Stephen Warley
Knight News Challenge Deadline October 15th
The Knight Foundation is giving away another $5 million as part of its News Challenge initiative. If you have an innovative journalism idea involving the use of technology focused on a specific geographic area, submit your idea now. To improve your chances of winning, Mark Fest, Knight’s communications director, advised reviewing their requirements, as well [...]
New mobile voice blogging service launched
RPM Communications out of Maynard, MA launched Utterz this week. It’s a new mobile voice blogging service. You call a number, record your message, and then it gets posted to the web! You can also send texts and pics from your phone too. They also provide an embed code, so you can feature your audio [...]
WikiScanner reveals anonymous Wikipedia editors
This is a journalist’s dream come true! You can now discover which organizations (or at least their IP address) have added or edited entries on Wikipedia using the WikiScanner. Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at Cal Tech, developed the tool. Why did he do it? In his list of FAQs for the media he writes, [...]
RTNDA requests meeting with NFL commissioner
Lost Remote has frequently posted about the extremely restrictive (and sometimes zany) NFL guidelines for local coverage of games. Yesterday RTNDA Executive Director Barbara Cochran sent a letter to Roger Goodell requesting a meeting to discuss local coverage guidelines. Some of the issues RTNDA would like to cover include limitations on use of video and [...]
Help beta test a new journalism website
Editors’ World is a new service to help journalists better localize international stories for their communities. It’s inviting working journalists to test its beta site. They are in the very early stages of development, so you can have a real impact! If you would like to explore Editors’ World, please e-mail eworld@usc.edu for a username [...]
No newspaper for my parents this morning
I’m visiting my 60-year old parents in Florida right now. Their newspaper, Florida Today (a Gannett newspaper), is usually delivered by 7am each morning. Well, it didn’t come today. This has happened to them a few times in the last couple of months, even though they have a prepaid subscription and everyone else on the [...]
Xbox Live Originals contest
Microsoft has teamed up with the New York Television Festival to give aspiring television producers the chance to win an opportunity to produce the first original programming for Xbox Live. The winner will get a 6 episode commitment and a $100,000 budget. Xbox LIVE already has 1,500 hours of movies and television shows, but this [...]
Google introduces free wireless broadband via your toilet
Google has just announced it will offer free wireless broadband access to anyone with a computer and a toilet. (Yes, you are reading that correctly.) I’m from Boston, so you know how susceptible we are to hoaxes (it is April Fool’s Day after all). Can this really be true?? I’m not sure what is making [...]
WBZTV.com launches special videos about future of media
WBZTV.com teamed up with the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, an association of media and tech professionals, to produced a series of one-on-one video interviews with local technology thought leaders about the future of media. Great interviews the LR crowd is sure to appreciate. Also, a great example of how a local broadcaster can carve [...]
Online video in the real estate industry
I couldn’t agree more with Cory (below) about the dangers of looking at selling online video based on CPMs alone. To make the big bucks you have to think more like a radio salesperson, who are use to selling concepts, not just the numbers. Some emerging examples of how to make money off online video [...]
Promote the web in weather promos
Cory’s post a couple of days ago about why “search beats promotion†reminded me of an unintended behavior promos may be encouraging, particularly weather promos. I know weather promos are suppose to get me to watch the news, but for me at least, they simply remind me to check the weather online. Why wait for [...]
WNBC hosts blogger summit
Wednesday night WNBC hosted a Blogger Summit, inviting well over 100 New York City bloggers into Rockefeller Center. It was moderated by their new technology reporter Sree Sreenivasan, WNBC.com Executive Editor Adam Shaprio, and Content Specialist Erin Monteiro. Are they crazy? Hardly. If you’ve read any recent interviews with Bob Wright lately, NBC understands where [...]
CNN Pipeline free Tuesday
CNN will entice us yet again to sample Pipeline by making it free all day tomorrow. Special coverage includes the Academy Award nominations, the Sundance Film Festival, and the State of the Union Address.
Why don’t more journalists use newsreaders?
I’ve done quite a few web trainings for broadcast journalists over the last year and I am still astonished by how few of them use a newsreader (news aggregator) or even know what one is! I like to think of them as a personalized wire service. Reporters and producers can widen their perspective beyond the [...]
More original local programming key to survival
I’m of the school of thought that the whole network/affiliation model doesn’t make sense over the long term. I think the notion that I would go to my local ABC affiliate’s site to download Lost instead of ABC.com or iTunes is completely ridiculous. As you’ve heard before on LR, people watch shows, not networks or [...]
Best option for teasing to your website
It’s true, broadcast promotion is a powerful way to drive traffic to a website. However, it’s rarely executed well. There’s still too much reliance on “For more on this story†or “For more information†as default teases. I would like to suggest another universal solution. Direct people to your search box by asking them to [...]
RTNDA solicting ideas for new website
The RTNDA is developing a new website and is opening up that process to all journalists. What kind of online tools and content would be most useful as you develop your career? What kinds of submissions could journalists make on a regular basis to the new RTNDA site? What kind of online tutorials and resources do you think are most important to help journalism evolve in the digital world? For those interested in making a contribution, the RTNDA is offering 30% off on an annual membership. If you want to get involved, contact Mike Song at mikes@rtndf.org. More details after the jump . . .
Lost Remote interviews CNN’s Jacki Schechner
Lost Remote recently interviewed Jacki Schechner, web reporter on CNN’s The Situation Room. Click here to listen to LR’s very first audio interview. (We know we need to do some work on sound, but we are learning!) We discussed blogs, how to better integrated the web with TV, and what it’s like to be a [...]
