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The Wall Street Journal monthly columnist, Mark Penn, has today written a startling article analysing the growing trend of the professional blogger.

Together with his co-author from book Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes - E. Kinney Zalesne - Penn reports that there are almost as many people in the United States earning a living as a blogger as there are lawyers. What's more, Penn and Zalesne claim that the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has identified 452,000 Americans working as full-time bloggers, suggesting there are more bloggers than there are bartenders, computer programmers, CEOs or firefighters (although a scan of the data unveiled no such magical figure when we checked).

A number of major media organizations in the US took a quote by retired general Wesley Clark about John McCain out of context, media watchdog Fair.Org reported.

This led to the publication of many misleading accounts about McCain's electability

A few days ago, CBS's Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer asked Clark about his previous declaration that McCain was "untested and untried", to which Clark replied:

"I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands of millions of others in the armed forces as a prisoner of war."

Schieffer then said, "I have to say, Barack Obama has not had any of those experiences either, nor has he ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down."

Clark replied, "Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president."

The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and NPR all wrote stories based on Clark's last quote, but without mentioning that he praised McCain's military service. News cable channels like MSNBC and Fox News also included false claims.

This issue serves as a timely reminder of the dangers of disregarding the facts for the sake of a great headline.
 
Source: Fair.Org
 

A valuable reminder in a journalism world increasingly focused on new media capabilities, Leonard Downie, editor of the Washington Post, insisted on the core value of quality traditional reporting.

CBS News and The Washington Post have partnered to share news for their online editions only during the 2008 US presidential campaign.

 Every web-based news source must take great care in providing an efficient layout. For two reasons. Studies have shown that, in a general manner, the print-format of newspapers is still more practical than web versions for cursive visual scans and information retention. The second reason is common sense: since traditional newspapers’ readership is migrating to online, it’s even more essential for them to produce a quality online format. So how do you do it? 

Journal Register Co. is the most recent newspaper publisher to join forces with  Google Print Ads.  More than 50 papers, including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post and the Seattle Times, are already working with Google allowing online advertisers to buy print space as well.  

Source: Market Watch

Allbritton Communications has signed on Josh Harris, now-former Washington Post Political editor, and Jim Vanderhei, renowned political reporter, as well as a team of  other well-known journalists, to work on its latest multimedia political news enterprise. The project is to create a web-based political coverage platform, in partnership with traditional media owned by Allbritton.

The goal is to compete with traditional media for any and all coverage of national politics, Congress and Capitol Hill.

In the run-up to the US mid-term elections, many news organizations have been using interactives in their website coverage, and often taking advantage of Flash technology to do it.  Are these graphics effective?  Are they worth all the trouble?  Digital media experts Alberto Cairo, Mindy McAdams and Laura Ruel give their assessment, and offer tips for future news website content producers.

The Los Angeles Times is a prime example of a major American metro newspaper whose national and international news is trumped by news agencies and larger papers like the New York Times while its regional coverage remains inferior to local publications. Currently faced with huge losses in circulation coupled with pressure from shareholders, LAT is struggling to redefine itself in order to maintain its relevancy. A two-pronged approach is necessary: exploit local resources and diversity while overhauling the substandard website.

Newspapers have always competed with one another for the scoop and the right to boast that their newsroom nailed the story. But in the digital age, those rivalries may be fading away. The New York Times reports that several major publications will soon be linking to each other with the help of an Internet company which strives to structure information.

The press is once again under scrutiny by the Bush administration in what appear to be flagrant discrepancies from the freedom the American Bill of Rights grants journalists. The Washington Post has revealed that reporters and their sources are being targeted by government investigations of information leaks and ABC News reports that the Pentagon has decided to continue paying Iraqi journalists to print articles favorable of the United States.

The Washington Post was forced to shut down comments on one of its blogs yesterday as readers responded angrily to a statement made by ombudsman Deborah Howell that Jack Abramoff, who is at the centre of a Washington scandal for having bribed a significant number of politicans in order to 'buy influence', payed off Democrats as well as Republicans.

Morningstar reports that Jim Brady, Executive Editor at wasingtonpost.com, confirmed that "there were so many personal attacks that the newspaper's staff could not 'keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff,' and so the Post shut down comments on the blog."

Journalism is under fire. It has lost the public's trust. It is marred by scandal. It is looked at by those who "own" it as an aside to a profit machine, not a community service.

Although all this looks bad, we still depend on journalism as one of the guiding forces in democracy. So who's going to fix it?  

Three news organizations are expanding their online video offerings, showing the growing importance of online multimedia to which newspapers need to adapt.