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Luck creator David Milch on the series premature end
Talking with Alan Sepinwall: "It was HBO, definitively. There was back and forth about it, but their feeling was so clearly that the situation was untenable, that there was really no protracted dispute. We were presented with an accomplished fact. And I don't say that with any resentment. They made the decision they felt they had to make."
horseracing  media  hbo  luck  david-milch 
9 weeks ago by jnchapel
Why did HBO drama Luck fall at the first hurdle?
"It's telling that HBO's biggest successes have not been major star vehicles; Steve Buscemi, in Boardwalk Empire, is an exception, and one who combines screen excellence with a jobbing actor's ethic. The Wire, The Sopranos and Game of Thrones are not celebrity reliant. (The latter was able to dispense with Sean Bean in the first series with no loss of steam.) At their best, such dramas resonate because, however far-fetched their premise, they tell awful, ringing, thematic truths about the world as it is, its powerplays, ironies and tragedies. Luck doesn't; it was surly, selfish men plotting obscurely about something or other, graceless on the small screen. Lesson to HBO? Next time Hollywood's ex-players come a-knocking at the stable door, pretend you've already bolted."
horseracing  media  hbo  luck 
9 weeks ago by jnchapel
Is linking just polite, or is it a core value of journalism?
"I still believe that the obsession with 'scoops' is misguided, and so is the attempt to pretend that you were the first to report that news when you actually saw it somewhere else, which is what a failure to link feels like. Perhaps many readers won’t care — but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an important principle that is worth upholding."
media  journalism  linking 
february 2012 by jnchapel
Matter’s vision for long-form journalism
"I like this model, because one big weakness of long-form narrative journalism is that it has failed to embrace everything the web is capable of. Writers get commissioned to write X thousand words on Y; they then hand in a document written in Microsoft Word, which goes through a few rounds of editing before getting laid out to a greater or lesser degree. (Ben Hammersley is really good at diagnosing this problem and suggesting how to begin solving it.) I’m optimistic that Matter’s editing process will help its stories be much richer than most of what we’re seeing today." More from Mims on Matter's business plan: http://slipr.com/2012/02/24/how-longform-science-magazine-matter-will-become-a-sustainable-business/
media  publishing  journalism  long-form  matter 
february 2012 by jnchapel
Why you should support Matter
"But the above reservations notwithstanding, I can’t wait to read what Bobbie and Jim come up with. We need more of this kind of quality publication, more experimentation with new business models and more, I suppose, 're-education' of readers. Occasionally the public needs to be reminded that they deserve better, and that better is available." Backed despite similar reservations, particularly re: editorial board.
media  online-journalism  technology  matter 
february 2012 by jnchapel
Mobile revolution (geeks only)
"You can no longer equate your digital publication or presence with your website. It’s just one iteration of it. And that is a real sea-change in digital publishing."
media  publishing  mobile  trends 
february 2012 by jnchapel
How to stop being a Pinterest sexist
"Stop writing, stop speculating, stop trying to crack a nut that’s already open. If you don’t understand why you missed it in the first place, you’re not going to understand Pinterest’s success now. If you don’t know why you didn’t 'get' it, you still won’t."
media  social-media  pinterest 
february 2012 by jnchapel
The newsonomics of ads that go bump in the night
"Open up The Wall Street Journal tablet app this week, and you’ll find a garden’s delight of interactive ads. These ads grab the potential of the tablet and run with it — joyously. They move beyond what we’ve known as 'advertising' and sprint into a new field of commercial conversation. These truly interactive ads are increasingly targeted to users, but more importantly they attract top-end advertisers, at good rates, into news products."
media  advertising  tablets  apps 
february 2012 by jnchapel
How sharing disrupts media
"... the social, digital world is one where the biggest media companies have a much lighter touch, and where the content creators with the broadest reach will be the ones who care the least about protecting their copyrights."
media  social-media  copyright 
january 2012 by jnchapel
Project Argo
"... a collection of tools and best practices for building topic-focused sites in WordPress."
