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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Dec. 9, 2011.] Do institutions have a place in news innovation?: About three weeks after Dean Starkman's indictment of future-of-news thinkers was posted online by the Columbia Journalism Review, NYU professor Clay Shirky — one of the primary targets of the piece — delivered a response late last week in the form of a thoughtful essay on the nature of institutions and the news industry. Shirky explained the process by which institutions can lapse into rigidity and blindness to their threats, and he argued that there's no way to preserve newspapers' most important institutional qualities in the digital age, so the only option left is radical innovation. Several observers — of a future-of-news orientation themselves — jumped in to echo Shirky's point. The Journal Register Co.'s Steve Buttry praised Shirky for waiting and reflecting rather than responding immediately, and media consultant Steve Yelvington seconded Shirky's point that all this talk about traditional journalistic models being overwhelmed by a decentralized, audience-focused digital tidal wave is descriptive, not prescriptive — not necessarily the way things should be, but simply the way they are. Howard Owens of the Batavian took the middle ground, declaring that evolution, not revolution, is the standard vehicle for change in journalism and laying a model for sustainable local journalism that focuses on local ownership, startups, and innovation. In the end, Owens wrote, online journalism will evolve and survive. "It will find ways to make more and more money to pay for more and more journalism. The audience is there for it, local businesses will always want to connect with that audience, and entrepreneurial minded people will find ways to put the pieces together." The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal raised a good point in the discussion about how to preserve serious journalism: He argued that the primary obstacle won't be so much about paying for journalists to cover important public-affairs issues, but about finding a way for that news to reach a substantial percentage of the population in a given area. That "amplification" problem may be tough to solve, but could be relatively easy to scale once that initial solution is found. — Paywalls picking up steam among smaller papers: Now that the New York Times has bravely served as a paywall guinea pig for the rest of America's newspapers (apparently successfully, judging from the indicators we have so far), we're starting to see more of the nation's mid-sized papers announce online pay plans of their own. This week, Gannett, the U.S.' largest newspaper chain, revealed that it would be expanding its paywalls to more of its papers sometime next year. 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And PaidContent reported that three paywalled MediaNews Group papers (now run by John Paton of the Journal Register Co.) have killed their Monday print editions, with a corresponding drop of their online paywall on those days. — Is this blogger a journalist?: Just when you thought the "Are bloggers journalists?" discussion was completely played out, it got some new life this week when an Oregon judge ruled that a blogger being sued for $2.5 million in a defamation case wasn't protected by the state's media shield law because she wasn't a journalist. As Seattle Weekly initially reported, the judge reasoned that she wasn't a journalist because she wasn't affiliated with any "newspaper, magazine, periodical, book, pamphlet, news service, wire service, news or feature syndicate, broadcast station or network, or cable television system." This type of ruling typically gets bloggers (and a lot of journalists) riled up, and rightly so. Mathew Ingram of GigaOM gave some great context regarding state-by-state shield laws, noting that several other recent rulings have defined who's a journalist much more broadly than this judge did. These types of distinctions based on institutional affiliation are attempts to hold back a steadily rising tide, he argued. On the other hand, Forbes' Kashmir Hill described some of the case's background that seemed to indicate that this particular blogger was much more intent on defamation than performing journalism, creating dozens of sites to dominate the search results for the company she was attacking, then emailing the company to offer $2,500/mo. online reputation management. Hill concluded, "Yes, bloggers are journalists. But just because you have a blog doesn’t mean that what you do is journalism." 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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Dec. 2, 2011.] We've got two weeks to cover with this review, but since one of those weeks was dominated for many us by football, family and post-turkey stupor, it's a relatively quiet period to catch up on. Here's what you might have missed: Citizen journalism and the Occupy movement: The furor surrounding the Occupy Wall Street protests hit another peak before Thanksgiving, thanks in large part to the police officer who pepper-sprayed seated UC-Davis students at close range. The episode was captured in numerous videos and photos by surrounding students that quickly achieved meme status, and the Lab's Megan Garber argued that the Pepper Spraying Cop meme was crucial in pushing the movement beyond its theme of economic justice and in demanding emotional, empathetic participation by viewers. Zack Whittaker of ZDNet held up the incident as an example of citizen journalism holding authority to account and exposing spin for what it is, and GigaOM's Janko Roettgers argued that while the Arab Spring relied on this type of coverage because many kinds of professional reporting were outlawed, it's being used in the U.S. to supplement the limited resources of the professional press. NYU j-prof Jay Rosen highlighted the work of one of those Occupy citizen reporters, offering some fine advice to young would-be journalists in the process: The most important thing is to put yourself in a "journalistic situation," which is "when a live community is depending on you for regular reports about some unfolding thing that clearly matters to them." Meanwhile, the concern over police's heavy-handed tactics toward reporters—including arrests and removal from the scenes of their Occupy crackdowns—has continued. Numerous New York news organizations called for an investigation into the New York Police Department's brutishness toward journalists, and New York Times columnist Michael Powell made a sharp rebuttal of NYPD's "but they didn't have press passes!" defense. