Hot links this week on online journalism
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Jack Lail says "We'd
get more readers if we gave them less frickin' news to read": “The
news junkies, however, are the users that move the metrics and we focus even
more on what they want because they are generating more pageviews and longer
times on site. And thus we have less of what more casual news consumers want.
Sort of like drinking ourselves to death?”
"We Were
Print" – the blog of “former and soon-to-be-former print journalists” –
chronicles the dark humor that is our business with links to this
week's Doonesbury.
Don Himsel gives us the latest
generation of point-and-shoot cameras as News Videographer.
Mindy McAdams reports
on a
session she attended on pro video at the Online News Association’s annual conference.