Scott Porad, a member of the I Can Has Cheezburger? and the Cheezburger Network team, outlines what he thinks news journalism can ‘learn from I Can Has Cheezburger?’ for the Journalism 2.0 blog.
“There are probably many lessons, but one that stands out to me is a fundamental shift in the concept of reporting from ‘sourcing’ toward ‘filtering.'”
(Hat-tip: CyberJournalist.net)
An interview with Associated Press VP Jim Kennedy which looks at AP’s recent plans for better protection of its content.
This post from the Editors’ Weblog picks out VP Jim Kennedy’s outline of new search landing pages, influenced by Wikipedia’s design, but not its method.
“There are two main aspects to the AP’s current new strategy. One is to start creating pages of aggregated content based around news stories and topics, which would allow readers to find the most authoritative local sources for the news they are searching for. The pages will contain some content and links to other stories from both the AP and its member newspapers, and although it will not actually be a ‘wiki,’ (a source of information that can be updated by users), Kennedy explained that Wikipedia’s design is a ‘rough model for it’, with pages driven by topics or keywords. Such a page will be a ‘map for the user to access other links’, commented Kennedy.”
CJ talks to senior SEO analyst for Hearst, Dan Roberts, about how he helped grow online traffic to the publisher’s website by 150 per cent using SEO and Wordtracker.
One of the biggest problems with bringing SEO into a newsroom is how it is introduced, says Rachelle Money, who offers her tips on SEO for journalists.
CyberJournalist breaks down the resources provided by the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA).