Researcher Greg Harmon of Borrell Associates says the average age of a print newspaper reader is 57 and the average newspaper web visitor is 51. Saying the industry’s aging demographics ought to have “everyone’s hair on fire,” Harmon notes that...
A great piece from Om Malik on media. There’s lot of food for thought in this piece.
Local TV station WBIR has been in the news as an Easter segment last week went viral. What made everything from Gawker to the Today Show were some bunnies that in an on-air segment in front of the anchors did...
What’s new in comments about comments. The debate on anonymous comments on websites continues while publisher retool or junk their comment systems. Meanwhile, a few interesting new experiments are happening.
Here’s another incredible example of the government’s trampling of the rights of photojournalists. The Toledo Blade filed suit Friday after the Army security personnel detained two journalists outside a tank plan in Lima, Ohio. Cameras were confiscated and some photos...
Good news for training in the newsroom.
2013 was the year when paywalls became the norm for newspapers.
Editors are safe for the moment, but this is an interesting experiment in news automation and an interesting way of determining what is “breaking news.”