5Across: Beyond Content Farms
5Across is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.What are conte...
Don’t Blame the Content Farms
From a business perspective, traditional journalism is rather inefficient.Stories are chosen by a small group whose members often have similar experiences and outlooks. With little knowledge of true market demand, they assign the sto...
4 Minute Roundup: The Problem with Content Farms
4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.In this week's 4MR...
Writers Talk About Working the Hyper-Local Beat
In my first article for our special Beyond Content Farms series, I examined the opportunities available to writers at some of the biggest content farms. Today, I look at jobs covering hyper-local news.What hyper-local news organization...
How Content Farms Train Their Writers to Write for the Web
Education content on MediaShift is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.New...
Writers Explain What It’s Like Toiling on the Content Farm
"We are going to be the largest net hirer of journalists in the world next year," AOL's media and studios division president David Eun said last month in an interview with Michael Learmonth of Ad Age. Eun suggested that AOL could double ......
AOL Patch and MainStreetConnect Expand Hyper-Local News
It's difficult for media people to search any job site these days without running into an ad for AOL's Patch. It seems equally difficult to read media news sites without finding a feature story about Connecticut's MainStreetConnect. Main...
Your Guide to Next Generation ‘Content Farms’
From time to time, we provide an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. We've previously covered Twitte...
