tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333016472011-11-27T15:51:36.549-08:00Evolving from newspaper to news sourceTom Malloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863836012520844893noreply@blogger.comBlogger811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33301647.post-66523755996862977922009-10-20T14:30:00.000-07:002009-10-20T15:15:33.841-07:00

My friend, Ken Sands, has a very good post on Poynter today, High Cost, Low Quality Plague Newspaper Video Efforts, which I sent around to my colleagues as recommended reading. Even at the Washington Post, where they hired skilled TV professionals and produced top-quality video, the return on investment has been elusive. Let me more snarkily summarize the progression of the discussion over

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Here's the list of ONA award winners. I'm always pleased for the winners being rewarded for their hard work and good journalism, but I was especially gratified to see the Chauncey Bailey Project take home two big awards. That project, in which news organizations and journalism schools around the Bay Area united to investigate the assassination of a crusading African-American columnist - with the

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What makes for good news website design? Jesse James Garrett of the user experience firm Adaptive Path, who has worked with CNN and other news sites and who comes from a news background, offers these lessons. 1) Know who you are. Don’t try to be all things to all people, know what your users your audience comes to you for. Example: NPR thought it was in the breaking news business online. But

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I'm going to tie two of yesterday's sessions together here with a similar theme, not only because I couldn't possibly do justice here to either presentation in this space but also because I heard reasons for a bit of optimism from both guys. The first was Leo Laporte, who told a bland chicken-anchored luncheon crowd (a reporter actually used that "anchored luncheon" phrase in a story once and I

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In preparation for her presentation on the "Ten Top Tech Trends You've (Still) Never Heard Of," My friend Amy Webb of Webb Media Group set up a little contest, asking ONA members to list what they thought  the trends were. I didn't bite. I knew my responses would be too general, too non-specific. I was chicken. And I was right. "Journalists need to think about tech in a granular way." She does.

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The Q&A with Evan Williams, the co-founder and CEO of Twitter - and formerly of Blogger, which I'm using right now, for that matter - kind of disappointed me, which is really unfair on my part. That's because I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how Twitter and microblogging and other social networking tools have changed the world. How anyone can now spread the news of anything - John

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It was nice to hear Jonathan Dube, president of the Online News Associaton, note this morning as our annual gathering began that while many journalists associations are canceling conferences -- actually some are scaling them back or combining conferences -- the ONA shindig is again a sell-out. Obviously it's because newshounds know this is where our future will lie. And it was heartening that

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I read a thing Bill Gates said once that really stuck in my mind, and it's relevant now as we're redesigning our site to make it do a better job of packaging our wares. He was touring the Seattle Times -- and this was years ago -- and was being shown its website when he looked perplexed. I'm paraphrasing here, because I can't find the piece now, but I recall he said he didn't understand why the

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Yahoo! won a round today in a lawsuit in which a woman blamed it for nude photos and a bogus profile of her that were posted on the Web site without her knowledge by her (crummy) ex-boyfriend, who went to pains to make it appear she was looking for sex online. (The facts of the story can be found on SignOnSanDiego and elsewhere. ) It troubled me that Yahoo, after the material was pointed out,

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RevenueTwoPointZero, a research project put together by Alan Jacobson of Brass Tacks Design and Matt Mansfield of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, has proposed some really solid ideas for how newspaper.com can find its lucrative future online. Their work provides, I think, a checklist for what we should be doing. The project offer solutions for how a home page can be

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In a post outlining its "Simple model for online journalism," one of its founders, Jonathan Weber, bore out one of the themes I've been writing about in this blog. Specifically (emphasis mine):"On the business side, we’ve found that the conventional wisdom about plunging display ad rates is simply wrong. If you have a quality site, with good editorial that drives meaningful traffic, and you work

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Note: An unfinished and unsightly version of this post was posted in error. (Everyone needs an editor.) My apologies.More than a few times recently, I've had colleagues channel their laments over the state of the industry into plaintive calls to demand readers pay for our online product.The topic's been hot lately, sparked by Walter Isaacson's essay in Time, How to Save Your Newspaper; and fueled

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This essay, by a honcho at Google writing about the future of the Internet, Google, and the challenges it faces, really irked some of my colleagues the way the Yankees irk the Mets.Specifically, it was this passage:The experience of consuming news on the web today fails to take full advantage of the power of technology. It doesn't understand what users want in order to give them what they need.