web-development  media  online-journalism  wordpress  tools 
january 2012 by jnchapel
Why Boston.com got into the sports tickets business
"With its new distance from the newspaper brand, Boston.com is investing in e-commerce as a money driver.... what’s interesting about Boston.com’s approach is that it’s enabled in part by the separation of the newspaper brand. Making BostonGlobe.com the primary home for newspaper-style journalism and reporting has left Boston.com to further explore its role as a pageview-hungry website."
media  journalism  online-journalism  ecommerce 
january 2012 by jnchapel
Why I started PandoDaily
"We have one goal here at PandoDaily: To be the site-of-record for that startup root-system and everything that springs up from it, cycle-after-cycle. That sounds simple but it’ll be incredibly hard to pull off. It’s not something we accomplish on day one or even day 300. It’s something we accomplish by waking up every single day and writing the best stuff we can, and continually adding like-minded staffers who have the passion, drive and talent to do the same."
media  journalism  blogging  tech-blog 
january 2012 by jnchapel
Newspapers, paywalls, and core users
"It will take time for the economic weight of those users to affect the organizational form of the paper, but slowly slowly, form follows funding. For the moment at least, the most promising experiment in user support means forgoing mass in favor of passion; this may be the year where we see how papers figure out how to reward the people most committed to their long-term survival."
media  journalism  publishing  paywalls  business-media 
january 2012 by jnchapel
The pummeling pages
"If you’re appealing to readers, remember that you’re appealing to people who like reading black-and-white words on a page, more-or-less."
web-publishing  media  advertising 
january 2012 by jnchapel
The golden age of tech blogging is over
"... we should expect a new format, new type of content and new pioneers to emerge, forever changing the new media and tech reporting space." (Not limited to tech blogging.)
blogging  blogosphere  media  trends 
december 2011 by jnchapel
How sports journalism got serious
"In the past, critical sports coverage was mostly directed at individual owners and coaches, for boneheaded decisions, and individual athletes, for their alleged greed come contract time. The critical change is that reporters and commentators are now asking tough questions of the leagues and executives who hold the real power. In the emerging Dickensian narrative, players are merely cogs in an industrial machine, used up and spit out. Pieces like the Boogaard series are laying bare the human costs of that arrangement."
media  journalism  sports  sports-journalism 
december 2011 by jnchapel
Why our startup decided not to target the newspaper industry
"... industry problems are so intractable, and the chance for making a successful business is so slim, that it simply doesn't make sense to target it."
media  journalism  newspapers  start-ups 
december 2011 by jnchapel
Trust and verify: How I curate my list of journalist arrests
"I found that as the weeks have worn on, the verification process has become incredibly important to me. I was never trained as a journalist, although I have been working in media and journalism for many years now. In the end, I think a lot of my motivation for such rigorous fact checking comes from a simple sense of responsibility."
media  curation  journalism  occupation  activism  arrests  social-media  twitter 
november 2011 by jnchapel
Multiscreening has gone mainstream
"The most interesting stat from this infographic research breakdown from Nielsen is that 62 percent of online Americans use the Internet and TV at the same time. In studies like this one, multiscreening has usually been identified with kids, who are perceived to be at risk from this type of behavior. But well, well, well, look at who is doing the multiscreening now! More than 60% of adults." (Very much in line with the ESPN numbers given at ONA11.)
media  journalism  digital  audience 
october 2011 by jnchapel
Keeneland DRF archive: 117 years of racing stats put to pasture at the track
"Keeneland already has 200,000 Daily Racing Form pages online. It sounds like a lot until you add up the pages that remain. 'We think there's 11 million," Ryder says. "And it's still publishing.'"
horseracing  media  archives  daily-racing-form  keeneland 
october 2011 by jnchapel
A citizen's guide to reporting on #occupywallstreet
media  journalism  reporting  resources  citizen-journalism  law 
october 2011 by jnchapel
There’s been a lot of shamefacedness and ...
Role of social media in newsgathering: "That said, one of the things I like about Twitter is that it behaves in many ways a lot more like a newsroom than a newspaper. Rumors happen there, and then they get shot down -- no harm no foul. I think that big flagship Twitter accounts like @Reuters or @WSJ should be held to a higher standard. But for the rest of us, we’re conversing on Twitter just like we converse in real life."
media  social-media  twitter  ethics  from delicious
july 2011 by jnchapel
Facebook and the Epiphanator: An end to endings?
