4202 Biblio

Dr. R's Journalism Readings

Here are some readings we will be going over this semester. You will not necessarily be reading everything on this list, but it is here as resource for you. Expect that I will be adding to this as the semester proceeds. I hope you find the readings interesting and relevant. But another point of this list is to introduce you to the many resources available out there to journalists who want to keep up with what is going on in their profession.
To drill deeper into journalism, check out Dr. R's Journalism Links

I Need Help

OK, here is how you can help me. If you find any link wrong here, quickly paste it onto an email and send to me at rrodgers@jou.ufl.edu

This is what we call "social editing" and your help will keep this page running smoothly. And, in addition, if you find a relevant article
you deem worthy of placement on this list, let me know in the same way. -- Dr. R

Editing Resources:

The Journalist's Toolbox at The American Press Institute: http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/toolbox/
The Seven Deadly Copy Editing Sins: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=5441
Questions to Ask Every Story (Note: Explain why each issue is relevant in your reax): http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/resources/2006/04/questions_to_ask_of_every_stor/
The Local News Handbook: http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=2908

The Job of Editing:

Ann Auman, "Who would want to be a copy editor? The American Editor, January-February 2000, p. 26. http://www.asne.org/kiosk/editor/00.jan-feb/auman1.html
Ignore copy editors at your own peril, (Copy Editing), The American Editor, March 2003 http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=4580
Goodbye copy desk, hello trouble? (short) http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=4871
We All Need to be Vigilant Editors, The American Editor, May-June-July 2005, p. 22 & 35 http://www.asne.org/files/tae200505.pdf
Editing The Future: Helping Copy Desks Meet the Challenge of Changing Media http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/news/editfuture/

Ready any of these that interest you.

Editing the Project or Series http://www.ibiblio.org/copyed/04knight_koetting_editing_project.htm

Accuracy & Assertions of Fact:

The Whoppers of 2007: http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/the_whoppers_of_2007.html
STATS -- Statistical Assessment Service -- is a resource on the use and abuse of science and statistics in the media. http://www.stats.org/
Nieman Watchdog: Questions the Press Should Ask http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm
The Whoppers of 2006: http://www.factcheck.org/article467.html
Frank Fee's Tips for Accuracy: http://www.unc.edu/~ffee/teaching/accuracy.htm
Calling for back-up http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/08/07/calling_for_back_up/
The Discerning Eye: Truth in Storytelling: Commentary: Editors have to be fierce in making their writers prove their stories: http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2006/02/discerning_eye.html
Regret the Error: http://www.regrettheerror.com/
Word Watch: Allegedly Innocent Suspects http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=8390
Senators from both sides make false claims about Roe v. Wade http://www.factcheck.org/article336.html

Truth & Objectivity:

How the press can prevent another Iraq: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=00156
Accountability Journalism: Liberating reporters and the truth: http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12666
What the Mainstream Media Can Learn from Jon Stewart: No, not to be funny and snarky, but to be bold and to do a better job of cutting through the fog: http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4329
Re-thinking Objectivity http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/4/objective-cunningham.asp
The Political Power of Words: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060612/powers
New York Times Guide for Readers: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhrxdnf3_3crt4g2
Off Base: When the local military facility went on the hit list, many newspapers and broadcasters switched from journalism to boosterism. http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=1557
Can media fairness be mandated? http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0705/p09s01-coop.html

Nuts & Bolts of Editing:

Style

Style Wars in Cyberspace: http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4127
Religion Stylebook: http://www.religionstylebook.org/index.php

Grammar

Whom You Calling Ungrammatical? http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/02/19/who_you_callin_ungrammatical/

Punctuation

The Comma That Cost $1 Million: http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/business/worldbusiness/25comma.html
Accent or no accent: newspapers struggle with little black marks: http://www.laprensatoledo.com/Stories/2006/October%2025,%202006/Accent.htm

