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Can news sites get their slice of the advertising pie?

6 Sites that are changing the way you follow the news

Projecto i – começa a ter espaço físico

La radio annonce, la télé illustre, le journal met en perspective… et le web ?

Solutions to newsroom troubles

Frase a reter:

This insistent and ancient belief that truth is not earned, but inspired, revealed, supplied gratis, comes out very plainly in our economic prejudices as readers of newspapers. We expect the newspaper to serve us with truth however unprofitable the truth may be. For this difficult and often dangerous service, which we recognize as fundamental, we expected to pay until recently the smallest coin turned out by the mint. We have accustomed ourselves now to paying two and even three cents on weekdays, and on Sundays, for an illustrated encyclopedia and vaudeville entertainment attached, we have screwed ourselves up to paying a nickel or even a dime. Nobody thinks for a moment that he ought to pay for his newspaper. He expects the fountains of truth to bubble, but he enters into no contract, legal or moral, involving any risk, cost or trouble to himself. He will pay a nominal price when it suits him, will stop paying whenever it suits him, will turn to another paper when! that suits him. Somebody has said quite aptly that the newspaper editor has to be re-elected every day. This casual and one-sided relationship between readers and press is an anomaly of our civilization.

(Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, Chapter XXI, 1922)
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O desastre de ontem no rio Hudson, em Nova Iorque, terá proporcionado mais uma – talvez a mais significativa até ao momento – ‘cacha’ ao Twitter (e produtos relacionados).
A primeira foto da operação de salvamento foi tirada e publicada no TwitPic por Janis Krums (que seguia num dos ferry que, naquele momento, estava a atravessar o rio e foi em auxílio dos passageiros do avião).

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A repercussão desse acto foi tal que Krums passou do anonimato a figura de ‘prime-time’, como ele próprio fez questão de anunciar há algumas horas no seu Twitter…
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Valerá a pena verificar também o Flickr – escrevendo ‘hudson crash‘ conseguimos aceder a mais de mil fotos, entre elas aquela que terá sido, de facto, a primeira a ser tirada, da autoria de Gregory Lam.

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Para situações deste tipo, a rede e os seus mecanismos de publicação social são cada vez mais ‘os lugares’.

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