Feb 23rd, 2009
Up and away: Kitemarks
Reuters has recently released a report: “What’s Happening to Our News: An investigation into the 
likely impact of the digital revolution on the economics of news publishing in the UK”.
I’ve seen it mentioned a few places, including on Paul Bradshaw’s site in an interview about kitemarks.
My colleague and I have over the past year-and-a-half bantered about a “nonprofit newsroom” idea which would include a loose network of reporters whose works would be sent out via a “nonprofit newswire” with a kitemark. Only we were not until now familiar with this term. It’s a useful one, particularly when it includes the notion of online metadata.
Terms like this are essential because they create a language with which we can discuss the future of the industry.
Flickr photo from user jovike
[...] Kitemarks . As defined by Paul Bradshaw of the Online Journalism Blog, they are: [...]