Annenberg School's Online Journalism Review sinks

• On the demise of the Annenberg School's Online Journalism Review, ojr.org

"The problem for OJR is a common one in the online world: It faces more competition from sites such as Poynter, PaidContent and even CJR as it covers more online journalism. Even the term “online journalism” loses its niche status when every type of journalism ends up having an online element and convergence happens. The saddest part of the OJR story is that it was a site ahead of its time, focused on one of the most transformative events in the history of journalism — and yet, it lost the institutional backing of the university that housed it."...

• via Poynter.org/Romenesko, 7/10/08

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