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As Mr. Glass-Half-Full, by both position and personality, I try to see the still-unrealized potential of Internet-delivered news even while reading about the perilous state of the traditional news business in general.Recently, OK, for a while now, there's been an awful lot of bad news in the news biz. Other people can chronicle that better than I can. I still see a lot of promise.Here's one

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A former colleague called me today to kindly let me know that the student center at a major local university had a news ticker that was displaying headlines from the public radio station and Reuters, but none from SignOnSanDiego/the Union-Tribune. (Thanks, Ellen.)Then I read that the New York Times has released an API that enables you to put a gizmo on your site that will search the entire Times'

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I spent most of Saturday and a significant part of Sunday scraping clean my daughter's computer and reinstalling every bit of software she needed. I had to do this because the machine had gotten infected with spyware so sophisticated that it would not allow me to install or run any anti-spyware applications or even to go to sites offering such tools.Let's put aside the point that whoever creates

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Denver was one of the few remaining big cities with two newspapers. It looks like that's about to end, with the Rocky Mountain News for sale and expected to close right around its 150th birthday. (Here are the stories from the Rocky and from the Post.)Rocky Mountain News columnist Mike Littwin found a bit of painful gallows humor in the topic of his debt-ridden paper's likely demise. He summed up

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So yes, Twitter posts did first report the news of the Mumbai attacks. (I realize I'm slow in getting to this, but I needed to think it through, which I realize is very old school in this day and age.) Michael Arrington of TechCrunch and others have been pointing out that the attacks demonstrated that Twitter has become a news source, with the first hints of the dreadful violence coming in Tweets

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One of my partners in change sent this Columbia Journalism Review story my way, "Overload! Journalism’s battle for relevance in an age of too much information," saying he thought it was one of the smartest things he'd read in a while. He's right. It's an insightful and well thought-out piece and actually is a good follow to the post on Sam Zell, below.An excerpt:The greatest hope for a healthy

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Update: I didn't address whether Pulitzers sell papers. Here are takes on that from Steven A. Smith's blog and Alan Jacobsen's letter to Romenesko. I'd just add that, judging from my conversations with our readers, the U-T's Pulitzer for exposing Duke Cunningham's corruption enhanced our local reputation and was a great selling point but was not a circulation driver.While it’s easy for any

Tom Malloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863836012520844893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33301647.post-80628028077857524852008-11-21T11:47:00.000-08:002008-11-21T12:34:17.947-08:00

The dire straits our industry are rushing down have me thinking like a businessman, not just a "journalist." And one thing I keep coming back to is the need for us to master self-service, search-based advertising. Google and Yahoo are stealing and eating our lunch on this. It's the only way to get back any piece of the massive amount of classified advertising dollars that went to the C'list and

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Here's a couple obvious examples of how the World Wide Web remains a Wild West world:1) On the one hand, I can think of a jillion ways that the resources available online have made covering the news easier. On the other, you can't believe everything someone sends you in an E-mail. (No!)Apparently that shocker is news to an MSNBC newsgatherer, who caused the network to give credit for the leak

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Micah Gelman , the former TV producer who runs AP's global video efforts, offered his thoughts this morning in a presentation for the CNPA on the good, bad and the ugly of video. (His "bad" examples were ugly, indeed.)One of his key points was something that Debbi Baker, one of my newsbreakers, was making yesterday: The only way to get proficient at shooting and editing video is to do it a lot,

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I'm in LA this week for the California Newspaper Publisher's Association conference. I'll be speaking tomorrow on covering breaking news online.OK this is a nice room they got me, so perhaps I'm looking a gift group in the mouth, but last night, I'm told, they promised cutting-edge entertainment at a reception. The entertainment? Four opera singers. That kind of says a lot about the industry's,

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Sometimes engaging commenters is a you-can't-win-for-trying proposition. But we have to try.On the story: A woman was arrested on suspicion of stabbing a man Wednesday night at a bar in an unincorporated area of El Cajon, ...... the commenters of course ignored the rules:Comments containing threats, ethnic slurs, foul language or thinly disguised foul language will be deleted. Posters who harass

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This is very interesting. PaidContent.org reports, "The New York Times will be getting a more international flavor as the website for the International Herald Tribune is shut down and its content is moved over blends with NYTimes.com for a co-branded global edition in the spring."Forbes had said the Times was shuttering the brand.It's a good step toward brand focus, capitalizing on the news brand

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Asked by I Want Media, "How will Twitter make money?", Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey basically said he doesn't know:"Twitter has potential for different monetization paths. We think the best one is something that emerges organically. We listen to how people use Twitter and establish patterns around that. By considering that we can make those patterns more convenient and potentially charge for those."We

