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New Media from Old Media

February26

Apple computer has a great piece running in the Pro section of their site. It is about how the Washington Post is using new media including podcasts, blogs and video to enrich the content that they are delivering to their readership.

WP.com on Apple

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The Glamorous World of Newspapers

December8

What writer hasn’t had the fantasy of being a big-city reporter? We’ve seen it a hundred times in movies – you pound out the story which blows the lid off big-city corruption, a glass of bourbon at your side, fame and fortune just moments away. What’s the reality?

Darkness falls on a chilly Winn-Dixie parking lot in a dodgy part of North Fort Myers just before Thanksgiving. Chuck Myron sits in his little gray Nissan and types on an IBM ThinkPad laptop plugged into the car’s cigarette lighter.

As readers abandon print for pixels, newspapers have finally begun to see the light. They’ve decided that the future is “mojos” – mobile journalists. These reporters work out their cars and file news stories on local events continuously, for their paper’s website and print edition.

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