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"D. Xavier Medina Vidal has just completed a dissertation at University of California at Riverside..."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:30:50 -0500

“D. Xavier Medina Vidal has just completed a dissertation at University of California at Riverside titled Voces del Capitolio: Spanish-Language Media in the Statehouse. It is a fascinating look at Spanish language media, political communication and electoral politics. Highlights from the findings include: Spanish-language media in the United States play a critical role in shaping perceptions of public opinion among Latino voters and public officials of every ethnicity across the country. They also play a far greater advocacy role for the communities they serve than do their English-language counterparts. They also keep their readers informed about how the political system works and cover issues that are important to their readers that English-language media are not covering. They also have a better sense of Latino public opinion and help shape public policy on issues that are important to Latinos.”

- Spanish-Language Media Help Shape Public Policy » Hispanic Market Info

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Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:24:31 -0500

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"The unpalatable truth is scalability online doesn’t require journalism any more. Social media..."

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:14:26 -0500

“The unpalatable truth is scalability online doesn’t require journalism any more. Social media websites built vast scalability rapidly, and are now increasingly profitable, without journalism. Yes, journalism built scalability on the Web, but without profitability, because journalism no longer matters to the economics of publishing to the Web. That’s the other thing everybody hates to acknowledge.”

- Free news, paywalls and the slow death of media - Rupert Murdoch, pricing, online news, newspapers, News Corp. - CIO (via mediafuturist)

Alex Leo: News Technology Tweeters: Help

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:16:12 -0500

Alex Leo: News Technology Tweeters: Help:

alexleo:

I spoke at an event for college student interested in media today and they asked me who they should follow on Twitter to stay informed about news technology. Here’s my list, who am I missing? (I always leave really obvious people off lists so any advice would be appreciated.)

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smarterplanet: PhoneGap 1.0 Launches Today |...

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:12:41 -0400

smarterplanet:

PhoneGap 1.0 Launches Today | ReadWriteWeb

PhoneGap, the open source mobile developement framework that allows mobile developers build apps using Web standards, is launching today into version 1.0. This is a milestone release for the platform, which now adds additional APIs, features and improvements in its newly updated product.

Lauren McCullough: Breaking News: A New Opportunity

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:39:55 -0400

Lauren McCullough: Breaking News: A New Opportunity:

lfmccullough:

Sharing some personal news:

I’m excited to announce that I will be joining the Breaking News team at MSNBC.com. Breaking News is at the forefront of digital journalism, using social media and the crowd to curate and share real-time information.

Tom Brew, Cory Bergman and …

emergentfutures: LinkedIn becomes second largest social network...

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:34:01 -0400

emergentfutures:

LinkedIn becomes second largest social network in US

Paul Higgins: While we may quibble at the edges about whether the number of visitors defines the size of a social network this is certainly strong development. I am certainly using LinkedIn more as a social network and they are getting much better at identifying and showing me connections in a non pushy way.

LinkedIn leapfrogged Myspace in June to become the second-largest social network in the United States in terms of traffic behind Facebook, tracking firm comScore reported.

LinkedIn had 33.9 million unique US visitors in June compared with 33.5 million for Myspace, which was sold last week by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

Twitter was next with 30.6 million unique US visitors in June, comScore said.

Facebook was the runaway leader with 160.9 million unique US visitors during the month, according to comScore.

Full Story NZ Herald

Thanks to @nzchook aka Mark Fowler for the link

"And today social media curation crosses another key threshold: market leading curation and..."

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:30:12 -0400

“And today social media curation crosses another key threshold: market leading curation and publishing tool Storify now supports Dave Winer’s original protocol for publishing content to blogs. Storify will now use XML-RPC to push permanent, search engine-friendly HTML along with dynamic Javascript to blogs built on WordPress.com, WordPress.org, Tumblr, Posterous and Drupal. Social media curation has grown up and is becoming a first class citizen of the open Web, just like blogging.”

- Twitter Curation Grows Up: Storify Becomes Blog & SEO Friendly

"MIT’s recent Civic Media Conference and the latest batch of Knight News Challenge winners made..."

