Jim Brady is the newly-appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Register Company, a news organization that owns over 350 multi-platform publications. The company has been hailed as a digital success story: it filed for bankruptcy in 2009, but after embracing CEO John Paton's 'digital first' strategy it turned a profit of more than $40 million in 2010.
The company unites digital technology with a very focused local approach. One of the JRC's initiatives has been the
Register Citizen Newsroom Café in Torrington, Connecticut, a project that invites members of the public into the newsroom and encourages them to contribute to the news.
Brady, formerly of The Washington Post and TBD, joined the JRC in March 2011 to lead 'Project Thunderdome', a plan to centralize national content and hence give local reporters more time to stick to local stories.
Brady will be speaking at the
18th World Editors Forum in Vienna about how to build a community around your publication.
WAN-IFRA: The JRC's CEO John Paton, has really plugged 'digital first'. What does it mean in practice?
If you're going to be 'digital first' you have to live up to that; news has to go out when it breaks, you can't hold things for the paper. It's embracing local and realizing now that you can reach people 24/7 on a device that's usually attached to their pocket. 'Digital first' is just throwing off the chains of a very rigid print schedules; there's no logic of why we print the paper at the time we do other than we want to get it to you when you wake up in the morning. There's a lot of other time in the day to get news to people and we can't build our entire ecosystem around getting the paper out or else we'll leave about 18 hours of the day on the floor.
WAN-IFRA: Can you explain Project Thunderdome?
Thunderdome is a project to help centralize resources to produce non-local content for all of the JRC's properties. Every local paper in the chain has national content in it but it's not their area of expertise. We want local papers to focus on covering their local communities and not on covering Wall Street or the war in Afghanistan. So we're creating a centralized team to produce that content for all of the local papers and their websites; that will free up a lot of the resources in the building to go back out on the streets and report, as opposed to doing production work.
WAN-IFRA: What are your top three tips for actively engaging digital users?
The first tip would be one that's a little offbeat, I guess, for digital, which is don't forget about the need for face-to-face contact. I think we found, certainly at TBD [Brady's previous project] that actually going out and meeting the people that you're meant to be working with was really important. You've got to meet the community or else you're not really going to be able to cover it that well.
Secondly I think transparency with the community's important. If you miss a story, or you get something wrong in a story, I think openness really goes a long way.
The third one is understand what they want too. At TBD we built a network of 250 blogs and we just pointed to them. A lot of people said: 'why don't you take their blogs and put them on your site?' Because they would not have been as happy partners if we had done that, because they're trying to build their own businesses with their own reputations. You've got to help them do that. Work with them on their terms.
WAN-IFRA: In the cafe newsroom in Torrington you invite members of the public to help create the news. What have the responses been from contributors and readers?
It's been very positive. The openness of that newsroom led to the governor of Connecticut coming in and unveiling his budget there. It got a lot of good buzz and I think that this kind of openness is too rare in newsrooms. The fact that a reader who doesn't like what the paper has written can essentially walk right up to the editor or the reporter and tell him that he thought the story wasn't right - in some cases I think it's a positive thing. I'm not sure that every reporter in the world would agree with that!
But in the end we have to be accountable for what we write. This works both ways, you know - if the reader is off base then the reporter is perfectly able to get into a discussion with that reader. It can be the opportunity for a good discussion that could lead to a better relationship with people in the community. So I think it's been a huge hit and we definitely want to expand it beyond Torrington.
WAN-IFRA: Paton has spoken out against paywalls. Do you think that high-profile publications like The New York Times have made a mistake?
First of all, the Times is in its own category so if the paywall works for them that doesn't mean its going to work for anybody else. Generally, I'm not in favor of paywalls because I think they work against the whole orientation of the web. A lot of the web is about discovery; you find a site you didn't know about before because somebody linked to it. If you put it behind a big paywall - not The New York Times' version which is a metered thing - but if you're talking about just a pure paywall, Google doesn't index you, blogs don't link to you. You really lock yourself off from the rest of the internet.
A lot of the time that paywall only exists to preserve print readers, and the truth is the print readers are not going to be around forever, so what are you going to do when they're not around any more to buy the paper or pay for the website? You're going to have a whole generation of readers who are not used to paying for content who are not going to come to your site. And you're not going to be able to grow any new audience because you're totally blocked off from the rest of the internet. So I think the pure paywall is a huge mistake.
WAN-IFRA: So what are the best models today for monetizing digital content?
I don't think that money's going to be here this year or maybe even next, but I think location-based stuff is going to be huge, especially in small communities. Every local advertiser wants, for the most part, people in their store. So I want more people to look at the location-based stuff and say 'we will only deliver this ad to readers that we know are within a mile of your pizza place'. And that's a pretty good sell point for a pizza place that's not going to spend a lot of money on buying a region-wide ad.
