Archive for the 'newspapers' Category
Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Part 2 of my account of Salim Jiwa’s talk about the state of the news industry on May 25 at Social Media Club Victoria: business models, accountability journalism, and more.
Filed under: advertising, business, media, newspapers, web. |
Tags: digital, salim_jiwa, social_media_club_victoria, vancouverite
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Salim Jiwa (journalist, founder of Vancouverite) spoke at Social Media Club Victoria about newspapers and the dangers of “press release journalism.”
Filed under: free_press, newspapers, victoria. |
Tags: corporate_communications, economics, press_releases, salim_jiwa, social_media_club_victoria
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
Taking a closer look at Lisa Johnson and Kirk Lapointe’s Northern Voice 2010 session, “How (Should) Journalism Use Social Media?”
Filed under: danah_boyd, facebook, free_press, guerilla_politics, media, newspapers, northernvoice, web. |
Tags: journalism, linda_solomon, northernvoice10, vancouver_observer, vancouver_sun
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Bruce Schneier’s post today exposes
Filed under: free_press, media, newspapers, web. |
Tags: links, open_web
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Reading an article filed today by the Montreal Gazette‘s Monique Muise about Monday’s horrific tragedy in St. Jude, Quebec, I was struck by the evocative quality of the writing. (A recap of events: in the early evening of Monday May 10, in the Quebec town of St. Jude 77 kilometers north of Montreal, an absolutely […]
Filed under: newspapers, writing. |
Tags: monique_muise, sinkhole, st.jude
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Some thoughts on two disparate opinions/ diverging business models in journalism/ newspapers.
Filed under: free_press, media, newspapers. |
Tags: canwest, journalism
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
This is a response to my Tuesday post on Victoria’s MSM and SM panel discussion, “No policy …no strategy, either,” with a list of resources that local media might want to investigate.
Filed under: free_press, local_not_global, media, newspapers, social_critique, times_colonist, victoria, web. |
Tags: resources
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Tonight I attended the 14th meeting of Victoria’s Social Media Club to listen to five panelists from Victoria’s mainstream media (MSM) talk about how new media (including social media) is affecting their business. Panelists included Bryan Capistrano (promotion director for radio station The Zone); Amanda Farrell-Low (arts editor for weekly paper Monday Magazine); Dana Hutchings […]
Filed under: advertising, black_press, facebook, free_press, local_not_global, media, newspapers, social_critique, times_colonist, victoria, web. |
Tags: chek_news, social_media, social_media_club_victoria
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
How do you fix the poor quality of online newspaper comments boards? Why are forum or blog post comments so much better? And does anonymity have much to do with it? (Hint: the answer is “no”!)
Filed under: media, newspapers, social_critique, times_colonist. |
Tags: anonymity, commenting, vibrant_victoria
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