A student project that explored the migratory effects caused by drug violence along the U.S.-Mexico border and a comprehensive reporting package on the ongoing development of Parana' state in Brazil won the Online News Association’s 2012 awards for non-English projects during the ONA’s latest conference in San Francisco. “Mexodus,” published by Borderzine, a bilingual […]
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During a shareholders' meeting for the Chilean newspaper La Nacion, government representatives, who control 69 percent of the company's shares, voted to close and liquidate the storied newspaper on Monday, Sept. 24, reported the EFE news agency. The decision puts an end to the 95-year-old newspaper and leaves 117 people without work. Unions and […]
When I say, "Social is and can be more than media," people resist. It's as if the two words (social and media) are now permanently fused together. But they shouldn't be. The fact that they are joined at the hip in so many people's minds means that marketing agencies are thriving — but that […]
GoogleInc. is expected to surpass rival Facebook Inc. in selling online "display" advertisements in the U.S. this year, according to a new estimate by research firm eMarketer Inc. The result would mark a milestone for the Web-search giant, with Google for the first time holding the "triple crown" of online advertising by taking the […]
A two-way partnership will allow the Boston Globe to tap into the research prowess of a university. The arrangement may be another way to reinvigorate traditional news outlets. As old school news outlets struggle to find their footing in the digital world, a new partnership between two flagship Boston institutions presents some intriguing possibilities. The […]
People who use smartphones to get local or national news tend to prefer emotionally rewarding content like sports and videos over negative content like disasters and crime, according to new research. A study by the Reynolds Journalism Institute and HCD Research compared people's media use patterns to their fundamental psychological motivations (seeking rewards vs. […]
A survey by Missouri School of Journalism's Reynolds Journalism Institute finds that most publishers of U.S. dailies remain optimistic about the future of newspapers: 40% are "somewhat optimistic," 25% are "very optimistic," 4% are "not optimistic," and 31% are neutral. Do you ever envision a time when your organization will not publish a printed […]
The newspaper industry' s effort to cover print advertising losses with digital ad gains, weak in 2010 and 2011, deteriorated further in the first half of this year. Newspaper Association of America advertising statistics, posted last week, show $798 million in print losses for the first half of 2012 compared to the same period […]
From the rattling cicadas at twilight to the willow trees bending in the late summer heat, the lush campus of Mercer University seems like the last place to find one of the nation's boldest journalism experiments. This fall, Mercer, a 179-year-old former Baptist school, is starting an ambitious $5.6 million project to try to […]
On road trips, including the one I took recently between Tampa, Florida, and Charlotte, North Carolina, I habitually buy a local newspaper every time I stop to buy gas, food, or coffee. As my colleague Garance Franke-Ruta can attest, the result is frustrated muttering about the product. For various reasons, I think local newspapers […]
Last Thursday night's Democratic National Convention lineup got four million tweets flyin, double Twitter's weekly average for political tweets, Emily Schultheis reports. Less data-y, but maybe more important: "I wouldn't be shocked if a fair amount of the attention paid to the convention was through Twitter primarily," said GOP strategist Patrick Ruffini of EngageDC, […]
PAPER still matters. The frequent whirring of printers in offices – despite the Internet, Microsoft Word, social media, scanners, smartphone apps and PDF files – attests to that. We may use less of it than we once did, but reading and writing on paper serves a function that, for many workers, a screen can't […]
WHEN I graduated from college, before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 took effect, sex discrimination was legal. I wanted to write for a newspaper or newsmagazine, but despite an armload of credentials and skills, I soon learned the score: Women could do research, be secretaries and, if very lucky, work for the ghetto called […]
More people read newspapers than ever before, thanks to the many ways they now can be read, but publishers have not yet found ways to match that growth with revenues from digital platforms, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) said Monday in its annual update of World Press Trends. According to the […]
Learning how to make software for storytelling and how to realize news presentations into code are currently the hottest, most pressing skillsets journalists can study. There has never before been more urgency for our industry to understand enough code to have meaningful conversations with technologists. And yet if you attend any event with a collection […]
Today I reported on the refusal of CNN International (CNNi) to broadcast an award-winning documentary, "iRevolution", that was produced in early 2011 as the Arab Spring engulfed the region and which was highly critical of the regime in Bahrain. The documentary, featuring CNN's on-air correspondent Amber Lyon, viscerally documented the brutality and violence the regime […]
Nearly 1,000 bundled Ann Arborites lined the city's downtown sidewalks during a snowstorm in February 1985, waiting to enter a three-story Art Deco office building on East Huron Street. The residents weren't waiting to see a politician speak or to watch a well-known musician play, two events that might draw such a crowd in […]
When I began my current job in the journalism school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my director told me I had a particularly daunting mission: “train students for jobs that may not yet exist.” I’ve tried to keep her voice in my head over the years and keep my courses on pace accordingly. But […]
A lot of hand-wringing goes into wondering what the future of journalism will look like. Will digital or multimedia journalism serve readers better than print? What role will social media play in the future? How will so-called citizen journalists and professionals coexist? I think we got a glimpse of that future with coverage of […]
Sure, Reddit was already the unofficial “front page of the Internet,” the soul of all things meme, the secret sauce behind BuzzFeed’s viral posts, a breaking news curator and a Q&A forum for journalists, celebrities, newsmakers. But then President Obama did a surprise Q&A appearance Wednesday that nearly crashed servers and drew almost 23,000 […]