TV Moving Closer to Mobile Phones and the Web | Bill Ives, Portals and KM, 31/10/09
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.
Harold Evans: Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers | Mark Glaser, MediaShift, 29/10/09
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Howard Stern 3.0: The future of entertainment | Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, 23/10/09
We just got a glimpse of Howard Stern’s next life, I think. I was running errands today listening to a repeat of the show from this week when I heard Stern talk with a caller about what he could do on the internet. Thanks to my handy Sirius Satellite radio, I was able to – Tivo-like – back and up repeat what he’d just said and I wrote it down: Continuar leyendo
How do you use Twitter? An archivist explains how she uses Twitter | Gina Chen, Save The Media, 22/10/09
I’m starting a new feature here at Save the Media, called “What the heck do you do on Twitter.” It’s an occasional feature, which in journalism-speak means I’ll do it when I have a chance. The idea is to showcase a variety of people who are using Twitter in creative ways. My emphasis, of course, is on how people use Twitter for journalism, but I want to highlight all types of applications. Hopefully, it will be a place we can all learn.
Un solo El Mundo | Juan Varela, Periodistas21, 22/10/09
El Mundo celebra su 20 aniversario proclamándose líder de la información en español. El diario líder de Unidad Editorial consolida su anunciada reinvención bajo una sola marca y una nueva edición digital para Latinoamérica.
Es la gran apuesta para el futuro de un grupo, resultado de la fusión de El Mundo con Recoletos, lastrado por la crisis de la prensa. Un “hundimiento”, como lo describió el director del diario, Pedro J. Ramírez, reflejado en unas pérdidas operativas de 19,8 millones de euros el primer semestre del año frente a un beneficio de 26 millones el año anterior.
Como la mayoría de los grupos de comunicación, y más los basados principalmente en los productos impresos, El Mundo lucha contra la caída de la facturación y un descenso de su difusión de más del 7,5% que contradice sus afirmaciones de “estabilidad de la versión impresa”. Pero sus buenos datos de tráfico en internet después del cambio en la metodología de OJD y de audiencia impulsan una estrategia para reforzar “una marca concreta que incluye los atributos ideológicos y estéticos de la compañía”, en palabras de Pedro J. Ramírez.
La estrategia pasa ahora por afianzar el liderazgo de elmundo.es –casi 24 millones de lectores en internet, según la OJD y 6,3 millones según Nielsen- con una única cabecera para el diario y la web y una edición para Latinoamérica, donde los datos de usuarios únicos sitúan al diario digital como segundo medio de noticias en castellano tras Clarín.
What does a mobile journalist need? | Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog, 21/10/09
In my MA Online Journalism session this week I’ll be looking at mobile journalism. As part of that, below I’ve compiled 4 lists of things I think a mobile journalist needs: hardware, software, systems, and mindset. I’d welcome anything you can add to this.
Pew Survey on Twitter Users Suggests News Strategies | Howard Finberg, Poynter Online, 21/10/09
As news organizations develop social media strategies, there’s some interesting news from the Pew Internet & American Life Project with the release of a new report on Twitter and similar sites. The report shows a significant increase in status-update services among younger and mobile Internet users. It also provides updated demographic information about who is using Twitter.
Research: 9 out of 10 consumers won’t pay for online news | Patrick Smith, guardian.co.uk, 21/10/09
The evidence is stacking up against the confidence of publishers like Rupert Murdoch who expect their readers to start paying for news online.
New York Times, still uncertain on charging, sets seven digital priorities | Zachary M. Seward, Nieman Journalism Lab, 21/10/09
While the New York Times newsroom deals with another round of job cuts, one area of the newspaper is actually growing. Fourteen jobs are currently open at the Times website, most of them for software developers and engineers.
The Reconstruction of American Journalism | Leonard Downie y Michael Schudson, 20/10/09
Se puede bajar el PDF del informe aquí. Tiene 100 páginas.
A Nerd’s Take On The Future Of News Media | Craig Newmark, The Huffington Post, 19/10/09
There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models. As a nerd, I’m excited by the new tech, particularly mobile, including new display systems and pervasive connectivity.
Giving up on the news business | Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine, 19/10/09
Before reaching their dangerous conclusion – recommending government supported journalism in a report called the Reconstruction of American Journalism – former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie and Columbia journalism prof Michael Schudson make some basic and, I believe, profoundly mistaken assumptions, namely: “That journalism is now at risk, along with the advertising-supported economic foundations of newspapers.”
Papel Prensa | Jorge Fontevecchia, Perfil, 16/10/09
No hace trampa quien puede ganar sin ella. El mal es otra forma de pobreza, una carencia de recursos. Es el atajo que utiliza la ambición cuando la capacidad es inferior a ella.
A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges | Zephyr Teachout, The Washington Post, 13/10/09
Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which “going to college” means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive.
“Los medios están en un huracán” | Alejandro Rebossio entrevista a Lionel Barber, La Nación, Buenos Aires, 12/10/09
El editor general de Financial Times , Lionel Barber, suele hacer viajes por las diversas regiones del mundo para entenderlas mejor. Para su actual viaje por América del Sur, este escocés de 54 años eligió detenerse en la Argentina, Brasil y Colombia.
Why Email No Longer Rules… | Jessica E. Vascellaro, WSJ, 12/10/09
Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.
In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine. Continuar leyendo
Los cambios en el mapa mediático | Laura Capriata, La Nación, Buenos Aires, 11/10/09
La sanción de la ley de radiodifusión mostró visiones de la realidad contrapuestas entre oficialistas y opositores, pero hubo una única cuestión en la que unos y otros coincidieron por completo: la nueva norma pondrá de cabeza el actual mapa de medios en la Argentina.
Ten Points on Funding Citizen Media | David Sasaki, MediaShift, 11/10/09
Last week the Salzburg Global Seminar organized two back-to-back meetings which brought together passionate enthusiasts in the field of new media for three days, and then traditional funders of media development for another three days. Josh Goldstein of UNICEF Innovation and Erik Hersman of Ushahidi each blogged about the gathering. There has also been a flurry of blogging by Anne Nelson and Susan Moeller on the Strengthening Independent Media blog.
Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content. So Why Doesn’t He Stop Them? | Weston Kosova , Newsweek, 9/10/09
The executives who run big, ailing news organizations—in particular Tom Curley of AP and News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch—complain every chance they get that search engines—in particular Google—are stealing from them, because Google links to their stories but doesn’t pay the AP or News Corp. to do so. The way the news bosses see it, that is theft, plain and simple. They say Google is making tons of money by shamelessly lifting their content, and it’s driving newspapers out of business.
10 Hopeful Thoughts about the Future of Journalism | David Beard, PoynterOnLine, 8/10/09
So much gloom and doom, most of it warranted. You could almost predict this future-of-journalism talk. But let’s play contrarian. Let’s focus on great reasons to pay attention to — or participate in — creating, gathering and distributing news and information. Here are 10 hopeful points about the future of journalism.