How Newspapers Can Make Augmented Reality Sexy (and Profitable) | Mediashift. Publishers in the United States have been slow to embrace augmented reality (AR), technology that lets people hold smartphones or tablets up to their newspapers and magazines and view exclusive video and other editorial and advertising content. Brands, on the other hand, have been quick to jump on the augmented reality bandwagon, according to a report by Juniper Research, which expects AR mobile apps to generate almost $300 million in revenue this year.
In recent months, at least three newspapers in Europe and Asia have signed on to augmented reality. In March, the Guardian jokingly announced that readers will be able to view its content through “a pair of web-connected ‘augmented reality’ spectacles that will beam its journalism directly into the wearer’s visual field, enabling users to see the world through the Guardian’s eyes at all times,” similar to Google Glass. Robert Edmunds, director of digital, Metro U.S. MediaShift: When did Metro start considering augmented reality, and why? Walter Cronkite and the Legend of CBS News. A CRITIC AT LARGE about Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, and CBS News. Douglas Brinkley says he got the idea to write a biography of Walter Cronkite from David Halberstam.
During a casual conversation on a long car ride, Halberstam told him that Cronkite was “the most significant journalist of the second half of the twentieth century,” and that someone ought to write his biography. The life Brinkley produced, “Cronkite” (HarperCollins), is long and hastily written, and it’s not immediately apparent what Brinkley’s take on Cronkite is. Much of the biography is quite critical. Lady Gaga launches fight against bullying: will social media help or hinder?
A big event is happening in our Boston backyard today: Lady Gaga is coming to town to launch her Born This Way Foundation (BTWF). Anything Lady Gaga does is big news these days. Here at Latitude News what we are really interested in is her foundation’s explicit focus on anti-bullying, not just here in the U.S. but around the world. Gaga is, after all, a global phenomenon with almost 20 million Twitter followers.
“With a focus on digital mobilization to create positive change,” the foundation’s organizers said in a press release, “BTWF will lead youth into a braver new society where each individual is accepted and loved as the person they were born to be.” The irony, of course, is that just as campaigning for tolerance and understanding is made easier by social media so, it appears, is bullying. Take the trial currently taking place around the death of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi. This is not the first time that social media have been blamed in the fight against bullying.
Twitter shaped the 2011 news agenda over Facebook. From white paper to newspaper: Making academia more accessible to journalists. As an idea, “knowledge-based reporting” sounds pretty hard to disagree with. No-brainer, right? But Harvard Prof. Tom Patterson has argued that knowledge is woefully absent from most journalism today: Journalists are not trained to think first about how systematic knowledge might inform a news story. They look first to the scene of action and then to the statements of involved or interested parties.
Typically, the question of whether a particular episode might have a fuller explanation is never asked. Stanford’s Shanto Iyengar has concluded in his studies that news is overwhelmingly “episodic.” Of course, scholars aren’t producing daily stories on tight deadlines. About 18 months ago, Patterson and others at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center set out to make knowledge more accessible. Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center, said Journalist’s Resource is an endorsement of a different kind of journalism. Much of the academic world has been slow to embrace the web. The Top 10 Ways Journalists Use the Internet. The Potential for Google+ Stream for News | Jennifer 8. Lee. By Jennifer 8. Lee I got invited to try Google+, which has been written about a lot. Short summary: Facebook should be scared.
The Stream (similar to Facebook) is pretty nice UI/UX. Intuitive icons, clean design. I only get three posts before the “jump,” whereas the general use case is someone who is looking to scan really quickly, and wants to see more rather than less, probably at least 5–7 posts probably). That being said, I think there is a lot of potential there. With regard to Facebook, the idea of a separate “news” (or whatever) tab has often been floated, where you can get serious stuff separate from the personal posts of baby/vacation/cat pictures. Also, like Groups, a news tab would a retrofit to Facebook’s evolution, so wouldn’t  feel natural. What could Sparks do? This is a bit like RSS, and a lot of people are asking about Google Reader integration on Google+. The Distribution Democracy and the Future of Media: Tech News and Analysis « A few hours ago, a friend of mine emailed me, lamenting a story that CNN was passing off as breaking news, even though it was far from being either news or newsworthy.