Spelling

Fact-Checking

OYEZ: An archive related to the U.S. Supreme Court, its justices, and its decisions. Requires RealPlayer and QuickTime.
Freedom of Information Center at: http://foi.missouri.edu/
FOI Letter Generator link of the FOI site at: http://www.rcfp.org/foi_letter/generate.php
FactCheck Subscribers Find Us Clear, Unbiased, Reliable and Useful (see site link below) http://www.factcheck.org/article300.html

FactCheck.org at: http://www.factcheck.org/

Word Usage

Common errors in English: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors

Headines

Headline Writers Told to Play it Straight: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA043006.03B.Richter.7ed8cb7.html
So Many Headlines, So Few Zingers: What's it take to hit the mark? An editor examines dozens of heads in search of answers: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=80357
Readers flummoxed by runaway headlines: http://sptimes.com/2005/11/27/Columns/Readers_flummoxed_by_.shtml
1,000 Headlines in 460 Days http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=58928
Newspapers search for Web headline magic (CNET) http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-6155739.html

More on SEO: Newspaper headlines lost in Web translation (CNET) http://news.com.com/Newspaper+headlines+lost+in+Web+translation/2100-1025_3-6155618.html

Sources & Subjects & Story Ideas:

Sources & Subjects

RSS for Journalists: Your Own Personal Web Butler: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=78383
Improving Editorial Quality from the Top Down http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=61139
Public Insight Network: (Read the sidebars and FAQ): http://minnesota.publicradio.org/publicinsightjournalism/
"The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics": includes data from more than 100 sources about criminal justice in the United States. The book is published once a year, but the website is updated continually.
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
Reflecting the Audience http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=65591
Covering the Outsiders http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=61133
Covering life outside the narrow lines, (Diversity/Sources) The American Editor, January-February 2003 http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=4393
Going to the Sourcing of the Problem (Sourcing/Diversity), The American Editor, August-September-October 2004, p. 14-15.
http://www.asne.org/files/tae200409.pdf
Women Are Still Missing as Sources for Journalists http://www.journalism.org/node/141
Campus Crime: http://www.securityoncampus.org/
Taboo Topics in Journalism Today http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3842_0_2_0_C/
Help Wanted on the Religion Beat http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=75431
Covering Disabilities: Untold Stories for Any Beat http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=58&aid=82100
Opening the Door to Better Immigration Stories http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=58&aid=7234

Story Ideas

Al's Morning Meetng: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2
Story Ideas: 50 places to shop for story ideas: http://www.notrain-nogain.com/Train/Res/Report/50places.asp
The First Inklings: The Origins of Enterprise Stories: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhrxdnf3_34fk2zz9
National Priorities Project http://www.nationalpriorities.org/
Smarter Crime Coverage: Eleven tips for coming up with crime stories and covering them more deeply and accurately. http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=65264

ALSO: More crime story ideas and resources from Al Tompkins. PLUS: Crime story resources

A Method to Our Mathness:

Numeracy

How Not to Conduct a Presidential Poll: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=00222
News and Numbers: http://www.facsnet.org/tools/ref_tutor/newsandnumbers/index.php3
Math for Journalists: http://www.newsthinking.com/story.cfm?SID=118
Journalists + math = anxiety, self-doubt, The American Editor, January-February 2002 http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=3606
See API’s Writing With Numbers http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/4012.cfm
The Quest for Accurate Numbers http://www.copydesk.org/words/numeracy.htm
A Billion People Can Be Wrong: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/steve_rushin/02/03/rushin0206/index.html
Don't Dumb Me Down: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,1564369,00.html?badscience

Stats, Poll, Surveys

STATS -- Statistical Assessment Service -- is a resource on the use and abuse of science and statistics in the media. http://www.stats.org/
National Council on Public Polls: Twenty Questions a Journalist Should Ask About Poll Resutls: http://www.ncpp.org/?q=node/4
Margin of Error: A simple explanation of margin of error, for journalists and other writers who might not know math.http://www.robertniles.com/stats/margin.shtml
Precisely False vs. Approximately Right: A Reader’s Guide to Polls: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhrxdnf3_21f35js8
Debating the Body Count in Iraq: http://www.cjrdaily.org/politics/debating_the_body_count_in_ira.php
655,000 dead: reporting the reporting: http://mediamatters.org/altercation/200610180013
655,000 War Dead? A bogus study on Iraq casualties: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009108
When Numbers Lie: http://www.copydesk.org/words/numberslie.htm
Calame Comes Down on NYT for Math in Single Woman Story: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhrxdnf3_38gc8wz8
Fox News Polls: Profiles In Loaded Questions: http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/apr/02/fox_news_polls_profiles_in_loaded_questions
Stinky Journalism: Not all journalism stinks. But there are times when reported "facts" smell fishy. Stinkyjournalism.org, therefore, offers a unique forum for citizens to publish research on errors they encounter in the media: http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/

