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How Link Journalism Could Have Transformed The New York Times Reporting On...
I was reading the New York Times public editor’s rebuke of the NYT McCain ethics piece that alleged an affair with a lobbyist, when a line at the end reached out and grabbed me by the collar (bold is...
View ArticleHow Networked Link Journalism Can Give Journalists Collectively The Power Of...
The link journalism meme seems to have legs, based on the number of smart people who picked it up. Now it’s time to kick it up a notch, with the concept of NETWORKED link journalism, which can give...
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Local Link Journalism: Pulling Together The Threads Of Local Blogger Reporting
How can newsrooms do more online with fewer resources? By leveraging the reporting that bloggers in their communities have ALREADY published on the web. Using “local link journalism,” reporters can...
View ArticleDigital Transition: From Redundant News Coverage To Original Link Journalism
The Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal is undoubtedly a big story, which every media outlet is covering, so I suppose it’s not surprising that Google News currently shows 2,580 versions of this story....
View ArticleReinventing Local News Distribution On The Web
Last month, four major newspaper companies announced a joint ad sales venture to “let national advertisers place ads on local Web sites with a single phone call.” When I read that, I realized suddenly...
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New York Times Embraces Link Journalism
The New York Times has certainly embraced blogging, but it was striking to see in this post from The Lede just how much they’ve embraced link journalism: Scanning the financial press this morning,...
View ArticleIs Linking an Antidote to Plagiarism in Journalism?
Responding to the investigation of plagiarism on the web by Jody Rosen at Slate, Publish2’s Editorial Director Tammi Marcoullier reflects on her own experience with being plagiarized while blogging for...
View ArticleSpinewatch: Can Link Journalism Change How the Media Covers the Presidential...
Jay Rosen of PressThink has started a meme called “spinewatch,” which he’s pursuing on Twitter with the #spinewatch tag and on the Publish2 Spinewatch Newsgroup that he created, where he offers this...
View ArticleExplaining the Financial Crisis: Continuously Updated News Aggregation in Action
Scott framed his previous challenge to news sites in general terms: like Drudge, any site could use continuously updated aggregation to become a “destination for links to news of what’s going in the...
View ArticleHow Newspapers Abdicated the Front Page’s Influence and How They Can Get it...
The front page of the newspaper used to set the news agenda. Extra, Extra, read all about it! But that influence has steadily waned through the TV and Cable News era, and the web now threatens to...
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Link Journalism in Action: Vols Game Coverage Roundup Most Viewed and...
Yeah, fine, so Drudge gets lots of traffic for links, but we’re not Drudge, so it won’t work for our news site, right? Wrong. Here’s a case example from Knoxnews.com’s sports site GoVolsXtra.com. This...
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washingtonpost.com’s Political Browser Uses the News Judgment of Journalists...
washingtonpost.com has launched a new politics page called Political Browser, which features, wait for it… links to the most important and interesting political news around the web. That’s right, the...
View ArticleWill Algorithms Make Human Editors Obsolete? Not If Journalists Collaborate
Will algorithms replace human editors on the web? It’s a bogeyman question on one level, but ask any news site about the percentage of traffic they get from search engines — and what the trend looks...
View ArticleNervous About Link Journalism? Ignore Web’s ‘Cesspool’ And Tap Its ‘Natural...
There are several reasons why most mainstream news organizations have been slow to embrace link journalism. First, news orgs typically act as though other news orgs don’t exist (blame long-standing...
View ArticleMainstream News Organizations Entering the Web’s Link Economy Will Shift the...
The New York Times published an article this week about mainstream news organizations embracing link journalism and news aggregation. Gawker and others scoffed that they are late to the game, which...
View ArticleNewsrooms Can Grow Twitter Followers By Using Twitter For Link Journalism
Most newsrooms have utterly narcissistic Twitter accounts. The worst offenders (which unfortunately is the majority) use services like Twitterfeed to automatically tweet links to the newspaper’s own...
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Link Journalism Innovation: What We’re Reading at Reading Eagle
Reading Eagle has brought their journalists out from behind the curtain to share with readers what they are reading on the web — often beyond what can be found on Reading’s own site. Their new link...
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Link Journalism Drives Page Views and Engagement
There’s an article page on GoVolXtra, Knoxnews.com’s sports vertical site for the Tennessee Vols, that accounted for 6% of ALL Knoxnews and GoVolXtra article page views for the last two weeks, and as...
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Breaking News Link Journalism: Blagojevich Arrest
So you’ve got a big breaking story right in your backyard, e.g. the governor gets arrested for trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the President Elect. Your newsroom is on the case, but the...
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Networked link journalism: A revolution quietly begins in Washington state
The discussion about journalism’s future so often focuses on Big Changes — Kill the print edition! Flips for everyone! Reinvent business models NOW! — that it’s easy to forget how simple innovation can...
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