New Media Business Course Syllabi

For the past four years, I’ve been teaching a New Media Business for media course at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. It was originally open just to postgraduate students, but a few years ago we opened it to select…

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer About WashingtonPost.com Blog Shutdown

Here is the transcript of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer‘s video interview with Washingtonpost.com Editor Jim Brady and BoingBoing.net Co-Editor Xeni Jardin about why Brady temporarily turned off PostBlog‘s comments function after receiving hundreds of abusive postings. The interview video is also…

AOPUK Discussion of RSS

Since writing my posting earlier today about RSS, I’ve chanced to read the UK Association of Online Publishers’ story about its forum last Friday entitled ‘Making a success of RSS‘. That story is unfortunately an example of the hype and reportorial dynamics…

'Publishers Don't Understand that the Home Page is no longer the Gateway'

That’s online newspaper publishing pioneer Barry Paar’s lament last week at MediaSavvy. … They are desperately afraid of “aggregators” grabbing their headlines and treating them as wire services. Why are they afraid of aggregators? I understand the rationale, but it doesn’t really…

BloggerCon II

Bloggers attending the BoggerCon II conference Saturday at Harvard University’s Law School voted that forming a trade association of bloggers and also giving advertisers better usage statistics about blogs are the two best paths toward generating revenues from blogging. During a session…

Paid Subscription Blogging, Part 2

The second part of our article examining the feasibility of paid subscription blogging was published today by JupiterMedia’s ClickZ.com. It also features the opinions of Hylton Jolliffe of Corante, Steve Outing of the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits, Henry Copeland of Pressflex and…

WestportNow.com

Cyberjournalists.net profiles Gordon Joseloff, a former CBS News and UPI foreign correspondent, who has used blogware to create an online news publication about his hometown of Westport, Connecticut. A very affluent community of 26,000 people, Westport has weekly and semi-weekly printed newspapers,…

JMR Eyes OhmyNews.com

Japan Media Review offers a good story about OhmyNews.com of South Korea, a collaborative “citizen reporters” site that had a affect on it nation. San Jose Mercury News tech columnist Dan Gillmor recently termed OhmyNews.com it a site that, “is transforming the…

CJR on Media Weblogging

Columbia Journalism Review has launched its redesigned Web site, which this month features a story about weblogging by alternative newspapers, amateur journalists, and mainstream media, with a list of mainstream American media that weblogs.

Does Editing Make It 'Journalism'?

Last month, the (U.S.) Public Broadcasting Network’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer aired a good, short broadcast [transcript & video available] about blogging. But we do disagree with something that MSNBC.com Executive Producer Joan Connell said in it: “One of the values that…

Blog by Phone

Hey, desk-bound bloggers: Perhaps you didn’t believe my prediction last year that there is a rising Third Wave of Online Journalism utilizing wireless technologies? Then point your mouse towards NewBay. This Irish company’s software lets cellular network customers operate weblogs from mobile…