Ethics / Taste& Sensitivity / Diversity / Ethics, etc. & the Web / Anonymous Sources:

Ethics

The Connecticut Post ethics policy:: http://www.connpost.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?articleId=4538615&siteId=96
How Do You Photograph the Amish? Let Us Count the Ways: http://www.cjrdaily.org/behind_the_news/how_do_you_photograph_the_amis.php
More Plagiarism at the New York Times? http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/36095/
Times Issues Ethics Guidelines for Reporters, Editors: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-na-ethics15jul15,0,519646.story
Before you publish a rape victim's name http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=4643
When Do We Publish a Secret? http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/01/opinion/01keller.html?ex=1309406400&en=2ed55afc4e52e771&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Taste & Sensitivity

Refugees, riots, and evacuees: Who decides? http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=68&aid=88496
Nicknames & Mascots: Complicity in Bigotry http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=58&aid=87263
Can suicide coverage lead to copycats? http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=3631

Choosing language carefully (suicide sidebar) http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=3632

What the F--k are They Driving At: http://www.cjrdaily.org/behind_the_news/what_the_fk_are_they_driving_a.php
About Those Photos of Little Girls and Artillery Shells: http://www.cjrdaily.org/behind_the_news/about_those_photos_of_little_g.php
(crisis editing) Editors Face Tough Choices with Tsunami Victim Photos, The American Editor, January-February 2005, p. 18
http://www.asne.org/files/tae200502.pdf
Photography in Focus: Sex Offender Photos Prompt Debate in a Newsroom, (Photography), The American Editor, May-June-July 2004, p. 36: http://www.asne.org/files/tae200405.pdf
Readers question use of Lexington, Ky., crime scene photo, (Photography/Ethics) The American Editor, January-February 2003
http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=4395
Photography in Focus (plunge photo), The American Editor, March 2004, p. 32 http://www.asne.org/files/tae200403.pdf
Readers Respond to Fallujah Photos http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=63968
You Be the Editor: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=63413

Diversity

Newsroom diversity attitudes affect content, The American Editor, The American Editor, January-February 2002 http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=3608
New black newspaper stirs debate http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/12/Columns/New_black_newspaper_s.shtml
Going to the Sourcing of the Problem (Sourcing/Diversity), The American Editor, August-September-October 2004, p. 14-15.
http://www.asne.org/files/tae200409.pdf
Women Are Still Missing as Sources for Journalists http://www.journalism.org/node/141
Accent or no accent: newspapers struggle with little black marks: http://www.laprensatoledo.com/Stories/2006/October%2025,%202006/Accent.htm

Ethics, etc. & the Web

Rutgers' video about plagiarism: http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/
The Murky World of Conflicts of Interest: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhrxdnf3_45fnzxpr
Orlando Sentinel Conflict of Interest Statement: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhrxdnf3_44k3b5tr
Ethical considerations of the Web link http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=4645
ESPN unveils cross-platform correction policy and procedures: http://www.regrettheerror.com/2007/03/espn_unveils_cr.html

Anonymous Sources

Anonymous sources: Their use in a time of prosecutorial interest: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Showcase.view&showcaseid=0019
Readers: Anonymous Sources Affect Media Credibility http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83897
When the Post Banned Anonymous Sources http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=3946
Anonymous Sources: http://www.ajr.org/article_printable.asp?id=1596
Newsroom Confidential http://cjr.org/issues/2005/6/baker.asp

Law:

