YouTube has announced an ambitious journalism contest for “citizen journalists.” I suspect this contest will produce some powerful pieces. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, YouTube presents Project: Report, a journalism contest (made possible by Sony VAIO & Intel) intended...
A report released yesterday by Stacy Lynch and Vivian Vahlberg of the Media Management Center at Northwestern University says that being “easy to use” beats better or more complete in becoming a user’s favorite Web site. And their study re-emphasizes...
I took a tour of Greenspun Interactive on Tuesday afternoon, the home of Web sites for the Las Vegas Sun and Las Vegas Weekly and discovered what might be a tell for the success (hey I’m in Vegas) of president...
Howard Weaver, McClatchy VP for News, and Rich Boehne, CEO of E.W. Scripps, both say good storytelling is the future for newspapers. Weaver was speaking Tuesday at the APME convention in Las Vegas. Boehne spoke Saturday at the Society of...
Saturday’s been a good day to find great quotes. Here’s another. “Big companies become risk-averse and are not willing to alienate power structures by calling a spade a spade, hence the lack of criticism that we saw in the run-up...
Is it time for print to start borrowing some of the measurability that’s common online? Why don’t more papers use 800-numbers in ads so they can track the actual phone calls their ads drive? How about the ability to track...
“It’s a terrific time for journalists to take their career into their own hands. It’s always been a very passive career … you move up from market to market and you don’t have to retrain yourself. But if you take...
A blog is not a blog if it hasn’t posted on Chrome, right? Seems that way. Chrome is showing up as a browser in my stats for this site for Sept 2-5. (When I look at the last...
Lots of media organizations are experimenting with Twitter, but CNN is the most aggressive of the big sites. Commenters at Mashable believe this will 1) give CNN a leg up as an early adopter and 2) it’s promotion of Twitter...