The arrival of the electronic age has yielded great government content for journalism, particularly databases that would have been unthinkable two decades ago. But agencies and departments can't always keep pace with the rapid expansion of content offered by technology, and the implications for newsrooms are serious. Too often there is no electronic footprint to watch the pathology of record-creation.
The New York Times today has a look today at the American issues involving federal files and the inadequate record-retention. It's a story that could be told in almost any country.
The era of the firewall seems over for most media organizations, but a few have kept them in order to shield subscription revenue. WSJ.com houses a great deal of the Wall Street Journal's content and then some. The lone Canadian presenter at Online News Association is Leonard Brody, CEO of NowPublic. He's talking about crowdsourced journalism and mobilizing the audience, eschews the term citizen journalism, and wants to create a fundamental breaking news channel online and to transform journalism into a two-way channel. A somewhat interesting overview from Reuters' Devin Wenig on the company's approach with the Web, but it's a very aggressive crowd that was looking for a sense of the semantic Web approach and less about the recent strategy. Author and former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown opened the ONA conference today and said the time had come for editors to reassert themselves in an algorithmic age. The pre-conference workshops at the Online News Association annual conference offer a sound starting point on the state of media. It'll be worth paying attention to the impact of Politico's offer to provide news content free to sites (and their papers) that, in turn, share online revenue from its national advertising. A new outlet for international news will sprout up early next year: Global News. For those among us hoping that e-ink can rescue the ink-on-paper business, Plastic Logic's new e-reader looks like a technical advance. No price was announced today, but the features are attractive: letter-sized screen, flexible and resilient (can be struck with a shoe), able to download office documents with no conversion. Rick Sanchez, an inveterate (as much as you can be) Twitterer, is going to ingrain Twitter into a CNN program. |
I am the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at Self-Counsel Press, an Adjunct Professor and Executive-in-Residence at the Graduate School of Journalism at University of British Columbia, and the
Executive Director of the Organization of News Ombudsmen. In 2008 I launched themediamanager.com to chronicle media change, then media ethics, standards and freedom. I was recently the mayoralty candidate in Vancouver for the Non-Partisan Association. I am the former CBC Ombudsman of English Services and have held the senior editorial roles at CTV News, The Hamilton Spectator and Southam News. I was the founding Executive Editor of National Post, Managing Editor of The Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Bureau Chief and General News Editor at The Canadian Press, and host on CBC Newsworld, among other media roles. My social networking includes activity on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. I also write for a for-fun-only music site, rockzombies.us Archives
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