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram gave some thoughts about how these situations have changed now that journalists are everywhere, and Free Press' Josh Stearns gave a great example of journalistic curation in his explanation of how he's reported on journalist arrests nationwide. The Times has a few miscellaneous angles covered as well: Brian Stelter looked at Occupy coverage from within and outside the mainstream, and David Carr wondered what's next for Occupy, particularly in terms of its media narrative. — SOPA as innovation killer: On the heels of last month's congressional hearing on the U.S.' ominous Stop Online Piracy Act, alarm about the bill's potential to dramatically curtail online speech continues to echo around the web, including from the editorial boards of both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Techdirt's Mike Masnick, who has been the go-to writer on SOPA, billed one of his posts arguing against the bill as the definitive argument, and he's probably right. Masnick's argument had a few parts: 1) Enforcement is the wrong way to prevent copyright infringement; 2) Even if it was the right way, SOPA is an ineffective enforcement strategy; and 3) Along the way, SOPA would do significant collateral damage to the economy and innovation. 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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on June 24, 2011.] The New York Post's iPad block: News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch has developed a reputation for draconian policies toward paid content and the web, and he furthered that pattern this week when News Corp.'s New York Post blocked access to its website from the iPad's Safari browser in an effort to sell more of its iPad apps. A subscription to the app runs $6.99 per month; access to the website would be free. The reaction on the web was overwhelmingly negative: Tech pioneer Dave Winer accused the Post of "breaking the web," paidContent's Staci Kramer called it "one of the most poorly conceived paywall efforts I’ve come across," and business journalist Adam Tinworth called the move "dictatorial." As Kramer and Examiner.com's Michael Santo noted, the Post left plenty of workarounds for users who don't want to pay up, through alternative browsers like Skyfire. Kramer and Engadget's Dana Wollman also suspected that Murdoch is attempting to recreate the Post as an app-based tabloid like his other major effort, The Daily. (Both are skeptical about the prospects of that plan.) News Corp. does have some good news on the iPad front this week, though: The Post and The Daily are the two highest-grossing publishing apps on the iPad, ranking well ahead of the next-most-lucrative apps — two comic-book apps and Conde Nast's New Yorker and Wired. Poynter's Regina McCombs talked to three other iPad app publishers — CNN, the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record, and Better Homes & Gardens — about how they put their apps together. And the Columbia Journalism Review's Zachary Sniderman compared the iPad's adoption process to that of print periodicals before it: The iPad's sales, he said, "mirror a long trend of historical adoption rates and cultural attitudes: initial enthusiasm for a new platform, slow adoption, and then gradually increasing sales as the population gets habituated to using the new technology." — A fresh round of news innovation: This week was a big one in news innovation, as the Knight Foundation (one of the Lab's funders) announced the 16 winners of the last round of its five-year Knight News Challenge competition. The Lab's Joshua Benton gave a good annotated roundup of the winning entries, which will get a total of $4.7 million: There are a few names many people will recognize, including former New York Times/ProPublica project DocumentCloud, the AP's (and the Lab's) Jonathan Stray, and the crisis text-mapping service Ushahidi. I would expect profiles of several of the winning projects over the next week or so, and the Lab's Justin Ellis provided the first with a look at the Chicago Tribune's PANDA, which aims to help newsrooms analyze data more easily. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram noticed the data journalism theme running through the winning entries, and elsewhere, the Daily Dot's Nicholas White opined on the importance of data in journalism. Benton's post also included a glance at what's next for the News Challenge, as well as highlights of what has and hasn't gone well over the News Challenge's short history from a recently released internal review. Some of the main challenges: Underestimated difficulty of citizen journalism and news game projects, problems with accurate cost budgeting, and a slow timetable. Poynter's Jeff Sonderman also looked back at some of the lessons learned from the News Challenge. 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[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on April 1, 2011.] Putting the Times' pay plan in place: If you read last week's review, the first half of this week's should feel like déjà vu — lots of back-and-forth about the wisdom of The New York Times' new online pay plan, and some more hand-wringing about getting around that plan. If you want to skip that and get to the best stuff, I recommend Staci Kramer, David Cohn, and Megan Garber. The Times launched its pay system Monday with a letter to its readers (snarkier version courtesy of Danny Sullivan), along with a 99-cent trial offer for the first four weeks and free access for people who subscribe to the Times on Kindle. Times digital chief Martin Nisenholtz gave a launch-day talk to newspaper execs, highlighted by his assertion that the link economy is not a win-win for content producers and aggregators. Meanwhile, the discussion about the paywall's worth rolled on. You can find a good cross-section of opinions in this On Point conversation with Ken Doctor, the Journal Register's John Paton, The Times' David Carr, and NYTClean creator David Hayes. The plan continues to draw support from some corners, including The Onion (in its typically ironic style, of course) and PC Magazine's Lance Ulanoff. Former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski and Advertising Age columnist Simon Dumenco both made similar arguments about the value of the plan, with Foremski urging us to support the Times as a moral duty to quality journalism