks at Digg
by David Cohn, CJR, Jan/Feb. 2007 - How This Kid Made $60m in 18 Months by Sarah Lacy and Jessi Hempel, BusinessWeek, Aug. 14, 2006 | Reax
- Should Community-Edited News Sites Pay Top Editors?
PBS MediaShift, July 25, 2006 - Top 100 users control 56% of front page
SEOmoz blog, July 20, 2006
Reader Comments
- Newspapers Debate Newspaper Comments, by Travis Loller, AP, April 26, 2007
Credibility
- Credibility Chasm – increasing since 1998 by Allan D. Mutter
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The Media, In General
- Reinventing the Media Business
by John Warnock, a talk at Xerox PARC, Nov. 1, 2007
- NWU study of teens and online news
They find reading it stressful, Jan. 17, 2008
Newspapers
- E&P analyzes four years of circulation declines, by Jennifer Saba, March 11, 2008
- E&P stats about top 30 newspaper sites, Jan. 23, 2008
Paying for Newspaper Content
- Paid newspaper sites seem less likely as TimesSelect shuts down
E&P, Sept. 18, 2007
- Times Deselected
Jeff Jarvis, Sept. 17, 2007 - TimesSelect: Deselected
Kristen Francoz, Columbia Spectator, Oct. 11, 2007 (college senior)
- The notion of readers paying for news is now obsolescent
ContentBridge, Sept. 18, 2007 - Kara Swisher on Making WSJ.com Free
AllThingsD, Sept. 20, 2007
Length of Print Stories
- WP’s new story-length rules
Washington City Paper Feb. 2007 - NYT’s new story-length guidelines (and more from Bill Keller’s internal session) – Gawker, May 24, 2007
- LAT’s shorter stories – LAObserved, Oct. 1, 2007
Future of Newspapers
- Your Duty to Read the Paper by Roy Peter Clark, Poynter, Oct. 11, 2007
(“It is your duty as a journalist
and a citizen to read the newspaper — emphasis on paper, not pixels”…) | Reax - Can the Washington Post Survive? by Marc Gunther, Fortune, July 26, 2007
- Goodbye to Newspapers? by Russ Baker, NY Review of Book, July 16, 2007
- How Newspapers Can Thrive On the Web by Robin Miller, OJR, July 24, 2007
- Newspaper On Track to Lose $2B in Ads by Alan Mutter, Newsaur, May 28, 2007
- The Scarborough Newspaper Audience Report, April 2007 (PDF) – print, website ratings for 135 newspapers across 74 markets
- A Modest Proposal to Save the Newspaper Trade by Anya Kamenetz, Fast Company, April 2007
- US Newspapers Deliver Slower Growth by Robert MacMillan, Reuters, April 20, 2007
- Do Newspapers Have a Future? By Robert Kuttner, CJR, March/April 2007
Listen to a panel discussion (mp3) - Editors optimistic about future of print
ETP on results of worldwide survey, March 28, 2007 -
Words of Advice for Small Newspapers
by Steve Outing, Poynter
Jan. 2, 2006 - Who Killed The Newspaper? The Economist, Aug. 27, 2006 | associated editorial
Reax: John McNaughton | blogosphere - Are Newspapers Doomed?
by Joel Achenbach, WashPost.com’s Achenblog, Dec. 3, 2006
- Get Me Rewrite
by Michael Hirschon of VH1
Atlantic Monthly on the future of newspapers - Winning Online: A Manifesto by Tom Mohr, E&P, Sept. 4, 2006
- Web Use Overtakes Newspapers and Magazines in Europe by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, FT, Oct. 8, 2006
- They Wrap Fish, Don’t They?:Internet News Isn’t What It’s All Wrapped Up to Be by Robert X. Cringely, PBS, July 24, 2006
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Thoughts About the End Game for Newspapers in a Fully Digital Age
by Scott Donaton
Advertising Age, July 23, 2006
- Ellen Foley’s State Journal Her mission is to keep the paper relevant in an era of declining readership. How’s she doing?
