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Magnet workshop: SEO writing
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June 8, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Ray Litvak is the founder of Writing Web Words, a company that helps local businesses raise their online profile using SEO. He led an SEO writing workshop at Magnet, an annual magazines conference, where he offered up tips for conquering Google's search results page...
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Ethics 2.0 - dos and don'ts of social media
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June 8, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Do you fact-check all your retweets? Do you publish rumours, or gossip? Is it OK to have an opinion in your personal blog? These were just a few of the ethical questions raised during a CAJ workshop titled “Ethics 2.0: The dos and don’ts of social media." The discussion, led by journalism professor and J-Source Ethics editor Ivor Shapiro and Vancouver Sun managing editor Kirk LaPointe, looked at the problems -- and potential opportunities -- that arise when journalists use social media to communicate.
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On net neutrality and Internet access
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April 27, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Steve Anderson of OpenMedia.ca appeared before a House of Commons committee today to discuss net neutrality, media ownership and internet access. Listen to the podcast...
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New company finds way to make people pay for news online
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June 30, 2009 - Posted by Robert Washburn
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"Journalism Online, the brainchild of Court TV founder Steven Brill and former Wall Street Journal
publisher Gordon Crovitz, has announced its first partnership, marking
a step in the direction of enabling newspapers to charge for content on
the Web."
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YouTube launches citizen journalism site
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June 30, 2009 - Posted by Robert Washburn
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While YouTube has accepted various news-style reports and information from contributors, it has created a separate page to highlight reports and to teach people how to become citizen journalists.
"Ever captured a natural disaster or a crime on your cell-phone
camera? Filmed a political rally or protest, and then interviewed the
participants afterward? Produced a story about a local issue in your
community? If you've done any of these things or aspire to, then you're
part of the enormous community of citizen reporters on
YouTube
, and this channel is for you.
The
YouTube
Reporters' Center is a new resource to help you learn more about how to
report the news. It features some of the nation's top journalists and
news organizations sharing instructional videos with tips and advice
for better reporting."
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CBC purchases new newsroom management software
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June 30, 2009 - Posted by Robert Washburn
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"CBC
has selected a comprehensive suite of Web content management solutions
to build and manage its various online sites in support nationwide TV
and radio initiatives."
What is most interesting about this announcement is the decentralization of IT to the regions, giving the local newsrooms more control over content.
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10 steps to saving newspapers
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June 29, 2009 - Posted by Robert Washburn
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From his hospital bed, Mark Glaser, of PBS MediaShift, had time to think about 10 fundamental ways newspapers can change to save themselves.
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Recapturing the place of major metro newspapers
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June 29, 2009 - Posted by Robert Washburn
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"Proliferating blogs and micro-sites are producing so much local news,
hard and soft, that the continuing shrinkage and even death of metro
papers will leave no troubling void in metro coverage, Mark Potts
concludes in an extensively linked post on his Recovering Journalist
blog. Potts comes close to putting metros collectively in the past
tense. They can't make a successful transition from print to the
Internet, he says, because all they offer are “your basic one-size-fits
all metro newspaper Web site.”"
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How to save newspapers? Get out from behind the desk
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June 29, 2009 - Posted by Robert Washburn
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"If newspapers are to rise from the obituary page, the people in charge
better learn how to sell them as an important advertising vehicle and
an irreplaceable voice in their communities. That means they need to
embrace new media to avoid getting eaten by it. Reporters must get out
from behind their desks and do meet-and-greets in their communities,
promote themselves through social media outlets and enter into a
dialogue with their readers."
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Twitter and journalism: a synopsis
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June 29, 2009 - Posted by Robert Washburn
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Karthika Muthukumaraswamy gives a thorough analysis of Twitter's role in journalism in this article, citing scholars and journalists. Notably, she emphasizes the importance of verification as being a major difference between tweets provided by anybody and those provided by journalists.
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Local content could save newspapers, survey says
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June 28, 2009 - Posted by Robert Washburn
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More local content is the key to saving newspapers in the SunMedia chain, according to a study done by Communications Workers of America released on June 25.
“Publishers and newspaper companies complain that the financial
model for the media industry is broken and papers are endangered
because of competition from the Internet. This poll shows that
providing quality local coverage and properly serving and representing
their readers may be the real remedy for newspapers, particularly those
in medium-sized cities such as those that were surveyed,” says Arnold
Amber, the Director of CWA Canada, the union that represents thousands of media workers in the country."
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edited by Robert Washburn
When news organizations of all sizes adapt to the demand of online journalism, it's not always easy to get bang for the buck. Journalists and media organizations must stay on top of emerging technology to engage and serve their audiences. In this section, we'll highlight their achievements and methods
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As the digital age continues to creep into every aspect of journalism, 
Are newsrooms more interested in protecting their online content from theft than making sure it's not already stolen? 