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So CBS' Katie Couric hit it big with her Sarah Palin interview. But, as Bill Carter of the New York Times reports, way more people saw that on YouTube than on CBS news, and that night's newscast was far from a hit.In another sign of the reach of the Web, more than half the people who saw “Saturday Night Live’s” recent skits featuring Tina Fey as Sarah Palin watched the sketches saw them

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I went back over the 60 sites in 60 minutes presentation Ryan Pitts of Spokane presented here last week. (At Cragin's urging I am typing this out so you can peek at it at your discretion, rather than holding a meeting and making you listen to me go over/puzzle them.)There are some very cool and free tools here. I put asterisks next to the ones that have some applications for us, things we might

Tom Malloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863836012520844893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33301647.post-48749519349677472182008-10-01T15:27:00.000-07:002008-10-01T15:55:58.429-07:00

From Ryan Pitts’ 60 links in 60 minutes:Social networking PersonalVirb A place that lets you put all of the things that make you you – photos, videos, blogs – in one place. So you can find friends (and friends can find you). More specifically, VIRB° is our vision of a social community - done right. A website that combines you, your interests, your friends and the things

Tom Malloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863836012520844893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33301647.post-59019488989648243582008-09-24T08:26:00.000-07:002008-09-24T17:48:19.880-07:00

Ryan Pitts, the web boss at the Spokane Spokesman-Review, gave a presentation at the U-T yesterday as part of the News Train traveling training program. He zipped through a plethora - a myraid, a bunch, a blizzard -- of free sites that do everything from rate the news to turn voice memos into text messages and tons in between. Vimeo, Viddler VoVox and Meebo were enough to make some of the

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OK, business sucks. The economy tanked even worse in the last few days. Mrs. Peterson and the rest of our longtime print customers are dying off. And online news doesn't bring in the bacon like the cash cow has for so long. (Plus this news outfit is for sale.)So why am I still optimistic about the U-T's prospects?Because we're just getting started.We have yet to build a modern newssite (I am

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The case study presented to this year's Super Panel was a once-thriving newspaper in Trenton, N.J., that had fallen on the same hard times we're all in right now. The question: Can this media company be saved?The panelists were Eduardo A. Hauser, the CEO of DailyMe.com; Lauren Rich Fine, a media analyst at Kent State University; Thomas Brew; deputy editor at MSNBC.com (who was channelling his

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The LA Times is doing what we need to do: Create one newsroom out of print and online.Here are highlights from a presentation on their efforts delivered by Meredith Artley, exec editor LA Times.com; Aaron Curtis, the paper's innovation editor (with whom I competed in chasing sirens in the Valley when we were young bucks); and Russ Stanton, the paper's relatively new editor.- LAT.com has 20

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What do readers look at when they look when they look at a news site? This presentation by Nora Paul, director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota; and Laura Ruel, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, covered the latest findings of their ongoing eye-tracking studies. It provided some good insights that we need to keep in mind in our redesign

Tom Malloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863836012520844893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33301647.post-30285012100984549152008-09-13T10:11:00.000-07:002008-09-13T10:16:26.716-07:00

Here's the ONA story on kind of a commercial panel on ways to make money online, which is a good thing.All the ONA's student-provided coverage can be found on this conference page.

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My good friend Amy Webb just gave a fabulous presentation titled Ten Tech Trends You've Never Heard Of. I really can't do it justice here -- she could give lessons on how to give an effective and engaging PowerPoint presentation -- so here is a summary of the talk.This is a must-read, folks. While the keynote speaker this morning (Robert Scoble, an innovative and influential tech video blogger

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I did not attend the session on MSNBC.com's Bridge Tracker tool, but here is the ONA's story on the cool web app they built.Also a correction: I told some of you that MSNBC was using the Microsoft video player Silverlight. I found out today that the news site actually developed its own video player, and that it's holding readers on the player like glue.