By Jason Shepard, TheDailyPage.com, Sept. 12, 2006
- The Newspaper of the Future - profile of Lawrence, Kansas, newspaper, by Timothy O’Brien, NYT, June 26, 2005
- An industry task force:
NewspaperNext.org – from the American Press Institute - This Boring Headline Brought to You By Google by Steve Lohr, April 9, 2006
Inside the New York Times
- Q&A with NYT editors, including
- Fiona Spruill, NYTimes.com editor, Nov. 2007
- Bill Keller, executive editor, April 2006
- Jonathan Landman, deputy managing editor, April 2006
- Larry Ingrassia, business editor, May 2006
- Can Times Quality Be Preserved Online?
By Byron Calame, NYT,
Nov. 19, 2006
Magazines
- The Bivings Report: State of Magazines on the Internet
Nov. 3, 2006 - Mags Moving Online to Get Students to Read
by Julie - Magazines Moving to the Web to Get Students to Read
by Julie Bosman, NYT, Sept. 7, 2006
Conde Nast Moves Online by Katherine Seelye, NYT, April 3, 2006 - Blogger Dan Blank’s magazines category
- Videogame mags find audience moving online Electronic Gaming Business, March 2004
- NYT Mag scoops the NYT by Paul McLeary, CJRdaily.org, Aug. 7, 2006
Broadcast
LostRemote – Steve Safran & co
TVNewser – Brian Stelter
- Average Home Received 104.2 Channels; Watches only 15.7 – study by Nielsen Media Research, March 19, 2007
- Brian Ross: Foley Case a Watershed for ABC News by Mark Glaser, PBS MediaShift, October 2006
- Suddenly, Network Newscasts Want to Hear from You by Adam Buckman, New York Post, Aug. 11, 2006
- CNN’s Exchange and i-Report initiatives
Wikis/Wikipedia
- Know It All – Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise?
by Stacy Schiff, The New Yorker, July 31, 2006
Reax: blogosphere
Design
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An excellent free resource about all things dealing with visual journalism
Business Side of Things
- In the future, will all newspapers be free? by Brendan O’Neill, BBC, Sept. 5, 2006
- How Web Advertising Works from HowStuffWorks
- iWantMedia.com/layoffs 70,000+ jobs lost since June 2000
- “Web advertising” – latest news stories from Google News
Journalism Education
- A Professor’s Persective on Online
By Noah Davis, MediaBistro, Jan. 11, 2008 - The J-school Boom
By David Epstein, InsideHigherEd.com, July 24, 2006
- Jerry Ceppos, new dean at UNR wants to improve journalism
By Lenita Powers, Reno Gazette Journal, Feb. 5, 2008
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Video
- Q&A with Online Video Expert, Travis Fox of WashPost
by Al Tompkins, Poynter, March 14, 2007
Q&A with Travis Fox, by Sandeep Junnarkar, OJR, Sept. 14, 2006 - Will Video Kill the Audio Podcasting Star? Not Exactly by Mark Glaser, PBS MediaShift, March 21, 2007
- Network news shows make a comeback, thanks to the Web
by David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun, Aug. 10, 2007 - NBC study of online video viewing habits, Sept. 27, 2007
Top Videos
- Weekly top charts
- IncredibleVideos.net
- TheDailyTube.com (curated best-of)
YouTube
- YT hits 100m downloads a day – BBC, July 17, 2006
- #1 YouTube video of all time
- Google buys YouTube
AP story by Mark Liedtke
Google press release | Oct. 9, 2006 - The YouTube Effect – LAT Op-ed by Moises Naim, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy, Dec. 20, 2006
- YouTube’s Dark Side: it stifles creativity – by Nick Douglas, Slate, July 16, 2007 [ see chat transcript ]
Google/Yahoo
- Yahoo’s Consistency vs Google Wow Factor by Saul Hansell, NYT, July 24, 2006
Graphic of various rankings - Google News Archive Search
NYT | SF Chron - Defending Google News by Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service, May 23, 2007
