Cientos de carteles recubren las paredes del barrio ultraortodoxo judío de Mea Shearim, un mundo en el que el veto religioso a la radio, la televisión y los blog ha convertido al pasquín en el principal medio de comunicación.
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Abril 8, 2010 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
I tweeted earlier that after having slept with her (Ms. iPad), I woke up with morning-after regrets. She’s sweet and pretty but shallow and vapid.
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Abril 4, 2010 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
I want to propose to you this evening a quasi-utopian vision of journalism’s future. It is utopian because it pictures a better array of public informational resources emerging now than we have ever had. As I will argue, this is in part a product of the Internet; but it is also in part a product of a surprisingly recent professionalization in journalism; a remarkable profitability of news organizations in recent decades; and a cultural presumption of public-ness that began to emerge in the 1960s.
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Febrero 11, 2010 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
I recently asked, Will Phones, TV, Music Player, and Computers Really Converge? Information Week ran an article,Comcast Pushing TV To Phones, that addresses part of this question. Comcast CFO Michael Angelakis said it would eventually allow its cable television subscribers to watch shows via the Web at no additional charge. This would also be open to cell phones via a mobile browser, or potentially as applications on devices like iPhone or BlackBerry smartphones. Angelakis also said he could envision the company’s On Demand video service having a wireless component in the future.
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Octubre 31, 2009 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
This week a new nail was driven into the coffin of the notion of journalistic objectivity. The culprit? The Washington Post’s leaked social media policy.
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Septiembre 29, 2009 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
Like everyone else I’ve watched the print media world fall apart over the last few years. The poster child for that industry is the New York Times, of course, and their many missteps in recent memory have been well chronicled. In early 2008 Marc Andreessen
started a New York Times Deathwatch, and the company’s financial performance has degraded since then.
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Julio 30, 2009 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
This combines the technical skills the new journalist will need (plus the old ones), new ways of collaborating with audiences and journalists across the globe; and most importantly an entrepreneurial edge to create an army of “creative entrepreneurs”.
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Julio 23, 2009 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
Worth paying attention to …
The AP, Media Standards Trust and some others are pushing for a new microformat markup scheme for online news sites stories that would provide a fair bit of new information about each item.
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Julio 10, 2009 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
The many versions of Arianna Huffington, and their consequences.
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Junio 3, 2009 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
Juan Luís Cebrían lucha por reinventar PRISA en la España de la crisis y, de paso, el periodismo en la era digital. ¿Lo conseguirá? Esquire se lo pregunta en esta entrevista a fondo.
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Abril 27, 2009 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
“When you think about the assembly line that was a newsroom, it’s changed,” Arnie Robbins, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, says in the latest issue of American Journalism Review.
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Abril 24, 2009 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
WRITING any serious tribute to the science journalist and editor, Sir John Maddox, can only really start a long time after deadline, with the assistance of a cigarette and a glass of wine. Thus he famously began work on his editorials. Some were delivered so late that their first lines were being typeset before the last had been composed. But Sir John, who died on April 12th, was more than a hack with a little deadline difficulty. He was also a pioneer of modern science journalism.
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Abril 23, 2009 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
Morning Edition, February 6, 2009 · As the business model for newspapers cracks apart, there are those who are lamenting and those who are inventing. Some journalists now say the industry should forget about making a profit altogether and find new ways to support the news.
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Febrero 11, 2009 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
A mediados de agosto publicamos aquí la traducción de un post de Jeff Jarvis que llevaba por título Elegía al plumilla. En él, Jarvis replicaba al director de Spokeman-Review, quien aseguraba en un extenso artículo que muy pronto no habría periodistas. “A los 58 años, soy de los últimos de un raza en extinción”. Steve Smith sostenía, sin embargo, que sí “habrá reporteros. Editores de noticias. Una cosa llamada productores online y coordinadores multimedia. Mojos. Slojos y Nojos. Blogeros, froggeros y twitteros. Pero no habrá periodistas”. Ni Jarvis ni nosotros entendimos entonces el porqué de la elegía. La profesión no era una especie a punto de desaparecer, algo a lo que haya que llorar porque ya no está. Ha muerto el mito, eso es cierto. El de los tirantes, el tabaco y el alcohol. Las redacciones en penumbra. El paren las máquinas. Primera Plana. Pero las historias siguen estando ahí, esperando que alguien las descubra. Y sin gente que las cuente, las sociedades son más oscuras e injustas. Bien lo saben los dictadores. Continuar leyendo
Enero 20, 2009 | Secciones: Ninguna | Comments Off
