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With technology facilitating the advent of many social media platforms, journalists are wondering how much is too much as outlets bend over backwards to incorporate these new tools. Robert Picard examines the benefits and drawbacks within the intersection of social media and news publications. You can read Picard's finding on the Nieman Lab website here…….Continue Reading Social media and not trying to do it all

Ad spending has declined 14 percent in the last six months, according to a new advertising tracker. Media corporations such as News Corp and Time Warner are among the companies who have noticeably cut down on their marketing costs, in addition to many print and broadcast outlets. You can read the article from the Los Angeles Times here…….Continue Reading Media ad sales down

In response to the Newspaper Association of America's call for innovation, Microsoft introduced their version of an online news site. The prototype looks a lot like TweetDeck in that it pulls in video and photos from major media outlets and places content alongside feeds from Facebook or Twitter. Read the Nieman Lab post. — September 15, 2009……Continue Reading Microsoft unveils next-gen newspaper

Though Journalism Online is confident its new business model will thrive, an American Press Institute study reveals that half of industry executives are hesitant about implementing it. The study also measured readers' responses against publishers' responses to paying for content online. You can read the Editors' Weblog post here…….Continue Reading Study shows concern over paid content model

Voice of OC, a new investigative journalism outlet made up of former lawmakers, attorneys and reporters, is hoping to fill the void left by many job cuts at the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times in recent months. The privately funded organization hopes to be releasing reports by the end of the year and will operate much like independent, nonprofit Voice of San Diego. You can read the Editors' Weblog post here…….Continue Reading New watchdog journalism in Orange County

NewsCorp announced that it will begin charging readers who browse the Wall Street Journal on their mobile devices. Subscribers will pay $1 per week and non-subscribers will pay $2. The publication is one of the few outlets that has succeeded in using a paid content model. You can read the article about the new paywalls from NewsCorp in Washington Post…….Continue Reading WSJ will charge for mobile content

Leading news organizations and Google have joined forces to produce an experimental news-browsing service called Fast Flip>. The goal is to simulate the physical feeling of perusing a print publication by taking headlines from major media outlets and placing them on a magazine-like spread. You can read the article in the New York Times here…….Continue Reading Google partners with news publishers

As more veteran reporters migrate to successful, issue-driven organizations, concerns over objectivity are being called into question. Since advocacy groups almost always have their own agenda, journalists are facing scrutiny over the intentions behind their reporting. You can read the Nieman Lab post here…….Continue Reading Non-profits hiring more journalists

Journalism Online wants 20 percent of subscription revenue and will have news sites sign up roughly 10 percent of their monthly readers for a subscription plan. You can read the post by the Nieman Lab here…….Continue Reading Journalism Online’s pay-for-news model

A new company called TweetMixx combs through thousands of Twitter updates every hour to give readers the most "Tweeted-about" headlines and stories of the day. Previously called Mixx, the site will switch from mostly using CNN.com for breaking news to the increasingly popular Twitter. You can read the article in the Washington Post here…….Continue Reading Twitter tapped by online news service