Tom Malloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863836012520844893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33301647.post-28881607626899952562008-09-13T07:01:00.000-07:002008-09-17T17:03:15.125-07:00

My friend Phil took me for beers at the Natonal Press Club last night and we ended up chatting for a long time with a longtime member, John Cosgrove, who came to DC in 1937 and has met every president since Herbert Hoover. He even swore JFK into the Press Club.He thought at one point he was boring us with his stories but I assured him it was fascinating listening to his tales, to hear from

Tom Malloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863836012520844893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33301647.post-36945228203603233702008-09-12T18:49:00.000-07:002008-09-13T07:12:58.735-07:00

The phrase sounds intriguing: the semantic Web. But really it just means an online world in which everything is consistently tagged so that it can be better sorted, arranged, linked, related and presented.I missed the first part of this, in which a Thompson-Reuters exec unveiled the company's new Calais content integration program, a tagging initiative it's offering free for most users. I need to

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These three online advertising experts -- Bob Benz, formerly of Scripps Newspapers and now a partner in a start-up called Maroon Ventures; Joe Apprendi, CEO, Collective Media; and Mark Rose, the Tribune Co’s director of sales strategy, -- talked about the sad advertising picture, in which the industry took in $3 billion less than the year before, in which the $387 billion spent on online audience

Tom Malloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863836012520844893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33301647.post-10381461209587148482008-09-12T14:30:00.000-07:002008-09-13T07:16:45.631-07:00

This session, Merging Newsrooms, Managing Drama, offered some insights on the convergence struggles of other news shops – specifically, the BBC, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Gannett.At Gannett, with the exception of USA Today, their newsrooms have always been merged, so the sturm und drang of us v. them never got a chance to get going.At the BBC, they have 1,000 journalists and $500 million of

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Two of the guys behind the innovative site the Las Vegas Sun -- where Rob Curley and Chris Jennewein have landed -- gave a presentation on some of the cool features of their site. The theme was how they had to, or perhaps better, were able to, build it from scratch.Take a look at it. The masthead changes depending on the weather and the time of day, going dark at night, snowing when it snows and

Tom Malloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863836012520844893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33301647.post-77543127862262814692008-09-12T06:14:00.001-07:002008-09-13T07:10:22.429-07:00

The morning keynote address was offered by Tina Brown, who formerly ran The New Yorker and Vanity Fair and is now an online entrepeneur, with a new editor-driven web aggregator called The Daily Beast she's developing under Barry Diller's IAC.Not much new in this. This gifted editor's basic message is that the cacaphony of news sources available online has renewed the need for editors to serve as

Tom Malloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08863836012520844893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33301647.post-52616991881264041872008-09-11T20:53:00.000-07:002008-09-11T21:31:13.909-07:00

Rule of user generated content: It's potentially valuable, but most people won't do it.- Of 100 online users, 1 will create content, 10 will interact with it and the other 89 just look at it.- Fifty percent of Wikipedia edits are done by .07% of its users.- YouTube? 0.5% percent of viewers create the content.What does this mean for us? We need to tap into that minority to create content that will

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I spent the afternoon in a workshop on best newspaper practices and, while having a wide-ranging group conversation with counterparts from across the world (OK, the US, Canada, Brazil and the Netherlands), I picked up some very good ideas we could emulate and some insights.The session was introduced by my friend Anthony Moore from the Dallas Morning News, who had a well-conceived PowerPoint

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Thanks to my buddy Phil, I got to tour the Capitol this morning. I was, of course, star struck. The art was amazing, the statues of men I've read about almost brought them alive for me and the rotunda really is an amazing thing to stand beneath. But I was also struck by what a remodeled and reremodeled labrynth the place is.And one very old school thing: There's a cheap folding table next to the

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Wow, it's been a year already.When I wrote the last post on this blog, I had just gotten back from the Online News Association's conference in Toronto and just coming down from that amazing week of fire coverage.Now, I'm on my way to this year's ONA conference, in D.C., hoping against the odds that I'll be bringing back a top award for our fire coverage. (If we win, will the company then pay for

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I flew home to a county on fire, literally flying over one of the fires and seeing the smoke fill the skies as we approached San Diego.While I looked forward to the job: serving up reliable news to people who obviously would be wanting and needing it, I knew that the jerry-rigged system we've been using to get the news online wouldn't be up to the task. It wasn't. But we pulled through somehow.

