Digital advertising spend conquers print, and iPhoned journos love the Police Scanner app. Today's recommended reading on media from around the web.
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Curiouser and curiouser
LA Times gives its front page over to the Mad Hatter.
Digital beats print on ad spend
Here’s the one we’ve all been waiting for - for the first time advertisers will spend more on digital than print, says Forbes, highlighting a 10 per cent rise in the digital ad spend in the US.
More Pulitzer trash talk
Barbarians at the gate: the New York Times on how the National Enquirer has lined itself up with a Pulitzer nomination.
iPhone, therefore I am
Police scanner is top iPhone app in Australia, says The Australian. Guardian is the top news application.
Pac Mags tackle e-commerce
Seven Media Group prepares to get into e-commerce through Pac Mags: “it completes the cycle of service,” says InStyle editor Kerrie McCallum.
Narrative for the big picture
News without narrative is empty, says Jay Rosen. How does the Web develop a way of providing the background to help the reader understand the full picture? Here’s one suggestion.
All things considered, NPR rocks
Vivian Schiller amps up NPR – a not-for-profit revolution based on original reporting, free access to public media content and serving audiences of all backgrounds and interests.
Narrative authority in a fragmented world
“The problem is a disconnection between the public and the news media over motive,” writes the Columbia Journalism Review’s Megan Garber.
Editor gets web commenter fired, loses readers’ trust
The death of trust: how an editor alienated his readership and risked the future of his community.
Remembering the forgotten
Putting the focus on the forgotten story – The Australian on how the Pulitzers aim to support investigative journalism.
Online investigations “unsustainable”
The truth is, investigative journalism online is unsustainable, writes Business Insider. Here's their investigative piece about Facebook.
Sub par
Magazines and their websites: a summary – 51 per cent of content on news websites is either not subbed or subbed a lot less vigorously than the print version. Online Journalism Blog analyses the findings of CJR's report on magazine websites.
