Elizabeth Spiers and the reinvented New York Observer - Reuters Blogs (blog)

5 February 2012, 9:26 pm

Reuters Blogs (blog)Elizabeth Spiers and the reinvented New York ObserverReuters Blogs (blog)The old Observer was edited, on a story-by-story basis, in a way that the new online Observer isn't — Spiers doesn't have either the time or the money to have a layer of experienced journalists rew... Read More »

Best Buy SuperBowl ad features mobile tech luminaries - ZDNet (blog)

5 February 2012, 9:25 pm

Best Buy SuperBowl ad features mobile tech luminariesZDNet (blog)It's the freshest tech news and opinion, served hot. Get it. Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been pub... Read More »

From the Edtior's Desk: The Towerlight protects its Tweeters - Towerlight

5 February 2012, 6:34 pm

From the Edtior's Desk: The Towerlight protects its TweetersTowerlightAs the popularity of Twitter has increased among the journalistic community, many reporters, editors and bloggers have begun to include a new sentence at the end of their 160-character bio: “RTs are not endorsements.” This... Read More »

New game for social media in Olympics - London Free Press

5 February 2012, 4:37 pm

New game for social media in OlympicsLondon Free PressParticipants have not been told to completely disconnect from social media, as some bloggers have suggested. But the IOC has essentially tried to prevent users of social media from acting as journalists. The IOC says participants are allowed and ... Read More »

Media key stakeholders that capture the true essence of DSF, top official says - gulfnews.com

5 February 2012, 11:27 am

gulfnews.comMedia key stakeholders that capture the true essence of DSF, top official saysgulfnews.comThe awards acknowledge journalists across a variety of categories in both English and Arabic. Dubai: Gulf News journalists won six awards yesterday at the annual Dubai Shopping Festival Journalism a... Read More »

BBC says Iran targeting families of its journalists - Reuters

5 February 2012, 6:46 am

BBC NewsBBC says Iran targeting families of its journalistsReuters| LONDON Feb 5 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities are increasingly arresting and threatening the families of British Broadcasting Corporation journalists to force them to quit its Persian news service, the BBC's head said on Sunday.B... Read More »

The prostitution of the mainstream media — Sakmongkol AK47 - The Malaysian Insider

5 February 2012, 6:01 am

The prostitution of the mainstream media — Sakmongkol AK47The Malaysian InsiderThese conclaves of media assassins in the new media are also said to be headed by banished journalists who thought they were legends in the own right. Once upon a time, they thought the world revolved around them and pe... Read More »

Blogging for HuffPost? Issue has become a free-for-all - Montreal Gazette (blog)

4 February 2012, 2:13 am

USA TODAYBlogging for HuffPost? Issue has become a free-for-allMontreal Gazette (blog)A few voices from the debate: Simon Jodoin, blogger and director of new media at Voir: "Are you (those who agreed to blog) completely out of your minds?!? At a time when local media are ... investing in our culture... Read More »

Tumblr Hires Journalists to Write About Tumblr - TIME

2 February 2012, 9:04 am

TIMETumblr Hires Journalists to Write About TumblrTIMEThe two writers — Chris Mohney, SVP of content for BlackBook Media and Jessica Bennett, senior writer and editor for Newsweek and The Daily Beast — will be reporting on various content and conversations appearing on the almost 44 million blog... Read More »

Tumblr Editorial Team to Surface Noteworthy Content From Network - PC Magazine

2 February 2012, 7:10 am

TIMETumblr Editorial Team to Surface Noteworthy Content From NetworkPC MagazineBy Leslie Horn Tumblr is hiring editors to cover the news the flows from millions of blogs on its network. The New York Times is reporting that Tumblr is taking on Chris Mohney, a senior vice president for content at Blac... Read More »