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By Michelle V. Rafter on November 30, 2009
It remains to be seen whether AOL’s online news endeavor will turn out to be a legitimate market for freelance work, or give new meaning to the term bad seed.
Posted in Editors, Freelancing, Media Business, Online news, Technology | Tagged AOL, content aggregators, Online news, Seed.com, the future of news |
By Michelle V. Rafter on November 16, 2009
Tune into OPB’s a.m. talk show, Think Outloud, Tuesday, Nov. 17, to hear me and other area reporters and editors discuss the future of local journalism.
Posted in Media Business, Newspapers, Online news, Oregon | Tagged local journalism, Michelle Rafter, Oregon, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland, the future of news |
By Michelle V. Rafter on November 2, 2009
While I buy into the fact that the print business press has suffered what might be a fatal blow, it’s not the end of the world for business reporting.
Posted in Economy, Magazines, Media Business, Online news | Tagged business journalism, covering the economy, the future of news |
By Michelle V. Rafter on September 17, 2009
The first Digital Journalism social hour takes place Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., at the Lucky Lab pub in S.E. Portland.
Posted in Media Business, Online news, Oregon | Tagged Abraham Hyatt, Digital Journalism Camp, Oregon writers, Portland, Society of Professional Journalists, SPJ, the future of news |
By Michelle V. Rafter on September 1, 2009
But many 2009 Online Journalism Award finalists are online-only publications that aim to pick up where cash-strapped newspapers have left off, especially on investigative news.
Posted in Online news | Tagged 2009 Online Journalism Awards, Muckety, Newspaper Industry, Online news, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Chauncey Bailey Project, the future of news, VoicesofSanDiego.org |
By Michelle V. Rafter on May 7, 2009
If you think reporters, editors, newspaper pundits, Sam Zell and the Sulzberger family are the only ones worried about the fate of the media business, you haven’t spent a Saturday morning with a room full of geeks. At last weekend’s BarCampPortland III meetup, the assembled developers, programmers and Web 2.0 entrepreneurs were just as concerned [...]
Posted in Blogs, Media Business, Newspapers, Online news, Oregon, Technology, Web 2.0 | Tagged Abraham Hyatt, BarCampPortland, BarCampPortland III, digital media, hyperlocal news, John Hill, Neighborhood Notes, OurPDX.com, Steven Walling, The Columbian, the future of news, the media business, The Portland Sentinel |