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@ianhillmedia

Ian Hill is an online communications professional with more than a decade of experience in journalism. He also has worked as a web content producer and he was the founder of one of the newspaper industry's most innovative projects. He writes about his projects and inspiration while offering his perspective on the media industry.

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Greetings Tumblr! Who should I follow for journalism, social media and tech news?

#social journalism #journalism #tech press #follow #social media #twitter #business #facebook

johnborthwick

We must preserve what the writer Salman Rushdie has called people’s “right to tell their own story in any way they wish.” The right to live freely, to read anything, to express oneself, trumps the right not to be offended.

Flemming Rose, Sony Caved to Terror. No One Else Should.

(via johnborthwick)

#journalism #journalists

"Media tends to have a much shorter shelf life than informational content. The main defensible asset for last decade’s publishers was the repository of content they accumulated. The defensible asset for media publishers is the machine – the combination of people, technology, practices, financial and other assets – that produces a constant flow content."

#internet #socmedia #journalism #scojournalism #social media #google #facebook

If you want to complain about dumb memes or clickbait or other apparent instances of socially sanctioned vapidity, blame America: We started it, not the Internet.

#internet #internet culture #online culture #digital culture #clikbait #journalism

courtenaybird

Digital listeners [are those who] browse and absorb social feeds without creating content of their own. ‘Really they’re just sitting there assembling experiences vicariously. When you are bombarded with images from all the people you’ve ever known and people you’ll never meet, the sense of your own experience inevitably becomes more diluted.’

Are These the 12 Types of Millennials? (via courtenaybird)

"...as my friend Om has argued, they are competing with anything that captures a reader's attention. And I would argue that they are competing with any service that fills an information need."

#journalism #tech

infoneer-pulse

"The technical error was introduced on March 2, 2014, and was generally imperceptible until we saw high viewing levels associated with fall season premiere week," a statement from Nielsen reads. Thus, it’s unlikely that the shifts in the ratings will be major. What’s important is that this kind of mistake calls into question Nielsen’s methods.

Nielsen admits its past six months of TV ratings are wrong - Vox (via infoneer-pulse)