Steve Buttry: ‘Avoiding ethical conflicts in small towns’

An ethical question from Steve Buttry’s blog, with some detailed examples about how conflicts might arise. He asks:

“How do small-town journalists maintain credibility while covering public officials who may be their family and friends?”

Full post at this link…

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Editor&Publisher: Michael Wolff – “Newspapers not only will go away but they should go away”

Editor&Publisher reports Michael Wolff’s keynote speech at the E&P/MediaWeek Interactive Conference on Thursday:

“…[Wolff] again predicted the ‘death of newspapers’, adding that he’d been having ‘fun’ pushing the proposition in recent months to the point of being considered a ‘Dr. Doom.’

“Newspapers ‘not only will go away but they should go away,’ he said, adding that today’s talk would ‘cap’ his statements and then he would ‘never speak of the death of newspapers again.’”

Full story at this link…

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AdAge.com: ‘Digital bigger chunk of revenue than print’ for the Onion

“Digital is becoming a bigger chunk of our revenue than print. Print is still very strong for us. Digital, it’s not much more than half, but it’s more than half,” Onlon President-CEO, Steve Hannah, told Ad Age, in the last question of a Q&A this week.

Hannah also denied rumours that the Onion’s weekly print edition is to be shut down, although Ad Age reports that the Onlon’s San Francisco and Los Angeles print editions have been closed.

Full post at this link…

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Columbia Missourian: Journalism students advised to buy iPod Touch or iPhone

Freshmen admitted into the School of Journalism and pre-journalism students are being advised to purchase an iPod Touch or iPhone to aid their studies at the Missouri School of Journalism, the Columbia Missourian reports.

The requirement will not be enforced, however, and there will not be a penalty for students who choose not to buy the items, the associate dean of the school told the reporter.

Full story at this link…

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Mindy McAdams: 10 things about multimedia teaching

Online journalism teacher, Mindy McAdams, shares her thoughts on various methods for teaching multimedia. She looks at three different options, and reaches ten conclusions.

Full post at this link…

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paidContent:UK: Is raising the pay wall an ‘impossible dream?’

Robert Andrews gives a rundown of the problems newspaper companies face when trying to ‘get the genie back in the bottle’ – charging for online content that has been free for 15 years. Also be aware of gorillas and white elephants, he says.

Full post at this link…

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Bill Grueskin: ‘What would Google do about newspapers?’

Guest blogging on Reflections of a Newsosaur, Bill Grueskin, the academic dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University and former managing editor of WSJ.Com, offers his translation of comments by the Google’s vice-president of search products and user experience, Marissa Mayer, to the Senate commerce subcommittee hearing.

“Her elliptical comments at a congressional hearing on the sorry state of the newspaper industry revolved around a message that seemed to add up to: ‘Lotsa luck, fellas.’”

Full post at this link…

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JEEcamp: Follow the journalism enterprise ‘unconference’

Journalism.co.uk is attending JEEcamp today – an ‘unconference’ (e.g. any attendees can suggest the topics for discussion) about future models for journalism, focusing on enterprise and experimentation.

“JEEcamp is an opportunity for a range of people to get together to talk about how on earth journalists and publishers can make a living from journalism in the era of free information, what the challenges are, and what we’ve learned so far.”

Organsied by Birmingham City University lecturer and Online Journalism Blog blogger Paul Bradshaw, the event is a sell out – but there are plenty of ways to follow what’s going on.

There’s a liveblog of the event here.

There will be lots of twittering (see the attendees list for a rough guide of who to follow and @journalism_live) under the #jeecamp hashtag. If you tag your tweets in this way they’ll be fed through to the CoverItLive bloggers too.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – managing your email inbox

Time management: Feeling overwhelmed by your email inbox? James Cridland offers some tips from his BBC colleagues in this blog post. Tipster: Judith Townend.

To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.

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MediaGuardian: Guardian News&Media to cut ‘about 50′ editorial positions

“Guardian News & Media is looking to cut about 50 editorial staff by the end of the year as part of a plan to reduce editorial costs by £10m,” reports MediaGuardian.

Full story at this link…

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