While online video ads have until now been hampered by a lack of standards and the difficulty of putting ads around user-generated content, PBS MediaShift reports that things are starting to change, as media sites like Hulu build sizable audiences with professional content, the IAB releases a set of standards for video ads, and video [...]
ProPublica has launched its nonprofit news web site — “an investigative publishing platform that will produce original stories focusing on betrayal of the public trust and abuse of power.” The site launched in tandem its first big story, “The investigation of Al Hurra,” which it did in partnership with “60 minutes.
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Some newspapers are getting frustrated by The Associated Press, as the 162-year-old newsgathering cooperative increasingly focuses on new outlets such as Yahoo and Google, which are now among the AP’s biggest customers. … [visit site to read more]
Clyde Bentley, a Missouri School of Journalism professor who researches user-generated news, suggested at a Future of News conference that editors should treat the blogosphere like a giant wire service. What a great way of looking at it.
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Wired poses an interesting idea: What if AP re-organized as a cooperative, not of newspapers, but of online content providers such as Google and Yahoo!? The end of the story notes that the idea is unrealistic, but it’s intriguing. The story, btw, compares AP’s current business model as selling drugs to late-stage cancer patients. Ouch. [...]
South Dakota’s weekly and daily newspapers have created a free, text-searchable Web site that includes thousands of government public notices from across the state, The Brookings Register reports.
The site, www.sdpublicnotices.com, is a database of public notices such as the minutes of school boards, city councils and county commissions. Once … [visit site to read more]