Embargo Watch: "Keeping an eye on how scientific information embargoes affect news coverage" #journalism #media #embargo

La liberté de la presse vaut aussi pour les blogs #Suisse #presse #media

Le Guide Presse : un annuaire de la presse française et francophone en ligne via @kantken @arnaud_thurudev #media

My favourite word at the Scripps National Spelling Bee this year was “Omphalaskepesis”: the act of looking at one’s navel. It’s a great word for what’s going on in the newspaper industry right now. The choices are so frightening, the solutions so radical, no one wants to face up to the reality of what needs to be done. So they retreat away from reality. They are lying to themselves and it will only serve to speed their demise. Here are the Top 10 lies as I see them. I’ve saved the biggest, fattest one for last. Lie #1: We can...

Enclosure is a process whereby a resource held in common is taken into private control. The acts of enclosure of the industrial age were about land, they were brutal and conspicuous, and they were implemented, to a large degree, by force. The acts of enclosure of the information age are about social assets, they are subtle and invisible, and they are being implemented, to a large degree, by peer pressure.

Journalists are using Twitter to engage with their audience, connect with sources and continue building their personal brands.

In a Nov. 13 story, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that Paris Hilton was praised by conservationists for highlighting the problem of binge-drinking elephants in northeastern India. Lori Berk, a publicist for Hilton, said she never made any comm

The State of the News Media 2007 is the fourth edition of our annual report on the health and status of American journalism.

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I began writing Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails based on the thesis that Abraham Lincoln's telegrams made him the first online president.

the official online archive of Computer Gaming World magazine, where you can read and download digitized versions* of the first 100 issues of the magazine, beginning with the first issue in November 1981

Here is the new model: 1. Start a blog with adsense and make spare change. 2. Scale a blog to 250k to 1M pages a month and become big enough for Federated Media, AdBrite, and Blogads to care about you (i.e. sell your inventory)--now you're making a living

most TV viewers never got to see the most riveting 9/11 television coverage of all: the raw live footage of the 15 minutes between the first plane crash at 8:48 a.m. and the second at 9:03, as seen on the morning news shows

The richest man in the world, Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, were named Time magazine’s “Persons of the Year” along with Irish rocker Bono for being “Good Samaritans” who made a difference in different ways.

It used to be that the visionaries sat down and predicted the next revolution before it happened. That's old school. Now, the revolution happens as the visionaries are dreaming it up. Take for example distributed journalism, the phrase coined by Dan Gillm

The media world is becoming increasingly fixated on appearances. And the number of tricks used to achieve the increasingly exaggerated ideals is growing. Many models have plastic surgery and even more are retouched so they appear to have bigger breasts, s

Let’s just say it: This was a very bad year.

The e-mail interview has become an increasingly popular technique. It eliminates endless rounds of phone tag, and it gives sources a chance to provide well-thought-out answers rather than top-of-the-head responses. But critics warn that it’s hardly a su

As a prologue, Seed first came to us in June, looking to develop a blog.

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First, most of what we call "news" today starts out as a press release, which then becomes a headline, a sound-bite, and eventually a story.

Newspaper sites claim that location based advertising just doesn’t work anymore and this may be true to an extent but they fail to see that the context of the content itself is where they should advertise from.

Florence Aubenas et Hussein Hanoun libérés [oui, nous sommes en retard sur cette nouvelle]

La Chambre haute du parlement veut elle aussi maintenir l’offre de swissinfo en neuf langues. Elle a accepté jeudi la motion du Tessinois Filippo Lombardi.

A chance meeting in a White House waiting room sparked Bob Woodward's relationship with his Watergate source Deep Throat, the reporter has revealed.

Newspapers are far from dead, despite the challenge from online news and blogs, media executives have been told.