March 17th, 2010
Joe Grimm, visiting journalist at the Michigan State University School of Journalism, wrote about media careers in Poynter Online’s Ask the Recruiter column. In yesterday’s article, “The Social Media Skills You Need to Qualify for Journalism....
March 16th, 2010
Magistrate courts in Ankara, Turkey, banned use of video-sharing site YouTube within the country on May 5, 2008. Within 2008, nine other websites were blocked by the courts, including Dailymotion and Google Groups.
Since then, access to approximately....
March 15th, 2010
Earlier this week, global news service Thomson Reuters released the new social media policy for its employees. Among other guidelines, Reuters’ journalists are required to break news over the wire before using social media sites such as Twitter:
As....
March 12th, 2010
The South Florida Times is partnering with students at Florida International University’s journalism school to provide better media coverage of northwest Miami, the area known as Liberty City. The majority of media attention that section of the....
March 11th, 2010
Outsell, Inc., a research and advisory firm focused on the publishing and information industries, released a report Monday that says advertisers will spend more on digital and online ads than print ads in 2010. That includes email, video ads, display....
March 10th, 2010
Transparency is an important component of online journalism, as we’ve stressed multiple times on the SixEstate blog. It is interesting to see how news organizations adhere to transparency guidelines, particularly when they give us a glimpse behind....
March 9th, 2010
Michelle May, relief worker, travel writer, and school psychologist, has raised an interesting question on PBS’ MediaShift blog. When is it appropriate to publicly post photos of victims of disaster, such as the Haiti earthquake?
Like many other....
March 8th, 2010
The New York Police Department has finally caught up with contemporary times and will now offer press passes to online journalists. In the past, the department has regularly denied those passes to reporters who publish solely online.
These changes are....
March 5th, 2010
In October, The Huffington Post and Causecast formed a partnership to create HuffPost Impact, a new section for the Internet newspaper that focuses on activism, social causes, and non-profit organizations. HuffPo provides the platform and outsources the....
March 4th, 2010
Gina Chen, a veteran newspaper journalist, wrote a guide called “10 ‘Journalism Rules’ You Can Break On Your Blog” on her own blog, Save the Media, last March. Despite how quickly things change with technological progress, Chen’s....