"Obviously, the Epiphinator will need to slim down in order to thrive, but a careful study of history shows how impossible it is to determine whether it can return to both power and glory, or whether its demise is imminent."
social-media  facebook  twitter  media  storytelling 
july 2011 by jnchapel
A year in the life of a redesign
"How do we use the web, and specifically, websites, now? Where do we use them? Since we redesigned last, how has our appetite changed for what we want to publish? After a year of thinking and talking, this is our answer."
media  web-publishing  redesign  mobile 
july 2011 by jnchapel
Twitter for newsrooms
media  journalism  social-media  twitter  from delicious
june 2011 by jnchapel
Kind of screwed
"TL;DR version: Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses. This ordeal was very nerve-wracking for me and my family, and I've had trouble writing about it publicly until now. "
media  art  copyright  fair-use  from delicious
june 2011 by jnchapel
Running a media site with WordPress and Google Docs
Mentions useful plugins.
media  cms  wordpress  workflow  editorial-flow  from delicious
june 2011 by jnchapel
Using Twitter as your Database
How the NYT used Twitter to update election results from the field in real-time on their site.
media  journalism  media-experiments  social-media  twitter  api  from delicious
june 2011 by jnchapel
The National oral history
"You'd be amazed by the number of people who stop me, bring me papers to autograph. I give a speech and ask for questions afterwards, this is 20 years on, and somebody always asks about The National. People do remember it fondly."
media  sports-media  newspaper  sports  the-national  from delicious
june 2011 by jnchapel
The accidental bricoleurs
"Just as fast fashion seeks to pressure shoppers with the urgency of now or never, social media hope to convince us that we always have something new and important to say -- as long as we say it right away. And they are designed to make us feel anxious and left out if we don’t say it, as their interfaces favor the users who update frequently and tend to make less engaged users disappear."
media  fashion  social-media  twitter  facebook  culture  the-flow  from delicious
june 2011 by jnchapel
Why I adopted a scorched earth policy, dismantled two blogs and jumped to Tumblr
"I fundamentally believe that we are entering the next great era of the web -- The Validation Era. In this age of too much content and not enough time, the public will increasingly need to hear things validated across four interconnected media clovers that are converging across four different screens -- phones, tablets, PCs and TVs. To be successful, businesses and individuals will need to continually ensure their engagement spans the media cloverleaf."
media  blogging  social-media  from delicious
june 2011 by jnchapel
Trifling Twitter
"Twitter will increasingly be a one-to-a-few medium, with a small base of hard-core users, increasingly selective about the contents they broadcast and who they follow. In passing, this trend will further reinforce the ongoing news sites traffic concentration where about 5% of the users account for 75% of the page views."
media  social-media  twitter 
may 2011 by jnchapel
What I learned In Joplin
Brian Stelter's lessons learned from covering a disaster.
media  journalism  reporting  from delicious
may 2011 by jnchapel
How sportswriting is taking over the web through innovation and adaptation
"If there’s a common thread to all of these moves, it’s hybridization and metastasis. The tools that drive compelling sports journalism on the web aren’t limited to sports. Nor are they exclusively held by sportswriters working for independent media companies. As Rob Neyer wrote when he moved from ESPN to SB Nation, the new ethos in sports journalism, as elsewhere, seems to be breaking down the distinction between 'us' and 'them.' And this is a distinction that you can interpret much more broadly than one between writers and readers, pros and amateurs, sportswriting and non-sports writing. When the walls tumble, they tumble everywhere.
media  sports-media  journalism  web-publishing 
may 2011 by jnchapel
Commented out
"I think what’s really happening is a simple matter of divided attention: there are much more absorbing content experiences than independent blogs out there right now: not just Tumblr, but Twitter and Facebook and all sorts of social media, too, obviously, and they’re drawing the attention that the ‘old’ blogs once commanded. Moreover, these social networks allow people to talk directly to one another rather than in the more random method that commenting on a blog post allows; why wouldn’t you prefer to carry on a one-on-one conversation with a friend rather than hoping someone reads a comment you’ve added to a blog post, number 59 out of 159?"
