The Carnival of Journalism must go on!

Hey everyone! We had some casualties this month, but The March Carnival of Journalism must go on! (Updates will be posted as they come in)

DIGIDAVE: Re-Thinking the Inverted Pyramid and Other Artifacts of Newsroom Culture
“My point is simple to take a step back - realize we are ingrained in a culture that was defined a long time ago - and systematically unpack everything we do. From how we contact sources (phone and email versus Facebook or Twitter) to how we see as our final goal (to inform versus to enable).”

ONLINE JOURNALISM BLOG : What is a publisher’s “duty of care” to bloggers?
“Do you have a formal duty of care or contract drawn up with bloggers? When a blog post goes viral like this, what procedures are put into place (e.g. increased monitoring of comments, informing or discussing with the blogger, dealing with comments off-site etc.)? What would your advice be to bloggers caught up in a similar situation? What would your advice be to publishers?”

MY MUSINGS 2.0: The first rule of blogging for journalists (and everyone else)
“Dead blogs are ignored by the community. Once you stop posting for a few days, your readership declines. People stop cruisng by. If you stop posting for a few weeks, you’re in trouble. And, if you stop posting for months, forget about it. Your blog is just another hunk of dead weight on the outskirts of cyberspace. ”

RANDOM MUMBLINGS: That New Coke moment
“The ability of a company in the midst of a downturn or tightening financial conditions to invest in innovation and emerging opportunities is so counterintuitive that it takes guts not consensus.”

COMMON SENSE JOURNALISM: “Maybe they missed the session on anonymous sources?”
“Don’t give me the “balance” argument — that’s he said-she said journalism. Doing so anonymously lets the scoundrels off the hook. (And besides, Kang essentially parroted the funding stuff in the next graf, though pointing out that its lobbying budget is far less than the budgets of its opponents.)”

VIEWS ON THE NEWS BIZ: Selling public enlightenment - the lessons of sport
“A few things hamstring any attempts at reforming old-fashioned democracies:
1. Not enough people seem to be interested in expending effort on the process.
2. An undemocratic international order based on states.
3. Are we sure we want a participatory democracy?
Journalism isn’t on the list. Sorry.”

REPORTR.NET: The problems with repurposing journalism
“This fails to recognise that the the Internet is not print, it is not radio, it is not TV. It share some attributes with print and broadcast, but is a medium in its own right, with its own strengths and weaknesses. This requires a shift in how journalists have approached stories, adopting a multimedia mindset from the get go.”

SCRIBBLESHEET: News is Cheap
“The business behind selling news is not a good business to be in. Now this is not exactly news flash material but many people seem to think this is simply a newspaper/magazine print issue. Its not. Blogs, newsites and any online destination that only and simply produces news is in trouble. Why? Because news is ubiquitous. I can probably go through the whole year choosing a new news source each day without much of a problem. The only thing that would attract me to a news site is exclusivity and speed.”

INNOVATION IN COLLEGE MEDIA: Unanticipated opportunities for college media in the 2008 election cycle
“The point being: make the most of the [campaign] season to add to your multimedia toolkit on an important story. Take advantage of this unanticipated opportunity to cover a primary campaign that still isn’t decided.”

CHARLIE BECKETT: Learning how the social can compete with commercial online
“The Internet is a totally competitive market. Blogs that are dull or inaccurate or irrelevant won’t get an audience. People who lie get found out. Good ideas like Facebook spread like wildfire while flawed ideas like the BBC’s I-Can project die. ”

jBLOG: Adrian Monck speaks at Cambridge WordFest ‘08
“No wonder blogs have taken off so well. No fool would have a blog consisting of wire copy. There would be no point. So this means when you read a blog you know you are getting something unique. You’re not going to read it anywhere else, and there’s a great satisfaction in that.”

GRAPHIC DESIGNR: How do you get your news?
“But newspapers don’t want to change to formats that I do use. For too many of them, the Web is still just a place to throw yesterday’s A1 story. That’s not enough; I want more. I want video and audio and photos and PDFs of the documents you’re talking about — or at least transcripts.”

JOURNALISM ICONOCLAST: Journalism students need to know marketing
“Gone are the old, outdated concepts that journalists only produce content. New media companies like Engadget and Tech Crunch have been popping up. It’s not just the content that sells those sites, but rather it’s the ability of their founders to understand business and marketing — along with content — that has helped make those sites a success.”