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The super panel covered a lot of ground, but wasn't nearly as dramatic as last year's, when the TechCrunch guy offended every real journalist in the room.The panelists were:Maria C. Thomas, vice president and general manager, NPR Digital Media, moderatorJosh Cohen, business product manager, Google NewsIan Clarke, founder, Thoof, Freenet Project,Meredith Artley, executive editor, La; times.comAnil

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I'm taking the day off, been a long week and my mind's datastreaming ability has worn down. I'm visiting a friend who lives alongside a gorgeous forest of maple trees with a little creek (I'd add pics but it would cost some ridiculous amount to get them off my phone up here, really) will catch up with some final notes on the shindig when I can. Idea Lab has some folks who kept better track of the

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Some killer graphics from some top talent. But the bottom line for me was that these things are difficult and time-consuming to produce, a challenge to edit, yet something we need to master to prepare for ongoing shift to digital platforms.Panelists were:Don Wittekind, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, moderatorLen De Groot, South Florida Sun-SentinelMatthew Ericson, The New York

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Michael Oreskes, executive editor of the International Herald Tribune, gave a keynote speech on "Audiences, citizens and the future of journalism" that I found inspiring.Oreskes just helped write a book on the foundations of our democracy, and his take on how the challenges of the current digital age fit into historical trends was thought-providing. Here are my notes of the highlights:Going to

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Tips from the trenches from three people whose jobs rely on user-generated content:Linda Strean, GreatSchools.net (used by SignOn)Her site is based on parent reviews, 100,000 schools, 300,000 reviews. but not three per school, some have more many have nonethey premoderate all reviews, actually 50 stay-at-home moms paid a bit to moderate them.Alvardo elementary schoolLila King, CNNruns a user

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Just a few notes on yesterday's "The Future of Publishing" panel. It was about how the web -- ok, the Web -- is quickly being transformed by social media platforms and, in some cases, supplanted by alternative content delivery methods,organized by my ever efficient and appropriately named friend Amy Webb.One of the presenters was Brian Gruber of Fora.tv, a site trying to create an "ecosystem"

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Some highlights from the Leading a 21st Century Newsroom panel:Jim Brady, executive editor and vice president of washingtonpost.com, said initially no one in the print newsroom was interested in online. Now newsrooms are struggling to train journalists in new technology. Post is separate from Post.com, across the river, different companies.Merging print and online newsrooms meant changing the

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I sat near the door at the workshop intended to begin composing a set of guidelines for the ONA on the ethics of staffers writing blogs. That's because I feared it would be lame and obvious. Thanks largely to some really good moderating by Anthony Moor, now the online boss at the Dallas Morning News, it proved fascinating, indeed eye-opening.It was a wide-ranging discussion on a broad range of

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The lively and entertaining presenter for this was David Miliron of Caspio, who was with AJC for 10 years. Started with 10 yrs at Gannett. Was a reporter who morphed into a database guy. He conceded up from that this wasn't the hands-on training session it was billed as, but was rather an overview of how papers can create databases to reach customers we might not otherwise reach.He didn't say but

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Hilary Schneider, exec vice pres, global partner solutions division, Yahoo, gave the keynote address. Here's some notes, but the bottom line is that I'm now wondering if we should have said yes to the Yahoo newspaper consortium partership, if only for the traffic it brings.We're still in the early innings. We've just seen the tip of the iceberg on what we can do in integrated media.Fragmentation

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Attended a special panel discussion at the CBC HQ on the Future of the Future of News, looking at how technology -- such as citizen journalism and Web 2.0 tools -- can be used by the media to provide greater public service to citizens and communities. Participants were:Andrew Keen, author of the controversial polemical book "The Cult of the Amateur"; Leonard Brody, the entrepreneur who started

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We got a brief tour of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp building today. It's a pretty amazing place, very high tech newsroom, but it was especially interesting because online is still a fledgling part of this massive organization, yet they know it's a huge part of their future.

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I had lunch with two friends of mine who have left their newsrooms since we last met -- Washingtonpost.com and the Christian Science Mnitor -- and are now college professors teaching multimedia and online news. It was interesting to hear how their universities are having trouble figuring out how to fit online into existing print, broadcast and PR departments.It seems to me that creating a

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On a personal note, Sue had me bring a parka and enough warm clothes to wear while leading a dog team across the ice. It's 60 degrees outside so I may not need the gloves, the cap and the scarf afterall. I did forgot to bring any neckties, but I found out they sell them here.

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I spent the day in a class on how to train reporters to shoot video, learning a lot in the process.The trainer was Chet Rhodes, the assistant managing editor for news video for washingtonpost.com. Basically it better prepared me to give an introductory course in shooting video to even the greatest Luddite among us. ("This is Mr. Battery,...") And it was nice to realize that we're ahead of many

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Roy Peter Clark's Catholic guilt trip on newspapers -- Your duty to read the paper -- has sparked an interesting passel of comments on the Poynter site.I tend to agree with this fellow, Svend Holst, new media manager of The Wenatchee World: "... This continuing resistance to change in our industry is frustrating. Frustrating because it's this sort of resistance to change that will, and is,