and Dumenco ripping the blogosphere's paywall-bashers for not doing original reporting like the Times. And though the opposition was expressed much more strongly the past two weeks, there was a smattering of dissent about the plan this week, too — some from the Times' mobile users. One theme among the criticism was the cost of developing the plan: Philip Greenspun wondered how the heck the Times spent $40 million on planning and implementation, and former Guardian digital head Emily Bell wrote about the opportunity cost of that kind of investment. BNET's Erik Sherman proposed that the Times should have invested the money in innovation instead. A few other interesting thoughts about the Times' pay plan before we get to the wall-jumping debate: Media consultant Judy Sims said the plan might actually make the Times more social by providing an incentive for subscribers to share articles on social networks to their non-subscribing friends. Spot.Us' David Cohn argued that the plan is much closer to a donation model than a paywall and argued for the Times to offer membership incentives. And Reuters' Felix Salmon talked about how the proposal is changing blogging at the Times. 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The Times also quickly (and successfully) requested a shutdown of one of the more brazen free-riding schemes yet concocted — NYT for a Nickel, which charged to access Times articles without paywall restrictions. (It did, however, let up on unauthorized Twitter aggregators of Times content.) So we all obviously can crawl through the Times' loopholes, but should we? A few folks made efforts to hack through the ethical thicket of the Times' intentional and unintentional loopholes: Times media critic James Poniewozik didn't come down anywhere solid, but said the Times' leaky strategy "makes the paywall something like a glorified tip jar, on a massive scale—something you choose to contribute to without compulsion because it is the right thing" — except unlike those enterprises, it's for-profit. In a more philosophical take, the Lab's Megan Garber said the ethical conundrum shows the difficulty of trying to graft the physical world's ethical assumptions onto the digital world. — A possible +1 for publishers: Google made a big step in the direction of socially driven search this week with the introduction of +1, a new feature that allows users to vote up certain search results in actions that are visible to their social network. Here are two good explainers of the feature from TechCrunch and Search Engine Land, both of whom note that +1's gold mine is in allowing Google to personalize ads more closely, and that it's starting on search results and eventually moving to sites across the web. The feature was immediately compared to Facebook's "Like" and Twitter's retweets, though it functions a bit differently from either. As GigaOM's Mathew Ingram noted, because it's Google, it's intrinsically tied to search, which is both an advantage and a disadvantage. As Ingram said, it's smart to add more of a social component to search, but Google's search-centricity makes the "social network" aspect of +1 awkward, just as Buzz and Wave were. To paraphrase the argument of Frederic Lardinois of NewsGrange: if your +1's go into your Google Profile and no one sees them, do they really make a sound? All this seems to be good news for media sites. Lost Remote's Cory Bergman said that if they essentially become "improve the SEO of this site" buttons, media companies will be pretty motivated to add them to their sites. Likewise, Poynter's Damon Kiesow reasoned that +1 could be a great way for media sites to more deeply involve visitors who arrive via Google, who have typically been less engaged than visitors from Facebook and Twitter. — Shrinking innovation to spur it: This month's Carnival of Journalism focuses on how to drive innovation, specifically through the Knight News Challenge and Reynolds Journalism Institute. Most of the posts rolled in yesterday, and they contain a litany of quick, smart ideas of new directions for news innovation and how to encourage it. A quick sampling: City University London and Birmingham City University j-prof Paul Bradshaw proposed a much broader, smaller-scale News Challenge fund, with a second fund aimed at making those initiatives scale. J-Lab Jan Schaffer said we need to quit looking at innovation so much solely in terms of tools and more in terms of processes and relationships. British journalist Mary Hamilton and Drury j-prof Jonathan Groves both focused on innovation in training, with Groves proposing "innovation change agents" funded by groups like Knight and the RJI to train and transform newsrooms. 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The Lab's Megan Garber noted a few other interesting implications of the study, delving into Twitter's two-step flow from media to a layer of influential sources to the masses, as well as the social media longevity of multimedia and list-oriented articles. A couple of other research-oriented items about Twitter: A Lab post on Dan Zarrella's data regarding timing and Twitter posts, and Maryland prof Zeynep Tufekci wrote a more theoretical post on NPR's Andy Carvin and the process of news production on Twitter. — Reading roundup: Plenty of other bits and pieces around the future-of-news world this week: — New York Times editor Bill Keller wrote a second column, and like his anti-aggregation piece a couple of weeks ago, this piece — about the value of the Times' impartiality and fact-based reporting — didn't go over well. 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We got several varied but useful summaries of the conference, purchase Luvox online no prescription, Buy Luvox from mexico, starting with the Lab's Justin Ellis, who recreated its sessions, Luvox in usa, Real brand Luvox online, one by one, through tweets, purchase Luvox online. Luvox to buy online, Craig Silverman of PBS MediaShift was just about as thorough with a roundup of both days' events, focusing largely on the conference's three keynotes covering TBD, buy Luvox from canada, Luvox over the counter, NPR, AOL, and WikiLeaks. Poynter's Mallary Jean Tenore listed five key themes from the conference, including the emergence of investigative journalism online and the decline of the "Is this journalism?" debate. The Online Journalism Review's Pekka Pekkala had a review of themes, too, and NPR's Patrick Cooper had some more personal thoughts on the conference, noting the youth and energy of its attendees.

