Author calls for journalists to become ‘knowledge specialists’

Thomas Patterson, Bradlee professor of government and the press at Harvard Kennedy School, critiques journalism today and calls for an overhaul of the current news-reporting system in his new book Informing the News: The need for knowledge-based journalism.

Study: Twitter news consumers are #young, #mobile and #educated

Twitter’s news-seeking audience stand out for being younger and more educated than both the general population and Facebook news consumers, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.

Johnston Press plans ‘people’s paper’ with up to 75% user-generated content

Johnston Press, the UK regional publisher based in Bourne, Lincolnshire, has announced it will be re-launching its title The Local with up to 75 percent of its content coming from the local public.

More publishers taking advantage of digital media to expand storytelling

Technological advancements in digital media have meant that multimedia news stories are becoming increasingly popular and increasingly better crafted. Since The New York Times’s Pulitzer-winning story Snow Fall, the rise of multimedia journalism and the reasons for its effectiveness has become the topic of much discussion.

DML Bogotá: Transformation, engagement and new tools

During the second day of Digital Media Latinoamérica speakers discussed transforming traditional media, increasing audience engagement and new digital tools for journalists as well as copyright issues.

DML Bogotá: Paywalls and other new revenue streams

Several speakers during Digital Media Latinoamérica discussed the changing nature of the business-side of the industry and how they are finding new revenue streams through paid digital content and improving engagement with users.

DML Bogotá: Ken Doctor -‘2014-2016 is about selling more stuff’

Media analyst Ken Doctor addressed the overall state of the industry during his presentation at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Latinoamérica 2013. He detailed how globally, newspaper revenues declined 39 percent between 2007 and 2012, for a loss of US$ 51 billion.

DML Bogotá: Using the Internet to fight poverty; El Tiempo plans paywall

WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Latinoamérica 2013 has drawn 200 participants from 25 countries to Bogotá, Colombia. Colombia’s Technology, Information and Communication Minister, Diego Molano Vega opened the conference Thursday with a description of the problems of connecting such a large and geographically diverse country as Colombia.

Drilling down to discover big data’s core value

The rise of “big data” has been accompanied by a rising hysteria about what to do with all this information.

Poynter launches ethics site to help journalists

Truth and Trust in Media is a new website designed to help journalists navigate their way through the “treacherous” world of “unverified tweets and anonymous comments” that journalists are faced with today.