Events is one [model] that people are starting to experiment with that I think is a good one. There's certainly no reason you can't charge for events around public debates.
I've always liked the services model. I know it's gone through its ups and downs but the idea of helping small advertisers with their social media strategy or with creation of advertising - I think small papers should be doing that.
The line I've used a bunch of times in the past has been "there's no silver bullet". It's little chunks of a bullet and that are going to come from different revenue streams.
WAN-IFRA: With so much focus on user-generated content, what's the best way to ensure editorial quality?
It's giving people time to do their reporting and time to do the research they need to. It's not easy, there's no doubt about that, in this world where the web rewards you producing a lot of content but you don't always have a lot of people.
So I actually think the way to preserve editorial quality is by trusting other bloggers and other sites in the community to help you produce it. I think that's been a bit of a mental block for a lot of papers that say, "that person's not on staff, they're not a professional journalist". And at TBD our attitude was, if we've gone back and read the last two or three months worth of this blogger's work, at some point you just have to decide this person's credible: they've built an audience, they've been accurate, they've been impactful. And if they can fit in all those criteria I don't really care if they came out of school with a BA in journalism or not.
The answer is not to try to tell a newsroom to produce twice as much content with the same number of people because there's no way that you can avoid quality degrading a little bit if you do that.
WAN-IFRA: At the WAN-IFRA Newsroom Summit John Paton quoted Vint Cerf of Google saying "People's trust in journalism has always been about branding." What's the best way to create a strong brand in your community?
I think it's to go where the readers are. A line that somebody used, I can't remember who it was: "We have to stop trying to get people to our homepage and we have to start getting our homepage to the people" And I think the concept there is that you know people are spending a ton of time on Google and on Twitter and on Facebook and you've just got to be there.
WAN-IFRA: What are your top priorities to ensure continued success?
It's to get Thunderdome launched. It's to get out to all the newsrooms as quickly as possible and talk about where we're headed and just let them know where we want to
take the company journalistically. It's to raise to overall quality of the journalism at JRC. Not to say it's bad not - it's not. But there's a lot we can do via partnerships, via expanding the local reporting.
And I think we need to improve the look and feel of our websites. I think the websites are fine, but we're not doing as good a job as we could of making it clear to the reader what we think the biggest stories of the day are and we're not doing a good enough job of engaging the audience in aggressive and high-profile ways. So we're working on that as well.
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/12/al_jazeera_english_wins_dupont_award.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="11090" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/al-jazeera%206.jpg"><img alt="al-jazeera 6.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/12/al-jazeera%206-thumb-200x115-11090.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="115" width="200" /></a></form><div><b>Al Jazeera English</b> has won its first <b>Alfred I. duPont </b>award for excellence in broadcast and digital journalism, <a href="http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/788-the-alfred-i-dupont-columbia-university-award-winners/594"><b>announced</b></a> the <b>Columbia School of Journalism</b> this morning. According to Columbia's website, the prize is the "equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes" for broadcast journalism.</div><div><br /></div><div>The award recognises the quality of the report <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rx2EQxZ7MXQ#%21">"Haiti - Six Months on"</a>, part of Al Jazeera English's <b>Faultlines</b> documentary series. The program examines the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010 and is praised by the Columbia School of Journalism as "an emotional, accurate and visceral report about the lack of progress in reconstruction". </div><div><br /></div> &title=<b>Al Jazeera English</b> wins greater US recognition with <b>duPont</b> award){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2011/12/guardian_n0tice_plans_to_split_ad_revenu.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10960" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/logo-2.png"><img alt="logo-2.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/11/logo-2-thumb-200x69-10960.png" width="200" height="69" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form><div><i>The Guardian</i>'s new community platform, <b>n0tice</b>, has announced new revenue sharing model that will allow users who set up their own online notice boards to share the advertising revenue generated from their board.</div><div><br /></div><div>The site allows people to create an <a href="http://about.n0tice.com/faqs/">online notice</a> board that will link them to the rest of their local community. This board can then become a place to advertise upcoming events, buy or sell goods or just share what's going on in the neighbourhood. The service is free, but it costs approximately £1 per day for the ad to be placed in a featured spot on the site, where it will be displayed to users within a one-mile radius of the advertiser's location. The price increases depending on the advertisement's geographical distribution, the size and how long it is displayed for. </div> &title=<i>Guardian</i> <b>n0tice</b> plans to split ad revenue with users){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2011/12/what_the_times_union_print_expansion_say.