The individual session that drew the most attention was a conversation with NPR CEO Vivian Schiller and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong (liveblogged by Tenore Buy Luvox Without Prescription, ), in which USC j-prof Robert Hernandez asked Armstrong of AOL's controversial large-scale hyperlocal news initiative, "Is Patch evil?" Armstrong responded by defending AOL's treatment of Patch editors and pointing out its connections with local bloggers in Patch blogs' areas. In a blog post, Hernandez explained his question and gave his thoughts on Armstrong's answer, concluding, "Under the umbrella of 'we care about the community,' this is a business venture. That's not evil, that's capitalism." Two other sessions worth reading a bit about: Webbmedia's Amy Webb on digital storytelling and several others with advice for would-be journalism entrepreneurs.

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Twitter adds ads to the stream: Twitter took another step in its integration of advertising into its platform this week with the introduction of Promoted Tweets in users' tweet streams. The tweets will initially be tested only with users of the Twitter application HootSuite, with Twitter selling the ads and HootSuite getting a cut of the revenue, according to Advertising Age. The Next Web chatted with HootSuite's Dave Olson about how it will work, and said that Promoted Tweets have successful and relatively inoffensive so far: "Focusing on a good user interaction, instead of simply on the money, Twitter has kept its users and advertisers happy."

ReadWriteWeb's Mike Melanson talked to a few web experts on the potential for user backlash, and they seemed to agree that while Twitter will likely get some initially angry responses, it may end up keeping a satisfied user base if it reacts well to that initial response, Buy Luvox Without Prescription. As Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land explained, Twitter's Promoted Tweets were also added to Google search results, lending some credence to Mathew Ingram's assertion at GigaOM that Twitter is in the process of growing up from an awkward teenager into a mature adult right now.