Freedom of Information

WikiFOIA: Demystifying FOIA: http://wikifoia.pbwiki.com/

Sources and Shield Laws

Federal shield laws introduced in both houses: http://www.rcfp.org/news/2007/0502-con-federa.html
How Good is Your Word?http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=85220
No Media Shield Law / AIM http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3658_0_2_0_C/
A Source of Encouragement: A new First Amendment Center/AJR survey finds that 69 percent of the public thinks journalists should be allowed to keep a news source confidential http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3909
Attack At The Source: Why the Plame case is so scary http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/2/mccollam-plame.asp
Guide to covering courts and law http://www.knightcenter.umd.edu/resources/courts_coverage/index.htm

Prior Restraint

Gag the Press http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3756
Naming the Accuser: Inside One Colorado Newsroom's Decision http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=72935

Trademark & Copyright

A Professor Pokes Fun at Copyright (video): http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2088

Press Ownership, etc.

Newspaper Joint Operating Agreements (JOAs) http://www.naa.org/info/facts04/joa.html

Getting Sued

Assessing Legal Risks and Guidelines for User Comments: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=103&aid=123905
Dialogue or Diatribe? A look at how news organizations are handling user comments: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=103&aid=122669
Truth vs. "False Light": http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20060227&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=602270324&SectionCat=&Template=printart

Readership:

Connecting with the community, The American Editor, September-October 2003 http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=5006
Considering 10 years of public journalism, (Public (Civic) Journalism) The American Editor, January-February 2002
http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=3603
Improving Editorial Quality from the Top Down http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=61139
Creating readers however we can, The American Editor, January-February 2003 http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=4387
Be Unfraid. Be Very Unafraid (Readership), The American Editor, November-December 2004, p. 4-8. http://www.asne.org/files/tae200411.pdf
Give Them Something to Talk About, (Readership), The American Editor, May-June-July 2004, p. 12-13. http://www.asne.org/files/tae200405.pdf
The ASAP Generation? http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=89309
NNA Study: In Small Markets, Community Paper is Leading News Source
http://www.nna.org/articles/americasnewspapers81.html
Newspaper Should Really Worry: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65813,00.html

State of the Press:

Three DC journalists on the state of investigative reporting: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=183
The State of the News Media 2006 - Newspapers http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2006/

Read any of these that interest you.

Chronicle of the Newspaper Death Foretold: http://www.slate.com/id/2154678/
Abandoning the News: http://www.carnegie.org/reporter/10/news/index.html
Liberal Media? http://mediamatters.org/items/200512220003
“Public More Critical of Press, But Goodwill Persists: http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=248
Researchers assess six dimensions -- content, audience, economics, ownership, newsroom investment, and public attitudes -- in nine media segments: newspapers, magazines, nework TV, cable TV, local TV, the Internet, radio, the ethnic press, and alternative media. http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=79676
Find your local newspaper in this report or a major paper near your home by clicking on your state's name in the list on the left side of the website
John S. Carroll on Why Newspapers Matter: http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00203
The Death of News: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060703/crispinmiller

Online & the Future of News:

Online Newspapers

I.F. Stone's lessons for Internet journalism: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=00193
Huffingtonpost: Secrets Behind Its Success: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-mxa0601tempocoverhuffjun01,1,1412297.story?ctrack=4&cset=true
rayLady.com: NY Times explodes wall between print, Web http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050809glaser/
Center Stage: The Internet has become an integral part of the way newspapers distribute their content, a phenomenon that’s only going to increase. AJR's senior editor takes a firsthand look at four papers’ Web operations: http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4075
Multimedia newspapers will transform the news process, promote transparency and improve democracy
http://www.editorsweblog.org/2005/08/multimedia_news.php
New NAA Study: Newspapers' Online Audiences Growing Rapidl: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002276032
Newsknife featured rating: Top 100 U.S. newspaper sites year-to-date 2006: http://www.newsknife.com/features/top_us_newspaper_sites.html
Online newspapers: are they helping or killing their print parents? http://www.mediacenter.org/content/p1434_c979.cfm
Power Users: A Profile of Online Newspaper Consumers http://www.digitaledge.org/pdf/2002_Online_Consumer_Study.pdf
Tips from Rob Curley on newspapers and online: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/003988.php
Newspapers on the Net: http://www.editteach.org/news?id=42 (Read Full Report Below)