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="11063" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/brand.png"><img alt="brand.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/12/brand-thumb-200x17-11063.png" width="200" height="17" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form><div>The relationship between print and digital is a complex one. 'Digital first' has become a creed for many publications, hoping to ride the wave of technological disruption that has been rippling through the industry for years. Newspapers are obviously proud of their print heritage, but the tendency to put print under the category 'legacy media' doesn't show much faith in it remaining an important medium in years to come. </div><div><br /></div><div>Yet, despite the often dismissive attitude displayed towards print, many newspapers continue to see the value in their printed product, so much so that they are in fact expanding print operations. Last week <i>The Columbus Dispatch</i> announced it would <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/blog/2011/12/newspapers-seeking-to-expand-printing.html">expand printing operations</a> after <b>Gannett</b> announced it would stop printing in Cincinnati and hand over it's printing obligations to <i>The Dispatch</i>; evidence that while some newspapers are clearly looking to rid themselves of their printing duties, others are growing to take up their roles. </div> &title=What the <i>Times Union</i> print expansion says about print v digital){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/12/community_marriage_spotus_merges_with_th.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="11012" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/spotus%20founder%20david%20cohn.jpg"><img alt="spotus founder david cohn.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/12/spotus founder david cohn-thumb-200x133-11012.jpg" width="200" height="133" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form><div>The community-funded news platform <b><a href="http://spot.us/">Spot.Us</a></b> <a href="http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/press/archive/pr_112911.html">announced</a> this week that it has been acquired by the <b><a href="http://www.publicinsightnetwork.org/">Public Insight Network</a> (PIN).</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Spot.Us is site that allows readers to make microdonations towards journalism stories. The site displays journalist's pitches for public interest stories as well as readers' tips and suggested assignments. Users can donate to individual projects, and when the funding target is reached, the journalist who has proposed the story is paid to write it. To preserve editorial independence, there's a limit on how much individual users can donate. The finished story is licensed under <b>Creative Commons</b>, and Spot.Us distributes it to as many publishing outlets as possible. </div><div><br /></div><div>Spot.Us was launched in November 2008 by David Cohn, with the aid of $340,000 of funding from the Knight News Foundation. Its business model has developed since its launch; in May 2010 it unrolled a <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/03/spotus_looking_at_introducing_community-.php">"community centered advertising project"</a> which allowed users to respond to market research surveys in exchange for credit to fund stories on the site.</div><div><br /></div><div>PIN is part of <b>American Public Media </b>(APM), a non-profit organisation that is the second-largest distributor of public radio programming in the US. </div><div><br /></div> <div><br /></div>&title=Community marriage: Spot.Us merges with the Public Insight Network ){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2011/11/old_news_is_good_news_how_facebook_is_br.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10747" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/facebook-logo.png"><img alt="facebook-logo.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/09/facebook-logo-thumb-200x200-10747.png" width="200" height="200" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></a></form><div>News today is all about being first; 'real time' is king; users want the latest information in the quickest possible time delivered straight to their mobile device so they are constantly kept abreast of unfolding world events. Right?</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, yes... and no. </div><div><br /></div><div>It seems that <b>Facebook</b> is producing something of a Lazarus effect for old news content. Stories that were written more than a decade ago are increasingly becoming viral phenomena thanks to the new '<a href="http://technorati.com/blogging/article/facebooks-frictionless-sharing-causes-friction-among/">frictionless sharing'</a> system introduced by the social network in September. </div> &title=Old news is good news: how Facebook is breathing new life into old stories ){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2011/11/on_the_cutting_edge_digital_investigativ.php&bodytext=When it comes to press freedom, Latin America's reputation is less than stellar. Over the course of last week the <a href="http://www.ifex.org/"><b>International Freedom of Expression Exchange</b></a> (IFEX) reported an <a href="http://www.ifex.org/argentina/2011/11/18/radio_fm_sapucay/">arson attack</a> against a radio station in Argentina, two <a href="http://www.ifex.org/mexico/2011/11/17/el_financiero_employees_missing/">newspaper employees going missing in Mexico</a>, a <a href="http://www.ifex.org/bolivia/2011/11/17/ibarra_stabbed/">journalist being beaten and stabbed eight times</a> in Bolivia, and an editor going on <a href="http://www.ifex.org/venezuela/2011/11/16/garcia_hunger_strike/">hunger strike</a> in Venezuela to protest his imprisonment. And that's not even a complete list. <div><br /></div><div><div>But despite the challenges, there are reporters who won't be deterred from chasing serious stories. Their work is independent, investigative, online - and thriving. