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Future. University. Privacy. Map. Bind user to category. Plan It -- Newspaper in a Box. 19 Qs and As from ASNE’s story comment webinar | STL Social Medi. A News Literacy Guide from NewsTrust.net - Crap Detection 101 - "Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. " —Ernest Hemingway, 1954 The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge — the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part — the part a machine can do.
The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point, it's up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo, disinfo, spam, scams, urban legends, and hoaxes. "Crap detection," as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: "spamming. " The first thing we all need to know about information online is how to detect crap, a technical term I use for information tainted by ignorance, inept communication, or deliberate deception.
Today, just as it was back then, "Who is the author? " Resources: Think Like A Journalist - A News Literacy Guide from NewsTrust.n. NewsTrust was created to promote quality journalism in the Internet age, a formidable task as millions of news-related posts, blogs and sites are created each day. How do we make sense of all this digital noise? NewsTrust knows how. We have assembled a network of the most talented journalists, educators, scholars and informed users who submit articles, opinion, news and more to our site, to enlighten you on current events that affect your personal and professional world.
You, too, can participate in our collective news evaluation. NewsTrust invites members like you to review submitted stories and rate them according to journalism standards and principles. Together, we look for the best news coverage on the Web, often according to a theme that builds awareness on long-term topics (health, war, economy, education, government, etc.); this community project also immerses our members in the news process and helps each of us develop our news literacy skills. 1. 1. 2. 3. Let’s define these terms: What does a mobile journalist need? In my MA Online Journalism session this week I’ll be looking at mobile journalism.
As part of that, below I’ve compiled 4 lists of things I think a mobile journalist needs: hardware, software, systems, and mindset. I’d welcome anything you can add to this. In the spirit of mobile journalism, I will also be streamed the session live on Bambuser from 9am UK time on Thursday, for around 45 mins – if you can join us online and chip in, please do.
I’ve embedded the player below (skip past it for the lists of things a mojo needs). A note from the comments Some comments rightfully point out that this list is potentially terrifying. Mobile journalism – hardware Smartphone with camera, video, audio, unlimited data planDigital camcorder, e.g. Mobile journalism – the software Apps for your phone and services you can email or text to. Mobile journalism – the systems Email must be set up – more than one account as backup (Google Mail occasionally goes down)Useful phone no.s, e.g. Like this: Reconstruction of American Journalism | Newswire | Publish2. The Reconstruction of American Journalism. For reactions to this report, click here. American journalism is at a transformational moment, in which the era of dominant newspapers and influential network news divisions is rapidly giving way to one in which the gathering and distribution of news is more widely dispersed.
As almost everyone knows, the economic foundation of the nation’s newspapers, long supported by advertising, is collapsing, and newspapers themselves, which have been the country’s chief source of independent reporting, are shrinking—literally. Fewer journalists are reporting less news in fewer pages, and the hegemony that near-monopoly metropolitan newspapers enjoyed during the last third of the twentieth century, even as their primary audience eroded, is ending.
Commercial television news, which was long the chief rival of printed newspapers, has also been losing its audience, its advertising revenue, and its reporting resources. Some answers are already emerging. The concept of news also was changing. The People Formerly Known as the Audience. June 27, 2006 The People Formerly Known as the Audience That's what I call them. Recently I received this statement. The people formerly known as the audience wish to inform media people of our existence, and of a shift in power that goes with the platform shift you’ve all heard about. Think of passengers on your ship who got a boat of their own. Now we understand that met with ringing statements like these many media people want to cry out in the name of reason herself: If all would speak who shall be left to listen? The people formerly known as the audience do not believe this problem—too many speakers! The people formerly known as the audience are those who were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened in isolation from one another— and who today are not in a situation like that at all.
The “former audience” is Dan Gillmor’s term for us. Creating a Web-centric newsroom | CoPress. Now that we’ve shared a few our our ideas, let’s see yours! With the above video in mind, put the information into action. In the upcoming weeks: Week 1: Plan a brainstorming session. It can be in your newsroom or on a camping trip or at an editor’s house. Make it fun and have lots of food. Make a list of all of the best ideas for how you can better implement the Web in your newsroom. Specifically, figure out how to (1) Start a Web-first workflow for all articles to be posted in a 24-hour news cycle, and (2) Generate Web-specific content like videos, slideshows and Twitter/Facebook/SMS updates.
Week 2: Help every editor and reporter set up Google alerts for their section or beat as well as create a Twitter account to reach out to readers. If you already have a Twitter account, this can be the week when you set up a system for publishing your editorial calendar for public feedback. Weeks 3-6: Get out of the habit of updating your site once a day after the newspaper is printing. InfoValet on USTREAM: Live coverage of "From Gatekeepers to. Watch without ads Ustream © Search Log in / Sign up With Facebook (faster) Log in or sign up with Facebook See what your friends like and watch, get awesome recommendations Instant login, no passwords or With email or username Forgot your password? Don’t have an account?
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Cancel or Remove ads Create Highlight InfoValet Technology - Conference 20 followers 2,303 views Follow Following Unfollow Live coverage of "From Gatekeepers to InfoValets: Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism," May 27, 2009 at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Viva la journalism revolution | The Pop!Tech Blog | Accelerating. The three primary roles your local website should play | yelving. Here's an image I've been using a lot lately, both for internal training and external presentations such as last week's BPB Forum Lokaljournalismus in Schwerin, Germany. Journalists tend to gravitate to only one of these roles: the town crier, the quaint colonial-era village character who walks around ringing a bell telling you what's happening. It comes naturally. This is why 24x7 coverage teams and the "continuous news desk" concept take root so quickly when newsrooms suddenly awaken to the urgency of taking the Internet seriously.
