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Traffic to the blog sites of ten of the top online newspapers in 2006 jumped 210% over the previous year -
1vote"Josh Wolf, a 24-year-old blogger, has spent more than six months behind bars in California -- the longest contempt-of-court term ever served by someone in the media"
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1vote"Are Web loggers journalists? The question touches on not just legal arguments, such as how elastic shield laws are or should be, but also includes cultural and political overtones. If, for instance, a blogger seeks to claim the privileges of being a journalist, should we expect him to follow the same general rules -- including contacting all sides to the story and verifying facts independently?"
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1vote"Jim Zumbo, former hunting editor of Time Inc.’s Outdoor Life, had to resign after calling assault rifles “terrorist rifles” in a blog posting on the magazine’s website. This raises the question: how subjective can writers really be on blogs?"
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1vote"Over the past months, I've heard several journalists make the same comment at various industry forums: That blogs are a "parasitic" medium that wouldn't be able to exist without the reporting done at newspapers.
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1vote"With big corporations now hiring public relations firms to pay fake bloggers to plant favorable opinions of the businesses online, many political bloggers are concerned that candidates, too, will hire people to pretend to be grass-roots citizens expressing views."
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Outstanding collection of essays written by some of the leading art and design educators. Categories are vast and searchable including: advertising, architecture, literature, museums, graphic design, film/video -
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The blogosphere is coming to a newspaper near you. Beginning April with Boston as the pilot market, Icelandic publishing co. Dagsbrun plans to launch free dailies in 10 U.S. cities. The papers will run blogs alongside the usual newspaper fare. The flagship paper, BostonNOW, hits the streets today. Editor in Chief says bloggers will not only get an outlet for their musings, they'll also break news. -
1voteWhile they last, the sites seem to enjoy smashing some sacred journalism traditions, quaint rituals like editing, striving for objectivity, and verifying rumors before publication. Cody Brown, a 21-year-old film major who founded NYU Local about two years ago, follows the new-media creed that "transparency is the new objectivity." His take on hearsay: It's "way more responsible to publish those rumors," as long as you label them as such. Then you can check reader comments to "see what kicks up."
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1vote...journalism is about more than dissemination of news; it’s about the creation of shared awareness...We can expect changes in journalism to be linked to changes in subsidy. There are many shifts coming, but three big ones are an increase in direct participation; an increase in the leverage of the professionals working alongside the amateurs; and a second great age of patronage.
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