September 7th, 2010
USA Today, the country’s second largest newspaper, recently announced plans to restructure itself “from a newspaper company to a multi-platform media company.” The move comes in response to decreased circulation — down to 1.83....
August 31st, 2010
Citizen journalism is often lauded as a welcome alternative to mainstream media in the United States. As we’ve mentioned numerous times on this blog, however, there is an even greater need for citizen journalism in some other countries.
In Russia,....
August 24th, 2010
The list of publishers embracing mobile devices as a viable platform for their content continues to grow. The iPad is receiving particularly strong love.
Online magazine Slate now has an iPad app, available for free in the iTunes App Store. Perhaps former....
August 17th, 2010
Consumers are using e-readers, smartphones, and tablets with increasing frequency. Simultaneously, magazine and newspaper publishers are rushing to keep up with declining print sales and burgeoning technology to offer digital editions on these devices.....
August 10th, 2010
It’s only been six months since AOL launched the revamped Patch, a hyperlocal content initiative, yet already it’s the target of quite a bit of criticism. AOL says it is attempting to make digital, local journalism professional and profitable.....
August 5th, 2010
Blogging is an integral part of the future of news media. This is not just my own opinion; it is one shared by the news giant Forbes. On Tuesday, Forbes launched a new array of blogs using one of my favorite tools: the WordPress blogging platform.
Why....
August 3rd, 2010
YouTube has signed a deal with a San Francisco news station, ABC7 News (a.k.a. KGO-TV), that allows local citizen journalists to upload their own video reports and photos. The project is called uReport. Videos and photos can be uploaded directly through....
July 27th, 2010
Las Vegas-based Righthaven LLC is making money by buying out copyrights to newspaper content and suing blogs and websites that violate those copyrights. Under the Copyright Act, penalties for a single infringement can be as much as $150,000.
Steve Gibson,....
July 21st, 2010
Earlier this year, SixEstate created a survey to shed some light on the way people use blogs and online search when it comes to finding and consuming news and other information online. The survey was distributed via Twitter, LinkedIn and two PR-focused....
July 20th, 2010
Laurie Penny covers pop culture and politics for the New Statesman. In a recent column, she writes:
As more and more of us cherry-pick our media online, drawing little distinction between the mainstream press and the popular blogosphere, industry insiders....