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Plaza Pública</b></div><div><br /></div><div><form mt:asset-id="10986" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/logos/plazapublica.jpg"><img alt="plazapublica.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/11/plazapublica-thumb-250x46-10986.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="46" width="250" /></a></form>One of the most recent examples is <i><a href="http://www.plazapublica.com.gt/">Plaza Pública</a></i> in Guatemala. This digital publication was founded in February 2011, and is partly funded by the <b>Jesuit University Rafael Landívar</b>, partly by the London-based <b>Open Society Foundations</b>. The paper's founder and editor in chief <b>Martín Rodríguez Pellecer</b> told the Editors Weblog that he was originally invited by the university to create an "in depth" newspaper that would be "different from Guatemala's superficial and more conservative media".</div><!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment-->
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/11/measuring_the_economic_value_of_social_m.php&bodytext=<div><img alt="Piwik-›-Web-Analytics-Reports-.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/11/Piwik-%E2%80%BA-Web-Analytics-Reports--thumb-200x108-10971.png" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="108" width="200" /></div><div>How effective is social media at driving traffic to your website? How much money do you make from advertising when readers get there? </div><div><br /></div><div>Answering these two questions is key to developing an effective online business strategy. It's simple, isn't it? That's why we have <b>Google Analytics</b> and <b>Chartbeat</b> and we monitor social media referrals...</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, yes, that's a good start - but have you thought about other ways of measuring social media and online metrics? </div> &title=Measuring the economic value of social media and your webpage){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/11/media_links_of_the_day_274.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10269" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/media%20links-thumb-200x58-6272-thumb-200x58-6273-thumb-200x58-6911-thumb-200x58-9311-thumb-200x58-9318-thumb-200x58-9319-thumb-200x58-9409-thumb-200x58-9410-thumb-200x58-9418-thumb-200x58-9430.jpg"><img alt="media links-thumb-200x58-6272-thumb-200x58-6273-thumb-200x58-6911-thumb-200x58-9311-thumb-200x58-9318-thumb-200x58-9319-thumb-200x58-9409-thumb-200x58-9410-thumb-200x58-9418-thumb-200x58-9430.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/05/media%20links-thumb-200x58-6272-thumb-200x58-6273-thumb-200x58-6911-thumb-200x58-9311-thumb-200x58-9318-thumb-200x58-9319-thumb-200x58-9409-thumb-200x58-9410-thumb-200x58-9418-thumb-200x58-9430-thumb-200x58-10269.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="58" width="200" /></a></form><div><a href="http://en.rsf.org/etats-unis-domestic-reality-does-not-match-02-11-2011,41324.html"><b>Reporters Without Borders</b></a> says that the intention of the US to protect online freedom of expression has not been matched by its actions.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.ejc.net/media_news/thais_turn_to_social_media_for_flood_updates/">Social media</a> experiences a surge in use during flooding in Thailand.</div><div><br /></div><div>See how the <a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_pop_totl&idim=country:TUN&dl=en&hl=en&q=tunisia+population#ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=it_net_user_p2&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:TUN:EGY:ZAF:NGA:MAR:DZA:SDN:KEN:UGA:ZWE&ifdim=country&hl=en&dl=en">use of mobile phones</a> has grown in countries all over the world. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/press/wired-bringing-advertisers-and-its-blogs-closer-together-136211">Wired</a></b> experiments with blending blogging and advertising: a great money-maker, or a blow to editorial integrity? </div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/is-the-huffington-post-reinventing-the-art-of-liveblogging/">HuffPo</a></b><a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/is-the-huffington-post-reinventing-the-art-of-liveblogging/"> and the Live Blog</a>: how the online only publication marries the traditional article with instant updates. </div><div><br /></div><div>Lawyers insist that <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lawyer-tells-mps-james-murdoch-lied-to-you-2350412.html"><b>James Murdoch</b> lied to MPs</a> on the basis of email evidence. </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; ">For more industry news please see <b><a href="http://www.wan-ifra.org/microsites/executive-news-service" style="color: rgb(228, 107, 12); text-decoration: none; ">WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service</a></b></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></font></div><div>Sources: <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/press/wired-bringing-advertisers-and-its-blogs-closer-together-136211">AdWeek</a>, <a href="http://www.ejc.net/media_news/thais_turn_to_social_media_for_flood_updates/">EJC.net</a>,<a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_pop_totl&idim=country:TUN&dl=en&hl=en&q=tunisia+population#ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=it_net_user_p2&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:TUN:EGY:ZAF:NGA:MAR:DZA:SDN:KEN:UGA:ZWE&ifdim=country&hl=en&dl=en"> Google Public Data Explorer</a>, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lawyer-tells-mps-james-murdoch-lied-to-you-2350412.html">The Independent</a>, <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/is-the-huffington-post-reinventing-the-art-of-liveblogging/">Nieman Lab</a>, <a href="http://en.rsf.org/etats-unis-domestic-reality-does-not-match-02-11-2011,41324.html">Reporters without Borders</a>, </div> &title=Media links of the day){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/10/too_many_ads.