Online journalism

SearchEngineLand has a very good, long look at the recent fake press release announcing Google's US$400-million acquisition of Wi-Fi company ICOA.PRWeb distributed the press release and said it slipped through its internal tests for "integrity."Danny Sullivan explains how PRWeb has become a popular distribution network for a lot of content, ...

Have you ever wondered why media businesses across the world advertise that blue Facebook "F" and the turquoise Twitter "T" and demand nothing in return? These are businesses that make their money from advertising other company's brands, and here they are prominently advertising Facebook and Twitter, for free.Maybe there is ...

A survey of nearly 500 journalists across 15 countries has found that some journalists use social media and blogs to source and verify stories. But the majority don't.Nearly half of respondents (47 percent) said they used Twitter to source new story angles. Over a third said they used Facebook (35 ...

Why are some people conservative and some liberal? Is there a connection between political perspective and intelligence, as new ‘evidence’ seems to suggest? And why do some kids seem to come out the womb extroverted while others are markedly more serious and shy by age two?And why, related to all ...

A recent story in AdAge, entitled "The 'Craigslist Effect’ Spreads to Content as Free Work Fills Supply”, is getting quite a lot of attention.If you’re pathologically allergic to reading any more of these “OMFG! New Media is SOOOOO going to kick Traditional Media’s ASS because now we can totally CROWDSOURCE ...

Every year hundreds of journalism graduates enter the market looking for work, and these are bad times to find a job in the newspaper business. Newspapers are seeing falls annually in advertising and subscriber revenues. With most of their content, or at least similar content, available on the web for ...

For print newspapers to survive and possibly flourish as digital businesses, some new rules are needed. And they are not necessarily the ones they taught you at journalism school.1. Stop treating your staff like they work in a factory. Traditionally, newspapers have employed skilled knowledge workers and made them function ...

Just as Nick was about to pull the trigger in the final, deadly game of Russian Roulette in the 'Deer Hunter', the tape in the video machine ran out. As I now know (thanks to the internet), playing time is no indicator of recording time: there was no way the ...

On May 24 1844 Samuel Morse sent his message over a copper wire from Baltimore to Washington. The telegraph was the starting point of what could be called the first media revolution. Newspapers were afraid they'd lose subscribers to the new messenger. Why would you read a newspaper when a ...

After landing a job as the Citizen Journalism Trainer at Grocott’s Mail, I sat down to do some research on the subject. So I Googled “citizen journalism” and “citizen journalism training”, and eventually “citizen journalism south africa” – the fifth entry looked interesting: "Will citizen journalism shake up SA media?", ...