First-quarter profits at the Washington Post Co. declined 39%, hit by a one-time charge at Newsweek magazine and the continuing struggles of its newspaper division. The newspaper division, whose flagship title is the Washington Post, reported $1.2 million in operating income, down 92% year over year. …
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US: Washington Post Co. Q1 profits drop 39%
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Bahrain draft law ends jail terms for journalists
http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2008/05/bahrain_draft_law_ends_jail_terms_for_jo.phpOn Sunday, the government of Bahrain adopted a draft law that could end jail terms for journalists, amending a 2002 press law. Under the law in 2002, journalists could be jailed for insulting the king, insulting Islam, undermining the security of the state or calling for a change of regime. …
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UK: Guardian wins sports award thanks to multimedia coverage
http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2008/05/uk_guardian_wins_sports_award_thanks_to.phpThe Guardian won the sports coverage of the year award at the Sports Industry Awards in the UK. Other contenders included the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and The Times, but the Guardian was chosen for its 'synergy between multi-platforms.' Among the Guardian's strengths was its multimedia coverage …
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Australian Newsagency Blog — A blog on issues affecting Australia’s small businesses, newsagents, media and small business generally.
http://www.newsagencyblog.com.auFive questions from a journalism student at the Online Journalism Blog. Jay Rosen at Press Think. Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine. Mark Hamilton at Notes from a Teacher. Journalism Hope. Editors Weblog and a series on the topic. Where are the Australian voices in this conversation? yes, there are one or two, but the scale of our voices does not match our size. It makes me wonder why.
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It's the culture, stupid, not the design
http://newsleaders.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-culture-stupid-n...for multimedia news production. But editors at several large news organizations, from The Daily Telegraph in England to Zero Hora in Brazil and De Volkskrant in the Netherlands, say that creating the right culture is even more important. Read about it here
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Brazilian news group manages convergence
http://newsleaders.blogspot.com/2008/05/brazilian-news-group...journalists resist the notion that they should learn to produce news on multiple platforms -- audio, video, text and web. To hear the editors of Group RBS tell it, things are different in Brazil. Marcelo Rech and Marta Gleich reported in an article on Editors Weblog that their journalists were actually excited about the possibility of learning how to report in other media. It didn't hurt that there was a program of pay incentives for those who mastered new technologies. RBS also has a "culture of convergence,"
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Online (+ print) = future
http://interjunction.org/article/online-print-future/the future is self-evident and our survey shows that they see the writing on the newsroom wall. The evolution of the fourth estate is no longer questions of if, when or how, editors now know the solution: Innovate. Integrate. Or perish.” ALSO READ: The Newsroom Barometer results Amy Blyth is an Interjunction staff writer. Home
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Politics and Media Link Roundup
http://katiefavazza.blogtownhall.com/2008/05/05/politics_and...traumatic brain injuries -- what David Axelrod and others call the signature disability of the Iraq War.” Media “She’s just being Miley.” Two “key D.C. editors” down. More to go? Which days and times are best for posting your blog posts? Find out here. Both What do children read? Rosie O’Donnell on Rev. Wright: “I listened to him and, frankly, it made sense to me.” Why am I not surprised? Is there a newspaper endorsement curse in the Democratic race?
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Newsroom Barometer: Online the most common platform for reading news in the future
http://blog.journalismus-darmstadt.de/?p=297“Newsroom Barometer”
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Din alte lumi blogăreşti!
http://blog.121416.net/?p=100Bogdan Badea Broken Doll Brătianu College Call Girl Collins Cristi Dorombach Cristi Manafu Culisele actorilor Cătălin Tolontan De ce urăşte bărbaţii DEMASCAREA MANIPULARII COLECTIVE Devicepedia Dumis Editors weblog Emigrant in Spania (revenit) Fredo and Pidjin. The Evil Comic. Gânduri Gogu Kaizer Gogu Kaizer reloaded Guy Kawasaki his file info Iann InnOcente Innovations in newspapers Iulia şi Irinuca toma Jurnalism online
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Skoeps closure: CitJ is not about money
http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2008/05/08/skoeps-closure-ci...Skoeps.nl, a citizen-journalism venture, closed down last week after its owners declared it unprofitable. The business plan seemed simple enough to succeed: Find loads of money, Advertise massively, and Share advertising and syndication revenue with writers. The plan worked, except that there wasn’t enough revenue to share.
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Video Tips From Wash Po
http://jpdigitaldigest.blogspot.com/2008/05/video-tips-from-...newspaper’s assistant managing editor for video says future news groups need a successful balance of video, photography and text-based journalism and he has offered some tips on how to work towards achieving this. Rhodes’s advice, featuring on the editorsweblog
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The future of newspapers - the editors’ perspective
http://www.ireland.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/05/08/the-fut...results
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