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="6419" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/Picture%207.png"><img alt="Picture 7.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/04/Picture%207-thumb-200x105-6419.png" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="105" width="200" /></a></form><div>"Web design is in bad shape. In the applications boom, news-related websites end up as collateral damage."</div><div><br /></div><div>This is how <b>Frédéric Filloux</b>, general manager of the French ePresse consortium, opens his article on advertising on news websites, just published in the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/31/news-website-design-ads?CMP=twt_fd">Guardian</a> and <a href="http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/10/30/proof-by-mask/#more-4251">Monday Note</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Filloux argues that great design has gone into news apps, but the traditional web has been left behind. "The graphic evolution of the web must deal with two negative forces: its language framework doesn't evolve fast enough, and it faces the burden of messy advertising," he writes.</div> &title=Too many ads with your news?){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/10/media_links_of_the_day_271.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10269" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/media%20links-thumb-200x58-6272-thumb-200x58-6273-thumb-200x58-6911-thumb-200x58-9311-thumb-200x58-9318-thumb-200x58-9319-thumb-200x58-9409-thumb-200x58-9410-thumb-200x58-9418-thumb-200x58-9430.jpg"><img alt="media links-thumb-200x58-6272-thumb-200x58-6273-thumb-200x58-6911-thumb-200x58-9311-thumb-200x58-9318-thumb-200x58-9319-thumb-200x58-9409-thumb-200x58-9410-thumb-200x58-9418-thumb-200x58-9430.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/05/media%20links-thumb-200x58-6272-thumb-200x58-6273-thumb-200x58-6911-thumb-200x58-9311-thumb-200x58-9318-thumb-200x58-9319-thumb-200x58-9409-thumb-200x58-9410-thumb-200x58-9418-thumb-200x58-9430-thumb-200x58-10269.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="58" width="200" /></a></form><div><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/washington-post-occupy-oakland_n_1033561.html">Public outcry in Washington</a> as <i>The Washington Post</i> covers the use of teargas on protestors in Washington by leading with an image of a police officer stroking a kitten.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2011/oct/27/guardian-tag-bot-twitter-questions">@GuardianTagBot</a>: Now you can search <i>The Guardian</i> via <b>Twitter</b>, simply tweet your search at TagBot and he will deliver the latest news result to you!</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=48127&c=1">Traffic to UK press websites</a> dropped across the board in September. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Online curation service <a href="http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2011/10/27/storify-gets-a-new-look-and-promises-to-revise-the-entire-reader-experience/"><b>Storify</b></a> has launched new features and redesigned its logo with the aim of making storytelling easier. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.censorship-paradise.com/en/"><b>Reporters Without Borders</b></a> has launched a new advertising campaign, called Censorship Paradise, designed to draw attention to human rights abuses in popular tourist destinations. </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; ">For more industry news please see <b><a href="http://www.wan-ifra.org/microsites/executive-news-service" style="color: rgb(228, 107, 12); text-decoration: none; ">WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Sources: <a href="http://www.censorship-paradise.com/en/">Censorship-paradise.com</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2011/oct/27/guardian-tag-bot-twitter-questions">The Guardian</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/washington-post-occupy-oakland_n_1033561.html">Huffington Post</a>, <a href="http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2011/10/27/storify-gets-a-new-look-and-promises-to-revise-the-entire-reader-experience/">Journalism.co.uk</a>, <a href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=48127&c=1">The Press Gazette</a>,</div> &title=Media links of the day){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2011/10/dont_be_so_square_man_experiments_in_non.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10909" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/arrows.png"><img alt="arrows.png" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/10/arrows-thumb-200x200-10909.png" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="200" width="200" /></a></form>"Fifteen years into the Internet age and we are still publishing stories the way we published them 100 years ago," said <b><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2011/10/fact-checking_and_the_truth-o-meter.php">Bill Adair</a></b>, founder of <b><a href="http://www.politifact.com/">Politifact</a></b> at <b>WAN-IFRA</b>'s <b>18th World Editors Forum</b> in Vienna. "Just pasting on the web." <div><br /></div><div>Adair's own website doesn't stick to these rules. Politifact is a fact-checking site that rates statements made by American political figures on a scale from "true" to "pants on fire". The exciting thing about the format is that stories can be sorted in different ways (all the ratings for President Obama, for example, or all the false ratings) so that readers can put the data together in their own way. Using Politifact, you get a sense of an overarching narrative, and because you have the power to sort the data, it is the story you want to see.