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Link: Teaching Online Journalism » 21 examples of Flash journalism
Teaching Online Journalism » 21 examples of Flash journalism
Use the tool to do what the other tool cannot. Well, that’s the theory.
Link: CNN Sees Facebook As Major Competitor
CNN Sees Facebook As Major Competitor
The competition for page views will have no winner because the Internet is functionally infinite.
Link: Meet Jake Adelstein, a Jewish reporter who thinks like a Japanese gangster – Boing Boing
Meet Jake Adelstein, a Jewish reporter who thinks like a Japanese gangster – Boing Boing
I’ve never beaten the kneecap of a source until it broke. And I thought I was stressed.
Posted in Links | Also tagged crime, Japan, journalism, media, newspapers, reporters, Tokyo, Yakuza | Leave a comment
Link: It’s Too Early for Newspaper Publishers to ‘Burn the Boats’ | Newspaper Death Watch
It’s Too Early for Newspaper Publishers to “Burn the Boats” | Newspaper Death Watch
Point/Counterpoint
”…subscription revenues nearly matched its advertising revenue.” / But this needs to account for decline in advertising revenue.
“It isn’t crazy for publishers to want to milk the cash cow for a few more years.” / No asking if the customer wants to, [...]
Today’s irresistible links
Links to stories culled from the magic pipes:
Amazing Race: E-Waste Violators’ Best Friend because trash is one of those characteristics of modern life that shocks, worries and amazes me (‘The average American throws away a staggering 4.5 pounds of rubbish daily.’).
Vice’s Q & A with Terry Gillam because I’ve enjoyed just about everything he [...]
Posted in Story Links | Also tagged arrests, brothels, bugs, business, Christianity, climate, cults, debt, entrepreneurship, environment, fatherhood, insects, Islam, prostitution, Terry Gillam | Leave a comment
Blog post on nytimes.com: Iran’s president visits Larry King
Post on The Times’s news blog, The Lede: Ahmadinejad Goes on ‘Larry King Live’
Posted in Portfolio | Also tagged Ahmadinejad, Larry King, New York Times, The Lede | Leave a comment
News in a Word: Sept. 25 NYT
1. Siren
2. Influence
3. Reflect
4. Spectre
5. Fall
6. Onward
Great analysis of the challenges of micropayments as an online news business
Robert G. Picard: The transaction cost problem of newspaper micropayments
Summary: No deed goes unpunished.
Some points:
Each article (or content item) has a different economic value, but the cost of a sale remains significant per article.
So, in a collective, more profitable content will need to subsidize less profitable content.
Pre-paid accounts for customers would be the most efficient [...]
Posted in Newsroomnext, flyingflashlight | Also tagged information warfare, media, micropayments, News Business | Leave a comment
Counterfeit bills pay a visit to a Little Italy bike shop
Bicycle Habitat has seen an increase in the number of counterfeit bills brought into its shop, according to an employee.
A man recently attempted to buy a tire patch kit with a $50 bill that was proven fake after getting the magic pen treatment.
When the employee returned the bill after noting it was counterfeit, the man [...]
Posted in Flying Flashlight Reports | Also tagged bicycle, counterfeiting, Secret Service | Leave a comment
Link: U.N. Tribunal to Digitize Video Recordings of Rwanda Proceedings