It might be bad times for business, and bad times for newspaper business sections, but it appears to be a great time to be a business journalist. Last week on the same day that Wall Street tanked, Slate introduced its new business section, called The Big Money, edited by ex-deputy managing editor of CNN Money […]
Poynter offers Sept. 25 Webinar on reporting with video
Most freelancers I know have a print background and little to no training using video to tell stories, myself included. But as the media business goes online, video is showing up on more news and magazine Websites. It seems like a good idea to at least learn the basics of using video to report stories, […]
Online News Association job fair, grants, NFL player access
Here’s some interesting tidbits from the Online News Association, one of the biggest groups for journalists and freelance writers who work online. * The finalists for this year’s Online Journalism Awards will be announced at the ONA’s annual conference on Sept. 13 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. Here is the complete list of […]
Around the Web: the changing newsroom, young reporters, Twitter
Where are newspapers headed? It’s hard to say given the varying tone of reporting on the newspaper industry and fate of newspaper reporters. On one hand, Journalism.org’s The Changing Newsroom study describes today’s newspapers as being run by smaller, younger, more tech-savvy staff. But Mark Glaser, writing in his MediaShift column at PBS.org, says papers […]
Can ProPublica be the public interest watchdog of online news?
While newspapers and magazines continue to lose some of their best writers to downsizing and other cutbacks, one news organization has been building up staff with the hope of becoming the preeminent investigative news source online. The organization is ProPublica, a privately-funded public-interest news Website that opened for business earlier this summer. ProPublica aims to […]
Good reads on changes in online news business
To start the week, here’s a round up of recent stories about happenings in the online news business: CJR on NY Times’ online holdings – The cover story of the July/August issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, Sulzberger at the Barricades: Can Arthur Sulzberger Jr. transform The New York Times for the digital age? reveals […]