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:20:22 -0400

“MIT’s recent Civic Media Conference and the latest batch of Knight News Challenge winners made one reality crystal clear: as a new era of technology-fueled transparency, innovation and open government dawns, it won’t depend on any single CIO or federal program. It will be driven by a distributed community of media, nonprofits, academics and civic advocates focused on better outcomes, more informed communities and the new news, whatever form it is delivered in”

- Data journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack - O’Reilly Radar

futurejournalismproject: Facebook Vs. Google: Oh It’s On! Via...

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:06:02 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

Facebook Vs. Google: Oh It’s On!

Via VizWorld.

Photo

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:04:55 -0400

Future Journalism Project: Is TMZ the Future of News

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:04:00 -0400

Future Journalism Project: Is TMZ the Future of News:

futurejournalismproject:

If TMZ focused on any other category but celebrity gossip, I imagine its leader Harvey Levin would be an even bigger emblem of digital brand building than Arianna Huffington. This is one of the most amazing trajectories I have seen in the perennial (usually elusive) pursuit of digital…

"he fourth class of Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Fellows will pursue innovation and entrepreneurship..."

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:35:18 -0400

“he fourth class of Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Fellows will pursue innovation and entrepreneurship in start-up journalism, new online revenue opportunities, research to improve the design and delivery of news, and networking to more quickly and efficiently share innovation in journalism.”

- 2011-2012 Donald W. Reynolds Fellows announced | RJI

fuckyeahmenfolk: socialismartnature: Homeless man gets 15-year...

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:29:08 -0400

fuckyeahmenfolk:

socialismartnature:

Homeless man gets 15-year sentence for stealing $100 from a bank.
Ex-mortgage CEO gets 3-year sentence for stealing $3 billion from the people.

There is no justice for workers in a capitalist system.

Disgusting.

"An explosion of online news sources in recent years has not produced a corresponding increase in..."

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:21:26 -0400

“An explosion of online news sources in recent years has not produced a corresponding increase in reporting, particularly quality local reporting, a federal study of the media has found. Coverage of state governments and municipalities has receded at such an alarming pace that it has left government with more power than ever to set the agenda and have assertions unchallenged, concluded the study, which is to be released on Thursday.”

- A Federal Study Finds That Local Reporting Has Waned - NYTimes.com

"A Primer on Deploying Google Analytics Printer-friendly versionPrinter-friendly version ..."

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:33:37 -0400

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A Primer on Deploying Google Analytics Printer-friendly versionPrinter-friendly version Send to friend PDF version Posted on June 07, 2011 Google Analytics (GA) can be a powerful tool for tracking the effectiveness of journalists to produce content for the widest audience possible online. At its most basic level, GA is a tool that provides statistics in near real-time on user engagement, the amount of time a visitor spends on a site, how many pages they viewed and where the visitor headed next. There are also advanced techniques that can expand upon these basic questions to expose journalists to detailed patterns of content consumption. There are a handful of approaches to placing Google’s tracking code on a site. For basic tracking, it can be as simple as pasting the Google provided tracking code into the

