‘All the News that Fits in Your Pocket’ soon will be on handheld devices

Pixel Mags, the sole creator of the HhJ, or “All the News that Fits in Your Pocket,” book app, will release the preview chapter soon. Look for the complete book this fall.

Book description: Newspapers today are dying. In fact, the death rattle of all print media distinctly is audible as newsrooms quickly are turning into funeral homes. Journalism is morphing from a brick and mortar environment to a handheld phenomenon. Netbooks, PDAs and cell phones are where all major stories are breaking. The news business is trying quickly to catch up in a field where the last major paradigm shift was the PC/Internet revolution. Now, with iPhones, BlackBerry devices, digital cameras, video devices and Web sites at the touch of a button, anyone can break a story and distribute it worldwide with a cell phone.

News outlets should look to adopt a more local ‘CitizenTube’

YouTube announced Monday that it will test a news feed called CitizenTube for professional and citizen journalists. Its goal, according to Mashable, is “to highlight newsworthy videos uploaded by amateur videographers as well as professional news outlets.” —Read More

New iPhone a giant asteroid strike for broadsheets

Holy hell. If news outlets ever thought that handheld devices would not save them, they were wrong. —Read More

News execs need to take ‘new media’ risks

We’ve been told since we were young that in order to succeed, you have to take risks. Unfortunately, it seems some news execs missed that life lesson. —Read More

All about the Benjamins

The Journal Register Co. has completed an undertaking known as The Ben Franklin Project. The experiment, developed by John Paton, was to find only free ways to produce two newspapers online and in print with the credo being, “Digital First, Print Last.” —Read More

Study: Old media soon to be extinct

Old media is just that—old. I think it’s best described by Alan Mutter, who calls himself a “Newsosaur.” Television and newspapers will soon join Mutter in extinction. This extinction keeps getting closer, it seems, as more studies reveal the changing trends in how people get their news. As such, the only way for traditional outlets to thrive is they, unlike the dinosaurs, have to survive the giant meteor of new media. —Read More

Bloggers: No need for press passes

There’s no question that the rise of “new media” and handheld journalism has created an incredibly overlooked debate of journalist versus blogger. —Read More

If news outlets prevent comments, they kill interaction, lose readers

I heard troubling news the other day when I got word of newspapers starting to take down the comments section of their online product. —Read More

Apps are needed, but they must have a niche

The application debate in news organizations is making editors’ heads spin. It’s a dilemma, I’ll give them that—do we need an iPhone app? What about iPad? Or Droid? The answer is, without hesitation, a resounding, “Yes.” But, it cannot be rushed. —Read More

Court rules bloggers aren’t ‘real’ journalists; they just break all mainstream news

Whoa! Watch out, bloggers. The courts might not protect you if you break stories that mainstream media wishes they had. —Read More