A roundup of some recent media industry stuff
Here are a bunch of things I’ve come across recently:
- Editors Weblog did a nice job of looking at the Times Select pay-wall dilemma, which obviously applies to us as well. It notes that numbers have flattened out since January, and “for a new product to stop gaining new users 4 months after it begins doesn’t really bode well.”
- The Washington Post is trying to turn all of its foreign reporters into multimedia journalists by equipping them with digital video cameras that will take photos and video, and more local reporters are being asked to file photos or video with stories as well.
- Blogger Frankie Roberto is taking part in an experiment with the BBC, in which he is effectively working as a “citizen journalist” from the BBC’s newsroom, reporting and interviewing and blogging both for the BBC and for Wikinews, the journalism arm of Wikipedia.
- Craig Saila passed on a “citizen reporter” site based in Vancouver that is run by former Globe columnist and longtime journalist Paul Sullivan called Orato.com, which says it has 1500 “citizen journalists” around the world contributing to the site.
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