Blog Profile / Reportr.net
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| Posts on Regator: | 563 | |
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| Archived Since: | March 20, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Why audiences read journalist blogs
Blogs have become part of the furniture of online news sites, with many journalists enthusiastically taking up blogging as part of their daily routine. The CMRC study on news habits and social media just released shows that a minority of Canadians, 21 per cent, say they read or follow particular journalists online, through blogs or social networks. But the [...]
Who trusts social media to get the news?
One of the questions that came out of the CMRC report on social media and the news was about the reliability of social networks as a news source. Our study, Social Networks Transforming How Canadians Get the News (PDF), found that 71 per cent of Canadians who use social networks - more than 10 million people - value them [...]
Social media transforming how people get the news
The third in the CMRC’s series of reports on the news landscape in Canada reveals the dramatic impact that Facebook, Twitter and other social media services are having on the news diet of Canadians. Our report, Social Networks Transforming How Canadians Get the News (PDF), suggests that many people now expect the news to come to them, filtered [...]
Cartoon: How to explain the internet
Here’s something for a holiday Easter weekend. A wonderful cartoon by Rob Cottingham on how to explain the internet. Noise to Signal Cartoon Print PDF
Canadians would rather give up newspapers than the internet
Canadians love the internet. That’s the conclusion of a study that found that Canadians value their home Internet connection more than any other medium An online survey of 1,682 adults, conducted by the Canadian Media Research Consortium...Show More Summary
MediaCooler aims to be media marketplace for Canada
An interesting project that seeks to help journalists and editors connect with each other has just launched in Canada. MediaCooler.com is the brainchild of my friend, Alison Yesilcimen. I’ve been following the development of the service since September last year. I’ve had long conversations with Alison about it, providing feedback and trying out the alpha site. MediaCooler [...]
Participatory journalism presentation at ISOJ 2011
Since I was on the last research panel at ISOJ, I was not able to blog about the strong papers by my fellow presenters. Fortunately, the ISOJ student team wrote a short wrap up. But I wanted to share the slides and text of my paper presentation for those who weren’t about to make the [...]
Lessons on how engage with audiences
Jim Brady, former editor of TBD.com and WashingtonPost.com, set the tone for a professional panel on engaging the audience at #ISOJ by saying they were going to stick to time and leave plenty of time for questions. First up was Espen Egil Hansen, editor-in-chief of VG Multimedia, Norway. He started by stating that he tells his [...]
Patch president outlines community strategy
The afternoon keynote at the ISOJ was by Warren Webster, president of Patch Media. Depending on who you listen to, Patch is or isn’t journalism. But it is hiring journalists and has a presence in 800 US towns. It has 50% penetration in these markets and is growing in monthly visits by more than 40%. The [...]
Research into the sharing of links on Facebook
With social recommendation becoming an increasingly important way that people get the news, the final research paper at ISOJ looked at how news travels on social networks. The research paper (PDF) by Brian Baresch, Dustin Harp, Lewis Knight and Carolyn Yaschur from the University of Texas at Austin surveyed 78 US Facebook users and the [...]
Christian Science Monitor grapples with tensions as web-only
The research presented at ISOJ by Jonathan Groves, Drury University and Carrie Brown, University of Memphis, looked at the Christian Science Monitor’s transition from print to web. For the paper (PDF), the researchers spend three weeks in the newsroom, watching how the journalists worked and talking to them about the journalism. The Monitor started in 1908 as a [...]
Study into use of new devices for news
One of the research papers presented at ISOJ by Hsiang Iris Chyi and Monica Chadha, University of Texas at Austin looked at how people were getting their news on new devices. The researchers suggested the idea of newsfulnews as a way of measuring the likelihood of a multi-purpose device being used for news, based on the [...]
Is nonprofit journalism sustainable?
The first panel on day two of the ISOJ tackled one of the big questions in journalism – is nonprofit journalism online sustainable? “We don’t know,” said Lisa Frazier, President & CEO, The Bay Citizen, one of the new startups in this area. The Bay Citizen has a clear civic mission to provide local news and, [...]
Research on how journalists are using Twitter
The final research paper at the ISOJ focused on how newsrooms were using Twitter. Dale Blasingame from Texas State University, San Marcos, looked at how Twitter was changing TV news. He started by saying that a web first approach in newsrooms is no longer enough due to the instant dissemination of news via Twitter. Twitter [...]
Research shows benefits of open innovation for news
The first research paper at ISOJ from Tanja Aitamurto, University of Tampere, Finland, and Seth Lewis, University of Minnesota, looked at processes of innovation (PDF). Presenting the paper, Lewis highlighted the challenge facing news organisations today: keeping up with modern demands for R&D while finding new sources of revenue. Show More Summary
Meredith Artley on CNN’s digital strategy
The second keynote of the ISOJ was by Meredith Artley, vice president and managing editor, CNN.com She started by stressing the importance of journalism and showed dramatic images of the aftermath of the disaster in Japan. Like for other news organisations, Japan has proved a major draw for CNN. In the 10 days since the Japan [...]
iPad lessons from The Daily
John Kilpatrick, vice president of design for The Daily, provided an inside look into the new iPad app at the ISOJ. The Daily is a custom application with a custom content management system that was built from the ground up for product. The idea is to be able to create custom experiences everyday, exploring what works [...]
Paul Brannan on news for mobile devices
Paul Brannan, emerging platforms editor, BBC News, gave some background on the development of the BBC iPhone/iPad news app at the ISOJ. Talking about its development, he said he had huge ambitions for the app but very limited resources. “The outcome is a far cry from the one I had hoped for,” said Brannan, who [...]
How newspapers in Norway are transitioning to digital
Eivind Thomsen from Norway outlined how the Schibsted Media Group had shifted its financial base from print to digital at the ISOJ. Newspapers are popular in Norway, with the average user reading 1.3 newspapers a day. But this is declining, from 1.6 newspapers in 2009. Thomsen said part of the reason for this was virtually [...]
Lessons on newspaper paywalls from Mexico
In the session on paywalls at the ISOJ, Jorge Meléndez, vice president for new media, Grupo Reforma (Mexico), explained how the newspapers have had paywalls since 2002. The newspaper sites were free for the first two years. But they realised there was a very small online advertising market so the group just did it. Part of this [...]