From the Associated Press: The AP and more than 100 of its member newspapers are launching a service today that will make news stories available on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and other mobile devices.
Among the publishers participating in the service: Advance Publications Inc., Hearst Corp., Lee Enterprises Inc., McClatchy Co., MediaNews Group Inc. and Rust Communications Inc.
I’d review the service, but yours truly still uses this old thing… sigh.
Editor & Publisher has announced this year’s EPpy Award finalists. Mosey on over to the list to see some of the best online news has to offer.
[Tip ‘o the hat to Will Sullivan]
Technology columnist and Sentinel coworker-o’-mine Etan Horowitz outlines on his blog how and why journalists should start using Twitter.
Etan writes:
“If you are a technology journalist, you need to start using Twitter. And regardless of what you cover, you should sign up for Twitter. It’s where the people you cover are hanging out and communicating and it will help you build sources, promote yourself, get story ideas and keep your finger on the pulse of the community you cover.”
Etan’s post follows a post by Charles Cooper on CNET about how journalists haven’t taken to Twitter.
Here in Orlando, I, along with the breaking news staff, are the keepers of the Orlando Sentinel Twitter feed. Twitter has been a great opportunity to reach a new, tech-savvy audience and provide a service that many folks tell me is valuable to them. Besides, where else could you get away with rickrolling readers on April 1? (See: “ Family of manatees discovered in Lake Eola”)
The Knight Foundation announced its list of best runner-ups for this year’s Knight News Challenge.
Here, you’ll find proposals for community content management systems, initiatives to prevent censorship, geo-reporting and much more.
The winners will be announced May 14 at the E&P Interactive Media Conference in Las Vegas.
Check out the list for a plethora of interesting ideas.
The New York Times has a must-read story about the discrepancies between publishers’ own data and the data put forth by firms such as Nielsen/NetRatings and ComScore. From the story:
Online advertising is expected to generate more than $20 billion in revenue this year, more than double the $9.6 billion it represented as recently as 2004. Nobody doubts that the figure will grow — particularly as advertisers hone their techniques for aiming messages to particular consumers — but the question remains how much the clashing traffic figures will hold the market back.
Read the story here.
(And yeah, yeah, I know it’s from Oct. 22. Just catching up on some feeds… sigh.)
Claire Hoffman of the LA Times has written an amazing piece on soft-core porn Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis.
What is interesting about this story is that it is told heavily from Hoffman’s point of view and in the first person. There’s none of the “this reporter” stuff. The story starts off with Hoffman’s face being pinned on the hood of a car: “Joe Francis, the founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” empire, is humiliating me.”
Definitely worth a read to examine her writing technique.
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