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Pew survey offers lessons for funders of nonprofit news start ups

6/9/2013 | by: Michele McLellan

Results of a newly released survey of 93 nonprofit news start ups underscores the need to build business capacity in the field. That's something supporting foundations and large donors should insist on.

News for Digital Innovators

One in three U.S. adults owns a tablet, says Pew

6/11/2013 | by: Amy Gahran

Is your community news or information tablet friendly? With astounding speed, tablets have become a significant part of the mobile media landscape. It's been just three years since the first iPad hit the market, and now one third of U.S. adults now owns a tablet computer, according to a new report from Pew Internet.

OJR: The Online Journalism Review

Practicing journalism in the Galapagos, where “hyper-local” meets “hyper-sensitive”

6/14/2013

The islands are famous for their exotic species, but the dilemma that preys upon local media here is common to small-town journalists everywhere: how to pay the bills and still report on people who are also your neighbors.

News for Digital Innovators

Independent Publishers Group now has 100 members

6/5/2013 | by: Amy Gahran

This week, the Local Independent Online News Publishers group announced it has welcomed its 100th member.

Nieman Journalism Lab

The Times of London has built “The retweeter” to get its journalists to push its stories in social media

6/18/2013

We posted a piece this morning on one way The Times of London tried, without much success, to get its (hard-paywalled) content noticed by the non-subscribing world. The paper’s Ben...

Nieman Journalism Lab

“Having compelling content is one thing, but if you provide that, the reader will have to pay more”

6/18/2013

Paul Godfrey has been CEO of Canada’s largest newspaper chain, the Postmedia Network, for three years. In that time he’s cut more than 2,000 jobs, made two-thirds of content replicable across papers, hiked...

Nieman Journalism Lab

“Does that worry you, about newspapers dying?”

6/18/2013

The New Republic‘s Isaac Chotiner was hellbent on asking the the tough questions when he interviewed

MediaShift

Daily Must Reads, June 18, 2013

6/18/2013

1. Source: Instagram will get video on June 20 (TechCrunch) 2. The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’ - it’s a story that is evolving in real time(paidContent) 3. Having problems with your Netflix?

GigaOm - Mathew Ingram

Taking the pulse of the planet: How Twitter erases geography

6/18/2013

Real-time social networks like Twitter and Facebook are connecting people around the globe in a myriad of different ways, millions of times every minute, but we hardly ever get to see those connections represented visually.

Nieman Journalism Lab

The Times of London, navigating audience with a strict paywall, retires its opinion Tumblr

6/18/2013

When you bet on a strict, un-leaky paywall as The Times of London has, you’re forced to get creative about how to put your work in front of new audiences — particularly if you’re trying to influence their opinions. Unlike its fellow Times

MediaShift

Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, June 18, 2013

6/18/2013

1. Journalism schools have to go where the puck is (Globe and Mail) 2. The rise of edtech (The Next Web) 3. Journalism school tries to keep up with industry shifts (The GW Hachet) 4. High school newspapers thriving with eye on digital (Norwich Bulletin) 5. Technology in schools: Defining the terms (Edutopia) Get our newsletters...

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Pew survey offers lessons for funders of nonprofit news start ups

One in three U.S. adults owns a tablet, says Pew

Practicing journalism in the Galapagos, where “hyper-local” meets “hyper-sensitive”

Independent Publishers Group now has 100 members

The Times of London has built “The retweeter” to get its journalists to push its stories in social media

“Having compelling content is one thing, but if you provide that, the reader will have to pay more”

“Does that worry you, about newspapers dying?”

Daily Must Reads, June 18, 2013

Taking the pulse of the planet: How Twitter erases geography

The Times of London, navigating audience with a strict paywall, retires its opinion Tumblr

Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, June 18, 2013

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