2009-12-03T17:30:15+00:00J-Lab's New Media Women Entrepreneurs with the McCormick Foundation created a report about new media that stresses several important themes.
1. Participation - community is involved not just covered.
2. Different truth strategies - fancy way of saying traditional objectivity, strictly bound objectivity is losing out to transparency and honesty.
3. Less focus on CONFLICT.67New Media Women Entrepreneurs Report12012009-12-03T17:30:15+00:002009-10-20T20:51:33+00:00Does taking blog capabilities mobile matter? Perhaps not. Perhaps the ability to contribute blogby junk in yet another format makes no difference, but if your favorite bloggers and community commercial sites (CitJ sites) go this route rather than building an iPhone app, it could draw down Apple's current hold on the mobile market, which by some anecdotal accounts is begging for attack by being spotty with text messaging and with phone service as well.
No, I'm not saying WordPress mobile tamplates are going to kill the iPhone, but coupled with Google phones this capability might have an effect..
The larger issue continues to be the rapidly changing online media environment and the question of which horse to jump on as you ride out of the warm and hay-filled newspaper stable, including 100 more from the New York Times soon enough, sadly.66
http://mashable.com/2009/10/20/wordpress-mobile-themes/
WordPress goes mobile12012009-10-20T20:51:33+00:002009-10-20T18:20:45+00:00EReaders will be making a strong showing this coming holiday season. Is this the beginning of a new, profitable business model?65
http://rji.missouri.edu/digital-publishing/ereaders/stories/about/index.php
eReaders: Where are we now?12012009-10-20T18:20:45+00:002009-10-20T03:53:01+00:00Call for papers on new media and how the industry has changed. What have researchers done and failed to do to promote and/or protect journalism in the past 15 years? What can we do in the next 15?64Texas Tech New Media Theory12012009-10-20T03:53:01+00:002009-08-26T14:31:25+00:00Visiting the Missouri School of Journalism at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, David Mathison presents a resource for entrepreneurial journalism. It's one of the most comprehensive how-tos for new media on the market, and it may be free to you.60
http://www.bethemedia.org/
Be the Media12012009-09-01T15:30:30+00:002009-08-23T03:27:11+00:00What happens when people can make their own magazine covers and movie posters this easily? This is a fun way to delve into the topic of user-generated content and what role it should play in your online offerings. Much research into this area is needed.59
http://mashable.com/2009/08/22/image-generators/
Marketing for the Masses12012009-09-01T15:30:30+00:002009-08-13T15:11:34+00:00Evans & Stoddart (1990) discuss the difference between the health care industry and health and suggest a health policy rather than a health care (industry) policy are in order for improving societal health, fitness, wellness. How do you see the issue framed by politicians, competing cable news channels, your local paper, national newspapers, citizen news sites, blogs?58
http://tinyurl.com/pavdgu
"Health" or "Health Care" ?12012009-09-01T15:30:30+00:002009-08-12T03:31:50+00:00Smith, McCarthy, McPhail, Augustyn (2001) found that protesting might (MIGHT) gain news media attention, but it does not necessarily garner the kind of attention the protestors want. My question is this: if protestors are corporate-sponsored, is their message getting across more readily (is corporate-sponsored protest more salient with regard to its original message or purpose)?57
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=info:yckjYk2GGKcJ:scholar.google.com/&output=viewport&pg=1&hl=en
From Protest to Agenda Building12012009-09-01T15:30:30+00:002009-08-03T18:09:39+00:00This is a wide survey of other health communication research articles that shows, in general, that mass media DO affect the choices ("interventions") including but not limited to consumer choice. It's a good baseline that shows empirically what most members of the media assume: health care coverage can affect behavior, including popularity of specific treatments.
In the current news climate, it MAY suggest that special interests, politicians and even individual doctors and hospitals would do well to try to push the media agenda during the ongoing healthcare debate.
So what? What am I supposed to do about it?
Consider that your health care coverage will have real effects on behavior. Avoid reporting on rumor. Beware of special interest advertising masking as expert opinion. Drug companies, politicians, doctors, lawyers, consumer groups, etc. are aware of this research and will try to push agendas.
If we all know this, and if this is so obvious, why does it still happen daily, even in your newsroom where you have some control over the situation?56
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10796539
Mass media interventions: effects on health services utilisation12012009-09-01T15:30:30+00:002009-07-30T20:27:34+00:00This begs the question: what role will Google have in the future of news publishing. From recent conversations with Sean Riley, it seems it may have a huge role. So, a major question for newspaper publishers/editors is: Are we playing the Google game? Are they just playing us? How do we play more to our advantage or fight?55
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssRetailSpecialty/idUSN2927971120090729
Sony Now Connects to Google Books12012009-09-01T15:30:30+00:002009-07-21T05:19:28+00:00Steve Brill with Journalism Online seems to be lining up participants. By making the option of charging for content varied and content=producer controlled, he may have begun the march back to more profitable, sustainable journalism. What are the faults, failings, successes, surprises with this system? How can we research this? Are successful online business models broadly applicable or peculiar to their communities? Are successful online business models proprietary in and of themselves? (As a researcher I hope not, but I can see how a corp would want to protect the 11 herbs and spices, so to speak). Let's see.54
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/17/journalism-online-would-be-newspaper-savior-gathers-steam/
15-variables on the road to redemption?12012009-09-01T15:30:30+00:002008-09-22T17:47:30+00:00"NewsTrust.net helps people find good journalism online, so they can make more informed decisions as citizens. We're a nonprofit organization, and our free website offers quality information filters, news literacy tools and a civic engagement network.
We publish a daily feed of quality news and opinions from trusted mainstream and independent sources, based on ratings from our reviewers. Our review tools enable the public to rate the news based on journalistic quality, not just popularity -- by evaluating fairness, evidence, sourcing and other core principles of journalism.
NewsTrust's Executive Director is Fabrice Florin, a former journalist and a digital media pioneer at Apple and Macromedia. Our team includes talented journalists, technologists and community organizers, and our advisors include Dan Gillmor, Craig Newmark, Howard Rheingold and other digital media innovators from organizations like the Associated Press, Craigslist, Google, the Poynter Institute and Stanford University."53
http://www.newstrust.net/
Newstrust10512009-09-01T15:30:28+00:002008-09-10T17:53:24+00:00 This project is an interconnected community effort to explore, discuss and compile anything and everything about Davis — especially the little, enjoyable things. This entire site is maintained by the people who use it: Everyone can edit this website!50
http://daviswiki.org
Davis, California Wiki7412009-09-01T15:30:24+00:002008-09-10T17:50:34+00:00The Encyclopedia project was dreamed up by North Minneapolis residents who recognized a communication gap between valuable resources and community members seeking those resources. The goal of the Encyclopedia project is to bridge that gap through the use of an accessible and editable website to serve as an information hub in order to connect those community members to the resources that they need.
The project is a completely non-profit venture. The project is completely maintained by volunteer hours and the only possible future cost would be to host the website. The project is not the property of any one organization, but is made possible through the partnership and collaboration of numerous non-profits and individual community members.
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http://insidenorthside.org/
North Minneapolis Encyclopedia7412009-09-01T15:30:24+00:002008-04-15T17:26:54+00:00Thanks to the Poynter's Biz Blog, I found this link to an interesting take on the newspaper industry by Wired editor Chris Anderson. Perhaps we need to reconceptualize the notion of newspapers as a "dying industry."52
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/03/of-fly-eyes-and.html
Perhaps newspapers aren't quite dead yet?7912009-09-01T15:30:25+00:00