Aside from the fact that none of the operators want to grant it a guaranteed slot on their electronic programme guides, aside from the high costs of funding the spectrum, aside from the inevitable tensions between the commercial national host and the community-minded local outlets, there is no proof that these stations will raise the necessary advertising revenue.

Professional journalists are being brought home from foreign bureaus, and that is not going to be reversed.”

Design firm Periscopic takes a look at the Flash versus HTML5 debate and some considerations you should make if you're deciding which one to use in your projects. The main conclusions: Flash lets you reach the widest audience with the drawback of not working on some mobile devices; HTML5 is still developing.

The report — titled “The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism” — recommends that journalists “gain a fuller appreciation for how advertisers now reach their customers via social media, new-media ads and search engine optimization,” and that large news outlets consider creating or re-creating separate digital staffs, “particularly on the business side.”

How much time they spend thinking about anything is hard to measure. But in an experiment, Mr Chandy measured how often bosses use forward-looking words like “will” and “shall” in their public statements. He concluded that bosses spend only 3-4% of their day thinking about long-term strategy.

The broker’s response to fears the store’s Google rank would drop? Hire a freelancer to add “more romance” to those descriptions, at a rate of $1 per listing. The freelancer, Lauren Fernstrom, told NPR that she’s cranking them out at a rate of 20 per hour.

A one-day conference jointly sponsored by the European Journalism Training Association and the Department of Journalism at City University London.

The Knight Digital Media Center (in partnership with the USC Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and the Online Journalism Review) is seeking applications for its special News Entrepreneur Boot Camp to be held May 15-20, 2011, in Los Angeles, CA. This intense one-week boot camp plus 6-week online learning program is designed for 20 competitively selected digital entrepreneurs with great ideas for community news and information initiatives in the public interest. Topics to be covered included:

People don’t know how to survive in the jungle of information online, and they are turning to experts and specialists to guide them. If in 2006 the main source of trust was “people like me, my peer”, in 2010 academic, experts, CEOS, NGOs and government representatives gained positions.

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"The world wide web offers the promise of greater freedom. But in practice press freedom in the world has been shrinking since September 11, 2001. Independent journalists and those who work for small organizations are particularly vulnerable.

"What might be needed is the right legal defender at the right time to protect the free flow of information."

How did he become so influential so quickly? How does anyone? It takes the right piece of information at the right time, passed across small overlapping social circles, starting with just a few hundred people.

The Observer was the first to report, back in November, that the staff of the iPad app was working with "a journalistic secret weapon," the Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter, also known as "The Flying Video Game." Now they're finally putting the thing to use, with a new feature called "Daily Drone." 

To make a heat map in Fusion Tables, follow this example tutorial, which is adapted from a workshop Google Developer Programs Engineer Kathryn Hurley recently led for Hacks/Hackers NYC.

Baptiste believes that dedicated iPad and mobile apps make sense for games or specific tasks, such as looking for a restaurant, but for content, “they suck,” he says.

Would it work considering things like football clubs are media outlets in their own right now these days?

The writer's point reflects the value and range of serendipitous sections of a newspaper, covering a weird and wonderful diversity of arts, culture, sports, hobbies, and world events. A newspaper editor is the human equivalent to Zite, except the editor lives in the real world and Zite lives in an electric matrix of linear equations.

What sites, topics and stories are most popular across social networks?

But Guardian Local was always an experiment. It survived GNM’s big restructure of 2010, but there was little commercial model of any heft on which it could stand on its own two feet – no significant foray in to dedicated local ad sales, just a city-specific feed of Guardian.co.uk Soulmates dates and, later, small local adds supplied via the Addiply service. It’s understood these £10-a-week small ads made the sites just £500 per year in total.

A BBC spokesperson confirmed it was sending more than 850 staff to cover the wedding. Around 550 staff will help produce coverage for BBC1, and a further 300 for Radio 2, Radio 4, Radio 5 Live, BBC News 24 and Newsnight.

Even though journalists may not be the first on the scene, they select the most reliable sources, digest loads of information and provide context for events, said Burt Herman, a founder of Storify and a longtime Associated Press reporter.

News.me is a different kind of social news experience that shows you not just what your friends are sharing, but what they are reading as well.

The Amazon Web Services status dashboard is reporting an ongoing failure of its EC2 service on its servers based in Northern Virgina. Foursquare, Quora, and Reddit are reported to have been affected. I’ve got a call in to Amazon asking what happened and will update this post as more information becomes available.

Like XML, JSON provides structured data about information. But whereas XML uses tags in angled brackets followed by the value – e.g. <name>Paul Bradshaw</name>, JSON separates the tag and the value with a colon, both of which are contained within a curly bracket

Asked to characterize the articles they placed into Foursquare, the editors used phrases such as “feature-y”, “evergreen”, “opinion”, “not hard-core news” and “useful to people over a longer period of time.” They cited successful efforts in using editorial content such as a film festival guide, a commentary on transit users and reviews of hip urban restaurants.

His goal in creating his visualization, Kandangath says, was to present the data in a compelling enough way that people would actually remember it — the stickiness factor that everyone from engineers to academics to journalists is trying to figure out at the same time. Kandangath’s answer? Narrative. “People remember stories,” he notes. They may not recall individual facts; but when you can craft those facts together in a compelling arc, those facts become part of something more than the sum of their parts: a memorable tale. Even when it’s not rendered in text alone. So Kandangath essentially imposed on himself the task of plotting flat information so that it would come to life via…a plot.

Participants had five weeks to build their projects, and we received more than 40 fantastic entries. Many people formed teams; in all, over 75 people contributed to the completed submissions. Our jury of experts will award $5,000 to the winner, as well as $5,000 in additional awards, announced on Tax Day (April 18).