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Some interesting stuff from March 21st through September 15th:

• NYU’s Jay Rosen on Rethinking J-Schools | PBS – Mark Glaser has an in-depth discussion with NYU’s Jay Rosen, who has been taking a new approach to journalism education
• Multimedia Minutes: Keeping Viewers’ Attention | Bob Kaplitz Blog – An interesting look at using youtubes insight tool to plot the ‘interesting’ parts of your video
• Playing with heat-mapping UK data on OpenHeatMap – A cracking tutorial for openheatmap from Paul Bradshaw
• What’s the law around aggregating news online? – Read this post from Nieman lab and the associated white paper and you’ll get an (US focussed) answer
• Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Magazines and Newspapers – A nice list to explore if you really want your web experience to be like your print product
• Poor Circulation: Are Newspapers Ready for Tablet’s Prime Time? – Ken Doctor ponders how newspapers can be ready for digital distribution when they can’t even get the print product to his doorstep
• Tips on embracing video and going multimedia – A look at tips on video and multimedia from the WAN-IFRA 9th International Newsroom Summit . Nothing much new but this point about multimedia was interesting – “Navigation is crucial, Wallem Fossan said, and highlighted moving through different numbered steps as a good way to get people involved. “Around 75% of users move onto the next step,”
• Meejalaw.com – media law & ethics – Judith Townend’s new site is already shaping up to be a great resource for law in a new media age.
• How brands can create a successful single purpose community – Have a clear purpose, a clear timeframe and clear guidelines. – An interesting post with some useful links
• The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation – Jay Rosen: Public Notebook – Jay adapts and expands on his Inaugural Lecture to the incoming class at Sciences Po école du journalisme in Paris. The tips are well worth looking at.
• Lessons Learned from the Crowdmap experience « Claire Wardle, PhD – A great reflection by Claire on the use of the new Ushahidicrowdmap platform. Worth a read
• Research: UK Journalism Has Cut A Third Of Its Jobs In Last Decade – After surveying trade news sites, he found 9,500 journalism job losses were reported between January 2007 and June 2009 alone. Conversely, the number of journalism university graduates has never been higher – 7,590 in 2008/09; that’s 0.60 percent of all UK graduates.
• The NCE News Practice exam: resources – Good advice for those sitting the NCE’s “Anyone revising for News Practice exams – my best advice is read the links, think about how you can apply the theory to the practical, and good luck. Oh, and know your McNae’s. Nothing can beat that.”
• TBC.com could be an inspiring approach to hyperlocal news – Alison thinks that it’s “a real foray into hyperlocal journalism and could just be one of the models the rest of us in mainstream media end up emulating”
• Revenue is the only metric that matters – “I’ve seen sites post phenomenal numbers for each of those categories, and fail. There’s one metric, and only one, that truly matters in determining your websites’s commercial success.” So says Robert Niles who also has some useful insight in to the way he maximises revenue using stats.
• “Apple of My Eye” – an iPhone 4 film – Shot and edited on an iphone4 (with a lot of grip equipments as well) this films has caught everyones eye. The video has been updated with some nice behind the scenes stuff
• Interactive Chart: Where UK Newspaper Websites Get Their Traffic | paidContent – A really interesting set of stats as to where newspapers get their online hits.
• Digital Journalist Survival Guide: A Glossary of Tech Terms You Should Know – A useful list from Poynter
• New Model Journalism – Newmodeljournalism.com provides comment and analysis of the revolution that is currently sweeping the media, changing how journalism is paid for and how it is done.
• Online Video News Consumption Doubles in 12 Months, comScore – Beet TV report that “The consumption of online video news and information clips in the U.S. has doubled over the past 12 months, to 565 million video views in May, up from 277 million last May, according to comScore”
• Free Online Journalism Classes Begin To Gain Ground – An article on Mediashift that shows what happens when journalists find ‘edupunks’