Solutions to newsroom troubles

Posted on January 14th, 2009 by Deb Wenger

Amid all the reporting about coverage cutbacks and layoffs in newsrooms around the country, there’s not enough focus on what news organizations might do to reinvent themselves.  Rich Gordon of Northwestern University has been working on and thinking about new media for at least a decade now.  His most recent post on the Poynter Web site has [...]

Filed under: 12. Getting Ready for the Real World | 1 Comment »

Writing for Twitter

Posted on January 14th, 2009 by Deborah Potter

Journalists who don’t Twitter are “crippling [their] online publishing effort,” says OJR’s Robert Niles.  In his view, Twitter is the ideal medium for breaking news and delivers information to readers more efficiently than RSS feeds.  But how do you write for Twitter?
Start by consulting this primer for Twitter beginners from J-Prof’’s Jim Stovall.  He says [...]

Filed under: 07. Writing for the Web, 10. Delivering the News | No Comments »