</div><div><br /></div><div>We've written a lot about Politifact (for example, <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2011/08/bill_adair_editor_of_politifact_readers.php">here</a>) but a few articles have been published recently, which show that the initiative is by no means the only one challenging old, linear story formats.</div>&title=Don't be so square man! Experiments in non-linear storytelling){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2011/09/wall_street_journal_live.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10741" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/wall-street-journal-logo-300x212.jpg"><img alt="wall-street-journal-logo-300x212.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/09/wall-street-journal-logo-300x212-thumb-200x141-10741.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="141" width="200" /></a></form><div><i>The Wall Street Journal</i> has launched '<b>WSJ Live</b>', an app that will greatly expand <b>The Wall Street Journal</b><i><b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">D</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b>igital Network</b></span></i>. </div><div><br /></div><div>The <b>WSJDN</b> previously streamed around 4 hours of daily live programming on the WSJ website; but with the advent of this app the network is taking a leap forward, as its content can now be accessed onthe <b>iPad</b>, on the cross platform home theatre PC system<b> Boxee</b> and also via a range of internet TVs from manufacturers such as<b> Sony</b>, <b>Samsung</b> and <b>Panasonic</b>. Additional distribution channels will be added in the coming weeks, including <b>Google TV, Hulu</b> and the <b>Hulu Plus</b> subscription service, <b>Roku</b>, a press release said.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"This is the latest evolution of our 'Journal Everywhere' strategy, an initiative that is particularly original because of the innovative advertising opportunities we're opening up across so many new distribution platforms," said <b>Alisa Bowen</b>, general manager of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, in a press release detailing the motives behind the video app launch.</div> &title=<i>Wall Street Journal</i> ups its video offerings with <b>WSJ Live</b>){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/08/media_links_of_the_day_244.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10269" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/media%20links-thumb-200x58-6272-thumb-200x58-6273-thumb-200x58-6911-thumb-200x58-9311-thumb-200x58-9318-thumb-200x58-9319-thumb-200x58-9409-thumb-200x58-9410-thumb-200x58-9418-thumb-200x58-9430.jpg"><img alt="media links-thumb-200x58-6272-thumb-200x58-6273-thumb-200x58-6911-thumb-200x58-9311-thumb-200x58-9318-thumb-200x58-9319-thumb-200x58-9409-thumb-200x58-9410-thumb-200x58-9418-thumb-200x58-9430.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/05/media%20links-thumb-200x58-6272-thumb-200x58-6273-thumb-200x58-6911-thumb-200x58-9311-thumb-200x58-9318-thumb-200x58-9319-thumb-200x58-9409-thumb-200x58-9410-thumb-200x58-9418-thumb-200x58-9430-thumb-200x58-10269.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="58" width="200" /></a></form><div>For analysis of <b>The Reuters Insititute of Journalism</b> study on public money and the media, take a look at <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/29/public-money-print-media"><i>The Guardian</i></a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_083111a.html"><b>The Associated Press</b></a> alters its release deadlines to accommodate an ever more global audience. 3 A.M. deadlines, anyone? </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/local-newspaper-sites-see-25-traffic-growth-in-2011/s2/a545840">Good news for local news</a>: local sites see a 25% growth in traffic during 2011. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-older-facebook-users-click-on-ads-younger-ones-only-like/">How your readers use <b>Facebook</b></a>: older readers are more likely to click through to an advertisement page, while younger audience members tend to use the 'like' button more. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-gannett-expands-yahoo-ad-alliance-to-all-its-local-tv-stations"><b>Gannett</b> and <b>Yahoo</b></a> have extended their ad deal to cover 19 Gannett's local TV stations. </div><div><br /></div><div>Sources: <a href="http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_083111a.html">The Associated Press</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/29/public-money-print-media">The Guardian</a> , <a href="http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_083111a.html">Journalism.com</a> , PaidContent (<a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-older-facebook-users-click-on-ads-younger-ones-only-like/">1</a>) , (<a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-gannett-expands-yahoo-ad-alliance-to-all-its-local-tv-stations">2</a>)<br /><br />For more industry news please see <a href="http://www.wan-ifra.org/microsites/executive-news-service"><b><i>WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service</i></b></a><br /></div> &title=Media links of the day){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/08/should_journalists_and_bloggers_work_for.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10628" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/08/arianna-huffington-thumb-200x200-10627.gif"><img alt="Thumbnail image for arianna-huffington.gif" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/08/arianna-huffington-thumb-200x200-10627-thumb-200x200-10628.gif" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" height="200" width="200" /></a></form><div>Should journalists and bloggers work for free?</div><div><br />Making enough money online can be a challenge for a major news organisation, and if you are an independent blogger then there are very few ways of earning anything from your site.