(Full Report) The Use of the Internet by America's Newspapers: http://www.bivingsreport.com/campaign/newspapers06_tz-fgb.pdf

Changing the Rhythm of the Day in Georgia (Convergence), The American Editor, April 2004, p. 24-25 http://www.asne.org/files/tae200404.pdf
Speech by Rupert Murdoch to the American Society of Newspaper Editors: http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_247.html

Convergence (Fusion)

Thriving in a Converged Newsroom: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=122216
Convergence Case Study: Florida Today, API http://www.mediacenter.org/content/p776_c979.cfm
Media General ready to elevate media convergence to next level http://www.newsandtech.com/issues/2006/ot/01-06_donna_reed.htm
Convergence Case Study: Topeka Capital-Journal, APIhttp://www.mediacenter.org/content/p778_c979.cfm
Study: How News Organizations Practice Convergence http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002824.php
Everything That Rises: Media convergence is an opportunity, not a curse http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/4/voices-kolodzy.asp
What Exactly Does Convergence Look Like? The American Editor, January-February 2005, p. 18-19. http://www.asne.org/files/tae200502.pdf
When various news outlets merge, more can equal less http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/12716956.htm
What we mean when we speak of convergence, The American Editor, May-June 2002 http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=3681

Social News / Social Networking

Don't Trust the News? Enter NewsTrust, an online social news network aimed at helping people identify quality journalism -- or "news you can trust." http://www.alternet.org/story/44818/
DailySource.org picks the news: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/003932.php (Read this and then analyze the news site at http://dailysource.org/

Innovation

Bono as editor
Gannett to Change Its Papers' Approach: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/06/AR2006110601142.html
Gannett Editors React to Corporate Convergence Directive: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003352808
Innovation editors? Read these below:

Tom Warhover Named Executive Editor for Innovation: http://journalism.missouri.edu/news/2006/09-06-knight-center.html
AME/For Innovation Named: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/newsroom/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003494476
Job Ad for innovator: http://www.innovationsinnewspapers.com/2006/08/new-positions-innovation-and.html

The finalists for the Newspaper Association of America’s Digital Edge Awards: (News sites that are doing innovative things with online media): http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhrxdnf3_16jgpqj9
Lessons From a Newsroom's Digital Frontline: In Roanoke, Virginia, a midsized newspaper has had 'the freedom to run some experiments, fail, try again, and along the way discover some meaningful success.': http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/06-1NRspring/p53-0601-riley.html
A Newfangled Journalism Technique Leaps Across the Country: http://www.cjrdaily.org/politics/a_newfangled_journalism_techni.php
Constructing a Framework to Enable an Opensource Reinvention of Journalism: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_6/witt/index.html
Newspapers Transformation in the New Media Landscape: http://wef.blogs.com/editors/2005/09/newspapers_tran.html
Newspapers need to adopt multi-media strategy, says editor: http://newmediasphere.blogs.com/nms/2004/07/newspapers_need.html
What would techies do with a newspaper? First, they'd make it all digital. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/maney/2006-11-28-newspapers-future_x.htm
WSJ Gets Comfortable with Blogs, Wants to Boost Community: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/12/digging_deeperwsj_gets_comfort.html
Comprehensive list of blogs produced by journalists: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/cyberjournalists.php
What the 5! What the 5! is a weekday videocast that highlights the talk stories of the day, and provides interactive links to stories, videos and quizzes on MiamiHerald.com. http://www.miamiherald.com/static/media/whatthe5/index.html
Detroit Free Press - Forty years of 'Respect': http://media.freep.com/respect/index.html
People of the Web: http://potw.news.yahoo.com/

