MediaShift

Legal Drama

Will Google Sidewiki Shift Control of Online Comments?

by Jeffrey D. Neuburger

Journalists and news outlets are accustomed to offering comments and criticisms about others, but they're not as used to being the subject of public comment themselves. In the online world, where technology can and does upend established relationships, journalists and online news outlets are joining the ranks of the commented-upon. The shift has taken place due to the increased presence...

• December 3, 2009
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PoliticalShift

Best of Twitter: FTC Workshop Discusses Future of Journalism

by Jessica Clark

For two days this week, some of journalism's most high profile executives and experts descended upon Washington, DC, for "How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?" a workshop hosted by the FTC. One exchange of note came between Rupert Murdoch and Arianna Huffington, who spoke separately but did a good job of representing two divergent points of view. Murdoch kicked...

• December 3, 2009
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EducationShift

How Programmer/Journalists Craft Their Own Study Programs

by Megan Taylor

After writing about the skills a journalist/programmer might need, I thought it would be interesting to see what college students are learning. For the most part, journalism education has not caught up with the innovations taking place in the industry. Many programs don't offer more than an introduction to working with the web, so some students have to teach themselves....

• December 2, 2009
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Public MediaShift

FTC Should Consider Policy Reform to Support Public Media 2.0

by Jessica Clark

It's been a busy season for prognosticators who examine the intersection of public policy and media. Today will be particularly hectic for them, as journalists, bloggers, public broadcasters and policy wonks pack into a session at the Federal Trade Commission to ponder, yet again, "How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?" (Submit your own thoughts via Twitter here). Two weeks...

• December 1, 2009
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MagazineShift

Condé Nast, Hachette Magazines Push into iPhone Apps

by Susan Currie Sivek

Turning a magazine into an iPhone app might seem as simple as shrinking the printed page to about a sixth of its normal size. But as magazines develop iPhone and other mobile applications to supplement their print editions, they're finding that adapting to the new medium is a significant challenge. Years ago, magazines realized that their websites had to do...

• November 30, 2009
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TVShift

Merging Online and Broadcast Cultures to Reinvent 'NewsHour'

by Anna Shoup

The "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" is re-incarnating itself as the "PBS NewsHour" on December 7. There are a lot of behind-the-scenes details involved in creating the new program, and chief among them is a complete reorganization of our editorial teams to create a merged newsroom for online and broadcast.

• November 30, 2009
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4MR

4 Minute Roundup: Media Company Layoffs; Omidyar Startup

by Mark Glaser

Here's the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week's edition, I look at the deep layoffs that are planned at AOL, the AP and BusinessWeek. In the case of AOL, the company plans to shed one-third of its workforce, or 2,500 staffers. eBay founder Pierre Omidyar announced plans to launch a news startup in Hawaii that will combine...

• November 20, 2009
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5Across

5Across: Social Media Marketing 101

by Mark Glaser

There's a new series of demands being made in company meetings everywhere: "What is our social media strategy? What are we doing on Facebook and Twitter? I want followers and fans, and I want them now!" But before companies large and small -- as well as non-profits and charities -- jump into social media, they need to take a deep...

• November 19, 2009
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Social Media

Profiles in Courage: Social Media Editors at Big Media Outlets

by Craig Silverman

During a recent trip to see an editor I work with at The Globe and Mail, a national newspaper in Canada, I passed by the newspaper's cafeteria. My editor looked in and pointed at a man who was sitting with his back to us. "There's Mathew Ingram, doing his office hours," he told me. Ingram is the Globe and Mail's...

• November 19, 2009
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NewspaperShift

The Shutdown of UWIRE and the Implications for College Media

by Bryan Murley

Last month, UWIRE.com, an edited college media newswire, mysteriously vanished from the Internet. "UWIRE, a popular service that aggregated articles from student newspapers across the country, promoting student journalism both within higher education and to the outside world, has disappeared," wrote Simmi Aujla for the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month. Today, visitors to the site receive an error...

• November 18, 2009
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