Infografía 2.0 (Alberto Cairo)

¿Quieren saber por qué The New York Times arrasó la semana pasada en los Premios Malofiej? La respuesta la encontramos en este magnífico libro sobre infografía de periódicos, un libro de verdad, de los que merece la pena leer.

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Old Growth Media, The Aftermath (Steven Berlin Johnson, 25/3/09)

I’d been meaning to do a follow-up post collecting the responses to my SXSW speech on “Old Growth Media And The Future of News,” but I kept putting it off because new articles and posts continued to roll in, and stitching them all together started to seem a little daunting. I’ve certainly never given a speech that generated so much discussion before, which tells you a little about how passionate people are about this issue right now. Continuar leyendo

Newspapers: 5 Ways to Avoid Extinction (Woody Lewis, Mashable, 24/3/09)

I recently wrote about newspapers using social media to save the industry. Since then, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed its last hardcopy edition. A small group of workers will continue to publish the “paper” online. It’s not the first big-city daily to disappear from the news stands, and the list grows longer every week. After 174 years of daily publication, the Ann Arbor News announced that it will close in July. A new company called AnnArbor.com will publish a daily edition online, and put out a print edition twice a week.

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Why Advertising is Failing on the Internet (Eric Clemons, TechCrunch, 22/3/09)

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In it, he argues that the Internet shatters all forms of advertising.  “The problem is not the medium, the problem is the message, and the fact that it is not trusted, not wanted, and not needed,” he writes. The views he expresses are his own, and we present them here to foster debate.  (Obviously, we hope there is a place for advertising on the Internet since it pays our bills).

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Los días que vivimos en peligro (varios autores, Emecé, abril 2009)

los-diasEn abril sale por el sello Emecé este libro con relatos de los quince días en que la democracia argentina vivió en peligro, narrados por escritores como Pablo Plotkin, Laura Ramos, Sol Prieto, Leonardo Oyola, Hernán Iglesias Illa, Mariana Enriquez, Cucurto, Martín Kohan y Esteban Schmidt, entre otros.
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Introdução à Análise da Imagem (Martine Joly)

introducao-analise-imagemIntrodução à Análise da Imagem, de Martine Joly, traz os seguintes capítulos:

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2020 vision: What’s next for news (Dan Conover, Xarx, 20/3/09)

A client looking to invest in media asked me earlier this month for advice on what might replace failing newspapers. My response? There are plenty of interesting ideas in play, but the first meaningful test won’t come until a major American city loses its only metro daily. So wait.

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2020 vision: What’s next for news (Dan Conover, Xarx!, 20/3/09)

A client looking to invest in media asked me earlier this month for advice on what might replace failing newspapers. My response? There are plenty of interesting ideas in play, but the first meaningful test won’t come until a major American city loses its only metro daily. So wait.

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What’s a medium? (Jeff Jarvis, Buzz Machine, 19/3/09)

At CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism we just told the students that they no longer need to commit to a media track - print, broadcast, or interactive. We believe this is the next step in convergence. All media become one.

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The End of Newspapers (Marc Deuze, Deuzeblog, 17/3/09)

European and North American newspapers have been in decline for decades. Slowly but surely, all indicators of a more or less healthy product - circulation, audience penetration, advertising effectiveness, credibility and trust - have been eroding to the point where, today, they are in freefall. None of this is surprising given the historical trend, but it still features in feverish debates online and offline as to what the future of democracy is without newspapers.

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As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero (NYTimes, Richard Pérez-Peña, 12/3/09)

The history of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer stretches back more than two decades before Washington became a state, but after 146 years of publishing, the paper is expected to print its last issue next week, perhaps surviving only in a much smaller online version. Continuar leyendo

Old Growth Media And The Future Of News (Steven Berlin Johnson, 14/3/09)

The following is a speech gave yesterday at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin.

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How Print Publications Can Help Hyper-Local Sites (Michael Josefowicz, MediaShift, 13/3/09)

The New York Times is going into the hyper-local news business, as reported by Zachary Seward at the NiemanJournalismLab. It is just one example of hyper-local — also called community journalism, beat reporting, or representative journalism — in action. Other instances include Kennesee State university Professor Leonard Witt’s Representative Journalism in Georgia and community news site Patch.com. It’s not clear how successful the Times’ move to start hyper-local blogs will be, since, as long as a strategy is web only, it’s going to be hard to get to sustainability.

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Scene: The Newsroom, Just Before the Lights Go Out (John Kelly, The Washington Post, 9/3/09)

The last two journalists in America sat at a card table in the middle of their empty newsroom. They faced each other, about to flip a coin.

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Integración de redacciones: 5 agujeros negros (Pablo Mancini, Amphibia, 8/2/09)

Es la discusión de moda. Cómo llevar adelante una integración de redacciones exitosa. Cómo reorganizarse, rediseñarse, hasta refundarse. La esperanza de levantar un contexto de colaboración ideal entre periodistas de las ediciones impresas y online entusiasma a muchos. Sobran consultoras que proponen sus modelos de modernización institucional, periodistas proclives a la integración y ejecutivos que ven en ese plan cierto horizonte de rentabilidad para sus compañías. Pero existen, al menos, cinco agujeros negros sobre la integración de redacciones que todavía esperan respuestas puntuales. Estos son:

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Qué son los blogs y cómo dejarlos de confundir con otra cosa (Antonio Cambronero, blogpocket, 2/3/09)

Comenzamos hoy la publicación de los artículos, escritos para la ocasión, del BlogGuest 2, 8 años. Damos así la oportunidad a todos aquellos que prefieren el post como medio de lectura, a la vez que satisfacemos la petición de un gran número de lectores de Blogpocket. Para el que lo desee, el pdf sigue disponible para su descarga directa.

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Student views on modernizing j-education (Associate Collegiate Press Conference, San Diego, California, 1/3/09)

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Los 100 mejores blogs de la web en inglés y en castellano (Ángel Jiménez, El Mundo, 1/3/09)

Tal vez la crisis haya acabado con las ganas y la posibilidad de salir a comprar, pero no parece que haya tenido un efecto negativo sobre esa burbuja siempre en expansión que llamamos blogosfera. Cada día, casi un millón de voces gritan desde ella a los cuatro vientos de la Red. Ésa es la cifra media de posts que Technorati, el índice más extenso de blogs, ha calculado que se escriben en las 24 horas de un día.

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