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Reading roundup: A few good things to read before I send you on your way:

— Two relatively lengthy first-person pieces by journalists who did stints with the content farm Demand Media were published yesterday: A more colorful one by Jessanne Collins at The Awl and a more contextualized one by Nicholas Spangler at The Columbia Journalism Review. Both are worth your time.

— Your iPad update for this week: AdWeek looked at why most media companies' iPad apps have been disappointing, and New York and Newsweek magazines released their iPad apps — Newsweek's with a subscription option.

— The Columbia Journalism Review ran a short but sharp editorial urging news organizations to work toward earning authority based on factual reporting, rather than cowering in ideological niches, and Free Press' Josh Stearns connected that idea to the concept of "talking to strangers."

— Finally, three miscellaneous pieces to take a look at: Investigative journalism veteran Charles Lewis' map of the new public-service journalism ecosystem, Jason Fry's list of five places sports departments (and any news department, really) can innovate, and Steve Coll's open letter to the FCC on digital media policy.

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Sports departments operate outside the rest of the traditional newsroom structure.

This is the first reason Brown-Smith and Groves give: Innovation and risk-taking usually take place in autonomous divisions within an organization, "and at most news organizations, Actos price, coupon, Free Actos samples, the sports departments are separate beasts, often working different schedules and feeling relatively less shackled by [tradition]."

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Jim Brady, general manager of TBD and former washingtonpost.com executive editor, next day Actos, Actos over the counter, spelled this idea out in a series of tweets: Even in print, sportswriters were used to filing fast and in chunks because of the deadline push caused by night games, cod online Actos, Buy Actos online no prescription, and their stories often didn't make early editions. Consequently, real brand Actos online, Buy cheap Actos no rx, they saw the web, with its inclination toward 24/7 news and bite-size pieces of information, rx free Actos, Actos for sale, as more of an opportunity.

This makes a lot of sense to me: Sportswriters have had to do less to adapt their routines to the web, because their reporting processes are a more natural fit there anyway, Actos prescriptions. Buy Actos online without a prescription, That level of comfort leads to a lot more experimentation and innovation.

Sports journalists have tended to value their readers more highly — a key attitude in adapting to the two-way nature of online news.

This idea, too, buy Actos from mexico, Actos medication, was expressed by Brady via Twitter, though he wasn't exactly sure why, sale Actos. Buy Actos online cod, NYU professor Jay Rosen offered a possible explanation: "In sports, the difference between what users know and reporters know isn't as wide; therefore it's harder to be princely."

