This week Corey and Charles return from hiatus for a new episode of What’s New in News, and they get back into the swing of things by taking a look at Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Corey is underwhelmed by Schmidt’s effort, and sizes the piece up as [...]
This week, Charles and Corey are joined by local news director Patti McGettigan, the news director at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Patti stopped by to chat about the changing landscape of local journalism, the role of social media in a broadcast newsroom, the pressures of the bottom line, journalistic integrity and the smaller, more efficient [...]
Charles and Corey are joined by guest pundit and local news producer Nate Hoekstra. The three take a look at the ramifications of social media in the reporting of news in the aftermath of the Iranian elections. Just how does one separate the signal from so much noise? Is that now the role of news [...]
Charles wrote up a great post this month in which he outlined a number of best practices for a new news organization. Charles and Corey take a look at some key points, with a little healthy debate.
USA Today introduces a digital edition that they’ll email to you for a price. Not only will Corey not [...]
The Wall Street Journal announced the coming of Web 3.0 at its D conference. It’s too bad they’re only talking about the iPhone. With a new iPhone in sight, will it be a game changer for the news industry?
Despite speculation that iPhone apps will be able to charge for news subscriptions or micropayments, it won’t [...]
The drumbeat for erecting pay-walls around online news content continues, with Rupert Murdoch telling FOX Business his vision of the future. And the Newspaper Association of America gathered top media groups together in Chicago to quietly discuss options for deriving more revenue from their online content.
Columbia University’s president called for more taxpayer funded news during the school’s graduation ceremony.
Whether or not non-profit is the model of the future, Google isn’t interested in being a part of it. Google CEO Eric Schmidt talked with the Financial Times this week to say Google wasn’t interested in acquiring a stake in any newspaper. [...]
A new study asks just what types of news are readers willing to pay for online, just as the New York Times announced that it was considering two distinct methods of charging for online content: micro-payments and memberships.
It was a busy week for the Times, as they released their Times Reader, an Adobe Air application [...]