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Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie, Jr. announced several changes this week "to maximize readership of the printed newspaper, build audience on the Web site and further reduce costs in the newsroom" including a plan to "shrink" the newspaper staff via attrition.

Vollständiger Artikel: Washington Post to reduce paper staff, increase web focus

Resp: Downie Announces Major Shifts at 'Wash Post' Quelle: Editor & Publisher

Every journalist graduating from school today needs to understand the importance of hyperlinks in the online environment, and the ways that online stories can be enhanced using audio, video, Flash, PDF source documents, or user-generated materials. They need to know the importance of the community of users, and how crucial engagement is in the survival of their news operations.

I really think print journalists should know how to record and edit audio and compose and take decent photographs (even short videos) at a bare minimum, and know how to insert hyperlinks into a news story. But knowing those skills won't make you a journalist, any more than knowing how to boil an egg will make you a chef.

Quelle: Bryan Murley - Collegemedieinnovation

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There is much confusion over the hype vs. reality of collaborative news and interactive technology’s impact. What is out there? How should the emergence of these innovations be analyzed? How do they differ from the communication and knowledge offered by traditional news formats? How do they change the engagement of citizens to each other and to societal issues? And following from any resolution to this confusion, how can they be used to improve news media for the future? The scope of this paper cannot fully address all these questions, but it will provide a starting outline on some...

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