of the main template on all of the site pages. Depending upon the CMS that your site is built on, there are a number of modules and plug-ins that manage the placement of a basic tracking tag site wide. Fortunately, there are effective plug-ins/modules available for Drupal and Wordpress, that provide additional functionality for detailed tracking of a visitors engagement. For a few examples of deeper integration of GA, see the case studies for The Huffington Post and WNYC. How to properly deploy the Google Analytics tracking script in your template pages If you do not have one already, you’ll need to create a new Google Analytics account. Once you’ve created a new profile for your site, you’ll be presented with a snippet of code that includes a unique Web Property ID specific to your account. The tracking code example below is similar to the one provided by Google. It uses Google’s asynchronous tracking code. An additional feature included in the example, not included in the standard snippet provided by Google, allows a site to track the time it takes for each page to load (which is a useful feature in trouble shooting site performance issues). The recommended placement for this snippet is right above the closing tag in the header of each page. Alternative methods of placement for the snippet can be found in this Asynchronous Tracking Usage Guide. Once the tag is properly placed on each page of the site, you should check the status of the account to verify that data is being received. You can check the status by clicking on “Analytics Settings” in the upper left corner of the Google Analytics page, then click the “Edit” link next to the profile for your site. On the Profile Settings page you’ll see a link to “(Check Status ?)” on the top/right side of the content block. In the event that the profile is not yet receiving data, that link should provide you with further information about how to resolve any issues. Annotations Using Google Analytics can be an effective way of recognizing when efforts to increase engagement and audience size have worked or failed. Google Analytics offers the ability to attach annotations to individual dates to keep track of any major changes you make to the site. This can be an extremely useful way to track the impact of design changes, content partnerships or the publishing of significant articles or posts. Insights The following is a short list of metrics that will be useful to keep track of on a consistent basis when evaluating the effectiveness of your web site: Traffic Sources > Referrals https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/referring_sources Tracking the changes in volume of traffic from different sources and social media efforts. (i.e. Are more or less people discovering our content from Facebook, Twitter, Google News?) Content > Content By Title https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/content_titles What were the most consumed articles during a given time? Visitors > Visitor Loyalty https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/loyalty How devoted is my audience to coming back to the web site and how often? Content > Content Drilldown > Navigation Summary https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/content_detail_navigation How did visitors find a specific page and where did they go when they left that page? Visitors > Maps Overlay https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/maps Where are my visitors geographically? Visitors > Browsers and OS https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/os_browsers What browsers and or mobile devices are my visitors using to read my content?”

- A Primer on Deploying Google Analytics | Investigative News Network

That pretty much sums it up

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:42:22 -0400

jessbennett:

Zoosk, the online dating site, asked 5,000 singles how they’d feel about receiving unexpected lewd photos.

61% of gals said “creepy”; 71% of dudes said “sexy.”

And there you have the difference between men and women.

"Even as legacy newsrooms thrash around and try to save the unsalvageable old model all the while..."

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:50:52 -0400

“Even as legacy newsrooms thrash around and try to save the unsalvageable old model all the while cloaking themselves in a false “digital first” strategy, there is all kinds of innovative thinking going on out there. And some of the most innovative — dare I say inspirational — thinkers are women. If you want to be inspired, look at Debbie Galant and Liz George of Baristanet, who have created a community news site that is both important to its community and profitable. Or spend some time listening to Tracy Record talk about the role West Seattle Blog plays in its community — and just as importantly, listen to other journalism entrepreneurs talk about the inspiration they draw from Tracy’s example. If it is accountability journalism that lights you up, then go get inspired by Rita Hibbard at Investigate West, whose passion for investigative reporting led her out of a legacy newsroom and into a role as journalism entrepreneur. If you want to get very smart very fast about technology and community-building, just spend an evening at a dinner table with Lisa Williams of Placeblogger and Susan Mernit of Oakland Local and listen to them talk about how they see community news and technology tools evolving in a million different ways. And if you want an inspiring vision of mission, partnership and collaboration, go hang at out at the St. Louis Beacon and watch editor and founder Margie Freivogel and general manager Nicole Hollway at work.”

- Looking for role models in all the wrong places |

Ha ahahahahaha…

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:31:09 -0400

Ha ahahahahaha…

Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men - Media - GOOD

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:27:44 -0400

Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men - Media - GOOD:

After watching this happen again and again, something occurred to me: Why don’t the white men who are asked to engage in this nonsense simply stop doing it? The boycott is a protest with a long history of success. If white, male elites started saying, “I will not participate in your panel, event, or article if it is all about white men,” chances are these panels and articles would quickly dry up—or become more diverse.

“I think it’s ridiculous that this kind of thing goes on in 2011,” says Wired magazine’s Spencer Ackerman, a white guy who’s often written about and asked to be on panels thanks to his vaunted national security reporting. “It’s especially bad when it happens in progressive media, which makes an effort—or at least pays lip service—to promote the idea that media diversity isn’t just an optional thing but a necessity.”

Asked what he thinks about a white-dude panel boycott, Ackerman said it makes sense. “It’s within our power and it’s up to us to say, ‘Why don’t you include my colleague who works on something similar, who has possibly more to say because they’re not listened to as frequently,’” he says. “And if we don’t do it, there’s no incentive for people organizing these things to think more critically about why it is they’re not including these diverse voices.”