Matti Posio is responsible for producing and editing two Sunday magazines, supplements to the celebrated Tampere-based daily Aamulehti (literally, 'The Morning Paper'). During his 2010 InJo Fellowship he is hosted by the Hearst Newspapers' Washington D.C. Bureau.
In 2006 Matti helped create and launch the Finnish paper's twin Sunday magazines that represent an innovation in the field of newspaper journalism. They aim to widen a traditional newspaper’s footprint and repertoire in two sometimes overlapping, sometimes contradictory directions. One -Asiat(Matters)- delves into news and background articles with features, columns and straight talk with decision-makers. The other -Ihmiset (People)- offers human-interest stories about various personalities, from the next-door neighbor to the stars. The magazines have an estimated 280,000 regular readers, Aamulehti’s weekend circulation being 140,000 in a country of little over five million.
During his fellowship in the United States, Matti has focused on innovation issues such as social media mindset, technology's impact on people, society and journalism. In his view, the set of values that we know as journalism is even more valid and crucially important now, with the internet slowly taking over from paper. He says Google and Facebook, paradoxically, are the two biggest gamechangers for journalism at the moment, and that's why journalists need to study them carefully.
Matti has a wide range of newsroom experience. During his two decades in professional journalism Matti has worked in the Culture, Media and International News sections of Aamulehti and its web service. His area of special expertise as a reporter and analyst for ten years was Russia and the Former Soviet Union. In 1999-2001 he served in Moscow as a correspondent for Aamulehti and the Finnish economic and business daily Kauppalehti, working together with the Baltic News Service's Moscow bureau.
He is a graduate of Tampere University with Journalism and mass communication, International politics and Linguistics as main subjects. Matti also has an authorized translator’s degree in Russian. In addition to Finnish, English and Russian he is fluent in the German, Swedish and Estonian languages.
His personal interests include literature, sports and radio documentaries.
Here you will find links to Aamulehti and the Sunday magazines:
www.aamulehti.fi
www.aamulehti.fi/sunnuntai
Matti on LinkedIn: http://fi.linkedin.com/in/mattiposio
Matti on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mattiposio
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tiistai 18. toukokuuta 2010
perjantai 12. maaliskuuta 2010
Celeb Journalism Apps Get ‘Thumbs-up’ Across The World
Want the newest iPhone apps, from the Astros to Angelina Jolie?
The following report was written by Matti Posio, who covers innovation issues in the Washington bureau.
Dozens of new iPhone applications that aggregate highly reliable content about popular topics were announced this morning by LMK, a Hearst digital service.
The new kind of applications called LMK (short for "Let Me Know") deliver content to subscribers on a wide variety of topics, from sources hand-picked by a pool of "expert editors." Among the sources are official media, such as the Washington Post and the New York Times, but also a selection of the most authoritative blogs and fan pages specializing on the app's subject.
Even before official release for sale early on Friday, the apps had been discovered in more than 30 countries by hundreds of iPhone and iPod Touch users who had searched the most popular keywords in the Web's Apple Store during the last 48 hours.
It's not surprising that word of mouth and keyword searches have worked wonders, as the applications aggregate facts, pictures, stories and links about the most discussed celebrities, such as Lady Gaga, Angelina Jolie, Tiger Woods, the Houston Astros (also the New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants ... you name it).
The first "passion applications" include cupcakes and Barbie, but may be expanded to include politics and lifestyle or health topics.
The idea behind the launch, says Michael Gutkowski, president of LMK, is to enable consumers to break through the clutter of Internet searches.
"We want to deliver only the most trustworthy information to consumers who can get what they want, wherever they want it," he said.
Gutkowski said the applications are driving user traffic to the original website instead of simply quoting its contents. Google earlier used a similar method to aggregate headlines but led users away from media-company websites, causing an outcry from journalists and publishers.
As people have started more and more to surf the Web while on the go, Hearst has also shifted LMK's strategy from offering website-based solutions to apps created for mobile devices. For now, 66 applications are available, at less than $2 each, but the company plans to introduce thousands more.
Hearst Entertainment & Syndication plans to expand the aggregating service to other mobile platforms such as Google's Android phones, or hand-held devices including the various e-Readers or Apple's iPad, expected to reach customers in April.
Published online at the Houston Chronicle / Texas on the Potomac
http://bit.ly/bpcF0A
The following report was written by Matti Posio, who covers innovation issues in the Washington bureau.
Dozens of new iPhone applications that aggregate highly reliable content about popular topics were announced this morning by LMK, a Hearst digital service.
The new kind of applications called LMK (short for "Let Me Know") deliver content to subscribers on a wide variety of topics, from sources hand-picked by a pool of "expert editors." Among the sources are official media, such as the Washington Post and the New York Times, but also a selection of the most authoritative blogs and fan pages specializing on the app's subject.
Even before official release for sale early on Friday, the apps had been discovered in more than 30 countries by hundreds of iPhone and iPod Touch users who had searched the most popular keywords in the Web's Apple Store during the last 48 hours.
It's not surprising that word of mouth and keyword searches have worked wonders, as the applications aggregate facts, pictures, stories and links about the most discussed celebrities, such as Lady Gaga, Angelina Jolie, Tiger Woods, the Houston Astros (also the New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants ... you name it).
The first "passion applications" include cupcakes and Barbie, but may be expanded to include politics and lifestyle or health topics.
The idea behind the launch, says Michael Gutkowski, president of LMK, is to enable consumers to break through the clutter of Internet searches.
"We want to deliver only the most trustworthy information to consumers who can get what they want, wherever they want it," he said.
Gutkowski said the applications are driving user traffic to the original website instead of simply quoting its contents. Google earlier used a similar method to aggregate headlines but led users away from media-company websites, causing an outcry from journalists and publishers.
As people have started more and more to surf the Web while on the go, Hearst has also shifted LMK's strategy from offering website-based solutions to apps created for mobile devices. For now, 66 applications are available, at less than $2 each, but the company plans to introduce thousands more.
Hearst Entertainment & Syndication plans to expand the aggregating service to other mobile platforms such as Google's Android phones, or hand-held devices including the various e-Readers or Apple's iPad, expected to reach customers in April.
Published online at the Houston Chronicle / Texas on the Potomac
http://bit.ly/bpcF0A
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