Austrailia’s Griffith University has added a Twitter component to an existing course which teaches basic news gathering and writing skills.

theblogpaper is a user-generated blog-newspaper hybrid that has recently appeared in London.

It’s no secret that we are all suffering from information overload. How much of this information we can actually process effectively is a great question, yet another point worth noting is the negative impact that recurring bad news can have on mental well-being.
Concerned with this phenomenon, a group of young entrepreneurs in Brazil decided to follow the steps of GNN (Good News Network) and many others worldwide and inject some positive vibes into the Brazilian digital news feed. And so AsBoasNovas (The Good News) came to life.
AsBoasNovas goes beyond aggregating news from other channels – it has its own news [...]

Perhaps the most ironic newspaper death in recent memory, the business-cum-media experiment Printed Blog will go the way of so many of its peers after sixteen issues, shuttering permanently. The Printed Blog’s founder, Joshua Karp, hoped that tightly-localized content provided by neighborhood bloggers would draw advertisers hoping to reach specific demographics—mimicking the (relative) success of smaller papers in the wake of the general death throes of print journalism. In the end, the hope that people would turn out to pay for a physical copy of the same content they could get online for free failed to materialize, as did any [...]

PSFK recently asked our global network of experts, The Purple List for their thoughts on the future of journalism. We received answers that imagine a variety of possible scenarios, though a common theme emerged which points to a system that combines crowd-sourcing with some kind of editorial curation and professional reporting. If you want to share your ideas about where news reporting is heading, leave your thoughts in the comments.
What is the Future of Journalism?
“I’d go with fragmented tribal media. Ground up, Wikipedia-style editing. Private philanthropy will support institutions like The New York Times, if they exist as printed media. [...]

The Czech Republic’s PPF Group is preparing to launch a series of “connected cafes” in several cities across the country next month in an attempt to link journalists both physically and digitally with their reading public. The joint ventures – part coffee shop and part newsroom – are the latest experiment in the growing field of hyperlocal journalism, a shift in thinking about newspapers that seeks to capture niche audiences through extremely specific and relevant reporting. This project aims to bring the idea of responsive coverage and community feedback into the realms of the real time.
This move away from a [...]

At PSFK Conference NYC, I had the opportunity to sit down with Edward Felsenthal, Executive Editor of The Daily Beast, to discuss his new online publication and the changes he’s seeing in the rapidly evolving world of publishing. The Daily Beast, launched in October of 2008, is a curated online news site created by Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. Felsenthal, who served as Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal prior to taking the helm at The Daily Beast, shared his insights on launching a new brand in the ever-expanding digital news [...]

In an attempt to cut costs and continue the search for a more effective business model for journalism, News Corp. announced a plan this week to create a new unit to facilitate sharing content and resources across News Corps’ different entities, including Fox News, News International and Dow Jones. According to Brand Republic:

John Moody, who was previously executive vice-president of news editorial for Fox News, will oversee the new unit and report directly to Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation chairman and chief executive.
Moody will collaborate with the news chiefs across all News Corporation editorial operations, including Sky News, Fox News and [...]

We’ve written previously about ways the blogosphere is influencing traditional journalism, but in the interest of being equal, we thought a recent piece by Anita Bruzzese noting ten lessons bloggers can learn from journalists was worth mentioning, particularly given the fact that more and more people are turning to alternative media sources to get their news and information.
We’ve extracted Bruzzese’s main points below and follow with our own explanations:

Trust – The most important relationship a writer has is with their readers and they should never underestimate or take advantage of that.
Fact vs. Opinion – The lines between the two are easily blurred [...]