12 março 2009

Coisas de medias

Introducing Media Cloud: A new tool to track how news gets covered Media Cloud is a massive data set of news — compiled from newspapers, other established news organizations, and blogs — and a set of tools for analyzing those data.

Going Digital: The Next Generation of News: A new exhibit in the Newseum’s Digital News Gallery explores the next generation of news gathering and dissemination and what effect the changes may have on journalists and the news industry. A seven-minute video produced by the Newseum — "Digital Newspapers: The New Reality" — accompanies the exhibit.

As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero: “In 2009 and 2010, all the two-newspaper markets will become one-newspaper markets, and you will start to see one-newspaper markets become no-newspaper markets,” said Mike Simonton, a senior director at Fitch Ratings, who analyzes the industry.

Many critics and competitors of newspapers — including online start-ups that have been hailed as the future of journalism — say that no one should welcome their demise.