Times will make the turning point: the online version of the historic British newspaper will be only on payment since 2010. All this because advertising is not worth anymore. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/journalism/timesonlineapagamento201109.htmlTimes will make the turning point: the online version of the historic British... more
Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker duel over balancing scientific rigor with relatable narrative, while the future of personal genomics goes under the microscope.Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker duel over balancing scientific rigor with relatable... more
A new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users.A new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube... more
YouTube Direct that allows news and media organisations to request, review, and rebroadcast clips directly from YouTube users.
The new service was beta-tested by the Huffington Post and will be used by National Public Radio and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. It offers an interface that is deeply integrated into the news organisations' sites, and makes the communciation between user and media organisation much more direct. The hope is that this will make fact checking – where videos came from, when they were made – much easier.
NEW YORK – The latest rough patch for CNN illustrates the two contradictions at the network's heart.
In a brutal time for the news business, CNN is one of the few media organizations thriving while its most visible part in the United States — prime-time on the flagship network — is hurting. The company has built its brand on nonpartisan reporting, while CNN's audience tilts Democratic as much or more as Fox News Channel's audience is Republican.
CNN's average prime-time audience was third behind Fox and MSNBC during October, and it was even eclipsed by sister network HLN among younger viewers, according to the Nielsen Co. Perhaps more ominous, CNN finished well behind Fox when big news was breaking — Election Night and the Fort Hood massacre. Big stories usually sent viewers flocking to CNN.
Prime-time success isn't a new problem in a place that has long lived and died by the news cycle, to which former hosts such as Aaron Brown, Connie Chung and Paula Zahn can attest. It seems more acute because CNN's younger rivals were faster in figuring out a way to make appointment viewing at night.
"We sometimes scratch our heads and wonder, `Why can't they figure this out?'" said former CNN correspondent Charles Bierbauer, dean of the College of Mass Communication and Information Studies at the University of South Carolina, describing his talks with another old CNN hand on his faculty.
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, whose reruns often beat Anderson Cooper's first-run newscast on CNN, mocked his rival for trafficking in news rather than analysis at night: "CNN seems to still think it is the primary source for its viewers, that they know nothing until they tune in. This is, ever increasingly, nonsensical."
At CNN, they suggest critics take a narrow view of what it does.
The network could cast aside Cooper, Larry King and Campbell Brown for opinionated analysis and probably see its ratings go up, said Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide.
The benefit for one arm of the company isn't worth the potential damage to others, he said.
CNN has built its business — encompassing international networks and wholesale news reports, mobile device services, a Web site, a wire service to print publications and radio — around the notion that it is delivering nonpartisan, straight news reporting, he said. The company has shown double-digit growth for the past few years and is on pace to continue. It invests by hiring more personnel, and this month opening a new production facility in Abu Dhabi.
"People hear what's being said and it's branded CNN and (they say), `OK, that's news. That's nonpartisan, that's factual, it's timely," Walton said. "That's what we want to deliver around the world. We compete against a lot more than Fox and MSNBC."
The rising fortunes of HLN means the company makes money off opinion, too. One of the reasons that network's name was changed from CNN Headline News was to avoid having CNN's name associated with that type of programming.
Of the flagship network's sagging fortunes, Walton said, "It matters to us. Trust me, it matters. We want all of our networks to grow their audiences. But the fact is, (CNN) is a vibrant, healthy company that's growing in an industry where we're pretty much one of one."
MSNBC's move to the left and Fox's ownership of the right would, theoretically, give CNN a wide middle to conquer. The problem is, that middle might be more inclined to watch Tom DeLay on "Dancing With the Stars" than on "Larry King Live."
Statistically, CNN's audience is far from nonpartisan.
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Educators are seeking improve journalism's reputation with many free online courses and entire Websites dedicated to journalism ethics, editing and new media.
In the this episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, hosts Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox lead ensemble reviews of "The Men Who Stare at Goats," "A Christmas Carol," & "Precious," Ellen explores the Top 5 Stoners in the Movies and we'll meet Filmstradamus.
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesIn the this episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, hosts Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox lead... more
I think it's kind of sad that it takes people, or organizations, to donate their money (and sometimes) time for environmental issues to be covered. Also, I would think this is more of an environmental journalism thing, not communication, per say. Environmental Communication definatly has a journalistic aspect, and media for sure, but Enviro Comm is more about how we learn and come to out beliefs, attitudes and behaviors towards the environment. Eh, I guess it's all semantics in the end. Anyway, interesting short little article with reader participation.