His displeasure reminded me of a conversation I had with serial entrepreneur and startup guru Steve Blank when he came to my office to tape an interview. As we sat there waiting for the cameras to roll, we talked about what media is in this post-broadband, always-on world. I told Steve that the problem with most media companies is they define themselves by the product they hawk. Music television, CNN, Breaking News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN or whatever — these are all products that define the media companies behind them. And therein lies the problem. Unless media corporations stop defining themselves by their products, they are going to be unable to navigate the big shift that is changing the rules of the game — what I call the “democratization of distribution.”
The Distribution Democracy Uh oh! KING TV’s social media manager talks shop. In a time when local newsrooms are cautious about costs, Seattle’s KING TV was one of the first stations in the country to create a newsroom position dedicated to social media. A longtime journalist in the KING newsroom, Evonne Benedict was named social media manager in November, so we decided to ask her a few questions, from her job to whether other stations should hire people like her: @LostRemote: Tell us about your job? What’s a typical day look like? @EvonneBenedict: If I’m awake, I’m on the news cycle – connected through my computer or my phone. @LostRemote: What were you doing before, and how did it lead up to your new role?
@EvonneBenedict: I’ve been a producer, a writer, and an editor. It certainly helps that I come from TV because I get how it works. @LostRemote: What are biggest “wins” so far? @EvonneBenedict: A Seattle food bank was running really low on supplies for Baby Day. Sports events are huge too. (Get social TV stories like these in our new daily email. Moving Past Twitter’s Gate-Keepers « Adam P. Coulter: Conduit for Young Communicators. More and more it seems that Twitter is becoming an integral part of/player in the news of the world. Whether it be breaking the news, for example, the 2009 US Airways flight ditching in the Hudson river, or actually being the news, as it has been most recently concerning the role it played in the Egyptian revolution, “Twitter” and “News” are becoming synonymous. A recent article on Paul Sutton’s blog The Social Web, and the report by HP found below, got me thinking about the topic of media gatekeepers, Twitter, news and how digital marketers can engage with Twitter to make it (news) and get results.
First, Paul’s piece asks some great questions concerning PR and the fact that Twitter now is the news and breaks it many times even before the mainstream media sites do. He writes, “As for PR, our job used to be to provide newspapers, magazines and broadcast media with stories; facts and comments about client projects that managed or created reputation and demand. Photo credit: Joshin Yamada. 10 Common features found on hyperlocal news sites. 2008 and 2009 saw an explosion in the number of hyperlocal news media around the world.
Since then, hyperlocal media has matured and many news sites now offer similar features that both distribute and aggregate news from their respective communities. Community voices Hyperlocal news sites often capture the thoughts and voices of their community of readers through blog posts and articles written by citizen journalists or local bloggers. The Seattle PostGlobe is one such hyperlocal site incorporating this approach. Story submission page Nobody knows more about what’s happening in the community than those who live in it. Fix-it callout In addition to a general call-out for news tips, many sites also ask readers to identify problems in the city or region that need to be fixed. Oakland Local uses the community tool SeeClickFix to map areas in the northern California city that are in need of repair. Community calendar Donation page Social media Video Contact page Reader-submitted photos Aggregation.
The New York Times Introduces a Web Site. By PETER H. LEWISPublished: January 22, 1996 The New York Times begins publishing daily on the World Wide Web today, offering readers around the world immediate access to most of the daily newspaper's contents. The New York Times on the Web, as the electronic publication is known, contains most of the news and feature articles from the current day's printed newspaper, classified advertising, reporting that does not appear in the newspaper, and interactive features including the newspaper's crossword puzzle.
The electronic newspaper (address: http:/www.nytimes.com) is part of a strategy to extend the readership of The Times and to create opportunities for the company in the electronic media industry, said Martin Nisenholtz, president of The New York Times Electronic Media Company. Mr. Nisenholtz reports to Russell T. A selection of the day's news, discussion forums and other material from The Times has been available through the @times service since the spring of 1994 on America Online. Mr.