Rosen comes at this observation from a background studying the political press, Actos in mexico, Order Actos online c.o.d, but I think it rings true. Generally speaking, since televised sports became ubiquitous in the 1980s and early '90s, dedicated sports fans have been able to ascertain for themselves quite a bit of what reporters know about their favorite teams, Buy Actos Without Prescription. They're watching the same games, purchase Actos online, Actos in japan, and many fans have been studying those games just as intently and for as much of their lives as the sportswriters they read. All they're missing are the locker-room and press-conference quotes, Actos discount, Actos overseas, which are often laughably devoid of insight anyway.

The web was practically tailor-made for the way fans want to consume information about sports.

This reason was only hinted at by Brown-Smith and Groves, but I think it's key to determining why sports departments' online innovations are so much more substantive and successful, Actos from canadian pharmacy. Order Actos no prescription, There is no other type of news that is as social as sports, and none for which the audience's appetite is as ravenous. No other area even comes close; politics is a pretty distant second.

Sports are inherently social; in fact, ordering Actos online, Online buy Actos without a prescription, they may be the only televised content that's more commonly watched in groups than alone. And in between those televised events, where can i buy Actos online, Actos trusted pharmacy reviews, the biggest element of fandom is talking about sports with others — friends, co-workers, delivered overnight Actos, Buy Actos no prescription, strangers at bars, radio call-in show hosts. It's easy to see how ideally this translates to the web: Check out, Actos in us, Online buying Actos hcl, for example, the enormously popular game threads that are the bread and butter of many of the blogs of the quickly growing SB Nation network, buy cheap Actos. Buy Actos Without Prescription, There's little newsy information being conveyed there; they're purely social, a way to create the normative group-viewing experience in a virtual space.

Likewise, there's no other area of news in which audiences hang on each and every tidbit of news and analysis that a journalist can provide. Actos tablets, This attitude is a perfect fit for the rapid-fire, bite-size, fast shipping Actos, Actos in india, analytically based formats of blogging and Twitter.

These two aspects combine to make for a ripe environment for success in experimenting with interactive, Actos to buy online, Actos paypal, immediate forms of online news. This, Actos buy, Over the counter Actos, in turn, creates a remarkably effective positive reinforcement loop for those innovations: When sports departments launch beatblogs, order Actos from mexican pharmacy, or podcasts, or Twitter accounts, or live chats, or mobile updates, they're often rewarded with enthusiastic readers and eager interaction. That success, of course, only spurs more innovation. Sadly, the reverse often happens in other news coverage: Attempts at innovation are met (at least initially) with apathy, which journalists use to dismiss innovation as a waste of time.

Those are the factors we've come up with - if you have any theories of your own, I'd love to hear them in the comments.

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Rosen's caution that "it is going to take a while for The Local East Village to find any kind of stride" notwithstanding, Mestinon from international pharmacy, Where to buy Mestinon, the site got a few early reviews. The Village Voice's Foster Kamer started by calling the site the Times' "hyperlocal slave labor experiment" and concluded by officially "declaring war" on it, Buy Mestinon Without Prescription. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram, order Mestinon from mexican pharmacy, Mestinon paypal, on the other hand, was encouraged by NYU's effort to give students serious entrepreneurial skills, delivered overnight Mestinon, Mestinon overseas, as opposed to just churning out "typists and videographers."

