The Next Newsroom Project

The Web is about to undergo an important shift with the adoption of HTML 5 and CSS3. I’ve been hearing about this for some time, and I’ve been talking to people about the new standards and trying to understand just what they mean. But nothing beats a good demo to break through some numbing techno babble. And [...]

This past week we learned that USA Today was launching a major rethinking of its newsroom structure. The Associated Press reported :

“USA Today, the nation’s second largest newspaper, is making the most dramatic overhaul of its staff in its 28-year history as it de-emphasizes its print edition and ramps up its effort to reach more readers and advertisers [...]

Found via the FlowingData blog , which says:

“Connoisseur of scaled rounded rectangles , bubbles, and triangles, David McCandless of Information is Beautiful talks data visualization in recently posted TED talk (below). He explains how information design can help us get through information glut on the Web and how simple charts can show patterns that we never would have seen otherwise. He uses [...]

This morning, I was reading the New York Times story on why location-based services might be a hard sell for mainstream users . This echoes some of my own thoughts, which I wrote about recently here: Telling the world you’re here, there and everywhere. And here: Location services show the way to the next great Internet bubble . I was [...]

The latest roundup of stories we’re reading around the Web about the future of news. MediaShift . While Others Shrink, KQED Expands Cross-Platform News | PBS Katie Donnelly writes: “Last month, KQED News in San Francisco dramatically expanded the scope of its news coverage with a new website, an increase from six to 16 local radio [...]

Digg, the crowd-sourced news aggregation site that was once a Web 2.0 darling, is on the cusp of a dramatic overhaul of its site. I’ve been playing with the “new” Digg for a few weeks now, which is still officially in an invite-only alpha . And I think it offers up two important lessons for people working in [...]

The latest roundup of stories we’re reading around the Web about the future of news. MediaShift Idea Lab . How Training Citizen Journalists Made a Difference | PBS Harry Dugmore wrote: “Can democracy work and good government happen without local media?” Choose Your Multimedia Tools Strategically: Story is Still King Marc Cooper writes: “Choosing the right tool [...]

The latest roundup of stories we’re reading around the Web about the future of news. A Visit to the Online-Only Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD ProPublica’s Top-Paid Employees All Made Six Figures in 2009 – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY This is why I have a hard time supporting many non-profit news models. These pay levels [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I visited BitTorrent’s headquarters in San Francisco for a briefing with CEO Eric Klinker . This was a routine appointment that turned out to be far more interesting that I expected. Over at SiliconBeat, for instance, I shared some of Klinker’s thoughts on the current mania for cloud computing , and why he’s a skeptic. And [...]

Flipboard customizes mix of social, news feeds http://www.sfgate.com Benny Evangelista writes: “Although the app is only available on the iPad for now, Flipboard is perhaps the best example of how personalization technology could change the way people consume information from the Web. After all, in an era when there are waves of breaking news stories, social media [...]

Earlier this week at the Founder Showcase , a Silicon Valley start-up pitch contest, I sat through a number of lukewarm ideas for new companies. But one that made me sit up was a presentation by Gene Massey, CEO of MediaShares. The concept he was pitching also got the panel of judges excited, though it didn’t win the [...]

The latest roundup of stories we’re reading around the Web about the future of news. Fact Checking: Gateway Drug for Citizen, Community Journalists | Knight Digital Media Center Amy Gahran writes: “If you’re trying to encourage people to get involved with citizen or community journalism, fact checking can be a useful starting point…” Media Cache – Norwegian [...]

Has Arianna Huffington Figured Out the Future? – Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com Daniel Lyons writes: “What began five years ago as a spot for Huffington and her lefty celebrity friends to vent about the Bush administration has become one of the most important news sites on the Web.” Media Companies Try Getting Social With Tumblr – NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com Chris O’Brien [...]

Facebook made a big splash last week by unveiling its new Facebook + Media page . The page focuses on the best practices that Facebook’s relatively new media team has compiled after working with a number of large media companies over the past few months. In a stroke of good timing, two members of the Facebook media team [...]

The latest roundup of stories we’re reading around the Web about the future of news. Using Technology for Community Building – Webinar Hosted by Grassroots Grantmakers | E-Democracy.Org – Project Blog Hacks/Hackers and Mozilla want to know: How should we structure an online curriculum for journalists and technologists to learn together? – help.hackshackers.com Hacks/Hackers ask: “How should [...]

A few years ago, the Washington Post embraced the strategy of having separate digital and print newsrooms. But in recent years, it has gradually merged them back to together. The impact of that decision was noted this week after the Post published a two-year investigation called “Top Secret America.” The series examines the enormous growth of [...]

The latest roundup of stories we’re reading around the Web about the future of news. WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker Just last month, The New Yorker profiled WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. PressThink: The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World’s First Stateless News Organization Jay Rosen writes: “In media history up to [...]