wendy norris' notebook
investigative reporter | media rabblerouser | news entrepreneur
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How to: Open government reporting tips
Fresh from the Sunlight Foundation's Transparency...
May, 6 2011 • 1 Comment • 0 Faves
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Knight, Mozilla launch news innovation challenge
How can you not love a meeting that starts with: "There's the pizza, beer and colored markers, go for it." Mozilla's News Technology Program Manager Nathaniel James opened the April 26 Bay Area Hacks & Hackers Meetup with the world debut of the Knight-Mozilla News Innovation Challenge. The short story from the website: [The] partnership is a three-year initiative of the Knight Foundation and Mozilla to harness open-web innovation for journalism. Through a series of innovation challenges and community events...
April, 27 2011 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Pick news profits over public good? Lose financial perks
"The first responsibility [of a news company] is...
March, 4 2011 • 1 Comment • 0 Faves
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So Gaddafi is your CTO?
For anyone who is launching their own website may I recommend Allyson Kapin's cautionary tale on wisely choosing URL shorteners and domains: Blind(ly) heading towards disaster.The hot option lately is to use the .ly domain to create cutesy web addresses like bit.ly, yumm.ly and graphic.ly. Unfortunately, the country code .ly is controlled by the Libyan government. As we've seen during the protests in Egypt, governments can and will shut down Internet service to quash dissent. Imagine having your website or...
February, 18 2011 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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The truth about women in politics
Ouch. XtraNormal skewers the gender inequity of panel presentations just in time for our mailboxes to be crammed with annual conference invitations. Video after the jump. How does your industry stack up on panel diversity on gender, race, age, etc.?
January, 26 2011 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Inspiration: From solving world problems to hawking coupons
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason sums up his entrepreneurial...
January, 22 2011 • 1 Comment • 1 Faves
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Memo to News Corp: It's a Read-Write-Execute world
Plowing $30 million into an iPad-only subscription newspaper could be a brilliant innovation or fool's errand. Rupert Murdoch, our nation's lonely eyes turn to you. Yet, the global media gargantuan's highly anticipated launch of The Daily later this month is belied by 20 years of spectacularly poor judgment in its approach to online products and acquisitions by News Corp, as this Mediaweek inforgraphic explains: The stealthy app has yet to be previewed. However, according to New York Times media critic...
January, 8 2011 • 1 Comment • 0 Faves
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The news industry suffers Stockholm Syndrome
An interesting and provocative post by@alexknowshtml in response to the invite-only NewsFoo camp: crisis is a great a business model until it happens to your business. News organizations seem to have designed their operations – and relatively, their business models – around crisis. It makes some sense, if you think about it, given the types of events and experiences that journalism historically has shown its most value. I think that the problem with this is that the only reason that some of these news...
December, 16 2010 • 1 Comment • 0 Faves
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TSA goes wild
Laugh it up, patriots.
Via: Criminal Justice Degree...November, 22 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Wendy is an award-winning journalist, editor and veteran of three online news startups.
