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[Update: some of the links that were cited below are now dead and so I have removed them] Melissa Whitworth explains what happened here. It seems that her editors at the Telegraph made an error. You may recall my post on Friday about the dire fate faced by traditional newspapers, and the pressure they’re coming under Douglas Fisher, who has helped set up the online community newspaper Hartsville Today over the last year, has published a 75-page guide (PDF File) to citizen journalism and running a community paper online. It’s well worth a read. Perhaps of especial interest is what he says about training for these new journalists: Other sites have done The Economist has a special report about the dire troubles print newspapers are getting into thanks to competition from online sources. Even when papers try to compensate for this by producing the entire content from the print edition on the internet, online readers are still worth less than purchasers of the print edition because (a) A-list bloggers are spurning the traditional media interview, says Steve Rubel. Instead of the normal procedure (reporter asks the questions, you answer them and then the reporter goes and writes it all up), the move is towards written responses. Apparently, Mark Cuban will only do email. Dave Winer answers interview questions on his blog. Updated statistics. Following the Bivings Group report into US newspapers’ adoption of Web 2.0 approaches such as blogging and podcasts, which I wrote about here, BBC English Regions Community Producer Robin Hamman has compiled a similar survey for the top eleven UK dailies. The results are as follows (click for bigger): Mark Glaser offers a great summary of a new report about the online offerings of America’s top 100 newspapers produced by the Bivings Group, a Washington PR company. The full report is available for download here (PDF file) and offers an insight into the ways the papers have, and haven’t, embraced Web 2.0 technologies. Rather than |             | |||
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