Quick hits and bits from around the Web.
The oil spill was by far the dominant story in the mainstream news media in the 100-day period after the explosion, accounting for 22% of the newshole—almost double the next biggest story. In the 14 full weeks included in this study, the disaster finished among the top three weekly stories 14 times. And it registered as the No. 1 story in nine of those weeks.
Quick hits and bits from around the Web.
The oil spill was by far the dominant story in the mainstream news media in the 100-day period after the explosion, accounting for 22% of the newshole—almost double the next biggest story. In the 14 full weeks included in this study, the disaster finished among the top three weekly stories 14 times. And it registered as the No. 1 story in nine of those weeks.
Quick hits and bits from around the Web.
Quick hits and bits from around the Web.
Quick hits and bits from around the Web.
From @mthomps at NPR’s Project Argo, a strategic content analysis of @poynter and @niemanlab’s tweets.
Both of these accounts are successful. 15,000+ followers is nothing to sneeze at. But @NiemanLab on the right is definitely more successful. These accounts are tweeting pretty similar types of information – news and useful information for journalists and media types. Yet @NiemanLab seems to be garnering more influence for its efforts. @Poynter has tweeted more than three times as much as @NiemanLab, but it has 10,000 fewer followers, and it’s on 1,000 fewer lists. Why might this be?
Friends at @lostremote review friends at @TBD: “What’s novel about TBD is not the ideas, but the action.”
These are all old ideas, quite frankly. Journalists have talked about them for years now. Others have pitched them to their bosses until they’re blue in the face. And still others have launched elements of these ideas as niche products, subsets or prototypes. But this is the first time that a local media group — especially in the TV space — has wrapped these ideas together and aggressively launched them with an investment to back it up.
Quick hits and bits from around the Web.
From @mthomps at NPR’s Project Argo, a strategic content analysis of @poynter and @niemanlab’s tweets.
Both of these accounts are successful. 15,000+ followers is nothing to sneeze at. But @NiemanLab on the right is definitely more successful. These accounts are tweeting pretty similar types of information – news and useful information for journalists and media types. Yet @NiemanLab seems to be garnering more influence for its efforts. @Poynter has tweeted more than three times as much as @NiemanLab, but it has 10,000 fewer followers, and it’s on 1,000 fewer lists. Why might this be?
Friends at @lostremote review friends at @TBD: “What’s novel about TBD is not the ideas, but the action.”
These are all old ideas, quite frankly. Journalists have talked about them for years now. Others have pitched them to their bosses until they’re blue in the face. And still others have launched elements of these ideas as niche products, subsets or prototypes. But this is the first time that a local media group — especially in the TV space — has wrapped these ideas together and aggressively launched them with an investment to back it up.
Quick hits and bits from around the Web.
Quick hits and bits from around the Web.
Quick hits and bits from around the Web.
Spot.Us goes national, with stories brewing in Illinois, Texas, Minnesota, and across the country.
It makes little sense for me to tell a good pitch from Illinois or Texas that they can’t put their pitch up until we find a handful of other pitches in their region. So, as of last week, the sub-domains at Spot.Us have been removed. Trying to convince people in a specific region to use the site — while stopping others from using it because they aren’t in the right region — is not the best use of our time or energy.
Publish2, and others, feature in this @emediavitals piece on the present and future of curation and aggregation.
In the past, newspapers and magazines were islands to themselves, Karp said. “The whole business model of publishing was based on ‘you control the package,’” he said. “We believe that one of the keys to how the business model evolves is that all of these editorially brands need to become more connected to each other in terms of their business.”
Quick hits and bits from around the Web.
Spot.Us goes national, with stories brewing in Illinois, Texas, Minnesota, and across the country.
It makes little sense for me to tell a good pitch from Illinois or Texas that they can’t put their pitch up until we find a handful of other pitches in their region. So, as of last week, the sub-domains at Spot.Us have been removed. Trying to convince people in a specific region to use the site — while stopping others from using it because they aren’t in the right region — is not the best use of our time or energy.
Publish2, and others, feature in this @emediavitals piece on the present and future of curation and aggregation.
In the past, newspapers and magazines were islands to themselves, Karp said. “The whole business model of publishing was based on ‘you control the package,’” he said. “We believe that one of the keys to how the business model evolves is that all of these editorially brands need to become more connected to each other in terms of their business.”