Archive for December, 2006

 
Dec30th2006

Video: Newspaper front pages of Saddam Hussein's execution


Click To Play play_blip_movie_127536(); Saddam Hussein's execution is global news and this video is a gallery selection of Front Pages from the world's newspapers. These are the first editions and none of them show the dead body. Interesting to study how different papers present the news for their readers. Leave comments and study the pages in greater detail [...]
 
Dec30th2006

The ever-evolving newspaper


Society of Professional Journalists december article
 
Dec30th2006

Web 2.0 how-to design style guide


 
Dec30th2006

Saddam hanged: Newspaper front pages


Click on any thumbnail image to magically enlarge the page view without leaving this page. Please contact us if you have front page or inside spreads to include in this gallery. We will need submissions in PDF format. © Robb for The VizEds Blog, 2006. | Permalink | 11 comments Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this [...]
 
Dec20th2006

Media Landscape blog is on hiatus.


Please share your media news over in the Media News forum.
 
Dec20th2006

Torstar slashes 85 jobs in restructuring


Canada’s largest daily newspaper, the Toronto Star, is eliminating 85 jobs as it restructures its newspaper division and more cuts may be on the way
 
Dec20th2006

Newspaper Design Job of the day: Hartford


Designer, The Hartford Courant
 
Dec20th2006

Job of the Day: New York City


NYTimes.com: Information Architect
 
Dec20th2006

Job of the Day: Chicago


Multimedia Producer - Crain Communications
 
Dec20th2006

Last-minute gift idea: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke


Author: Few visual designers are natural programmers, and as a result, visualizing how to work with markup, CSS and a range of coding techniques to create effective design is difficult.
 
Dec20th2006

New York Times tabloid plans aimed at youth, will be free


As The New York Times slowly works its way toward a narrower broadsheet in 2008, the paper has another new format in development: a tabloid for the younger generation.
 
Dec20th2006

Scottish journalists launch a local MySpace


The small Fife Herald newspaper in Scotland set up its own MySpace page and within weeks recruited some 400 new "friends." One staffer notes: "It's a totally untapped market for local papers, and it opens up new lines of communication," especially among y
 
Dec19th2006

45 Take Buyouts at San Diego Union-Tribune


The buyouts come as Copley Press, the Union-Tribune's parent company, has been seeking to sell its other newspaper holdings. On Friday, Hearst Corp. bought The (Torrance) Daily Breeze, Copley's Los Angeles-area daily paper
 
Dec19th2006

Ironic how Time's 'You' story illustrates how big media still doesn't understand new world.


WSJ: Did they cede some of their coveted big media gatekeeper status and acknowledge the wisdom of the little guy? No. They decided to toss those (reader) results and do something completely different: a trend story.
 
Dec19th2006

Blogger protoyped TIME's 'YOU' cover back in October.


Person of the year idea was tres obvious, (natch!) but blogger does elicit mad props for a pretty slick mockup of the cover and, of course, putting the guess right.
 
Dec19th2006

Chicago HQ to L.A. Times and all other TribCo properties . . .


Um, CEO Dennis FitzSimons is NOT planning to lead a leveraged buyout of the company. Is everyone clear on that now?
 
Dec19th2006

MySpace makes foray into print | MediaGuardian.co.uk


News Corp.'s MySpace will make its first move into print through a deal to turn an edition of U.K. style magazine Marmalade over to user-generated content. The March issue will feature cover-to-cover content submitted by MySpace users.
 
Dec19th2006

60 second analysis: Embedding Audio and Video in Text


Comparing two evolving techniques to mash up multimedia on Web sites: Exhibit A - the NYT, Exhibit B - a Japanese fanzine.
 
Dec19th2006

Showdown looming for Tribune sale


A group of TribCo executives led by CEO Dennis FitzSimons, together with a consortium of three private investment firms, are expected to enter a bid for Tribune and the Chandler Family has aligned with Yucaipa Cos. about making an an offer for some or all
 
Dec19th2006

Reuters Offers Mobile Video, Pre-Roll Ads


A total of 20 videos will be available on the site at any given time, and the mobile video will be "updated around the clock,"
 
Dec18th2006

Tribune's Garage Sale


Beachwood scribe handicaps valuations for TribCo's top properties.
 
Dec18th2006

Digg a Pony


Bad Beatles reference I know but check this; Digg does multimedia now - launching new video and podcasting features
 
Dec18th2006

Journalism Job of the Month


Chief of Bureau -- Chicago - The Associated Press - Chicago, IL
 
Dec18th2006

TIME's Person of the Year is . . .


You. Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.
 
Dec16th2006

E&P: Studies Americans' Media Usage which is way up.


The downside: Americans will spend more time on the web than they do with their newspapers.
 
Dec16th2006

More publishers producing breezy PDF version of newspapers


At the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily, its PDF edition is called Star PM, and at the Ottawa Citizen it goes by the name of RushHour. 12-pages, ad-supported and aimed at commters is model.
 
Dec15th2006

Do we even NEED pros to cover spot news?


Dan Gillmor wonders if tourists carrying mobile phones in spot news situations will spur the demise of the professional photojournalist. Is it a leap to make that conjecture? The photos that most untrained folks take are painfully unpublishable but there are some undeniable truths in the tech rends. From my own research: Fact: For $239 you can [...]
 
Dec15th2006

These new disruptions will reshape media for next decades


To say that this (What Jimmy wales is launching) is a disruptive occurrence in Web content would be an understatement. And you thought Craig Newmark was rocking the boat.
 
Dec15th2006

Key for mag publishers - Bring the IT expertise under editorial control


“But it’s a lot of work, a lot of development work, and we need to do that work in our own contained team rather than relying on a centralized IT department to do everything for all of our publications.”
 
Dec15th2006

Reporter: I saw the end coming 10 years ago . . .


Even though I saw it coming, I find myself stunned that it actually did. And I’m outraged at the greed of the CEOs and companies that have brought us to this point.
 
Dec15th2006

The New Sport Of Billionaires - Newspaper tycooning


These are dangerous times for the tattered local newspaper. The moguls are descending.
 
Dec15th2006

OJR: Top mistakes made by new online publishers


People are ditching newspapers for the Web for a reason, and it ain't the ease of reading on a computer screen, or even to save 50 cents a day. Readers crave authoritative voices that can guide them through the information overload of modern life.
 
Dec14th2006

News of the World To Use Bacode Tech For Mobile Content


UK Tab will use barcode mobile-scanning technology to bring TV clips of English Premier League football to its readers via their mobile phones.