media  blogging  social-media  commenting  from delicious
april 2011 by jnchapel
On the news
"Meanwhile, I’ve grown more particular about the kind of news I want. I want a reading experience that defends the news from the circus that online advertising creates. I want good storytelling and analysis, not naked facts. I want news that admits and defends its point of view (and acknowledges that there is a truth to be uncovered), not news that parrots the party line while making claims to objectivity. I want long essays on the events at Fukushima and the consequences for nuclear power going forward, not shrieking dispatches of each new fire or setback. I want a history of American engagement in Libya, putting the events of the past few weeks in context. I want twenty thousand words on the recession and its effects on the middle class, not another lone statistic about the unemployment rate. I want thoughtful, investigative journalism that exposes the ways in which our government is failing us, so that we can make it better."
media  journalism  paywalls  analysis  from delicious
april 2011 by jnchapel
Three Chimneys Presents Good News Friday: Kentucky Confidential
"More than anything, it’s refreshing to see those so passionate about our industry willing to find innovative ways to accomplish their career goals. They are not taking the easy road by using the challenging circumstances we all face to complain about the lack of opportunity. They are creating their future in the industry on their own terms and challenging the marketplace to step up."
horseracing  media  kentucky-confidential  from delicious
april 2011 by jnchapel
A Conversation with Kentucky Confidential
"Our limited run is what made me think Kentucky Confidential would be a good fit for Kickstarter. It’s an independent project, and a very defined project -- not the content so much, because we’re giving contributors a fair amount of latitude -- but in time and purpose. With its storytelling approach, the site’s something of an experiment in publishing. We’re trying to create something lasting out of an event that is so anticipated, so hyped, and then is over in mere minutes. For backers, I hope that means we’re a two-week pleasure to visit, and hopefully as memorable as whoever wins the Derby."
horseracing  media  kickstarter  kentucky-confidential  from delicious
march 2011 by jnchapel
How we’re financing meaningful journalism
"As you’re about to read, the survey found that today’s meaningful journalism predominantly arises from a nexus of collaboration, grants and donations, and nonprofit initiative -- a commonplace but still controversial insight subject to wearying cycles of hostility and hype that tend to be highly resistant to the facts. The results also add to the growing pile of evidence that journalism is becoming a form of social entrepreneurship -- an endeavor that combines commercial and nonprofit methods to achieve social change."
media  media-experiments  journalism  from delicious
march 2011 by jnchapel
More than words
"In this modern world of instantaneous information, the pursuit of coverage as a literary art often falls by the wayside. Quality control is compromised. Overproduction threatens the writer's creativity. Originality is a dying pursuit. Publishing venues are also vanishing, and the interest in writing on racing in general has declined. But there are still places that seek out and feature excellent literature and unique work, and I'm pleased to introduce one of them – Kentucky Confidential, a new online magazine with a strong emphasis on high-quality literary coverage of this year's Kentucky Derby."
horseracing  kentucky-derby  media  kentucky-confidential  from delicious
march 2011 by jnchapel
A rule of thumb: Pricing should be simple
Re: the New York Times paywall pricing scheme. "For non-necessities, simplicity of pricing is key. Apple thrives at this. Their consumer products tend to follow a simple good/better/best pricing hierarchy, where the only difference is storage capacity."
media  media-experiments  newspapers  paywalls  business-media  from delicious
march 2011 by jnchapel
Armstrong CMS
An open source CMS for news organization available June 2011. Include member and subscription management, multiple device support.
media  publishing  web-publishing  cms  django  frameworks  from delicious
march 2011 by jnchapel
The careless language of sexual violence
"I recently wrote an essay about how, as a writer who is also a woman, I increasingly feel that to write is a political act whether I intend it to be or not because we live in a culture where McKinley’s article is permissible and publishable."
media  feminism  rape-culture  language  women  from delicious
march 2011 by jnchapel
Market competitor doesn't sit well with CDI
"In the past, DRF was simply a media company and we viewed CDI’s relationship with DRF as that of a business customer and a partner. In our role as customer and partner, CDI purchases advertising from the Form, and our locations serve as distribution outlets for DRF’s daily publication. DRF has positioned itself as a media and wagering company, drastically changing its relationship with our racetracks, OTBs, and TwinSpires.com. That change in direction gives us pause."
