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Social Networking for Wired Journalists
via E-Media Tidbits by Amy Gahran on January 31, 2008
wiredjournalists.comA new, independent social network for net-savvy journalists.As j-schools struggle to keep the skills they teach relevant to the fast-changing media landscape, hundreds other journalists and students have mobilized to teach and support each other informally through a new online social network. Wired Journalists was recently created by Ryan Sholin of GateHouse Media, using Ning...
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AP Publishes Ernie Pyle's Death Photo
via E-Media Tidbits by Amy Gahran on February 02, 2008
War correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by enemy fire on the island of Ie Shima, April 18, 1945.Today, 63 years after famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by enemy fire while covering combat on Ie Shima (a small island off Okinawa), the Associated Press has obtained and published the only known a photo of the slain journalist. AP reports that "As far as can be determined, the photograph...
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Survey: Print and Broadcast News Fading Fast
via E-Media Tidbits by Amy Gahran on March 03, 2008
Petteri Sulonen, via Flickr (CC license)Some problems are pretty hard to ignore if you want to move forward.Yesterday at a Knight Digital Media Center seminar, prof. Michael Williams (Univ. Md.) presented a room full of print editorial writers with a wake-up call. According to new research from Zogby International, print and broadcast news are on the way out, fast. Newspapers and TV news are...
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Video Comments for Blogs
via E-Media Tidbits by Paul Bradshaw on May 14, 2008
... service launched this week by Seesmic in partnership with the comment-tracking service Disqus.Video comments benefit commenters vs. the rest of a blog's audience in different ways.From the audience's perspective, some readers probably won't be willing to play a 30-second video that they could have scan-read in a fraction of the time. Or they will feel frustrated if they do play s...
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Instant Messaging the News
via E-Media Tidbits by Ellyn Angelotti on June 03, 2008
During the typical work day, you can find most of my Poynter colleagues and I on AIM (AOL Instant Messenger). When we work from home, AIM helps us to keep up with one another almost as if we were in the same building. We use AIM to write messages and video chat with each other to ask each other questions and collaborate on projects.Using instant messaging to communicate with users is nothing...
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LoudounExtra.com Needed More "Touch"
via E-Media Tidbits by Michelle Ferrier on June 06, 2008
Illustir, via Flickr (CC license)LoudounExtra.com could have used more "high touch" activity.A few years ago, I moved from Washington, D.C. to a very rural community. When I traveled down those country roads, I'd be absolutely tickled when folks out in their yards would look up and wave as I passed by. They didn't know me, but they still acknowledged me as part of their community.I...
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