Today’s links 03/05/2012

• Numbers show that newspapers are indeed doing more with less | Poynter.

  • The decline in newspaper editorial employment, however, doesn’t signal an overall decrease in journalism-related employment. In 2010, Michael Mandel used Bureau of Labor Statistics figures to show that the number of “news analysts, reporters, and correspondents” had rebounded after dropping.

     

    I think his conclusions are still relevant:

     

    • The hiring is happening in nontraditional industries.
    • More journalists are self-employed.
    • Strong employment figures don’t mean that these people aren’t being asked to work longer or accept lower pay.

• The hyperlocal blogger’s dilemma. A reader asks you to delete a post. My response. « Cwmbran Life

  tags: blog blogging hyperlocal deletion noticeboard

  • It was simply a noticeboard that had not been touched for a year. Noticeboards are a pain as someone has to go out of their way and pin new things to them.

• The Search for a New Business Model | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)

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  • The study involved 38 newspapers from six different companies providing highly granular data about their digital revenue and sales efforts-creating a robust series of case studies. The data sought were developed in consultation with the partnering newspaper companies after site visits and interviews with multiple executives. After collecting the data, researchers conducted follow-up interviews to confirm whether the findings reflected broader company performance. Those findings, in turn, were shared with executives from seven more companies to test how widely they could be generalized. All data was provided on the basis that it would be anonymous. 

     

     This multi-faceted approach allowed researchers to draw broad conclusions and identify specific case studies, which reveal more than can be discerned from public industry data. The research approach also yielded a high level of candor in discussions with executives. 

  • • Of the papers sharing private data, advertising on mobile devices accounted for only 1% of the digital revenue in 2011. Executives are generally excited by the prospects of mobile, but for now it accounts for a tiny amount of revenue. Executives also believe that due to its ubiquity in the market, the phone ultimately could be more important to mobile revenue than tablets, a sign perhaps of some growing uncertainty about the ability to charge for apps, though some executives are already skeptical about how much money newspapers can make with smartphones.

• MMU launches Manchester Time Machine | News & Events | Manchester Metropolitan University

  tags: AR app manchester time machine university

  • Using footage from the university’s film archive, this moving window through time shows historical events such as bombings in 1940 and VE day across the city along with glimpses of the buildings, the people and transport of a bygone age.

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