[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on July 16, 2010.]
Should papers charge for obits online?: We’ve written a whole bunch about Steve Brill’s paid-online-news venture Journalism Online around these parts, and the company’s first Press+ system went live on a newspaper site this week, with Pennsylvania’s LancasterOnline obits section going to a metered pay model for [...]
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on June 18, 2010.]
The FTC’s last round of input: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission wrapped up its series of forums on journalism and public policy Tuesday, and this forum got quite a bit more attention than the others — partly because it’s the last one, [...]
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FTC,
google news,
jay rosen,
journalism online,
journalism subsidy,
Knight News Challenge,
news corp,
objectivity,
paid content,
personalization,
political journalism,
rupert murdoch,
serendipity,
skiff
[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Feb. 5, 2010.]
A gaggle of Google news items: Unlike the past several weeks with their paywall and iPad revelations, this week wasn’t dominated by one giant future-of-media story. But there were quite a few incremental happenings that proved to be interesting, and several of [...]
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AP,
classifieds,
Davos,
facebook,
google,
google news,
growth,
Haiti,
iPad,
j-school,
jeff jarvis,
journalism online,
long-form journalism,
Mark Cuban,
news readers,
objectivity,
paywalls,
Social Search,
traffic
There was quite a bit of compelling stuff said this week in the new-media-and-journalism department, but unlike the last few weeks, there’s no one or two issues that much of the discussion has orbited around. So rather than doing my usual mini-essay on the top item or two, I’m going to have some shorter comments [...]