On Local Sites, Everyone's a Journalist
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Several notable ventures have launched or raised money this year to create local news sites online in which readers contribute all or most of the news.-Leslie Walker
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The photographers are going, some of the really big ones, at least the ones who defined a world as it is seen and imagined by those of us with too many magazine subscriptions.
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The media conglomerate puts some magazine titles on the block.
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Jeff Jarvis, whose mind occupies the intersection of mainstream media and the blogging world, perhaps more than any other person, is having a conference in mid-October in NYC to bring together people from both worlds to present constructive ideas for working with each other. Me, my feet are firmly planted in the blogging world, but I've spent a lifetime reading and watching MSM, starting with the NY Times at the kitchen table with my parents and brother, when growing up. Some of my fondest memories as a child were our discussions of the days events, and the Times was our common structure. Everyone in our family read the newspaper, often from cover to cover.  As Jarvis councils us, never mind the mistakes, what can we do to make things work better? And I have a couple of proposals in that direction that I will try to present at the October 11 conference. In all cases, they involve the MSM opening up more to include not only the ideas of blogging, but also the bodies of the bloggers.  1. I've said it many times before, it's worth raising again. Any newspaper or radio or TV station with a good reputation in its community could embrace the fresh ideas of the bloggers in their community by offering free blogs to members of the community, who may be new to blogging. I suggested this to the Times in 2001 -- when a person is quoted in a Times article, a few days after the piece runs, contact them, and ask if they'd like to have a NY Times hosted blog. There would be no control over what appeared on the blog. It would have a nytimes.com domain (something like bullmancuso.nytimes.com). Build an aggregator, something very much like Twitter (which is after all, a river of news, not exactly a new idea, heh) that shows all the new posts from members of the community. Encourage (but don't require) your editorial people to read the blog posts. Let whatever happens happen.  2. Here's a new idea that I haven't proposed before. Open your newsroom to bloggers. Set aside a half-dozen desks for people who blog in your community, people you've gotten to know, and provide them with wifi, a water cooler, your coffee (no matter how bad it is) and chance to work alongside your editorial people and (very important) with each other. It's an incredible thing when bloggers get together in a physical space, the sparks can really fly. Now imagine what could happen if those sparks got flying between the remaining editorial people in a professional news organization and the bloggers. I believe the secret of scaling the news is right there, you just have to open the door and see what comes in.
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Many of the reader-generated reviews of travel services on the Web are taking an ever-growing piece of the market from print guides.
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Internet bloggers have drawn blood  and American journalism may never be the same.
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It was hard to find anything amiss or out of place. That's the way things generally go on media day. There are smiles all around. Optimism oozes. It's that way from Atlanta to Seattle and everywhere in between.
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PC World editors from around the globe report on how people in their countries connect to the Internet.
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Most of American journalism pays at least lip service to the idea that news reporting should be impartial. But New York Cityâs tabloids do not always feel bound by that rule.
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With the rise of user-driven content sites, Internet users have a say in what is news. A new study examines the differences between what editors think is newsworthy and what the public does.
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Striking reporters, photographers and other employees of The Vindicator went online Friday with their own newspaper.
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Long before the mass media overload of television, radio and computers, newspapers were the main source of information on local, national and international events.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Striking reporters, photographers and other employees of The Vindicator went online Friday with their own newspaper.
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In Rupert Murdoch's world, not all journalism is created equal.
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The Internet media conglomerate will introduce a local information service in one of the companyÂs broadest moves yet.
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Radio station owners are putting up more and more video fare on their Web sites â from a simple camera in the broadcast booth to exclusive coverage of special events â to tempt both listeners and advertisers.
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Who needs postcards? With a mobile blog, cellphone auteurs can take everyone along.