horseracing  media  cdi  daily-racing-form  adws  from delicious
march 2011 by jnchapel
Baseless speculation! Frank Rich and the price of paywalls for writers
"Increasingly, the motivations of writers and the motivations of the businesses they work for are at odds with each other. Journalists, enabled by the web, are increasingly defining success according to exposure, and news organizations are increasingly defining success according to the limitation of exposure."
media  publishing  journalism  paywalls  business-media  business-models  from delicious
march 2011 by jnchapel
The Atavist
"Nonfiction storytelling for the digital age."
media  media-experiments  publishing  longform  journalism  kindle  from delicious
february 2011 by jnchapel
Why Bill Simmons' new sports media project is going to thrive
"When word of Simmons' project first came out, my first impulse was that it was going to be almost like an 'Awl for sports.' The details released today -- high-quality (if lesser-known) writers, thoughtful pieces, not tethered to the news cycle -- suggest that it is what The Awl could be -- if one of the world's largest media companies opened up its resources ..."
sports  media  sports-media  bill-simmons  espn  from delicious
february 2011 by jnchapel
The Daily Wait
"One minute, twenty seconds.... At that point, it’s already a lost cause. There’s nothing the actual content or interface of the app can do to make up for the fact that it takes way too long to see anything at all. Imagine a paper newspaper that was wrapped in an envelope, and the envelope was so difficult to open that it took over a minute before you could see the front page of the issue. Who would buy that newspaper? No one, that’s who. And I suspect that’s who’s going to read The Daily, unless they fix this, and soon."
media  media-experiments  newspapers  ipad  from delicious
february 2011 by jnchapel
A new tally by VIDA shows how few female writers appear in magazines
"VIDA's study raises questions about how seriously women writers are taken and how viable it is for them to make a living at writing. As we all know, small rewards and affirmations have a concrete but unquantifiable effect on one's writing life. So does silence."
media  writing  culture  women  from delicious
february 2011 by jnchapel
A computational journalism reading list
media  journalism  data-driven  class-resources  from delicious
february 2011 by jnchapel
Explain yourself: George Lakoff, cognitive linguist
"Instead of simply adopting the language politicians use to frame an issue, Lakoff argues, journalists need to analyze the language political figures use and explain the moral content of particular words and arguments."
media  journalism  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
MLBAM building mobile ad system for live, in-game ads
"The importance of mobile and video to MLBAM’s business grew substantially last year. In 2008, mobile comprised 8 percent of MLBAM’s traffic; in 2010, it represented 37 percent of all of MLBAM’s vistors. On the video front, in 2010, MLBAM, the digital business arm of Major League Baseball, said its viewers racked up 9.5 billion minutes of streamed ballgames across all devices, including wired."
media  sports-media  mlb  sports  streaming-video  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
Racecourses risk new clash with media over charges for basic data
"It seems very short-sighted. It's a classic example of one part of racing trying to get a slightly bigger slice of the cake, regardless of how big the cake actually is, or what it might mean in a wider sense."
horseracing  international  statistics  data  racing-post  media  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
Mary Carillo's curious departure leaves ESPN's tennis coverage shorthanded
"Carillo was the opposite of that culture, and more akin to those on the print side who often play the heavy for fans of the sport. "You always want people who played the game," Williamson countered. 'You always want people who have relationships with people in the game. At the same point, you don't want to fool anybody. You want to tell people, "Yeah, there are some relationships here but that does not pollute someone's objectivity, their ability to analyze or give you strategy or their take on a potential news story."' Tennis stars can be fickle when it comes to press access and there's naturally a delicate dance covering them."
media  sports  sports-media  espn  tennis  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
It gets better. 'Til then, wear a wedding band.
"Why don't women stick around? Here's a guess: With just a few female sports reporters in any given market, the gender remains a novelty. A segment of each new class of young women is constantly fighting to gain the same ground a generation before thought it had already established. Which may be why my anonymous young scribe hasn't complained in any official capacity. She doesn't want to give the impression she can't hack it." Depressing.
media  sports-media  women  journalism  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
The newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch
"In the spirit of the new year, let me suggest some of the more valuable emerging metrics for those in the news business in 2011. Further, in that spirit, let’s pick 11 of them. These aren’t intended to be the most important ones -- the mundane price of newsprint, trending up recently, still is a hugely influential number -- but ones that are moving center stage in 2011."
media  journalism  web-publishing  metrics  class-resources  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
iPad magazines go to ’11
"It’s bordering on obstinate to think that something you care so much about can be salvaged by doing more or less the same thing that has failed magazines so consistently until now: continuing to ignore the fundamentals of digital user experience design and how they diverge from analog print design."
media  magazines  ipad  publishing  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
Will an ad network work for your news website? Or are you just going to have to sell your own ads?
