E-Commerce News: Publishing

YouTube Opens Digital J-School for Amateur Reporters

Tuesday - June 30, 2009

How do you conduct a great interview? For Katie Couric, it all starts with being a gracious host. "I think the more comfortable you make someone feel, the better interview you'll get," she says. "I know in terms of body language I always try to be very warm and welcoming. It's really critical to put someone at ease." How do you write a great piece of investigative journalism? For Bob Woodward, it's all about calling a lot of people, finding the right documentation -- "and getting your ass out of the chair." [More...]

Wikipedia and the Kidnapped Reporter: Censor or Savior?

Tuesday - June 30, 2009

For seven months, New York Times reporter David Rohde was held by Taliban kidnappers. During his captivity, both his newspaper and Wikipedia kept quiet about his plight. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales reportedly agreed to a request from The New York Times to delete all references to the kidnapping on Rohde's Wikipedia entry. [More...]

AP Looks for More Action Online as Newspaper Revenue Fades

Wednesday - June 17, 2009

The Associated Press hopes to negotiate more lucrative licensing deals with major Web sites while mining new revenue from advertisers and readers as the 163-year-old news cooperative adapts to Internet-driven changes in the media. Chief Executive Tom Curley touched upon the AP's financial priorities after a meeting with employees in which he discussed possible revenue opportunities and initiatives to protect online content. [More...]

Iran Protests: The Whole World Is Watching, Flickring, Tweeting

Tuesday - June 16, 2009

"The whole world is watching" was one of the loudest rallying cries of Vietnam protesters gathered in the streets of Chicago outside the Democratic convention in 1968. Forty-one years later, the same slogan still applies and is even more relevant in the chaotic streets of Tehran. Thanks to social media technologies, the whole world is indeed watching Iranian citizens rise up against suspect presidential election results. [More...]

The Rise and Fall of Traditional Journalism, Part 5

Monday - June 15, 2009

When questions about the future of journalism come up, there are generally two driving concerns: what happens to the notion of "news" in an era of ubiquitous communications; and how you, as a writer, get paid. One of the great paradoxes of the information age is that as channels of distribution have proliferated, rates of pay for producing content for those channels have continued to fall. [More...]

Scribd Gains Legitimacy With Simon & Schuster on Board

Friday - June 12, 2009

The publisher of Stephen King and Chelsea Handler will be selling books through Scribd, the online document-sharing service that the industry has criticized for enabling the downloading of pirated texts. Scribd announced Thursday that digital versions of books by King, Handler and thousands of others published by Simon & Schuster can be purchased through Scribd's online store. [More...]

The TV Studio in Your Hand: The Future of News Gathering

Friday - June 12, 2009

The soundtrack for today's column is provided by the Dex Romweber Duo and their new CD, "Ruins of Berlin." It's a choice slice of rockabilly heaven with several tunes that would fit right in streaming from a jukebox in some blood-soaked Quentin Tarantino epic. Yet for all the retro goodness in the sound, my vision was filled with newfangled digital technology the night I saw the band in a smoky East Atlanta bar. [More...]

Craigslist on a Tear as Newspaper Classifieds Wither

Wednesday - June 10, 2009

Craigslist, one of the Internet's top sites for classified ads, is thriving while newspapers and other marketing-driven media are reeling from huge revenue losses, according to a report released Wednesday. Launched as an e-mail list in 1995, Craigslist's revenue is on pace to rise 23 percent this year to reach $100 million for the first time. [More...]

Online Advertising Suffers First Quarterly Loss Since '02

Tuesday - June 9, 2009

Internet advertising in the United States dropped 5 percent in the first quarter, marking the marketing medium's first downturn since 2002 when the Web was still recovering from the dot-com bust. The data released Friday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers provided another reminder of the widespread pain wrought by the longest U.S. recession since World War II. [More...]

The Rise and Fall of Traditional Journalism, Part 4

Monday - June 8, 2009

Ask someone about the future of journalism, and it's likely that most people will point to something like E-Ink or perhaps the Amazon Kindle -- high-fidelity readers that use millions of embedded, magnetically sensitive spheres which can show a black, white or in-between state to create dynamically refreshing text content. [More...]

E Ink Deal Could Hasten Kindle Color Display

Tuesday - June 2, 2009

E Ink, the maker of the innovative display for the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, said Monday it has agreed to be acquired by a Taiwanese company for $215 million. The buyer is Prime View International, which has been Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink's partner in making "electronic ink" displays for Amazon.com and Sony. [More...]

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