Popular online media topics on Twitter last week include: The death of the newspaper, practical tips for social journalism and how journalists can launch their own sites.
Every week I share a lot of online media links on Twitter (follow me at @johnei) Here are the 5 links from last week that most of my followers clicked on according to statistics from the URL shortener service bit.ly:
The death of the newspaper (Mintlife)
An infographic illustrating very well the decline of the American newspaper industry.
10 practical tips for social journalism (BetaTales)
A very good slide presentation from JD Lasica, president of Socialmedia.biz, giving practical advice to how local news organizations should use social media in their journalism. The presentation includes links to a number of useful tools.
7 amazing Twitter visualizations (10.000 Words)
10.000 Words presents itself as a blog where journalism and technology meet. I recommend that you follow this blog if you are interested in new tools of journalism. It is a great place to get practical tips.
HOW TO: Launch Your Own Indie Journalism Site (Mashable)
Mashable is one of the best blogs covering social media, and they frequently also write about journalism in the web 2.0 age. This article describes how laid-off journalists can start their own site.
Enough already about charging for content: How to make the free model work (PaidContent)
James A. Pitaro, vice president of media at Yahoo, presents what he describes as a blue print for making a free content model work.
