The award-winning Guardian reporter, Paul Lewis, is to head up a newly-created multimedia special projects team. Lewis will recruit a small team that will be charged with finding new angles on breaking news stories. This includes using multimedia and crowd-sourcing.

30 Minute long BBC Radio 4 show looking at how … "Many of the world's best-known business newspapers and magazines are being painfully squeezed by the recession and the rise of rival media. In London and New York, Peter Day finds out why it matters... and how they are going about fighting for survival." Via Mr Murphy.

Fantastic post by Derek Powazek at powazek.com. It all seems so simple. I'd love to try this out will a failing news-weekly.

Nieman Journalism Lab's Megan Garber comments on Dave Eggers' talk at ASNE’s conference. In the keynote Eggers confesses “I love print … I just love the form.” But it's not just print itself — ink, paper, the tactile nature of text — that he admires. It’s the sense of comprehensiveness and direction — physically, and, he suggests, psychologically — that print represents. The ideas Eggers highlighted in his defense of print…are actually readily applicable to the web.

1. Comprehensiveness and containment.
2. Length and thoughtfulness
3. Professionalism and expert curation
4. Physicality and variety

Following on from my previous Pinboard post, the Nieman Journalism Lab's Jonathan Stray has had the opportunity to find out more about the BBC's User Generarted Content Hub from one of its contributors Silvia Costeloe.

MA Online Journalism (Birmingham City University) student Caroline Beavon has posted a series of videos from her workshop with Matthew Eltringham, who heads up the BBC's User Generated Content Hub.

A curated collection of great longform pieces of journalism.

Jeff Jarvis on "A new Pew study on the economics of news does not give comfort to news sites planning pay schemes."

The State of the News Media 2010 is the seventh edition of the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual report on the health and status of American journalism.

Martin Langeveld, a newspaper executive with a background in marketing, PR and strategic planning shares his views on how and why the iPad (and mobile platforms in general) will become dominant platforms in the broadcasting information. Langeveld and his partners run CircLabs Inc. a Silicon Valley-based firm offering a holistic, user-centric suite of solutions aimed at sustaining journalism in a digital world. Fantastic Resource.

"The Batavian is an online-only news site in Batavia, N.Y., published by former GateHouse Media executive Howard Owens." In this article, Mr Owens answers questions from Brian Cubbison (syracuse.com).

Jack Matthews, CEO of Fairfax Digital, talks about the direction in which journalism is headed. Matthew has vast experience in pay television, telecoms and the internet.

True/Slant is an original content news network tailored to both the “Entrepreneurial Journalist” and marketers who want a more effective way to engage with digital audiences. Contributors, consumers and marketers each have a voice on True/Slant.

True/Slant is the digital home for the “Entrepreneurial Journalist.” Knowledgeable and credible contributors anchor and build their digital brands on True/Slant using tools that enable them to easily create content and craft stories filtered through human perspective (not an algorithm).

Jeff Jarvis on entrepreneurial news coverage.

The Johnson Banks Thought for the Week (13.01.10). "Blogs can showcase, discuss and dissect new ideas weeks, even months before journals. In the next few years we’ll see if the Kindle will put a torch to those paperbacks that gather dust on our shelves."

iA: "While everybody is chatting about the future of news, we’re shaping it. Currently, we’re working with the Italian magazine Internazionale, who is trying to figure out where to move with their website. As only an advanced process can result in advanced results, Internazionale agreed to open up the design process and let us talk about it on our website."

Times Skimmer is a browser-based application that offers a new way to read The New York Times online. The application provides the experience of spreading out a newspaper and paging through it. Times Skimmer offers multiple display options and easy-to-use keyboard shortcuts. The fonts in the application are the same as those used in the printed newspaper.

C.W. Anderson of the Nieman Journalism Lab dusts off his crystal ball and foretells 2010 in all its glory.

Micro-payments dismissed in favour of charging for 24-hour access to day's edition of the paper.

Cody Brown: "News is important. It’s so important that leaving it to a group of people in an office downtown is and has always been irresponsible… we now have the technology to make this ideal more than a faith based abstraction… public can be counted on to share and disseminate its own news"

Since The Telegraph's highly publicised move to a new newsroom in Victoria nearly 18-months ago its senior editors haven't been shy in espousing the philosophy and the practicalities behind the paper's integrated web and newspaper approach.

The Web’s largest newsroom: Journalists collaborate to curate the news. Winner of the first Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism.

Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve) assesses the health of mainstream media. Chronic verging on fatal.

Tom Coates of plasticbag.org has no sympathy for media outlets who failed to foresee the rise and capability of the internet to redefine media publishing.

Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review (formerly of the WSJ) gives a grim assessment of how the Newspaper industry is performing.

Newspaper Association of America's statistics for Total Paid Circulation.

Newspaper Association of America's statistics for Advertising Expenditures.

Nieman Journalism Lab's Joshua Benton tells of Argentina's seemingly corrupt journalistic element. Interesting read.

Information Architects developed a pretty tight concept around the idea of usability, readability and cross media connection in their recent unsuccessful bid to redesign the Switzerland's Tages Anzeiger Newspaper.

Our curly headed friend Malcom Gladwell makes a lot of sense. Aspiring journalists shouldn't apply to Journalism schools. Instead they should enroll on courses that will give them a solid grounding in what it is they want to write about (ie: Economics). This will provide them with the knowledge needed to write enthralling articles.

Here's a nice thing: against the backdrop of layoffs, buyouts, and cutbacks in the media sector, the Columbia Journalism Review is launching a fellowship program to aid downsized journalists -- predominantly baby boomers with years of experience and institutional memory -- by creating an "opportunity to continue doing what they do best: reporting."

Based at Harvard University. Aiming for the Future of Journalism.

CNN's online presence has received a major face-lift. Some interesting UI and UX enhancements.

By the brilliant Danny Sullivan… "As the rhetoric over how Google “rips-off” newspapers, magazines and other print publishers continues, a thought occurred to me this weekend. Perhaps Google should charge publications whose reporters tap into the service to research their stories?"

Clay Shirky articulates and develops strategies for funding local reporting.

The Nieman Journalism Lab reports on a talk given by Internet thinker Prof. Clay Shirky at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. His subject was the future of accountability journalism in a world of declining newspapers. Sound bytes. Great read/listen.

The Guardian reports that Journalism online promises to get 10% of web readers paying for content, which it says will provide millions in new revenue or struggling newspapers. Hmmm. Skeptical to say the least.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Danny Sullivan spells out to Newspaper publishers that, contrary to their warped beliefs, Google are actually doing them a favour!

Publishing 2.0 is a blog about how technology is transforming media, news, and journalism. By Scott Karp, Josh Korr & Robert Young.

The Newspaper Innovation weblog (by Piet Bakker) is a place where most information on free daily newspapers can be found. Great for scholars, students and people working in publishing and journalism.

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