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Here are the panels I plan to attend (and the one I'm speaking at). And here's the full conference agenda. For several of the sessions, I'm undecided on which panel to attend, so do let me know if you have a recommendation for one panel over another.Wednesday, Oct. 17Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. So You Want to Shoot Video?Join washingtonpost.com's Chet Rhodes, an award-winning videojournalist, as he

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Well it wasn't easy to do, but I have "reclaimed" my blog from Blogspot, as it is now Blogger, and have it running under our g-Mail account. Now if I can just remember the password, we'll be cooking with gas again.However, I do wish I could hide all the posts from last year but not completely lose them. A year ago is so long in Internet time, and much of the stuff from last year already sounds so

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Ken Sands, online publisher at Spokane Review: Automation is key to everything we do. (has 2 web developers) We attempt to automate everything.Amy Webb of Dragonfire (dfire.com) an award-winning non-profit online newsmagazine affiliated with Drexel University. (1.2 million unique users):Does multimedia on every big issue. Uses pre-made Flash templates to automate - indeed, she handed out discs

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The moderator, Neil Chase, has a job like mine, he was recently named the continuous news editor at the NY Times. He led two media panelists: Rob Curley, the wunderkind who put Lawrence.com on the map and had been working for the Washpost.com for three days at the time of the panel; Patrick Steigman of ESPN; and a consultant who is a change expert who I frankly got really nothing out of. (she

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Hiked up to the top of rocky ridge in Pennsylvania, trees there are amazing by California standards.  

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The panel put together to show folks how youth view online news was interesting. (Kids today, sheesh.) It was a graceful moderator and five articulatekids on the same stage they use for the Gridiron Club's annual roasting of the president, kids ranging in age from 12 to 21. All smart, all very digital in their media habits.Do any of you read print? A pause, then, "Your hands get all black from

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Cuban was noting YouTube's legal exposure is potentially greater, because it downloads a copy to your computer. They do that to save on download expenses if you want to watch it mutliple times. But that could increase the copyright legal exposure, cuz it's giving it away.Pretty amazing that the Google guys paid, what, $A Million Gabillion in stock for a company that is not profitable and spends,

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Mark CubanWell, it looks like Google wasn't listening to him. Now let's see if it gets sued over the copyrighted stuff on YouTube. (wondering, will they change name to GoogTube?)

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OK I FINALLY found my notes from that innovation speaker George Schlukbier, the guy who built Nando, the News & Observer's early Web site, in the 1990s built Nando. Much of it did not apply to what we're doing, though he did refer tsome open source content management systems that I should probably check out. But he did have some quotes worth sharing here:"New media are change agents" that "

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Well the conference is finally over and I am greatly relieved. Also pleased that Jeff Jarvis himself said it seemed to him that this conference had done away with the Eyeorism that had characterized last year's conference, which was one of my goals in all this (though I had never heard that wonderfully useful word before.) If you look at his blog's main page, you can also read more about what

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They keynote speaker this morning was Adrian Van Klaveren, deputy director and controller of production, BBC News, which has been online since 1997.Get this, the "Beeb" has the "idiosyncratic funding" of an annual fee of $250 on every TV set in the UK. (I thought it was just $75. Man, that must be nice.) BBC allso gets money from commercial licenses for content and from a grant-in-aid from the

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Aside from the fancy USA Today reception yesterday, I also missed this discussion on real-time news.One of the panelists, Neil Chase, a really good guy, is now continuous news editor at New York Times. (I've met him when he was running CBS Marketwatch.) He said in this panel discussion that that's not like issuing edicts and writing memos but more like working with "tenured faculty." I assured

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Washington Post Editor Leonard Downie walked across the street to speak to the ONA this morning. His basic message was that all his early assumptions and worries about the internet years ago were unfounded. Online was not competition for the newsroom, and didn't ruin its journalism, instead it made it better. And the audience for Post's journalism is huge, now much bigger than with just print,

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The ONA has students blogging the conference, and they are doing a much better job than I am. (I'm still encountering panel loose ends.) you can find that blog at http://journalists.org/2006conference/

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OK now we're online and blogging, yaymy first panel, the Developing New Voices one, went well, though there were some logistical hiccups.I am now listening to Mark Cuban's keynote, which is very interesting because he's so smart and outspoken.He said Google would be nuts to buy YouTube (not MySpace, as I wrote earlier, duh on me, thanks Huntz) that YouTube is a copyright lawsuit waiting to

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First blog failed, password lost in cyber obscurity. now we're cooking with gas.

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