The Business Side

How to Sink a Newspaper: Free news for online customers is a disastrous business plan. http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010038
Old Media Turns Combative Against New Media: http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0847652320070508
Adapt or Die: http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4111
Is Yahoo public enemy No. 1 for Big Media? Yahoo has always worked closely with media companies. But as Yahoo News rolls out original content, has Big Media's ally become a challenger? http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/051005glaser/print.htm
Traditional Newsroom Still Need to Walk the Talk: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/12/your_take_rounduptraditional_n.html
How Newspaper Can Profit From User-Generated Content: http://www.naa.org/sitecore/content/Home/PRESSTIME/2006/November/PRESSTIMEcontent/Monetizing_Citizen_Media.aspx
Newspapers Test Plan to Sell Ads on Google. New York Times. Go on Lexis-Nexis of find other stories about this.
The coming collapse and rebirth of newspaper journalism: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhrxdnf3_2v74jd8
Study shows newspapers reach many http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2005-10-03-newspapers-usat_x.htm
News Staffing and Profits: The business case for better journalism http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=29039

Citizen Journalism

Who's a Blogger, and/or Who's a Journalist? (read all links) http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=123554
Journalism Without Journalists (Go to Lexis-Nexis to download entire article: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060807fa_fact1
Citizen-journalists reshape the media: New sites crop up to accommodate growing trend of citizen journalism, while mainstream media invite more user feedback: http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=40358
Old Media Must Embrace the Amateur: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e2bba176-ae0a-11da-8ffb-0000779e2340.html

Hyperlocal Journalism

In Push for Local Readers, Post Unleashes LoudounExtra.com: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/15/AR2007071500648_pf.html
Raise the Hammer: Raise the Hammer is a group of Hamilton, Ontario citizens who believe in our city's potential and are willing to get involved in making the city a more vibrant, livable, and attractive place to live and work. http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=7
The Chicago Tribune has launched a new site where readers in the western and southern suburbs can post their own stories, submit photos and write blogs. Triblocal.com has a staff of four journalists charged with drumming up stories in an initial target area of nine towns, and the site will be largely unedited and self-policing. http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/004174.php
A Newspaper Chain Sees Its Future, And It's Online and Hyper-Local: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/03/AR2006120301037_pf.html
User-generated content good for old media: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhrxdnf3_18ch543g
WSJ Gets Comfortable with Blogs, Wants to Boost Community: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/12/digging_deeperwsj_gets_comfort.html
Amateurs working as journalists are giving rise to a new wave of 'citizen newspapers.' Results are mixed. http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhrxdnf3_1fhhwtc

Meet the News Face of Hyperlocal Journalism
"Potemkin Village" Redux
Common Sense Journalism
Placeblogger lists more than 750 hyperlocal news sites, sorted geographically: http://www.placeblogger.com/

The Future of News

State of the Media 2007: http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2007/
The Death of Newspapers Is Greatly Exaggerated: http://www.freepress.net/news/28793
Watergate's 35th Anniversary: Would That Story Have Been Broken Today? http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/rewrite_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003599510
Journalism isn't dying, it's reviving: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/07/EDGGTP3FOE1.DTL
L.A. Times Series on Future of Newspaper:

Media Blitzed: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-dustup7may07,0,6735373.story?coll=la-opinion-center
Can You Teach an Old Media New Tricks?: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-dustup8may08,0,7194127.story?coll=la-opinion-center
Where's the Paper? http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-dustup9may09,0,7652881.story?coll=la-opinion-center

News, Improved: Learning to Change. From a New Book by Michele McLellan and Tim Porter: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2007/03/29/porter_mclellan.html
Nieman Report: Goodbye Gutenberg: http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/06-4NRwinter/index.html
NYT Newsroom Integration Memo: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhrxdnf3_42c6jdbq
Gannett to Change Its Papers' Approach: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhrxdnf3_40g8jbpz
Memo from Gannett CEO Craig Dubow: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhrxdnf3_41ghz7m2
Memo from Orlando Sentinel editor Charlotte Hall: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhrxdnf3_39fmfvt7
The New Old Journalism: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67366,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4
New Media Develops Rapidly: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june07/media_01-01.html

