Media news
- Ethnic media publishers are the original niche media pioneers
- By Robert Niles: Commentary: Ethnic newspapers and broadcast stations have built a model for competing successfully with mainstream media. Now, it's time to apply that model online. — From USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Feb 1, 2008
- Big names, big ideas at Big Think
- By Jim Wayne: Startup invites users, experts to create global video conversations on the Web. — From USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Jan 30, 2008
- Readers owe nothing to publishers
- By Robert Niles: Commentary: The news industry must break its habit of hiding its best editorial content if it is to use online to reverse its decline in readership. — From USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Jan 28, 2008
- Which social networking sites are you using?
- By Robert Niles: Question of the week: Are you, or your publication, using online communities to promote your journalism? If so, tell us about it. — From USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Jan 25, 2008
- Newspapers use YouTube video previews to attract readers
- By Jean Yung: Online editors at two papers talk about how they put movie-style trailers and a music video on YouTube to promote their papers' special reporting projects. — From USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Jan 24, 2008
- Teaching online newswriting
- By Robert Niles: Commentary: Understanding search engine optimization and the need to work quickly can help journalists write more effectively for the Web. — From USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Jan 24, 2008
- Got something to say? Then say it!
- By Robert Niles: Editor's note: We're changing the way we handle reader comments on OJR, so that unregistered readers will have a chance to contribute to the site. — From USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Jan 22, 2008
- Which online news award means the most?
- By Robert Niles: Question of the week: Which of the top awards for excellence in online journalism would you most want to win? — From USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Jan 18, 2008
- News sites, large and small, can measure usability
- By Steve Stewart: Through a variety of methods, newspaper professionals can enlist consumers in evaluating their websites' designs. — From USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Jan 17, 2008
- Writing to the beat of their hearts
- By Jean Yung: A new collection of essays by teenage girls might teach something about the next generation of journalism. — From USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review, Jan 16, 2008
- YellowPages.com Sees $1.5 Billion Across 3 AT&T Screens by 2010
- While the other telcos have divested their Yellow Pages unit, AT&T still maintains that there is real synergy in pursuing a 3 screen strategy. Rather than selling the YP unit and using the proceeds to build out its network, as Verizon did, AT& — From The Local Onliner, Dec 13, 2007
- Merchant Circle Goes Positive in Telemarketing Effort
- Merchant Circle has apparently changed its tact for getting small businesses to sign up. In the past, there have been numerous reports that it autodialed SMBs and notified them they had to check out the company’s website to see their “bad — From The Local Onliner, Dec 11, 2007
- MobileShift::How to Make Smartphones Smarter
- The cell phone industry in the United States is at a crossroads. Verizon announced it would open up its networks to other devices, AT&T opened its already-open network and Google has been pushing the carriers to adopt its more open Android platf — From MediaShift, Dec 10, 2007
- How important is digital media in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign?
- As the U.S. presidential primary season quickly approaches, the question remains just how important the Internet and new media have been in the election race. While political tracking sites such as TechPresident can show how many Facebook friends the — From MediaShift, Dec 10, 2007
- Google Local Symposium: Listen Carefully, It is Google
- Google is simultaneously the most open and most shut business I can think of. On one hand, it is amazingly transparent. You walk around the two campuses in Mountain View and you can walk right by Larry and Sergey’s offices. During my short tim — From The Local Onliner, Dec 8, 2007