Guardian looks to bloggers to fill local news gap – Editors Weblog. Blogger applying for freelance position
12 Things Newspapers Should Do to Survive. Put web first and report from multiple platforms Nichify (go niche) Offer unique print content–”adding context to news that has been posted, shared and retweeted online.This also changes the roles of journalists quite a bit. Journalists be curators and contextualizers -currently newspapers own less than 1 percent of …
Image by Getty Images via Daylife To check this e-mail, we read the health care bill ourselves. Yes, it’s over 1,000 pages long, but that’s not as long as you might think: The document has large margins, so the text only takes up about one third of each page. We also read the bill’s legislative …
News Site Keeps Focus on Town’s Recession – NYTimes.com. 1.For the Elkhart Project, which is entering its fifth month, MSNBC.com assigns one staff member to Elkhart, Ind., at almost all times to ensure a regular output of blog posts, slide shows, videos and Twitter messages. In Elkhart, readers and viewers see the effects of job …
“I can imagine that would be a place that journalism could move towards and survive,” said Glass, suggesting a casual conversation would replace the medium’s more “stiff” formalities. Because Glass, you see, is one of the few in the media who doesn’t believe these are terrible times for the news industry. Instead, he said, “I …