Category Archives: Journalism

Content, Communities & Collaboration for Online Media

By Lucindigo | April 25, 2009

I was just looking over my notes from Webstock 2009 (Yes, I have been reflecting on these notes since and am aware this is far from liveblogging…) and thought I would share those from my favourite speaker, Meg Pickard from Guardian.co.uk who gave a fantastic presentation on Content, Communities & Collaboration. This presentation was right [...]

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Young journos thoughts on the industry in 10-20 years

By Lucindigo | September 23, 2008

Growth in demand & range of mobile news content.
Two newsrooms - print (small, tabloid focus) and web.
Still be metro reporters and still be community reporters.
More long-form journalisms in nice containers, compelling investigative stories.
Are you in the NewsPAPER or News Business?? People now say News business.
Have no idea what platforms will look like in 20 years. [...]

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Arianna Huffington on the future of journalism

By Lucindigo | July 30, 2008

I especially liked Arianna Huffington’s responses to the three questions below:
What has the The Huffington Post taught you about what the future of journalism may look like?
AH: I believe in a hybrid journalistic future where traditional newspapers adopt the best elements of online journalism, and new media sites continue to do more and more of [...]

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Future of Media Report 2008 - Part I (Forecast Growth & Shaping Forces)

By Lucindigo | July 30, 2008

I have just finished reading the Future of Media Report 2008, which was recently released by the Future Exploration Network. The report projects that the size of the global media and entertainment will grow from $US 1.6 trillion in 2008 —> to $US 5.7 trillion in 2024.
They highlight here with this massive growth projection that [...]

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Newspapers & Journalism today and what the future looks like

By Lucindigo | July 24, 2008

As always another fine piece of research and analysis from Project for Excellence in Journalism.
There are always a lot of brief articles around touching on the “death of the newspaper”, discussing the state of the industry, with alerts to continued cutbacks and weak revenue figures coming out from print media companies. Commentary on media stocks [...]

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