DO YOUR E-HOMEWORK

Prof. Sree Sreenivasan of Columbia Journalism School shares his reading list for his students - a shortcut of need-to-know concepts, people, daily must-reads and more: The Changing Media Landscape

MUSIC COPYRIGHT FEES TO GO UP, UP, UP?

Via Freepress.net: “All ‘webcasters,’ nonprofit and for-profit, small and large, face a massive hike in the royalties they pay every time they play a song.”

Yikes - this could impact alts’ ability to offer music on their sites. If you’re interested, FreePress.net has a petition to sign to stop the rate hikes.

GET A FREE BOOK, MAYBE LEARN SOMETHING

“News, Improved: How America’s Newsrooms are Learning to Change” is the title of a new book by Michele McLellan and Tim Porter. A free copy is available to folks who take a survey at NewsU.org, Poynter’s interactive learning portal.

OREGONIAN POSTS THEIR PICTURES TO FLICKR

As reported by JoeThinks.com, Oregon’s daily is posting their staff images to their Flickr account - along with a link to the story in question. It’s a novel idea to drive traffic from the active Flickr community.
Steal this idea, but do it better…

• Be an active part of the Flickr community. Create contacts for your paper’s account - most of the time, those folks will add you as a contact too.
• Share your images with multiple groups on Flickr - people browsing group content will see your pictures, increasing the click-thru opportunities to your site.

[via Journerdism.com]

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There’s a Junior Boys concert on my website. It’s full length with awesome video quality, and it’s free. And it could be on your website, courtesty of Dutch website FabChannel.com.

Unlike music footage on YouTube - currently under attack by Viacom for copyright infringement - these concerts are cleared to use legally on your site.

CEO Justin Kniest said via email:

“We have cleared the rights of all our concerts with the labels and artists so you can post them on the sites of your papers. In fact the artists would love that because these days they can use all the publicity they can get.”

Neat, huh? Get to copying and pasting!

NERD TIP: For technical advice on embedding FabChannel content in Wordpress and MySpace, read this FAQ.