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Citizen Journalism
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10.30.08Subs - in transition, not out of a jobI'd just like to quickly clarify my comments about post moderating web content and sub editors at the New Media Knowledge event on Tuesday night. Journalism.co.uk reported that I was arguing that the Telegraph is seeking to get rid of sub editors by introducing post moderation on website content. This is not the case and absolutely not what I meant. I was trying to explain - apparently rather badly - that all publishers are faced with a dilemma: we need more content to attract greater audiences online at a time when print revenues, which are still the backbone of our businesses, ...
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09.12.08A challenge to the bloggers of KentThis is your moment - particularly you guys in Thanet who have got your pre-cooked network in place already, all you've got to do is plug it in and hit the throttle. Look around you: the local press is in disarray, local television news is next to non-existent, local and community radio are shams and are costing so much that they threaten to pull the entire regional publishing industry over. Fuel prices are climbing again. The economy is sinking. The market is looking for new and more cost-effective ways to get its message across. The property crash puts up to a ...
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08.12.08Save local news - forget paper and website … go mobileHere's how to seize control from the assorted goons who still control most of the UK's local papers and bring real news back to the people who matter - go mobile. In the US, the New York Times reports that Verve Wireless is helping 140 publishers put their print and web editions onto mobile phones. Verve makes its money by generating targeted and geo-tagged ad content at mobile users. So far AP has managed to stitch the deal up by signing up 400 papers for its Verve iPhone app. But this is still rubber wheels running on steel rails and I think ...
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08.11.08The future is bleak for Britain’s local weekly newspapersMark Pinsky's piece in Media Guardian today is a sanguine look at Reductions in Force (RIFs) across the US newspaper market and his own - unexpected - redundancy from the position of religious affairs correspondent on a southern title. The US market is in turmoil with circulations across the country in freefall, advertising revenues going over a cliff and hundreds of titles laying off thousands of journalists. Pinksy blames the way that newspapers are produced: Grown complacent - fat, dumb and happy - the industry became boring and irrelevant. The great minds that lead us missed two significant internet threats. Craigslist and ...
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08.04.08Why Demotix could become the biggest thing in world newsSeveral months ago a guy called Turi Munthe came into the Telegraph's offices in Victoria with a proposal. He wanted TMG to support a nascent project of his - Demotix. The Telegraph, like every other major publisher, gets hundreds of proposals like this a year: a new web new start-up, some apps, a content-sharing deal ... those kind of things. But it was clear from what Turi was proposing that this was different - he had a vision for a global site for citizen journalists. Demotix, he told us, would allow ordinary people in extraordinary and difficult places to publish stories ...
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