Vilka nyheter är skämt och vilka är allvar?

Amerikanske komikern Stephen Colbert driver med de "riktiga" nyheterna i detta inslag i teveshowen "The Colbert Report". Det satiriska programmet sänds på tevekanalen The Comedy Central.

Tevenyheter - filmade av tittarna

YouWitness News - Forbes.com: "This month, ABC News Now, The Walt Disney Co.'s (nyse: DIS - news - people ) 24-hour premium news channel, launched a weekly program that incorporates video clips sent in from viewers who want to comment on the top news and entertainment stories of the week.
And last week, WCAU-TV 10, a Philadelphia station owned and operated by General Electric's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC Universal, launched a YouTube-style online video sharing service.
By the end of the year, Time Warner's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) CNN, General Electric's MSNBC.com and the Reuters news agency are each planning to introduce new ways for viewers and Web surfers to send in video content that they've shot, so producers can incorporate them into news reports or online packages."

Investerare tror inte på prenumerationer

Who Wants To Buy A Film Library? - Forbes.com: "What’s the future hold for user-generated content? Is it overhyped or is there really a way to make money with it?
Not sure. Napster, even though it wasn’t successful, was a precursor to a lot of business models that are now successful. I think it’s in the hands of people running those businesses to see if they can create something out of them, whether it’s advertiser-driven or what have you. But I think the jury is still out. I guess there could be some transactional model, a subscription model. But I think an advertising model is what’s most appropriate. If they try to make their users pay, they’re going to immediately lose their primary asset, which is all of the eyeballs that they have."

Nästan 200 000 betalar för New York Times betaljtjänst på nätet

TimesSelect 1st Anniversary: Over Half a Million Subscriptions: "As The New York Times’ TimesSelect paid-access service nears its first anniversary in September, subscriptions have topped the half-million mark, New York Times Co. President and CEO Janet L. Robinson told analysts Tuesday.

Robinson said that TimesSelect, which allows access to certain columnists and other contents, now has 513,000 subscribers. Of those, 37% are Internet-only subscribers who pay a monthly fee or a $49.95 annual fee, while the rest have signed on for free access as part of their subscription to the print newspaper"

Skrivet av få, diskuterat av några och läst av många

Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | What is the 1% rule?: "It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will 'interact' with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it."

Traditionella nyhetsorganisationer har allt att vinna på att använda de nya verktygen

Michael Urlocker Examines Disruption and Disruptive Processes - Guest Post: Journalists Must Adapt or Fade: "Of course, traditional news organizations will only be relevant and successful if they adopt the new communication tools to reach readers, particularly younger people who don't read as many newspapers or watch as much television anymore.
Rather than tip-toeing onto the Web, news organizations need to enthusiastically use blogs, podcasts and video blogs the way NPR does. This means reporters need to stop thinking of themselves as one-dimensional content creators, and start creating content using a variety of tools. At the same time, news organizations must stop trying to force-feed traditional business models to the Web. "

Engelska Times redaktör: Traditionellt journalistiskt hantverk behövs på nätet

Robert Thomson - I Want Media: "Integration is more a cultural than a technological issue. Traditional journalistic skills are urgently required on the Web, but the transfer of those skills requires personal flexibility and sensible newsroom geography.
Journalists are narrators and navigators, and given that that the Web is a vast reservoir of information of varying quality, navigational nous -- editing skills, judgment, etc. -- is crucial.
There is also a challenge for the Internet pioneers at news organizations. The funkiness of being on the fringe has disappeared. The Web is now mainstream, so the sense of identity that came from the splendid isolation of the Internet has dissipated. We are now in the age of e-egalitarianism. "

Apokalyptisk TV-vision

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Exploding TV: "At the same time that Nielsen announces that the TV networks had their lowest ratings in recorded history — averaging 20 million viewers at a time — YouTube announces that it’s serving 100 million videos a day. Insert apocalyptic punchline here. "

Nyheter på nätet lever i 36 timmar

News Online Seems to Have Long Shelf Life - New York Times: "In the case of a news article on the Internet, the answer is surprisingly long: 36 hours on average, according to the paper, “The Dynamics of Information Access on the Web,” which appeared in the June issue of Physical Review E, the journal of the American Physical Society.
More precisely, 36 hours is the amount of time it takes for half of the total readership of an article to have read it, the paper found. The physicist who led the research, Albert-László Barabási of the University of Notre Dame, said that the paper’s conclusion should give journalists hope, even in the era of instant news. Dr. Barabási said that traditional ideas about the way people use the Internet would have led researchers to expect a much shorter half-life, more like two to four hours."

"Nätverkande journalistisk" bättre ord än medborgarjournalistik

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Networked journalism: "In networked journalism, the public can get involved in a story before it is reported, contributing facts, questions, and suggestions. The journalists can rely on the public to help report the story; we’ll see more and more of that, I trust. The journalists can and should link to other work on the same story, to source material, and perhaps blog posts from the sources (see: Mark Cuban). After the story is published — online, in print, wherever — the public can continue to contribute corrections, questions, facts, and perspective … not to mention promotion via links. I hope this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as journalists realize that they are less the manufacturers of news than the moderators of conversations that get to the news. "

Visst är tidningarna på väg att dö. Men inte så som du tror.

Is The Print Newspaper Dead? / Of course it is. But then again, not even close. Are you ready for what's next?: "So are newspapers dying? Is this the question? The answer is: of course not. Then again, yes. Just not in the way you think. They are merely shifting, peeling back, juggling approaches and reorganizing ideas, all in order to be reborn. In order to adapt. In order to compete and breathe and thrive and become the new-new thing, which will be the same as the old thing, only with better reception and a universal adapter and a solar-powered battery. "

Förändringen fortsätter i evighet

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Thompson: BBC faces ongoing change: "BBC director general Mark Thompson has warned staff the process of change that has seen thousands of job cuts and structural upheaval will continue 'probably forever'.
Mr Thompson, speaking at a press conference to launch the BBC annual report this afternoon, confirmed he would announce further changes to the structure of the BBC as part of his Creative Future strategy on July 19.
His three-year Value for Money initiative will see 6,000 job cuts in a bid to save £3.3bn by March next year.
Some staff have complained the constant re-structuring has taken the focus away from programming and has damaged morale.
However, Mr Thompson said change was now a permanent feature of the media industry and staff would have to get used to it. "

Folk som förr kallades för publik

PressThink: The People Formerly Known as the Audience: "The people formerly known as the audience are those who were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened in isolation from one another— and who today are not in a situation like that at all.
Once they were your printing presses; now that humble device, the blog, has given the press to us. That’s why blogs have been called little First Amendment machines. They extend freedom of the press to more actors.
Once it was your radio station, broadcasting on your frequency. Now that brilliant invention, podcasting, gives radio to us. And we have found more uses for it than you did.
Shooting, editing and distributing video once belonged to you, Big Media. Only you could afford to reach a TV audience built in your own image. Now video is coming into the user’s hands, and audience-building by former members of the audience is alive and well on the Web.
You were once (exclusively) the editors of the news, choosing what ran on the front page. Now we can edit the news, and our choices send items to our own front pages.
A highly centralized media system had connected people “up” to big social agencies and centers of power but not “across” to each other. Now the horizontal flow, citizen-to-citizen, is as real and consequential as the vertical one. "