"The journalism industry's traditional ethical "wall" dividing advertising and editorial has left some journalists so frightened by the idea of selling to potential advertisers that they choose not even to try launching their own news websites. Few of us wish to comprise our journalistic integrity by having to sell ads. But selling ads shouldn't comprise your integrity -- it's selling your editorial which does that."
media  web-publishing  advertising  business-media  business-models  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
Correct, don’t delete, that erroneous tweet
"... for anyone tweeting as part of a professional media job, representing a news organization on Twitter, or using Twitter to do journalism independently, the course here ought to be plain: It’s almost always better to correct than to unpublish. Removing information you’ve already disseminated ... always leaves open the possibility that you’re trying to hide the error or pretend it never happened."
media  journalism  social-media  twitter  corrections  class-resources  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
Learning how to teach multimedia journalism
media  journalism  education  class-resources  beat-blogging  multimedia  teaching  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
The web is a customer service medium
"But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing. And like other media it has a question that it answers better than any other. That question is: Why wasn't I consulted?"
media  publishing  web-culture  business  marketing  social-media  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
Without adding context, a journalist with data can be dangerous
"So the challenge for 2011 isn’t just making use of all the data that’s available, it’s making use of it responsibly, linking data together to come up with a true picture."
media  journalism  beat-blogging  statistics  data  from delicious
january 2011 by jnchapel
Scraping for journalism: A guide for collecting data
Resources and tips from ProPublica.
media  journalism  data  data-scraping  class-resources  from delicious
december 2010 by jnchapel
The evanescence of Twitter debates
"This development is not, in my mind, a good thing. It robs from the blogosphere much of its naturally conversational element, which has largely moved to Twitter. Back in 2004 or so, it was easy to follow debates back and forth between blogs just by clicking on links; now, it’s much harder, and professional blogs are much more likely to link to straight news stories or just break news themselves than they are to link to other bloggers. Discussions and debates on Twitter aren’t archived in the way that they were on blogs, and they’re functionally impossible to search for if you’re more than a few months away from the event."
media  journalism  blogging  social-media  debates  twitter  from delicious
december 2010 by jnchapel
Magazines are at war with their own iPad apps
"And those who aren’t subscribers, well if they’re not willing to buy in for the actual magazine at like practically nothing a year, why would they pay for their iPad edition, which actually, in the case of Vanity Fair, costs $4.99 for the first issue? I mean, on the same web page that announces their $4.99 iPad app, up top they’re trumpeting their 'ONLY $1 an issue' subscription rate. How is that even happening?"
media  magazines  ipad  apps  publishing  from delicious
december 2010 by jnchapel
The challenges of a web of infinite info
Evan Williams: "There is some risk to the Internet becoming more closed (although it’s not really about closed). It’s that there are fewer players who own, sort of, the land. And that will have implications long term for everything."
media  social-media  web-development  trends  twitter  from delicious
december 2010 by jnchapel
Pew Twitter study shows journalists there's more out there
"How do you tap into this audience? Noting trending topics in your community is a start. See what people are talking about, what’s going viral outside your social sphere. Is there a hole in your coverage in these areas of interest? Fix it. Try sending tweets late in the evening, when a whole other 'nightside' conversation really seems to ramp up (keep in mind, a lot of people of all ages and races tend to be online late). And again, meet people in real life. It’s crucial."
media  social-media  twitter  from delicious
december 2010 by jnchapel
espnW.com launches today, December 6
"Presented in a blog format, espnW.com will offer fan- and athlete-centric content geared toward female athletes and sports fans aged 18+. The site, supported by a Twitter and Facebook presence, will incorporate posts by top female sports columnists and bloggers, pro athletes, expert contributors and news from a variety of ESPN and non-ESPN news outlets."
