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Examining the core of the Nieman experience: the curator explores how the foundation can best cultivate the skills journalists will need in the digital era.(Nieman Foundation)

Dec 22, 2006;

Goodbye Gutenberg.

Dec 22, 2006

Caught in the Web: 'with the Web, we could be witnessing the most important development in expressive media since the advent of writing.'.

Dec 22, 2006;

A dinosaur adapts: 'unencumbered by the need to squeeze words into a finite space, the internet proved better for me, as the writer, and I'd argue for readers, too, than newsprint.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Sensing the Change)(World Cup (Soccer) on internet)

Dec 22, 2006;

Risk-adverse newspapers won't cross the digital divide: 'newspapers lacked the external vision necessary to see the vast range of opportunities created by the Internet.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Sensing the Change)

Dec 22, 2006;

Capital crisis in the profitable newspaper industry: solving this 'will call upon levels of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship infrequently found in newspapers in recent years.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Sensing the Change)

Dec 22, 2006;

Newspapers and their quest for the Holy Grail: putting the Web first might be 'the most difficult transformation in our mindset, but we should go ahead and flip our world on its head.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Sensing the Change)

Dec 22, 2006;

Tired of waiting to move ahead: with plenty of ideas about how to move journalism into its digital time, a journalist tries to push the industry past its natural inclination to 'voice the "no ways.'".(Goodbye Gutenberg / Pushing Forward)

Dec 22, 2006;

Media convergence: 'just do it': changing people's way of thinking is key to 'the media revolution' in northern Denmark.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Pushing Forward)

Dec 22, 2006;

Navigating the road to convergence: 'being small and a family-owned company are attributes that have helped us to become a multimedia news organization.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Pushing Forward)(Journal-World)

Dec 22, 2006;

Meshing purpose with product: heeding the warning against forcing 'existing quality standards into new technology,' a journalist is cautiously optimistic about the digital future.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Pushing Forward)

Dec 22, 2006;

Community building on the web: implications for journalism: the founder of craigslist speaks about online lessons he shares with new media journalists.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Building Community)(Viewpoint essay)

Dec 22, 2006;

The challenge of community building: Knight Foundation asks whether the community role newspapers play can be replicated by new media and offers to support those who show it can.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Building Community)

Dec 22, 2006;

Why anonymity exists and works on newspapers' Web sites: 'if we require real names in print, shouldn't we do the same thing online?'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Building Community)

Dec 22, 2006;

Are journalists the 21st century's buggy whip makers? Newspapers might vanish, too, if they continue to 'dream of past dominance while taking their product and trying to fit it into their competitor's terrain.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)

Dec 22, 2006;

Looking past the rush into convergence: as technology drives big newsroom changes, what will happen to journalism?(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)

Dec 22, 2006;

We can adjust to changing demands, but should we? 'People can adapt to anything if the order comes from the person who signs the paychecks.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)

Dec 22, 2006;

Evolving definitions of news: 'journalists may have thought it was necessary to set the old school aside to accommodate the new realities, but with the new realities there is no new ethic.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)

Dec 22, 2006;

Toward a new journalism with verification: 'this journalism must recognize that the distribution, the organization, and the sources of our work must change.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)

Dec 22, 2006

Journalism and Web 2.0: 'tomorrow's potential readers are using the Web in ways we can hardly imagine, and if we want to remain significant for them, we need to understand how.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)

Dec 22, 2006; ... YouTube.com, the Web site where people freely upload and view video of all sorts, has nothing to do with journalism as we know it, but it can teach journalists a couple of things that we ought to learn. (1) It reveals how many people have broadband and provides a good sense of how many ...

Gathering voices to share with a worldwide online audience: 'global voices pulls together interesting threads of conversation and reporting from the global cacophony of blogging voices.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Expanding Our Reach)

Dec 22, 2006;

Blogging news in China: 'in China, the internet enjoys relatively greater freedom than other media. even so, three of the articles I posted on my blog vanished without notice.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Expanding Our Reach)(Viewpoint essay)

Dec 22, 2006;

Puzzling contradictions of China's internet journalism: a journalist who has worked in China says that 'the internet has strengthened the power of the central government, not undermined it.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Expanding Our Reach)

Dec 22, 2006;

Will news find a home on YouTube? With little original news reporting surfacing on this web site, 'perhaps an important lesson learned is that tools don't make a tradesman.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Expanding Our Reach)

Dec 22, 2006;

Myths and realities of convergence: '... news organizations will be best served if they focus on stories--not delivery platforms.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Converging on the Web)

Dec 22, 2006;

When walls come tumbling down: the associated press is making 'radical adjustments' to its news reports and business strategies in response to the Web.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Converging on the Web)(Company overview)

Dec 22, 2006; ... Ten years ago this October, The Associated Press (AP) launched its first multimedia service for the Internet. Appropriately, it was called "The Wire," and it quickly enabled hundreds of AP affiliate newspapers and broadcasters to display breaking news on the Web in a format that linked ...

Enterprising journalism in a multimedia world: with video, audio and interactive data, the associated press makes its investigative reporting accessible, useful to other news outlets, and compelling to its consumers.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Converging on the Web)

Dec 22, 2006; ... When people first see the title on my new letterhead--Director, Multimedia Investigative Reporting--they often greet me with a blank stare or funny smirk. "What? Were all the good jobs already taken?" my brother joked during his recent visit to the Washington, D.C. bureau of The Associated ...

Confronting the dual challenge of print and electronic news: 'to make best use of both editions, we need to be increasingly disciplined about what goes where.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Converging on the Web)

Dec 22, 2006;

Feeding the Web while reporting the story: at the New York times, multimedia storytelling is becoming more a part of the journalism and less of an afterthought.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Converging on the Web)

Dec 22, 2006;

Taking the big gulp: 'the web is its own medium with its own characteristics. it is not newspapers. It is not TV news. It is not radio.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connections)

Dec 22, 2006;

Sights and sounds of a newspaper's editorials: an editorial page editor describes 'a wide-open, creative new world for journalists who want to make use of new media and relate to newspaper readers in new ways.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connections)

Dec 22, 2006;

An optimistic plunge into multimedia reporting: 'one columnist took on a controversial local issue and covered it in a way we'd never done before.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connections)(Colleen Cason )

Dec 22, 2006;

Narrative journalism in the era of the Web: 'once the idea of using footnotes took hold, the question became whether we could use them for more than their usual purpose of attribution....'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connections)

Dec 22, 2006;