Writing & Editing for Online

Online Story Forms: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000117.php
Journalists Blogging
SacBee begins distributing web traffic reports: http://poynter.org/forum/default.asp?id=32127&DGPCrSrt=&DGPCrPg=3
Copy Editors: The Missing Link in the Online Newsroom: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=122027
Offshoring: Coming Trend for Copy Desks?: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=83&aid=112040
Online journalist looks a lot like a copy editor: Top skills: Paying attention to details, multitasking on deadline, news judgment, grammar: http://www.editteach.org/news/?id=55
Two scholars attempt to define the essential ingredients of online stories, API http://www.mediacenter.org/content/p1441_c1389.cfm
Is the role of editors more or less important in the digital age? http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2006/03/is_the_role_of_editors_more_or_less_impo.php
The Roles of Journalists in Online Newsrooms: A new study of the skills and characterisitics important to online newsrooms has been released by Medill Schol of Journalism and the cooperation of the Online News Association. http://journalist.org/news/archives/000652.php To view the study, Download file
The Working Journalist in the Age of the Internet: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/04/ball_state_talkthe_working_jou.html

Online Technology

The Broadband Fact Book: The Internet Innovation Alliance report covers Internet basics and access speeds, demographics of Internet users, broadband deployment in the US and abroad, the consumer and economic benefits of broadband, and the growth in Internet traffic. http://www.internetinnovation.org/iia/downloads/IIA_Fact_Book.pdf

Design - Print & Online:

Online News Design; Awful or Brilliant: http://design2-0.com/articles/online-news-design-awful-or-brilliant/#nytimes
News site Web design: What works? What doesn't? -- Nora Paul and Laura Ruel introduce a new OJR column examining the latest research how readers use news websites. http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070110paul/
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
The Design Desk http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=47&aid=90962A small paper with a radical approach to the front page. The American Editor, January-February 2005, p. 14-15
http://www.asne.org/files/tae200502.pdf
Front page design: Some trends continue http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3677/is_200307/ai_n9300538
Remaking the Paper for Twentysomethings, The American Editor, May-June-July 2005, p. 16-17 http://www.asne.org/files/tae200505.pdf
Which Brain do You Use? (Design/Workplace Issues- words and visuals collaborate), The American Editor, August-September-October 2004, p. 16-17. (Bring in the Test for Class) http://www.asne.org/files/tae200409.pdf
SND tips for better design http://www.freep.com/legacy/jobspage/academy/design.htm
10 Universal Newspaper Design Myths, Debunked http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=4091
Here are links to all the winners of the Society of News Design's annual interactive awards, 2005: http://www.joeweiss.com/2005/10/snd.html

Workplace Issues:

Training

News University: Training for Journalists. Anytime. Anywhere.: http://www.newsu.org/
Newpaper Training Editors Guide: http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=4956
Start at the Copy Desk (also read the comments to this article) http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=35366
The reporter brain, assigning editor brain and copy editor brain: Helping Copy Desks Meet the Challenge of Changing Mediahttp://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/news/editfuture/03_Banaszynski/story.htm
Low-cost training ideas from editors, ASNE. http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=566
David Craig, "Cross-Training, Rotation Leads to Less Stress," The American Editor, January 1998, p. 16-17. http://www.asne.org/kiosk/editor/98.jan/craig1.htm
Why reporters should sit on the desk http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=35366

In the Newsroom

What's Needed in 2008: Serious Newsroom Cultural Change: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/stopthepresses_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003690538
California Web Site Outsources job: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhrxdnf3_505rnrpp
Salary data for journalists 1 http://www.collegejournal.com/salarydata/journalism/
Goodbye copy desk, hello trouble?: http://poynteronline.org/content/content_view.asp?id=4871
Out of Balance: Poynter Survey Reveals Journalists' Pressure Points http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=78725
How did we get there and where are we going? http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/news/editfuture/02_RussialMcIntyire/story.htm
Inside Newsroom Teams http://www.mediamanagementcenter.org/publications/data/Inside%20Newsroom%20Teams.pdf
Improving Copy Desk Morale Is Worth All the Hard Work http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=5456
Help or Hindrance, Part 1: What Editors can do for Writers http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=52&aid=41399
Help or Hindrance, Part 2: What Writers can do to Help, or Hinder, Editors http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=52&aid=42104
Create a better copy desk-city desk relationship (Editing Protocols): http://www.editteach.org/tools/?tool_entry_id=351
How to Edit Copy and Influence People http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=65579
Tips for Shift Workers | Computer Eye Care | Driving while drowsy | Computer Workstation Ergonomics | Nutrition | Workstation Yoga (in abstract, briefly note advice in each) http://www.ibiblio.org/copyed/lifestyle_tips.html