But the other roles aren't secondary. They're coequal, and they're grossly neglected by most local news websites. Moreover, they consistently surface in qualitative research as poorly met needs. The language people use is a little different, but recognizable: "Help me connect with people. " The guys from Harvard will tell you that a poorly met need is a business opportunity -- but you shouldn't need an MBA from HBS to tell you that. News is not enough. The Next Newsroom Project - Building the ideal newsroom for the. Media Convergence in a College Newsroom: Turning reporters into curators to improve journalism — Zero Per. A conversation started this week by Scott Karp and carried forward by Terry Heaton has me thinking about why news organizations are so skittish about linking out from their web sites.
It’s as if they think that creating a cul de sac will make readers forget they’ve got a Back button on the browser. And when you layer that conversation onto Chris Anderson’s pith about amateurs noted below, you come to one of my favorite topics: journalists as curators. It’s simple: Journalists need to stop thinking exclusively like content creators and start acting also as content curators. Even today, years after the arrival of the social web, the internet might as well not exist to most news organizations, except as a broadcast medium for a one-way conversation.
But what if we took a step back and acknowledged that, in 2008, not only is pretty much everyone capable of being a journalist , many of them are already doing it. Report, of courseBlog on their beat. Interact » Student newspapers: Don’t be afraid to break the rule. End Times. Virtually all the predictions about the death of old media have assumed a comfortingly long time frame for the end of print—the moment when, amid a panoply of flashing lights, press conferences, and elegiac reminiscences, the newspaper presses stop rolling and news goes entirely digital. Most of these scenarios assume a gradual crossing-over, almost like the migration of dunes, as behaviors change, paradigms shift, and the digital future heaves fully into view. The thinking goes that the existing brands—The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal—will be the ones making that transition, challenged but still dominant as sources of original reporting. But what if the old media dies much more quickly?
What if a hurricane comes along and obliterates the dunes entirely? Specifically, what if The New York Times goes out of business—like, this May? It’s certainly plausible. Granted, the odds that The Times will cease to exist entirely come May are relatively slim. Henryk A. Kowalczyk: The Perfect Test That the Chicago Tribune F. Over his long business career, Sam Zell has undoubtedly many times smirked at those who have reported failures whilst claiming "It was not my fault".
Now, Sam Zell may well be smirking into the mirror. His Chicago Tribune has filed for bankruptcy protection, and Mr. Zell is blaming others (a "perfect storm" economy) for the Chicago Tribune's loss of solvency. It has been barely one year since the new owners took over the Tribune, so it would be unrealistic to expect that they finalized the implementation of whatever concepts they have.
And, obviously, the current recession has put an extra burden on the turn-around venture. On the other hand, how much time should they really need to convert the Chicago Tribune into a profitable media company? Is there any money in journalism? In the same interview with Joanne Lipman, Mr. Investigative reporting is expensive The Chicago Tribune, as Sam Zell acquired it almost exactly one year ago, had very good investigative reporting. Journalism.co.uk :: Oakland Press Citizen Journalism Institute:
Executive editor of the US-based Oakland Press tells Journalism.co.uk about its new cit-j project To tackle the changes in the journalism industry, a Michigan-based newspaper, the Oakland Press, has formed its own citizen journalism institute. As part of the scheme community members can join two-hour news reporting classes run by the newspaper. Executive editor of the Oakland Press, Glenn Gilbert, told Journalism.co.uk more: What was the impetus for starting the institute? [GG] The thinking is that with the migration of readers to the internet, our exclusive franchise is diminished, both in print and online.
We need to enhance our role as a provider of local news. We need citizens to become our eyes and ears for a new and broader scope of what is happening locally. A lot of this information has been historically provided by the print media, both daily and weekly. Was there a financial incentive in setting up the initiative? Three Strategies for Success in New Media. 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for PR Professionals and Journ. In the ever-evolving world of social media, public relations professionals (PR) and journalists have more opportunities than ever to build strong relationships. It serves each of us well to stay up on social media trends—learning faster, easier ways to share information. With that, here are 10 of the best social media tools for PR professionals and journalists: Help a Report Out (HARO) Help a Reporter Out (HARO) - As a PR professional, this is by far my favorite tool.
What I like best? PitchEngine PitchEngine - The emergence of the social media release (SMR) will soon dominate in interactions between journalists and PR people. What I like the best? ReportingOn ReportingOn - Still in its beta stage, this social network is designed for reporters to discuss their beat or stories. What I like the best? Journalisted Journalisted (UK) - Developed by Martin Moore of Media Standards Trust, this site is meant for consumers to search their favorite reporters and stay up to date on their work. Wikis. The Palestra Application. The myth of the opinionless man* « BuzzMachine. The problem in the cases of ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal and ousted Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel is not that they had opinions. Of course, they had opinions. Indeed, we should damned well want them to have opinions. If they each only accepted what they were told without doubts and complaints, without discrimination, they’d each be be very bad at their jobs, wouldn’t they?
The problem is not that those opinions were reported. Publicness — transparency, openness, authenticity, honesty — is good. It should lead to more trust. The problem, then, is our myth of the opinionless man*. I don’t think that is society’s myth. No, the opinionless man is an institutional myth, a fiction maintained by news organizations, political organizations, governments, businesses, churches, and armies. Former Washington Post editor Len Downie was the self-drawn archetype of the opinionless man. Whoa, boy*. What we’re witnessing in these cases is more than a mere two-day kerfuffle. Alan F.