This is an e-mail a received this morning from Mother Jones. Will you donate?
A Note from Mother Jones about their Paywall:
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The Future of News is Fit to Print
Future of journalism theorists, brace yourself:
Meet former AP reporter Dan Robrish. For the past 14 months he’s been the ‘Editor and Publisher’ of the The Elizabethtown Advocate, a small weekly publication serving the community of Elizabethtown, Pa.
Today he, along with his newspaper, are on the verge of turning a profit.
The kicker? He’s done it all without a website, pretty much by himself, and in a community he was a stranger to not six months prior to launch.
Read the full article.
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SPJ on Social Media and Journalism
Full disclosure: I’m an embarrassingly inactive member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
“You have an incredibly powerful medium in social media and it should be used for things besides pushing your headlines,” said Scott Leadingham, Communications Director with the Society of Professional Journalists.
That’s probably good advice. Like many legacy publications (and societies, I presume), the Society of Professional Journalists has been forced to adapt to the wide-spread use of social media and other industry shifts.
When Leadingham and his colleague Andrew Scott took the reins of the SPJ twitter handle in early 2009 the account had about 800 followers, but laid largely inactive.
Also in 2009 the organization celebrated it’s 100th anniversary.
“We needed a way to stay relevant and celebrate journalism,” Leadingham said.
What started as a resurrection of SPJ’s social media presence culminated in their first real-time conversation – or ‘chat’ – about journalism with a swath of industry pros on Twitter.
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The Revolution Will Be Televised #Egypt
On February 10 I caught wind on Twitter early in the morning that Mubarak would be speaking at 3pm (Atlanta time).
At 2:45pm I was gathered around an office computer watching Al Jazeera English broadcast live from Tahrir Square in Egypt.
At about 3:00pm I took this photo of Noah Echols watching the events unfold using Instagr.am. By 3:01pm I had uploaded the picture to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, FourSquare, and Instagr.am’s own sharing feed with a few clicks and swipes straight from my phone.
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How to Stream Live Video from Your Cell Phone
In recent news the New York Times made a decision to equip all of its reporters with an iPhone 4. That was a smart move – not to mention NYT already has an in-house app that allows reporters to upload video directly to the paper’s servers for quick and easy editing back in the office.
The live stream advice I am about to share is not limited to the iPhone. Rather, the NYT story serves as an example of how mobile technologies are reshaping journalism and other industries.
It took me about 15 minutes from start to finish to research, install, and shoot my first video. Here’s how you do it:
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What is SPJ’s Post-Grad Perk really saying?
Last week I got home and pulled the Society of Professional Journalist‘s latest edition of Quill out of my mailbox (click the ‘Quill’ link to access the online edition).
While it was filled with great information from ’10 questions to people with some of the coolest jobs in journalism’ to a first-person freelance encounter with Patch.com, the thing that caught my eye most was the picture above.
Lets read between the lines here:
“Dear journalism grads. We know it’s a hard pill to swallow, but realistically you’re not getting a job with benefits anytime soon. Good luck with PR, though.. But in the meantime, until you figure out you’d be better off with the PRSA, we invite you to stay a member at a discounted rate.”
Ok, that was a little harsh. To clarify I really love the SPJ. Heck, I’m even a member (and evidently that says a lot for a young journalist). I just think this little ad sums up a lot about future prospects, or lack-there-of, for many emerging reporters.
It might not quite be a job offer, but I for one appreciate and plan to take advantage of the coupon. Maybe the Atlanta Press Club will follow suit?
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AJC, Meet The iPad
Good luck getting a 30-day-free subscription to the AJC print edition, as I made a half-hearted attempt to do last month. The good news is you CAN get that free 30-days from the AJC, but only if you own an iPad.
Again I’m out of luck.
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