Management / Leadership

Driving Ms. Judith: Fallout from the 'Plame Affair' http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4975786
Ten Things Copy Editors Want from Line Editors..And what Line Editors want from Copy Editors. http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=78083
Changing Times: A great editor steps down in Los Angeles. http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3910

John Carroll Bows Out in L.A. Dean Baquet succeeds him as Times’ editor. http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=3911

Considering Consequences, Managing Performance: Encourage quality work in your newsroom with positive reinforcement that employees can appreciate.http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=34&aid=91919
Career-conflicted find little newsroom support, (Diversity/Management) The American Editor, November-December 2002 http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=4277
Most editors really want good editing in their newspapers. They also would like to make the working lives of their copy editors better.
http://www.journalism.org/resources/tools/managers/editmodel.asp
Firing: For People Who Hate the Subject http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=34&aid=71231
How Well Are You Leading? How Do You Know?http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=34&aid=82418
Ten Lousy Listeners And What We Can Learn from Them http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=34&aid=70931
Feedback: Newsroom employees want it, managers avoid it http://www.mediamanagementcenter.org/publications/data/Feedback2.pdf
Getting Them to Do What You Want Them to Do: Editors share management tips
http://www.mediamanagementcenter.org/updates/mangagementtips.asp
Top 10 competencies for newspaper managers, API http://americanpressinstitute.org/content/p1424_c982.cfm
The traits of leadership, API http://americanpressinstitute.org/content/p865_c982.cfm
David Zeeck, “Leadership vs. Management,” The American Editor, September 1997, p. 4-7 http://www.asne.org/kiosk/editor/97.sept/zeeck1.htm
A promotion is a bet on someone's future, The American Editor, March 2002 http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=3637
Flipping Retention on Its Head at Small Newspapers, The American Editor, March 2004, p. 11-14 http://www.asne.org/files/tae200403.pdf
The Importance of a Well-Crafted Budget (Management), The American Editor, August-September-October 2004, p. 22. http://www.asne.org/files/tae200409.pdf
New Bosses: Better at the Product than the People http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=34&aid=68612
Revisiting Our Culturehttp://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=34&aid=92231

Career:

It's a Confusing Moment to be a Young Journalist: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-barrieanthony/its-a-confusing-moment-t_b_50370.html
How J-Students See the Future http://www.journalism.org/node/5509:
Use action verbs to improve your resume (Rated Two Thumbs Up by Previous Students): http://www.imahal.com/careers/management/resumes/resumes_verbs.htm
The Resume and the Interview:Some advice from Bonnie Bolden of the Akron Beacon Journal http://www.copydesk.org/words/resumes.htm
Subject: Re: No one showed me: An e-mail conversation between Butch Ward and first-time editor Andrew Smith:http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=34&aid=100433
Discussion on Journalists Sharing Info Online Follow the Links on Advice on This: http://blog.news-record.com/staff/jrblog/archives/2006/10/i_often_get_ask.html
What Skills Should a Young Journalist Have? http://journalism.berkeley.edu/events/details.php?ID=317
Right Cub, Right Newsroom (on hiring and applying) http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=84449
Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss?Talkin' 'bout his generation: A Baby Boomer helps Gen-Y journalists understand their bosses. http://poynteronline.org/column.asp?id=34&aid=90449
Draft Picks: Ten Young Editors To Watch http://www.cjr.org/issues/2002/6/picks-cox.asp
Passion is the Payoff for Aspiring Journalists: Newcomers are dedicated, but is the industry ready for them?
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=90788