Some media stories of note for Tuesday, April 30, 2013:
Rick Edmonds, writing for Poynter, examines new approaches to measuring circulation in the U.S. newspaper industry. The measurement has helped set advertising rates and determined revenue for the business, but several new rules have altered the results (mostly for the better, he says, in providing day-by-day data) and made it difficult to look at year-over-year patterns. The results today indicate The New York Times has surpassed USA Today.
Taylor Miller Thomas, also writing for Poynter, looks at 11 digital tools that can help journalists improve their reporting. She identifies crowdsourcing, freedom of information, census data and other sites that provide opportunities for journalists to develop evidence-based material and engage the audience.
Twitter is not interested in an Initial Public Offering, says CEO Jack Dorsey. Twitter is now valued at about $9 billion. One thing it is doing is creating a Canadian operation and it has dipped into Canadian broadcasting for its first leader in the country. Kirstine Stewart, formerly the executive vice president of English Services at CBC, has joined them.
Rick Edmonds, writing for Poynter, examines new approaches to measuring circulation in the U.S. newspaper industry. The measurement has helped set advertising rates and determined revenue for the business, but several new rules have altered the results (mostly for the better, he says, in providing day-by-day data) and made it difficult to look at year-over-year patterns. The results today indicate The New York Times has surpassed USA Today.
Taylor Miller Thomas, also writing for Poynter, looks at 11 digital tools that can help journalists improve their reporting. She identifies crowdsourcing, freedom of information, census data and other sites that provide opportunities for journalists to develop evidence-based material and engage the audience.
Twitter is not interested in an Initial Public Offering, says CEO Jack Dorsey. Twitter is now valued at about $9 billion. One thing it is doing is creating a Canadian operation and it has dipped into Canadian broadcasting for its first leader in the country. Kirstine Stewart, formerly the executive vice president of English Services at CBC, has joined them.