<br /><br /></div><div>Perhaps this is why <b>Arianna Huffington's</b> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/"><i>The Huffington Post</i></a> manages to obtain high quality content from a range of contributors who all offer their work for no financial recompense, but simply the chance to be published by a larger organisation. </div> &title=Putting a price on journalism){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/07/media_links_of_the_day_229.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="6272" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/media%20links.jpg"><img alt="media links.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2010/03/media%20links-thumb-200x56-6272.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="56" width="200" /></a></form><a href="http://www.newsandtech.com/news/article_350074f8-b6e7-11e0-a842-001cc4c002e0.html"><i>News & Tech</i> reported</a> on <i>The Honolulu Star-Advertiser</i>'s recent decision to start charging for its website's content. As from 3rd August, the newspaper will charge $19,95 a month for both digital and print access, and it has yet to decide the price of digital subscription. The paper will also launch a new digital edition for the iPad, iPhone and ereaders.<br /><br /><b>Flipboard</b>, an app that turns <b>Twitter</b> and <b>Facebook</b> feeds into an app-like reading experience, is introducing advertising: the company is launching a partnership with publishers such as <b>Conde Nast</b> to push their ads into the Flipboard app, <a href="http://gigaom.com/2011/07/25/flipboard-is-a-real-digital-magazine-now-it-comes-with-ads/"><i>GigaOm</i> reported</a>. Selected brands will appear in full-page ads as part of publishers' content.<br /><br /><a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-mail-online-revenue-growing-slower-than-audience/">According to <i>paidContent</i>'s calculations</a>, the revenue of <i>Mail Online</i>, the second most visited newspaper site in the world, are growing, but not as fast as its audience numbers are. Mail Online and <i>Metro.co.uk</i> are making 51 percent more revenue than last year, but over the same period, Mail Online's monthly unique users went up 82 percent.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/Article/NNN-Launches-Hispanic-Newspaper-Network#sectional=Headlines"><i>Editor & Publisher</i> reported</a> on <b>Newspaper National Network LP</b>'s (NNN) launch of the <b>NNN Hispanic Network</b>. The network of US Hispanic newspaper media reaches over 50 million Hispanic consumers through virtually every Hispanic newspaper in the US. "The launch of NNN Hispanic raises the bar instantly regarding how Hispanic media is represented and sold," said <b>Mike Cano</b>, the new director of Hispanic Media at the NNN.<br /><br />For more industry news please see <i><a href="http://www.wan-ifra.org/microsites/executive-news-service"><b>WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service</b></a></i><br /> &title=Media links of the day){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/07/media_links_of_the_day_225.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10494" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/media_links_image.jpg"><img alt="media_links_image.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/07/media_links_image-thumb-200x58-10494.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;" height="58" width="200" /></a></form>When it comes to social media, not all sites are created equal. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/business/media/murdoch-scandal-stirs-us-debate-on-big-media.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss">MediaBistro</a> sifted a recent social networking study from Pew Internet, zeroing in on educational data of users. According to the study, Twitter users are better educated than Facebook users. However, LinkedIn users blew them both away, with nearly 40% having attended graduate school. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/07/scott-dadich-ipad-conde-nast/2/">The New York Observer </a>chronicled Conde Nast's struggle to adapt to digital mediums. It noted that the iPad is not the panacea it hoped it would be, and that no staff is in charge of designing tablet-friendly contenet. http:/<br /><br />Need to build a news app team? Let <a href="http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/139308/5-steps-for-successfully-building-a-news-app-team/">Poynter </a>show you how. <br /><br />Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the US and the owner of the Newsquest group in Britain, reported a 22-percent-drop in profit, the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jul/19/gannett-mediabusiness">Guardian's Roy Greenslade reported</a>. The decline reflects the advertising slump that is affecting the whole newspaper industry. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/business/media/murdoch-scandal-stirs-us-debate-on-big-media.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss">The New York Times </a>analyses Murdoch's troubles in the U.S and how the British phone hacking scandal could influence the F.C.C. in its review of media ownership rules.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><i>For more industry news please see</i> <a href="http://www.wan-ifra.org/microsites/executive-news-service" style="color: rgb(228, 107, 12); text-decoration: none;"><i><b>WAN-IFRA's Executive News Service</b></i></a></span> <br /><br /> &title=Media links of the day){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2011/07/journalism_has_become_a_two.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10545" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/guardian%20app.320x480-75.jpg"><img alt="guardian app.320x480-75.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/07/guardian%20app.320x480-75-thumb-200x300-10545.