media  sports-media  espn  espn-for-women  women  from delicious
december 2010 by jnchapel
Measuring the nomads
"The more diverse and ubiquitous the internet gets, the harder it becomes to measure."
media  metrics  mobile  mobile-applications  apps  from delicious
december 2010 by jnchapel
Like it or not, WikiLeaks is a media entity
"Like it or not, WikiLeaks is fundamentally a journalistic entity, and as such it deserves our protection."
media  government  first-amendment  legal-issues  wikileaks  publishing  from delicious
december 2010 by jnchapel
Paton's presentation at INMA Transformation of News Summit
"But there is hope. And it is just where you might expect it -- in our core business of news and on the backs of our reputation ..."
media  journalism  newspapers  business-media  from delicious
december 2010 by jnchapel
Robo-journalism site founder: I expected a bigger backlash
"But Allen said he’s considering adding more transparency now that a wave of press has shown him that readers are receptive to automated content."
media  journalism  robo-journalism  auto-media  sports-journalism  from delicious
december 2010 by jnchapel
Balancing past, present, and future
"There is no doubt that what you want in a magazine will change. We recognize that readers use our publication in different ways. Some of you read it cover to cover; others prefer to read the features and personality profiles first, while others jump straight to the graded stakes section to learn about the connections of the previous week’s stakes winners. Many of you have embraced the Web as a great supplement to the print magazine and dive right into its constant stream of news and information. As your habits change, we need to respond by shaping the design and content of our magazine to suit you."
horseracing  media  blood-horse  magazines  from delicious
december 2010 by jnchapel
What the TSA isn't telling us
"I have no reason to doubt the two specific claims that the T.S.A. has made: first, that security lines at most airports were manageable (if not, I’m sure we would have seen plenty of evidence to the contrary, between tens of thousands of passengers with cellphone cameras), and second, that a relatively small number of passengers opted out of the new screening procedures. Nevertheless, there are several things that the T.S.A. isn’t telling us — pieces of information that would seem to be critical to any comprehensive assessment of the efficacy of the new procedures."
government  dhs  tsa  travel  media  from delicious
november 2010 by jnchapel
The tick, tick, tick of the times
"Like the multiple windows open on our computer screens, like the simultaneous pictures on an episode of 24 -- the other visual hallmark of the War on Terror years -- the ticker said there was simply too much information to send through one channel alone. Big news day or slow news day, the urgency -- alert alert alert -- never stopped."
media  television  news  from delicious
november 2010 by jnchapel
Opposing the TSA doesn't make you a tool of the Koch brothers
"Hey, Nation: I remember when being anti-authoritarian, pro-dignity and pro-freedom were values of the progressive left. Some of us still embrace them."
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november 2010 by jnchapel
Anatomy of a journalistic smear job
Glenn Greenwald: "What's really going on here is clear. These are Tyner's actual crimes in the eyes of these Nation writers, at least judging by the accusations they make: (1) he's not a good, loyal Democrat; (2) he did something that politically harmed Barack Obama; and, most and worst of all (3) he failed to submit meekly and quietly to Government orders like any Good, Patriotic 'ordinary American' would and should do."
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november 2010 by jnchapel
Six ways journalists can use Twitter better
Simple advice for beginners and the uncertain.
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november 2010 by jnchapel
Creating a cohesive online publication in the age of the link
"This is largely intuition here, but people just don't seem to use the Internet that way anymore [going to the homepage of a site]. If they are the type of person who goes to a predetermined set of sites, they already have their list. And if they do frequent new sites and publications, they get there through social media. Relative to even a few years ago, it seems harder to capture dedicated readers beyond very small niches." (Similar phenomenon happening in social network development.)
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november 2010 by jnchapel
Save Newsweek.com - A Defense of Newsweek.com
"If Newsweek.com should cease to exist, here’s what we wonder: What will be the ramifications for Newsweek’s Web presence in terms of SEO? For branding? For our partnerships with MSNBC and MSN? What happens to Newsweek’s (still-unleveraged) archives? How do you preserve a 'national treasure' (as Harman has called it) without a Web presence bearing its name?"
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november 2010 by jnchapel
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