Every year, I give out Sidney Awards to the best magazine essays of the year. In an age of zipless, electronic media, the idea is to celebrate (and provide online links to) long-form articles that have narrative drive and social impact.
10 News Media Content Trends to Watch in 2010 | Vadim Lavrusik, Mashable, 24/12/09
The news media is experiencing a renaissance. As we end the year, its state in 2009 can be summarized as a year of turmoil, layoffs and cutbacks in an industry desperately seeking to reinvent its business model and content. But despite the thousands of journalism jobs lost, the future has much hope and opportunity for those that are willing to adapt to a changing industry.
The Tablet Hype | Jack Shafer, Slate, 22/12/09
Sports Illustrated dazzled the technorati and knuckle-draggers alike earlier this month with a demo of a digital tablet prototype of the magazine promised for 2010. Radiating a wow-factor equal to some of the media gadgets in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, the SI demo promises full-motion video, lightning-quick screen refreshes as you flick from page to page, and the power to customize the device per your preferences.
4 errores que los sitios online aceptarán en el 2010 | Darío Gallo, Bloc de Periodista, 22/12/09
1) Comenzarán a darse cuenta de que la optimización para Google es una pérdida de tiempo y dinero. Y que los lectores que provienen de los buscadores sólo suman visitas fugaces. Titular para Google comenzará a ser una ofensa para los lectores.
2) Las infografías multimedia al estilo NYT serán dejadas de lado por los medios “responsables” y terminarán siendo una arrogancia de diseñadores bien pagos, por accionistas que compran espejitos de colores.
3) Los empresarios de medios de noticias terminarán de darse cuenta de que no deben pagar los lectores (que ya pagan), sino las empresas proveedoras de acceso a internet, quienes tienen que ofrecer contenidos interesantes a sus clientes.
4) “Descubrirán” que las informaciones que más se leen no provienen de las agencias de noticias.
Film Industry Experts Offer 10 Predictions for 2010 | Nick Mendoza, MediaShift, 22/12/09
Films such as “2001″ and “2012″ illustrate how the future has long fascinated Hollywood. With a new year on the horizon, I asked 10 executives and analysts, many of whom were in attendance at the recent Future of Film Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., for their predictions about the film industry. Below are 10 topics and thoughts on what the industry and consumers should expect next year and beyond. Continuar leyendo
Use Niche Sites to Deliver Specialized Content to Targeted Audiences | Leah Betancourt, PoynterOnline, 21/12/09
Slicing and dicing local content targeted at a specific audience can make for a rich community, especially if the topic attracts passionate members who don’t hesitate to chime in online about it.
‘Where’s the pain?’ – Three ways to be an entrepreneurial journalist | Adam Westbrook, NewsRewired, 21/12/09
Why is the future of journalism entrepreneurial?
“Because it can be,” says Jeff Jarvis, and he’s right. [http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/11/01/the-future-of-journalism-is-entrepreneurial/]
A Eulogy for Old-School Newsrooms | Carl Sessions Stepp, AJR, diciembre 09 / enero 10
You stepped into your first newsroom, and some tectonic plate of destiny shifted. You slid into a new dimension, like Harry Potter at Platform 9 3/4, rematerializing in a parallel realm, previously unimaginable, then life-altering.
Media trailblazers | Christiane Amanpour entrevista a Harold Evans y Tina Brown, CNN, 18/12/09
The Media Trailblazers | Christiane Amanpour entrevista a Harold Evans y Tina Brown, CNN 18/12/09
Universities adapting to new breed of journalism student | Robert Celaschi, Columbus Business First, 18/12/09
Even as traditional news outlets are slashing jobs by the thousands, more students than ever are enrolling in college journalism programs.
Tina Brown and Harold Evans appear in first ever joint interview for CNN | Judith Townend, Journalism.co.uk, 18/12/09
One of journalism’s most famous couples, former Sunday Times editor Harold Evans and Daily Beast founder Tina Brown, will appear tonight on CNN’s ‘Amanpour’ programme in their first ever joint interview.
Network effects: How a new communications technology disrupted America’s newspaper industry—in 1845 | The Economist, 17/12/09
CHANGE is in the air. A new communications technology threatens a dramatic upheaval in America’s newspaper industry, overturning the status quo and disrupting the business model that has served the industry for years. This “great revolution”, warns one editor, will mean that some publications “must submit to destiny, and go out of existence.” With many American papers declaring bankruptcy in the past few months, their readers and advertisers lured away by cheaper alternatives on the internet, this doom-laden prediction sounds familiar. But it was in fact made in May 1845, when the revolutionary technology of the day was not the internet—but the electric telegraph.
The rise of machine-written journalism | Peter Kirwan, The Great Transition, 16/12/09
Technological change arrives in waves. Progress is always uneven. Islands of tradition persist amid the incoming tide.
Où va la presse allemande? | Pierre Testard, nonfiction.fr, 15/12/09
10 Trends in Journalism for 2010 | Adam Westbrook, 14/12/09
Under Murdoch, Tilting Rightward at The Journal | David Carr, NYTimes, 14/12/09
Sunday was the second anniversary of the sale of The Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. At that time, a chorus of journalism church ladies (I was among them) warned that one of the crown jewels of American journalism now resided in the hands of a roughneck, and predicted that he would use it to his own ends.