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The Project for Excellence in Journalism has issued its annual State of the News Media report. This year’s identifies seven major trends. (The report calls them new trends even though they are not new, but that’s a quibble.) The trends are: News organizations need to do more to think through the implications of this new […]

Project Red Stripe is a small team set up by The Economist Group, the parent company of the eponymous newspaper. Our mission is to develop truly innovative services online. I’ve met with several members of this team. These are serious, smart folks who have backing from a highly traditional organization — which produces the best […]

Doc Searls on Giant Zero journalism. Brilliant, illuminating.

LA Times: Blogging for dollars raises questions of online ethics. Payments by advertisers to bloggers for writing about their goods, critics say, blur the line between opinion and product placement. This is not a close call. To take money for touting products in a blog and not disclose it — prominently, and in context — […]

It’s called “triangle.com community sharing,” operated by the Raleigh (North Carolina) News & Observer. It doesn’t resemble the newspaper at all, which is smart.

Broadcasting & Cable: C-SPAN Loosens Copyright for Some Content Online. C-SPAN is loosening its copyright policy on some material for online use, saying it wants to expand citizens’ access to online video of congressional hearings, White House activities, and other government-sponsored events. Progress, but C-SPAN’s behavior has been a bit obnoxious, and the proof will […]

If this is true — a report that “France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence” — then the French lawmakers have well and fully lost all grip on reality.

We’ve just posted “Frontiers of Innovation in Community Engagement” — a report that looks at how traditional media organizations are starting to involve their audiences in the journalism process. Lisa Williams of Placeblogger and H2otown fame did the heavy lifting for this report, which will evolve as we learn more. Here’s the executive summary: As […]

Washington Post: Buffett Pessimistic About Newspapers. “Simply put, if cable and satellite broadcasting, as well as the Internet, had come along first, newspapers as we know them probably would never have existed.” It’s a sobering assessment from the world’s most famous investor. Here’s his full letter to shareholders. (Note: I’m a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder, as […]

The Freedom to Connect conference starts tomorrow, and one of the speakers may sound a bit unlikely. The keynoter will be Jim Douglas, governor of Vermont. Actually, his presence at the suburban Washington meeting makes a lot of sense. As Tom Evslin (a Vermonter who’s had some influence in this regard) notes on his blog, […]