NYU's project was part of the discussion about the role of journalism schools this week, though, purchase Mestinon online. Mestinon to buy, PBS' MediaShift wrapped up an 11-post series on j-school, which included an interview with Rosen about the journalism as R&D lab and a post comparing and contrasting the tacks being taken by NYU, buy no prescription Mestinon online, Where can i buy cheapest Mestinon online, Jeff Jarvis' program at the City University of New York and Columbia University. (Unlike the other two, Mestinon from canadian pharmacy, Buy Mestinon from mexico, Columbia is taking a decidedly research-oriented route.) Meanwhile, Tony Rogers, Mestinon buy, Mestinon in uk, a Philadelphia-area j-prof, wrote two articles (one of them a couple of weeks ago) at About.com quoting several professors wondering whether journalism schools have moved too far toward technological skills at the expense of meat-and-potatoes journalism skills, Mestinon discount. Buy Mestinon online with no prescription, They weren't the only ones: Both Teresa Schmedding of the American Copy Editors Society and Iowa State j-school director Michael Bugeja also criticized what they called a move away from the core of journalism in the country's j-schools. Buy Mestinon Without Prescription, "I expect to teach new hires InDesign, Quark or Twitter, MySpace, FB and how to use whatever the app of the week is, but I don’t expect to teach you what who, what, where, when, why and how means," Schmedding wrote. TBD's Steve Buttry countered those arguments with a post asserting that journalists need to know more about disruptive technology and what it's doing to their future industry. "Far too many journalists and journalism school graduates know next to nothing about the business of journalism and that status quo is indefensible, over the counter Mestinon, Mestinon price, coupon, " said Buttry.

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A turning point in news consumption: Like most every Pew survey, ordering Mestinon online, Mestinon trusted pharmacy reviews, the biennial study released this week by the Pew Center for the People & the Press is a veritable cornucopia of information on how people are consuming news. Tom Rosenstiel of Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism has some fascinating musings of the study's headline finding: People aren't necessarily ditching old platforms for news, Mestinon prices, Mestinon in us, but are augmenting them with new uses of emerging technology. Rosenstiel sees this as a turning point in news consumption, where to buy Mestinon, Delivered overnight Mestinon, brought about by more tech-savvy news orgs, faster Internet connections, buy Mestinon from mexico, Purchase Mestinon online, and increasing new media literacy. Several others — Mathew Ingram of GigaOM, Joe Pompeo of Business Insider, Mestinon in india, Mestinon from international pharmacy, Chas Edwards of Digg — agreed that this development is a welcome one.

The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz and paidContent's Staci Kramer have quick summaries of the study's key statistics, and DailyFinance's Jeff Bercovici pointed out one particularly portentous milestone: For the first time, the web has eclipsed newspapers as a news source, Buy Mestinon Without Prescription. (But, Mestinon over the counter, Mestinon overseas, as Collective Talent noted, we still love our TV news.) Lost Remote's Cory Bergman took a closer look at news consumption via social media, where can i buy Mestinon online, Mestinon to buy online, and j-prof W. Joseph Campbell examined the other side of the coin — the people who are going without news, buy no prescription Mestinon online. Where to buy Mestinon, The Pew Internet & American Life Project also released an interesting study this week looking at "apps culture," which essentially didn't exist two years ago, order Mestinon no prescription. Buy cheap Mestinon no rx, Beyond the Book interviewed the project's director, Lee Rainie, fast shipping Mestinon, Free Mestinon samples, about the study, and the Lab gave us five applications for news orgs from the study: Turns out news apps are popular, buy cheap Mestinon, Buy Mestinon no prescription, people will pay for apps, and they consume apps in small doses, Mestinon pills.

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Did social media kill RSS and press releases?: Ask.com announced last Friday Buy Mestinon Without Prescription, that it would shut down Bloglines, the RSS readerit bought in 2005, citing a slowdown in RSS usage as Twitter and Facebook increase their domination of real-time information flow. Mestinon in japan, "The writing is on the wall," wrote Ask's president, Mestinon buy, Buy Mestinon online cod, Doug Leeds. PaidContent's Joseph Tarkatoff used the news as a peg for the assertion that the RSS reader is dead, buy Mestinon online no prescription, Rx free Mestinon, noting that traffic is down for Bloglines and Google Reader, and that Google Reader, Mestinon gel, ointment, cream, pill, spray, continuous-release, extended-release, Mestinon prescriptions, the web's most popular RSS reader, is being positioned as more of a social sharing site, Mestinon discount. Purchase Mestinon, Tech writer Jeff Nolan agreed, arguing that RSS has value as a back-end application but not as a primary news-consumption tool:"RSS has diminishing importance because of what it doesn’t enable for the people who create content… any monetization of content, purchase Mestinon online no prescription, Saturday delivery Mestinon, brand control, traffic funneling, Mestinon in usa, Mestinon in uk, and audience acquisition," he wrote, Mestinon in mexico. Business Insider Henry Blodget joined in declaring RSS readers toast, blaming Twitter and Facebook for their demise. Numerous people jumped in to defend RSS, led by Dave Winer, who helped invent the tool about a decade ago, Buy Mestinon Without Prescription. Winer argued that RSS "forms the pipes through which news flows" and suggested reinventing the technology as a real-time feed with a centralized, non-commercial subscription service.

