Neil Sanderson

The promotional video [above] gives the flavour of this new news organization which launched this morning, while Martin Langeveld at Nieman Journalism Lab explores the Texas Tribune website.

Founder and chairman John Thornton writes about the Tribune’s mission and the reasons for its nonprofit approach.

Part 1: About the net generation

Part 2: About social media and the press

Stephen Fry on Twitter

If you know some basic HTML, you should find this fairly easy to follow.

Click within the player to advance the presentation.

Thanks to Stuart Myles.

If you’ve ever wondered how to help your news stories rank higher in Google News, this video offers some ideas.

Things like: using large images, not breaking up story text or running stories onto multiple pages, providing Google-friendly URLs and making sure you have a site map.

It all sounds good, but even Google’s clever programming can turn up some strange results.

In introducing the video, futurist Gerd Leonhard writes on his blog:

…this is mostly about media and the future of content: distribution is no longer the core business for media companies. Why open licensing platforms are so important. The move from selling copies to selling access - how will that be monetized? How will content be curated, recommended and then… monetized by the Creators?

Details at the Online News Association website.

Highlights of the projects presented during June’s Future of News and Civic Media conference at MIT.

College media service provider CoPress provides this snappy summary of how to turn a newspaper newsroom 180 degrees, to be “web-centric”.

Humour from the Onion

Jon Friedman of the Wall Street Journal interviews Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, who says the future of online journalism is social, linked, and free.