New Media Portal

John Hamer of Washington News Council wrote an interesting column titled Tommorrow’s “newsroom”. He told us about his visit to a couple of “old” journalists at a conference on “new journalism”. There, they talked about the future of journalism, and also about blogger. “Like many mainstream or “legacy” journalists”, Hamer wrote, “Kilpatrick is skeptical of bloggers.” Please [...]

Here we go again. New media vs. old media. Threat or no threat? Recently, Credit Suisse Research says it’s not. I think I’ll just see the rest of the debate.

THE world’s most comprehensive music resource, Billboard, has released its legendary Hot 100 into digital format. Billboard announced an expansion of its Hot 100 formula to include weekly streamed and on-demand music data to the chart’s traditional mix of sales and radio airplay. Keeping pace with the growth of digital delivery, Billboard’s franchise chart will [...]

E&P, via Nielsen//Net Ratings recently ranked news website. The judgement mainly based on unique audiences and highest time spent per person. For a brief report, please visit the E&P site. For me, to read about ranking is always fascinating. But one thing from the list: how come cnn.com, bbcnews.com, or christian science monitor not even mentioned?

MediaChannel.org has put together the package below to highlight some of the issues discussed during the OhMyNews 2007 International Reporters’ forum. You might want to check them out. OhourNews Can ordinary citizens actually function as journalists? Or, as many in the mainstream media would have it, is journalism some sort of priesthood of professionals who venture, Moses-like, [...]

Rohit Bhargava lists 6 useful social media tools and sites for women. When it comes to social media tools, most are not gender specific. That’s a good thing, as it means they can be uniformly useful for everyone, but it’s a sign of evolution when more specifically targeted sites start to appear. It happened [...]

Rebecca MacKinnon is in Singapore this week, presenting an academic paper in World Journalism Education Conference. Her paper (titled “Blogs and China Correspondence: How Foreign Correspondents Covering China Use Blogs,”) summarized the results of a survey she conducted last Fall of foreign correspondents who cover China. Please click here to download the paper in PDF [...]

Newspapers need to watch out for online competition from a less obvious source like social networks, in addition to Google and Yahoo. According to a global study of youth media behavior commissioned by the World Association of Newspapers, “the importance of the social network as a disseminator of news and information is on the rise.” Many [...]

I once wondered whether the newspaper are being killed or no. On August 24th 2006, a London-based weekly news magazine The Economics wrote a provocative-titled article “Who Killed The Newspaper?” but if we look at a report by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), the newspaper sales are increasing by 12.93%. So are they being [...]

The New Media Knowledge annual forum 2007 is being held on August 13th, 2007. This forum will discuss the business and digital issues of the day, the year, and the age. It is said that the forum will act as a melting pot of the essential strategies for commercial success in a digital age. Senior executives [...]