01/21/2011

Tablet journalism: does our newest format need a new approach?

We all know that print and online journalism are two separate, and at times very different, genres, so why do many media organisations not give more thought to what constitutes effective tablet journalism?

via www.journalism.co.uk

We talked today about how iPad magazines are so far failing to meet the high expectations of a lot of people in the traditional print organisations. It may be because people haven't worked out yet how to adapt magazine journalism for tablet computers, how to develop a new way of doing journalism and telling stories for what is a new kind of medium.

21 Jan 2011 14:30:53

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