Posts under ‘News’

Slate’s Jack Shafer shreds “Judith Miller’s New Excuse” for her well-deserved comeuppance, in which she blames bloggers for (in her view) unfairly tarring her shabby (my word) journalism in the run-up to the Iraq war. Note: Miller’s former boss, Bill Keller, all but calls her a liar in the Esquire piece Shafer cites. And Shafer […]

In Part One of this post, I highlighted a few initiatives launched by newspapers that are incorporating more video content into their offerings. However, consumers’ increasing enthusiasm for watching video online presents a much more immediate and direct challenge to the broadcast industry. Slowly, but surely, the networks are catching on. In the last few […]

NY Times: TV Stations Fined Over CBS Show Deemed to Be Indecent. The Federal Communications Commission leveled a record $3.6 million fine yesterday against 111 television stations that broadcast an episode of “Without a Trace” in December 2004, with the agency saying the CBS show suggested that its teenage characters were participating in a sexual […]

PaidContent: Netscape.com To Be Relaunched As a Digg-Like Site; Calacanis Heading It: The storied Netscape.com will be revived again by AOL, and will relaunch soon as a Digg-like user-driven news/aggregation site with Jason Calacanis at the helm, sources have told paidContent.org. This is a brilliant idea. For most people the name “Netscape” is still somewhat […]

Hottest media platform of the hour? Video. Online video. The recent launch of Google Video, major sales of TV episodes on iTunes, and growing popularity of sites like YouTube.com suggest that video streaming technology is finally good enough to make video content on the Internet worth our time. Short and often high-quality videos (which will […]

The UK’s Guardian newspaper launches its ambitious new collective blog today, Comment is free: Comment is free is a major expansion of Guardian comment and analysis on the web. It is a collective group blog, bringing together regular columnists from the Guardian and Observer newspapers with other writers and commentators representing a wide range of […]

Rich Wiggins: How to Spam Google News. Pretend you’d like to appear in the news. Imagine that there might be a way for you to write a story — a story about anything, any topic under the sun — and have your tale appear in a news archive. It turns out that you can. It’s […]

Arguably among the most ambitious newspapers with respect to online development, The Washington Post has been experimenting with new web technologies and is encouraging its readers to engage with the paper’s content in creative ways. First, the Post Remix. As the “Official Post Mash-up Center,” Post Remix has two goals: To spotlight the work of […]

From the Project for Excellence in Journalism: The State of the News Media 2006. Extraordinarily detailed and thoughtful. Do not miss.

Mercury News: Knight Ridder sold to McClatchy. McClatchy Co. announced today that it will acquire Knight-Ridder for approximately $6.5 billion, and plans to sell 12 of the San Jose newspaper company’s 32 papers, including the Mercury News and Contra Costa Times. The deal was valued at $67.25 a share — $40 of that in cash […]