CBSNews.com and Washingtonpost.com are teaming up to share election-related content as a way of standing out in the increasingly crowded election news market. In a release about the partnership, CBS said:
The online relationship will join the rich tradition of both organizations, providing the combination of the most compelling video coverage from CBS News correspondents,...
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The New York Times launched a Netvibes/My Yahoo style Ajax start page on their site called My Times a few days back. These start pages allow users to create a custom home page that features only the information they are interested in. In the case of My Times, users can select from a bevy of Times-related content and add RSS feeds from external blogs as well....
Continue ReadingLast week The New York Time purchased [clarification: the paper is, as Jeff Jarvis notes, "hosting it, selling ads on it, promoting it, but not buying it or hiring its creators"] the sometimes irreverent Freakonomics blog run by University of Chicago economist Dr. Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner. Clearly the newspaper saw that this informative blog had a community worth transplanting to its web site....
Continue ReadingLike Erin, I enjoyed attending the Journalism That Matters conference this week. Although a panel discussion that concluded with a bleak prognosis for the current mainstream news media business model kicked off the event, the dreariness only surrounded the business model, not the craft of journalism.
However, many veteran journalists felt threatened by the conference's tone towards traditional journalism as it focused on "citizen journalism's"...
Continue ReadingSteve Petersen and I just spent the last two days at a conference here in DC called Journalism that Matters. I went with the intention of figuring out what the business plan will be for newspapers as we move deeper into the digital era. I didn't quite figure this out,...
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