Molding Young Minds at UALR High School Journalism Day

Much thanks to the Sonny Rhodes and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for inviting me to speak during two sessions of UALR’s annual Journalism Day event, which took place Thursday.
Andrew DeMillo of The Associated Press gave the event’s keynote address on “Why Journalism Matters,” and other session leaders included Frank Fellone of the [...]

Video: Google News Offers Tips, Best Practices for Editors, Publishers

This 15-minute video is totally worth your time if you’re a publisher, editor or Webmaster looking to optimize your news content for Google News. In it, Maile Ohye of Google talks about best practices and answers frequently asked questions about how Google News crawls, indexes and ranks news stories in Google [...]

Implications, Random Thoughts on the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Stephens Media Joint Venture

The plan for a joint venture announced today between the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Stephens Media in northwest Arkansas raises all kinds of questions, many of which we hope to answer in our continuing coverage this afternoon on ArkansasBusiness.com.
Among the many points to ponder should the joint venture deal go through:
Staffing: What does this portend for [...]

Pew Study Shows Emerging Trends in Political, Civic Engagement Online

On KARN radio on Monday, political bloggers Blake Rutherford and David Kinkade commented on how new media has finally arrived in Arkansas, and how blogs and social networks will play an even bigger role in the 2010 election cycle (one that’s already sure to be exciting given a certain U.S. Senate race) as more Arkansans [...]

The Guardian UK, Walter Hussman Talk Online News Over Whole Hog in Little Rock

Walter Hussman, everyone’s favorite newspaper publisher bravely charging for online news and somehow “making it work,” is back in the headlines, entertaining a Guardian UK writer at Whole Hog Cafe and talking about how print/Internet strategy is working.
As we’ve noted before, “preserve the print edition” has been the goal. The reporter on the story doesn’t [...]

The FTC to Hold Hold Workshops on Journalism in the Internet Age

First, there was John Kerry’s Congressional subcommittee hearing on “the Future of Journalism.” And now, the Federal Trade Commission is set to hold two days of workshops in December on journalism and its survival in the Internet age:
Though some may be uncomfortable with government oversight of any aspect of journalism, the F.T.C. seems to be [...]

Media Notes: Inside Saline Debuts; ‘FaceFriend’ Announced; Local, Local Local!

Please excuse us while we navel-gaze. The latest bits from around the media world, Arkansas and beyond:
Airheads – Blake Rutherford guests today on 103.7 The Buzz from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tune in for a taste of the his new radio show, starting this weekend.
Web Jones -  Whit Jones, the former editor of the [...]

Reports: Rupert Murdoch to Charge for All Online Content

Rupert Murdoch, the Australian media baron who controls the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Fox News and dozens of other print and broadcast properties, says he will begin charging for all the online content of his newspapers and TV news channels sometime within “this financial year,” as his News Corp. posts a $203 [...]

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Previously
Lock Down: The Democrat-Gazette Takes Free News Off the Web in Northwest Arkansas
Will the Morning News Put Up A Pay Wall?
The ‘Patron Saint of the Pay Wall
Related
Editor & Publisher’s Fitz & Jen blog links to Arkansas Business media writer Mark Hengel’s report this week on where all those Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporters are going.

More From Walter Hussman, the ‘Patron Saint of the Pay Wall’

Noted here mainly for the record, since there’s not much new in this Arkansas Democrat-Gazette piece (on the front of the Business section here in Little Rock) on publisher Walter Hussman’s championing of the pay wall, this time during a Webinar hosted by the American Society of News Editors.
A longtime advocate of subscriptions for online [...]