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Farming First spoke with Terna Gyuse of Inter Press Service (IPS) during the FANRPAN regional policy dialogue in Maputo, Mozambique in September 2009. Gyuse discusses journalism in Africa and the critical role which journalists play in monitoring development processes on the ground and reporting on climate change and agriculture ahead of Copenhagen.farmingfirst.org
Farming First spoke with Terna Gyuse of Inter Press Service (IPS)... more
A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 1978 killing of a security guard believe they have evidence that shows prosecutors put the wrong man behind bars. But in the quest to prove his innocence, they may have to defend themselves, too.
The global crisis of newspaper has a new victim: Gourmet Magazine. Now there's a photographic blog that reports the last days of the magazine, between boxes and white walls. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/theweb/gourmetmagazinechiude061109.htmlThe global crisis of newspaper has a new victim: Gourmet Magazine. Now there's a... more
Essentially Maggwire is a site where you can go to read articles from a variety of famous magazines (mostly US but nonetheless interesting) and rate your favourites. The most popular rise to the top and, if the wisdom of crowds theory is to be believed, also showcase the 'best' articles.
From a scan of the headlines, the stories on there don't seem to be any better than the ones most aggregators or RSS feeds surface, this could be a pretty interesting option for struggling magazines to find a new home on the web.
Stand up for Journalism: tomorrow we will celebrate, in Europe, the day for the press freedom. Today, in Italy, this is a real problem, because journalists have to fight against censorship and precarious job. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/journalism/standupforjournalism2009041109.htmlStand up for Journalism: tomorrow we will celebrate, in Europe, the day for the press... more
The MPAA scored a victory last night when millions of people tuned in to CBS’s 60 Minutes. The ‘investigative’ news magazine ran a propaganda piece on movie piracy yesterday, allowing the MPAA to insinuate once again that organized crime and BitTorrent go hand in hand.
Are we living in an Orwellian dystopia of misinformation, or are we on the path to freedom through truth? Arianna Huffington shares her thoughts ...Are we living in an Orwellian dystopia of misinformation, or are we on the path to... more
At least 142 journalists have been killed in the field in the last three years, according to data collected by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Most of those killed were reporting in conflict zones—notably Iraq, Somalia, and Pakistan.
A new project from FRONTLINE/World seeks to address the challenges journalists face while reporting from countries gripped by civil wars and violent conflicts.
By gorging yourself on headline news, editorials and opinion pieces, features, blog posts, podcasts and videos, you’ll learn about industry standards and style trends for quality reporting.By gorging yourself on headline news, editorials and opinion pieces, features, blog... more
For a genuine presidential war on the press, see the one FDR waged in the 1930s.
How touchy can you get?
The White House fires a few pop-guns in the direction of Fox News Channel, and suddenly everybody from Louis Menand in The New Yorker to Michael Scherer in Time to Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post is heralding the Obama administration's declaration of war on Rupert Murdoch's cable station.
The direct declaration came not from Barack Obama, but underlings Anita Dunn, who called Fox the communications arm of the GOP; David Axelrod, who said Fox isn't really a news station; and Rahm Emanuel, who invoked the president's views to say, "It's not a news organization so much as it has a perspective." The closest His Obamaness has come to criticizing Fox on the record was in June, when he complained of "one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration."
o get a genuine picture of what a war on the press looks like, you can't fan the pages of Nexis for grouchy things George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, or even Richard Nixon said about reporters, newspapers, and networks. You've got to go back to the 1930s, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt raged against the press like noisy clockwork.
Roosevelt's fury couldn't have been more displaced, in part because newspapers and reporters received him like a conquering hero after his 1932 election, reports Graham J. White in his 1979 book, FDR and the Press:
The initial victory of Franklin Roosevelt over the Washington press was swift and glorious. Demonstrating a virtuosity that amazed them, the new president took the Capital correspondents by storm, winning, from the outset, their affection and admiration; securing, over the crucial early stages of the New Deal, their allegiance and support.
Roosevelt especially disliked "interpretive reporting," which Time and Newsweek were popularizing, writes Betty Houchin Winfield in her 1990 book, FDR and the News Media. Roosevelt recoiled when a reporter asked him what interpretive angle the president would take if he were to write a piece about the Democratic Party's 1934 landslide victory. "I think it is a mistake for newspapers to go over into that field in the news stories," Roosevelt said. His prescription for what reporters should do for readers: "Give them the facts and nothing else." (One can almost see Dunn and Axelrod giving Fox the same advice.)
The president reserved his greatest disdain for press proprietors, whom he blamed for what he considered unfair and distorted coverage. "It is not the reporter" who is responsible for "colored news stories and the failure on the part of some papers to print the news," Roosevelt said in December 1935. "It goes back to the owner of the paper."For a genuine presidential war on the press, see the one FDR waged in the 1930s.... more
