While mainstream media organizations are migrating online to establish their presence, digital news organizations are springing up to reach an audience hungry for the latest news. Some of these digital news organizations are making big news too, such as The Huffington Post’s OffTheBus Citizen Journalism Program. The Columbia Journalism Review recently created a database of these digital organizations, including original reporting on this new digital journalism landscape. It’s called The News Frontier Database.
Facebook released the results of a study it conducted on what types of posts by the Facebook Pages of journalists performed the best. Among the highlights: Incorporating personal analysis in posts increased referral clicks by 20%, and including a thumbnail image when posting a link boosted Likes by 65% and comments by 50%.
With the closure of News Corp.’s 168-year-old News of the World — and the arrest on Friday of its former editor — in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, the reign of one of the most powerful and feared
media moguls of all time has officially begun to wind down.
The last issue of the News of the World is thought to have sold all 4.5m copies printed, as members of the public put aside their animosity over phone hacking to snap up a final souvenir copy of the 168-year-old paper.
New classified intelligence obtained before the disappearance of journalist Saleem Shahzad from Islamabad showed that senior officials of the spy agency,
the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, directed the attack on
him in an effort to silence criticism.
Ora Garway founded the newspaper Punch in 2009 and became the only female newspaper editor in Liberia. The newspaper is small, independent and according to Garway, avoids the yellow journalism typical of many sensationalist Liberian newspapers.
David Rohde is leaving The New York Times of to become a columnist on foreign affairs and globalization at Reuters. He is
the latest in a string of high-profile Times staffers to depart in the
past year.
As the world watches the embattled president of Yemen make his first public appearance since being wounded and Syria continues to face daily demonstrations, only two news channels are in-country: CNN and Al Jazeera English.
