Posts under ‘News’

Mel Gibson’s problems were accelerated by the Net.

The LA Times editors are in a tizzy about the prospect of advertising on their section fronts. Apparently they don’t read their own website.

CNet says CNN wants some of the clips being uploaded to popular video-sharing sites, such as YouTube, to find their way to the cable news channel.

At the BlogHer conference, Lisa Stone discusses BlogHerAds — billed as “quality advertising for women bloggers” — a new advertising network and service that could be a big deal indeed.

Slate magazine has a nifty feature called “Hot Document,” in which the site posts documents, highlights key portions and then, with mouse-over popups, tells you the significance of the highlighted text. But there seems to be a Firefox bug preventing this from working properly, or a bug in the Slate page coding. Here’s a partial […]

Once again blogs are proving, for a least a few people, to be a great farm system for the journalistic big leagues.

ABC News discusses citizen media, but worries too much about reliability.

Mary Hodder and her colleagues have launched the beta of Dabble, which they says is “about people describing, discovering and organizing video, wherever it’s found or hosted.”

My colleagues at Global Voices Online are among the winners of the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Here’s the press release. Congrats to all…

As he explains on his Pressthink blog today, Jay Rosen has taken his biggest step yet into the world he’s been writing about for some time now. With the help of several grants he’s starting NewAssignment.net, based on this notion: “Reporter + smart mob + editor with a fund and backers get the story the […]