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;" height="300" width="200" /></a></form>Journalism has become a two way street. No longer do news organisations deliver news to their audience, the audience participates in making the news. Journalists rely on their readers to help create the news and report it to them via digital media. This process of audience participation just got a whole lot easier thanks to a new iPhone app.<br /><br />As reported on <a href="http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2011/news/newspaper-aims-for-first-class-social-media-presence/">Holdthefrontpage.co.uk</a>, the app, developed by <a href="http://www.concept4.com/">Concept 4</a> on behalf of <i><a href="http://www.chorley-guardian.co.uk/">The Chorley</a> and <a href="http://www.leylandguardian.co.uk/">Leyland </a>Guardian</i> , is one of the first U.K. iPhone apps to be developed for a local weekly paper and allows users to send text and images directly the newspaper. This should provide the newsroom with more user generated content than ever before, allowing reporters at <i>The Chorley and Leyland Guardian</i> to report on the stories that are the most significant to their readers.<br /><br /> &title=Local UK paper launches <b>iPhone</b> app for user-generated local news){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2011/07/the_evolution_of_content_sharing.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10512" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/social-media-icons.jpg"><img alt="social-media-icons.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/07/social-media-icons-thumb-200x200-10512.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;" height="200" width="200" /></a></form>In a university journalism class, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/07/college-students-miss-the-journalistic-potential-of-social-media192.html"><b>Davin Harner</b> asked</a> his students where they had first heard the news about Bin Laden's death. Although these students studied journalism, not a single one named a newspaper. Most, in fact, named <b>Facebook</b>. The one student that cited <b>CNN</b> corrected himself saying, "I heard about it on Facebook, and then I turned on CNN to find out more."<br /><br />Although Harner's anecdote demonstrates the importance of Facebook, <b>Twitter</b>, and other digital communication for sharing news, it should come as no surprise to a user of a social media platform. Facebook and Twitter instantly become abuzz with updates when news breaks or an anticipated sports game ends. Sharing on social media has become almost an instinct to its users. It creates a conversation beyond than the bounds of journalism itself.<br />&title=The evolution of content sharing){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2011/07/le_parisien_announces_30_million_restruc.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10482" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/parisien.jpg"><img alt="parisien.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/07/parisien-thumb-200x273-10482.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="273" width="200" /></a></form><div>Inclusion in <b>ePresse</b>, the new digital kiosk for French publishers, is not the only change on the horizon for <i>Le Parisien</i>. In light of recent figures of circulation decline, the French regional publication is restructuring its approach to print and diversifying alongside it. </div><div><br /></div><div>Last Friday, the <b>Amaury Group</b> (owner of Le Parisien) announced it would be investing 30 million euros into the paper. The paper will unveil its redesigned format in 2012, which will be more colorful and with enhanced sections. In addition to the new format, <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2011/07/09/le-parisien-mise-sur-le-numerique-et-le-week-end_1546821_3236.html"><i>Le Monde</i></a></div><div><a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2011/07/09/le-parisien-mise-sur-le-numerique-et-le-week-end_1546821_3236.html"> reported </a>that the newspaper would launch a weekly lifestyle magazine next year. In test editions, it included articles on events, do-it-yourself projects, gardening, and education. </div> &title=<i>Le Parisien</i> announces €30 million restructure){kind=link}
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/web_20/2011/06/onswipe_launches_and_announces_new_partn.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="10385" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/apphint-660x388.gif"><img alt="apphint-660x388.gif" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/assets_c/2011/06/apphint-660x388-thumb-200x117-10385.gif" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="117" width="200" /></a></form><b>OnSwipe</b> launched yesterday its web-publishing service that allows websites and media companies to create an app-like, tablet-friendly way of publishing their content on the Web, <a href="http://gigaom.com/2011/06/21/can-onswipe-convince-media-to-go-web-instead-of-app/"><i>GigaOM</i></a> <a href="http://gigaom.com/2011/06/21/can-onswipe-convince-media-to-go-web-instead-of-app/">reported</a>. The startup's publishing platform creates sites that use websites' content but look and behave like native apps. Being based on HTML5, they are situated on the Internet and can be used on any tablet device. Together with the launch, the company announced a number of new partners such as <b>Hearst</b>'s <i>Marie Claire</i>, <i>Slate</i> and <i>Forbes</i>.<br /><br />By now, most major publishers have opted for a native iPad app, but OnSwipe has argued that native apps aren't the ideal approach for publishing content either from the publisher's or reader's point of view. What makes OnSwipe particularly attractive to publishers is the fact that it is not only free but also can provide additional revenue. &title=<b>OnSwipe</b> launches and announces new partnerships){kind=link}