This December, I’ve counted down to Christmas by tweeting one (in one instance: four) great piece on journalism, news, or the media each day. I’ve used the hashtag #24onjournalism and hope my followers have enjoyed this little countdown nearly as much as I’ve enjoyed putting it together.
If you’re not familiar with Twitter, or you just want the full overview of the content of this Christmas calendar in collected in one place – here you go:
- C.W. Anderson, Emily Bell, and Clay Shirky: “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present” [short version]
- Rasmus Kleis Nielsen: “Is “post-industrial journalism” a U.S.-only phenomenon, or are the lessons worldwide?“
- Dean Starkman: “The Hamster Wheel“
- Ryan Chittum: “The NYT paywall plugs the hole“
- Piet Bakker: “SZ: 20 Minuten most profitable newspaper in Europe“
- Natali Helberger and Silvain de Munck: “Caution! You are now exercising editorial control! – Exploring initiatives to raise the quality of User Created News, and their legal side-effects“
- Jeff Jarvis: “Times deselected“
- Aske Kammer: “The mediatization of journalism“
- Robert G. Picard: “Changing frequency of newspaper publication is not a sign of the apocalypse“
- Nikki Usher: “American Newspapers and the Built Environment“
- Jay Rosen: ““Where’s the Business Model for News, People?”“
- Joshua Benton: “OJR: An old web icon ends up repurposed as a spamblog“, “OJR.org: An opportunity to watch a spamblog be built in real time“, “OJR.org: Google’s punishment and the perils of blackhat SEO“, and “The OJR.org saga has a happy ending, with the domain headed back to USC Annenberg“
- Roger Ebert: “The Dirty Digger“
- Emily Bell: “What Would Rupert Do?* The Lessons of a Tweeting Murdoch.“
- Walter Lippmann: “Public Opinion” [new link: the one I tweeted seems to have been taken down]
- C.W. Anderson: “What’s the best model for a digital news business?“
- Online Publishers Association: “Digital Content Subscription Strategies Pay Off for Publishers“
- Neil Thurman: “New measures of success extend newsprint’s shelf life“
- Mark Coddington: “Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver: The limits of journalistic knowledge”
- Dave Weigel: “If You Want Reporters to Check Stories Before They Publish, You’re a Hater“
- Lauren Indvik: “Inside ‘The Atlantic’: How One Magazine Got Profitable by Going ‘Digital First’“
- Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink: “The Algorithm Method“
- Megan Garber: “Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry“
- Buzz Bissinger: “Shattered Glass“
Happy Holidays.