Nieman Foundation at Harvard
HOME
          
LATEST STORY
The California Google deal could leave out news startups and the smallest publishers
ABOUT                    SUBSCRIBE
Aug. 11, 2011, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Amazon and ads, Zynga and Google+, The Atlantic and Hollywood

“Facebook is no longer the only Zynga-powered social network in town.” http://nie.mn/noQEYE »

Now on @niemanstory: @geneweingarten talks breaking the rules, with case studies from his career: http://bit.ly/qQleD2 »

#weathertweets, on the air! Twitter teams up with The Weather Channel http://nie.mn/pF0bjn »

Time Warner is covering the 9/11 anniversary…in print, on TV, online http://nie.mn/qZN0ji »

The Atlantic becomes the latest journalism outlet to get Hollywood representation http://nie.mn/qOlcjl »

“One telecom expert was amazed at how free Vietnam is compared to other nations, in this one respect at least.” http://nie.mn/qG5uVX »

How to: suggest a new language for Google News http://nie.mn/peACWi »

Is Amazon about to become a force in online advertising? http://nie.mn/oVqXA6 »

The Wichita Eagle is testing an org model for a digital-first newsroom http://nie.mn/mZ6iJk »

The FCC’s “Next Generation 911” plan will include text messages, photos, and videos (via @amichel) http://nie.mn/pYrdJb »

A student blog got 1 million page views in a day while live-blogging London’s riots http://nie.mn/oeavdI »

POSTED     Aug. 11, 2011, 6 p.m.
PART OF A SERIES     Twitter
Show tags
 
Join the 60,000 who get the freshest future-of-journalism news in our daily email.
The California Google deal could leave out news startups and the smallest publishers
“We don’t know whether or how this nonprofit and its fund will operate, and likely won’t for some months (nonprofit governance is many things, but fast is not one of them).”
With an expansion on the way, Ken Doctor’s Lookout thinks it has some answers to the local news crisis
After finding success — and a Pulitzer Prize — in Santa Cruz, Lookout aims to replicate its model in Oregon. “All of these playbooks are at least partially written. You sometimes hear people say, ‘Nobody’s figured it out yet.’ But this is all about execution.”
Big tech is painting itself as journalism’s savior. We should tread carefully.
“We set out to explore how big tech’s ‘philanthrocapitalism’ could be reshaping the news industry, focusing on countries in the Global South…Our findings suggest an emerging web of dependency between cash-strapped newsrooms and Silicon Valley’s deep pockets.”