How I Duped The Sun "I also got lucky because The Sun is a bunch of fools. The picture I sent wasn’t even a street view. I don’t even know if the picture was of an apartment building. It could be a commercial building for all I know. I just zoomed into London (because that’s [...]
Huffington Post launches journalism venture "The Huffington Post said Sunday that it will bankroll a group of investigative journalists, directing them at first to look at stories about the nation's economy. The popular blog is collaborating with The Atlantic Philanthropies and other donors to launch the Huffington Post Investigative Fund with an initial budget of [...]
Let us merge or we'll die, say local papers "Local newspaper publishers will submit a report to the Office of Fair Trading on Tuesday calling for a massive shake-up of competition laws that could herald a wave of mergers and acquisitions once financial markets stabilise." (tags: journalism local+newspapers merger uk) Inquirer CEO Tierney Got Bonus [...]
Running a newspaper’s Twitter account: the cons "But because I made the decision not to run the account as a straight RSS feed I’ve run into a few frustrations." (tags: journalism twitter newspapers) Seattle Post-Intelligencer goes online-only: A new revolution in journalism "As it does so often, the technological switch came at great human cost. [...]
Polly Toynbee: Regional and local newspapers will die unless we act now "Serious journalism never paid its way: the model that sustained it has now crashed. Classified ads, once the river of gold, have flowed online to Craigslist and Friday-Ad. Cars, jobs and property ads are credit-crunched away. As Roy Greenslade says, free news on [...]