Tech writer Robert Scoble responded that while the RSS technology might be central to the web, RSS reading behavior is dying. The future is in Twitter and Facebook, he said. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram and media consultant Terry Heaton also defended RSS, with Ingram articulating its place alongside Twitter's real-time flow and Heaton arguing that media companies just need to realize its value as its utility spreads across the web.

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Twitter's media-company move: Lots of interesting social media stuff this week; I'll start with Twitter. The company began rolling out its new main-page design, which gives it a lot of the functions that its independently developed clients have. Twitter execs said the move indicated Twitter's status as a more consumptive platform, where the bulk of the value comes from reading, rather than writing — something All Things Digital's Peter Kafka tagged as a fundamental shift for the company: "Twitter is a media company: It gives you cool stuff to look at, you pay attention to what it shows you, and it rents out some of your attention to advertisers."

GigaOM's Mathew Ingram and venture capitalist David Pakman agreed, with Pakman noting that while Google, Facebook and Twitter all operate platform, users deal overwhelmingly with the company itself — something that's very valuable for advertisers. The Lab's Megan Garber also wrote a smart post on the effect of Twitter's makeover on journalism and information, Buy Mestinon Without Prescription. The new Twitter, Garber writes, moves tweets closer to news articles and inches its own status from news platform closer to a broadcast news platform. Ex-Twitter employee Alex Payne and Ingram (who must have had a busy week) took the opportunity to argue that Twitter as a platform needs to decentralize.

On to Facebook: The New Yorker released a lengthy profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and while not everyone was crazy about it (The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal thought it was boring and unrevealing), but it gave the opportunity for one of the people quoted in it —Expert Labs director Anil Dash — to deliver his own thoughtful take on the whole Facebook/privacy debate. Dash isn't that interested in privacy; what he is worried about is "this company advocating for a pretty radical social change to be inflicted on half a billion people without those people's engagement, and often, effectively, without their consent."

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Reading roundup Buy Mestinon Without Prescription, : Plenty of stuff worth reading this week. Let's get to it.

— Last week's discussion on online traffic and metrics spilled over into this week, as the Lab's Nikki Usher and C.W. Anderson discussed the effects of journalists' use of web metrics and the American Journalism Review's Paul Farhi looked at the same issue (from a more skeptical perspective). The Columbia Journalism Review's Dean Starkman had the read of the week on the topic (or any topic, really), talking about what the constant churn of news in search of new eyeballs is doing to journalism. All of these pieces are really worth your time, Buy Mestinon Without Prescription.

— The San Jose Mercury News reported that Apple is developing a plan for newspaper subscriptions through its App Store that would allow the company to take a 30 percent cut of all the newspaper subscriptions it sells and 40 percent of their advertising revenue. The Columbia Journalism Review's Ryan Chittum was skeptical of the report, but Ken Doctor had nine good questions on the issue while we find out whether there's anything to it.

— The Atlantic published a very cool excerpt from a book on video games as journalism by three Georgia Tech academics. I'm guessing you'll be hearing a lot more about this in the next couple of years. Buy Mestinon Without Prescription, — Rafat Ali, who founded paidContent gave a kind of depressing interview to Poynter on his exit from the news-about-the-news industry. "I think there’s just too much talk about it, and to some extent it is just an echo chamber, people talking to each other. There's more talk about the talk than actual action." Well, shoot, I'd better find a different hobby. (Seriously, though, he's right — demos, not memos.)

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