The 5th Estate: Citizen News

InvestigateWest receives $100,000 grant from Ethics & Excellence in Journalism | InvestigateWest

Barbara Iverson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:13:18 +0000

InvestigateWest receives $100,000 grant from Ethics & Excellence in Journalism | InvestigateWest.

Congratulations to the journalists of InvestigateWest who brought us this far — Robert McClure and Carol Smith, Kristen Millares Young and Daniel Lathrop. Nice job, everyone! And thanks to the many folks who have supported us out of the goodness of their hearts and wallets over this first 10 months of our lives. And to the good folks at the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation

Baffler - Serfing the Net

Barbara Iverson — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:34:35 +0000

Baffler - Serfing the Net.

Very interesting critique of “Free” models, that contrasts free as in beer with free as in liberty. It refers to the Open Video Conference in NYC.

Top 10 Tips and Tools for Freelancers – Freelancing – Lifehacker

Barbara Iverson — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:53:54 +0000

Top 10 Tips and Tools for Freelancers – Freelancing – Lifehacker.

News sourcing experiment to rely solely on Facebook, tweets

Barbara Iverson — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:51:07 +0000

News sourcing experiment to rely solely on Facebook, tweets.

An actual news experiment with comparison between covering news with Facebook and Twitter, and covering news traditional ways.

Open Letter From OK Go – OK Go

Barbara Iverson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:50:07 +0000

With or without this embedding problem, we'll never get 50 zillion views on a YouTube video again. That moment – the dawn of internet video – is gone. The internet isn’t as anarchic as it was then. Now there are Madison Avenue firms that specialize in “viral marketing” and the success of our videos is now taught in business school. But here's a secret: zillions of hits was never the point. We're a rock band, and it’s a great gig. Not just because we get to snort drugs off the Queen of England we do, but because the only thing we are expected to do is make cool stuff. We chase our craziest ideas for a living, and if sharing those ideas takes 40 websites instead of one, it doesn’t make too big a difference to us.

via Open Letter From OK Go – OK Go.

MediaPost Publications Why Conan O’Brien Can’t Go Just Internet — Yet 01/19/2010

Barbara Iverson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:38:21 +0000

: Image via Wikipedia

if Conan could get just as many people to engage with marketers through his online content, as might TRULY watch the commercials during a broadcast at the coveted 11:35 p.m. Monday to Friday time slot, he couldn't yet generate enough revenue to sustain the quality of his show. This is in spite of the fact that marketers who deliver their message to Conan's online audience could track “who is watching” with a greater level of detail of, and have greater tools with which to engage Conan's audience.

Think about this for a second. Even if Conan O'Brien could generate the same audience, with even greater levels of transparency and tools for engagement, he would generate orders of magnitude less revenue.

via MediaPost Publications Why Conan O’Brien Can’t Go Just Internet — Yet 01/19/2010.

What If Conan Said, ‘Bye, NBC. Hello, Internet’? (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
Chicagoans Rally For Conan (chicagoist.com)

Undoing the Industrial Revolution Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox

Barbara Iverson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:04:38 +0000

Undoing the Industrial Revolution Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox.

Poynter Online – Al’s Morning Meeting

Barbara Iverson — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:10:49 +0000

Poynter Online – Al’s Morning Meeting.

How a Former Local TV Anchor Started a Profitable Online News Site

Posted by Al Tompkins at 12:09 AM on Dec. 28, 2009 When my friend Rick Kupchella left his job as anchor and investigative reporter at KARE-TV in Minneapolis, many of us wondered what he was thinking. He left a long and successful career on TV to start an online news aggregation site. But in the process, Kupchella found a new love for journalism. He created jobs for others and Kupchella says he is making money.

Journalistics: 91 journalism blogs and websites (blogs.journalism.co.uk)
Charging for online news: applying game theory to the grand experiment (rossdawsonblog.com)
links for 2009-12-23 (contentious.com)

Poynter Online – Transformation Tracker

Barbara Iverson — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:46:51 +0000

Poynter Online – Transformation Tracker.

The Future of Nonprofit Journalism

Posted by David Shedden at 9:25 AM on Dec. 21, 2009 Latest links related to news organizations as nonprofits:

A Perception Issue
Jim Barnett, The NonProfit Road, Dec. 20, 2009
(See also: Nonprofits and Journalism: An Interview with Mark Jurkowitz
The Editors, The Nonprofit Qaurterly, Fall 2009)

The man who may supersize non-profit news, Part One (Past Two)
Alan D. Mutter, Reflections of a Newsosaur, Dec. 3, 2009
(See also: The pioneers who paved way for non-profit news
Steve Katz, Reflections of a Newsosaur, Dec. 7, 2009)

and many more….

Publishing Veteran Robert Merry Joins Intelligence Firm STRATFOR

Barbara Iverson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:20:23 +0000

Publishing Veteran Robert Merry Joins Intelligence Firm STRATFOR.