Google has hired two of the leading researchers in visualization. In an understated post entitled That was fast!, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg announced that they had joined Google. Viégas and Wattenberg led IBM’s Visual Communication Lab, where they created the ground-breaking collaborative visualization platform Many Eyes. They left and set up Flowing Media a few months ago. But in the post dated August 5, the pair said they were “bidding the company adieu.”
PDF This presentation by Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, highlights how media habits in the US have changed in the past 10 years. It highlights how internet use has changed from being based around a stationary and slow computer to mobile connections built around storage and services in the cloud. The presentation was delivered at the Newhouse Monetising Online Business conference How Media Consumption Has
The CBC has released an interim report (PDF) into its news content across television, radio and online. CBC News editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire said the News Balance Report “adds to a considerable body of research we use to ensure our journalism continues its leading role in establishing and performing to best industry practices.” Among the areas covered by the report is a comparison of the issues covered by TV, radio and
We shouldn’t be surprised by the fact that most of news still comes from traditional sources. This is the conclusion of a study in the US by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. It found that most original reporting still comes from primarily newspapers, followed by television and radio, despite the proliferation of digital media. Newspapers accounted for two-thirds of new information, followed by TV at 28% and radio at
Director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Tom Rosenstiel, on the future of journalism at Minnesota Public Radio. He talks about the potential to produce better journalism now then ever before. His concerns: the unbundling of content and the challenge of monetising civic news. (Via Project for Excellence in Journalism) Print
Vancouver-based Orato.com used to describe itself as the “only news site in the world dedicated to First Person, citizen-authored journalism”. The citizen journalism site is perhaps best known for assigning two former sex trade workers to cover the trial of Robert Pickton, convicted in December 2007 on six counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of six women whose remains were found on his farm. The concept behind Orato was
Image by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ via Flickr Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt encapsulated the challenge facing newspapers in an interview with the FT (only available to subscribers). He highlighted that there was always an uncomfortable relationship between news gathering and the profitability model. News, itself, did not produce revenue. Profits came from the bundling of news with advertising and other services: So the structure of newspapers that evolved, where the majority of
Journalists don’t tend to look back every often, which is why a session on 10 years of online journalism at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas is timely. The conference is celebrating its 10th anniversary, so on day two, the first panel looks at what has happened over the past 10 years and what the next decade holds. The panel brings together the people who were
The first afternoon panel at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas sought to answer the question: Is newsroom integration working? The response from Anthony Moor, Deputy Managing Editor/Interactive, Dallas Morning News was a blunt “No”. He highlighted two reasons for this. Firstly, what the newspaper is asking journalists to do is significantly different from what they are used to doing. So there is a skills gap
First panel at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas went to the heart of the problem facing the established media: business models in online journalism. Steve Outing started off by asking if we are trying hard enough, answering the question with a resounding, “No”. But he also criticised ideas of locking up content behind pay walls. Instead he offered some ideas for the newspaper industry –