- Sree’s Things You Didn’t Know Google Does
War Reporting
- Your Guide to Soldier Videos by Mark Glaser, PBS MediaShift, Aug. 1, 2006
- Iraq War Coalition Fatalities (Flash)
- TheMemoryHole.org & Dover coffins
- Photoshopgate
Roundups – Zombietime | Aish video
New Journalism Ventures
- A Sideline That Competes With a Byline, by David Carr, NYT, July 24, 2006 – journalists doing new things
- ShareSlueth.com – Mark Cuban money
- NewAssignment.net – Jay Rosen with Craig Newmark mone
- PaidContent.org – Rafat Ali
- Glam.com – Samir Arora
- Gigaom.com – Om Malik
- ThePolitico.com – ex-WashPost-ers | see launch analysis
Web 2.0 / Ajax / Mashups
- Go2Web20.net: directory of Web2.0 sites
- Funny video on Web 2.0
- Homo Conexus:A veteran technology commentator attempts to live entirely on Web 2.0 for two weeks
By James Fallows, MIT Technology Review, July 25, 2006
Reax: Rick Carr | Tim O’Reilly | JD Lasica - Is Web 2.0 a Bubble? A wsj.com debate – Dec. 27, 2006
- Mashups: Wikipedia entry | various gMaps mashups
- Flickr.com – photos
- Pando.com – send 1GB files
- Pandora.com – music genome project
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Stats Stats Stats
- InternetWorldStats.com
- Alexa top 500 sites by traffic + by country
- Pew & American Life internet trends
- David Sifry’s state of the blogosphere
- Technorati top 100 blogs
- Chris Anderson’s Mainstream Media Meltdown stats:
Aug. 2006 | Nov. 2005 | April 2005 - Online video stats & projections – eMarketer
- Newspaper circulation
2006: links to several stories - Magazine circulation down for first half of 2006
- Hitwise US News & Media Internet Usage for Week of May 5, 2007
(top 5 in order: Yahoo, Weather Channel, MSNBC, CNN, Google News) - E&P stats about top 30 newspaper sites, Jan. 23, 2008
- The Scarborough Newspaper Audience Report, April 2007 (PDF) – print, website ratings for 135 newspapers across 74 markets
- News online has longer shelf life – NYT, July 17, 2006
Reading List
- Romenesko – Poynter/Jim Romenesko
- MediaShift.org – PBS/Mark Glaser
- Cyberjournalist.net – Jon Dube
- PaidContent.org – Rafat Ali
- LostRemote – Steve Safran & co.
- iWantMedia.com – Patrick Phillip
all see Layoff Tracker - MediaBistro.com
- EditorandPublisher.com
- CJRDaily.org | CJR.org
- TVNewser – Brian Stelter
- BuzzMachine – Jeff Jarvis
- NewMediaMusings.com – JD Lasica
- Local media stories:
FishbowlNY | FishbowlDC | ValleyWag - Center for Internet & Society – Stanford
- iReporter.org – Amy Gahran & Adam Glenn
- Ganggrey.com – prolonging the slow death of newspapers
- Redesign – Rocky Agrawal
Names to Know – a work in progress – please send in your suggestions
- Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org
- Sergei Brin & Larry Page of Google
- Rob Curely of WashPost
- David Filo and Jerry Yang of Yahoo
- Dan Gillmor, Center for Citizen Media
- Adrian Holovaty, formerly of WP
- Chad Hurley & Steve Chen of YouTube
- Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine
- JD Lasica, blogger
- Rebecca Mackinnon of GlobalVoicesOnline
- Marissa Mayer of Google
- Walt Mossberg of WSJ
- Martin Neisenholtz of NYT
- Craig Newmark of his list
- David Pogue, NYT technology columnist
- Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit
- Jay Rosen, NewAssignment.net
- Jack Shafer of Slate
- Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone
- Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia
- Jacob Weisberg of Slate
- Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook
Who else? Send suggestions to sree@sree.net
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