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Q&A: Miles O’Brien, Back in Action. Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism and technology » You are what you tweet: Balancing journalism with social media. What’s in a journalism job ad? Analysing the skills required by employers | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog. Control panels: Jobseekers Job and PR alerts Recruiters PRs Ask a PR Browse > Home / Jobs, Training / Blog article: What’s in a journalism job ad? Analysing the skills required by employers Wednesday, April 09, 2014 What’s in a journalism job ad? Analysing the skills required by employers September 21st, 2010Posted by Laura Oliver in Jobs, Training Following on from our laid-off report looking at journalism job losses and how the shape of the journalism workforce in the UK is changing, I thought it would be interesting to do a quick analysis of the job ads currently available on Journalism.co.uk. (I took the text from job ads on the site that list requirements or candidate profiles and have tried to take out irrelevant words as much as possible) Tags: job advertising, Jobs, journalism jobs, media jobs, skills, Wordle Similar posts: This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 3:24 pm and is filed under Jobs, Training.

Main news Recent posts Recent comments The latest j-pod home jobs. News Online. News matters. It is still the main forum for discussion of issues of public importance. It is where we come together to inform, persuade, influence, endorse or reject one another in a collaborative process of making meaning from events. But the news is changing — content, distribution channels, geographical constraints, production values, business models, regulatory approaches and cultural habits are all in flux, as new media technologies are adopted and adapted by users. However, despite having driven many of the changes themselves, established media organisations are in many cases struggling to adapt to this changed environment.

News Online: Transformations and Continuities is for everyone who wants to better understand the news media of the twenty-first century. Graham Meikle is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media & Journalism at the University of Stirling, UK. Guy Redden is a lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Contributors. A Second Chance. The Hamster Wheel. Fauber at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Hits Another Home Run. The Worldwide Leader in Corrections Policy. Newsrooms need more metrics, not fewer. « Emily Bell(wether) A slow Labor Day news day maybe I thought when I noticed that the NYT was carrying a piece on Monday entitled : ‘Some Newspapers, Tracking Readers Online, Shift Coverage’. As old news goes this is positively antediluvian isn’t it?

Despite the fact that most newsrooms have developed metric tracking systems for their websites, and many use them creatively and effectively, it remains a controversial area. Quoted in the piece, Bill Keller, editor of the New York Times says : “We don’t let metrics dictate our assignments and play….because we believe readers come to us for our judgment, not the judgment of the crowd. We’re not ‘American Idol.’ ” The following day in the Washington Post Howard Kurtz wrote an article on a similar theme entitled Appeasing the Google Gods. Naturally, those who grew up as analog reporters wonder: Is journalism becoming a popularity contest? There is nothing to to be afraid of here. Zoe had invited me to the critique that precedes the final show of these projects.

Traffic Jam. Miami has deep ties to the Caribbean. So when a devastating earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, The Miami Herald mobilized for one of its biggest stories of the year. Reporters were on a flight to the Dominican Republic that night and filing from Haiti the next day. The sense of mission extended to the paper’s Web site, where a special Haiti channel pulled together print coverage as well as video pieces, photo archives, and Twitter feeds from correspondents. Multimedia editor Rick Hirsch thought his site could open a window onto the tragedy for audiences around the world. “Haiti really is a local story for us,” he explains.

According to the Herald’s server logs, his hunch was right: traffic leapt by more than a third in January, to 35 million page views, the only time it broke 30 million in the six months before or after. Nearly 5.9 million different people visited the site that month, another high-water mark for the year. Not so online. This is not to say that accuracy is passé.

New Data Visualization Tool for Journalists Created by Knight Professor. Sarah Cohen, the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, figured there had to be an easier way for journalists to organize their notes on chronological events. 'Time and place are two of the most important aspects in stories,' Cohen said. 'Most reporters I know are still keeping a 40-page chronology in Word for long running stories.' So, with a grant from Duke, Cohen hired two research scientists, Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, to design a visual tool to allow reporters to not just organize their notes more effectively, but to also see the results of their research over time. In this image, the tool tracked President Obama's first 100 days in office, by his location.

Viegas' and Wattenberg were the brains behind the IBM Many Eyes project and now work for Google. 'Say you're working on the BP story, you can say, 'I only want to see what happened in May having to do with birds,''' Cohen explained. Who are the science journalists? : Not Exactly Rocket Science. At Science Online 2010, due to begin in a few weeks, I will be chairing a panel of veteran bloggers/journalists in a discussion on rebooting science journalism in the age of the web. Joining me will be Carl Zimmer, John Timmer and David Dobbs. We’ll be chatting about how science journalism and science journalists will survive in the new media ecosystem, which traits are adaptive in this environment, and which are not.

Dave’s already got the ball rolling with some thought-provoking posts on the topic and over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be doing the same. This first post will go back to basics and try to understand who exactly these pesky science journalists are in the first place… Science journalists: depending on who you ask, they are either the unsung heroes of science outreach, or the villains of the piece with blood on their hands. Much of this debate hinges on qualifying exactly who counts as a science journalist in the first place. Journalists often switch beats. Why Trust A Reporter? - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences. The bogusity of the New York Times' story about how technology leads more national park visitors into trouble. - By Jack Shafer. In the 11th paragraph of its Page One, Aug. 22 story about how technology—cell phones, GPS devices, satellite-location devices, and even video cameras—tends to get visitors to the national parks into trouble, the New York Times confesses the inherent bogusity of its premise, stating: The National Park Service does not keep track of what percentage of its search and rescue missions, which have been climbing for the last five years and topped 3,500 in 2009, are technology related.

But in an effort to home in on "contributing factors" to park accidents, the service recently felt compelled to add "inattention to surroundings" to more old-fashioned causes like "darkness" and "animals. " [Emphasis added.] Yet the newspaper persists in advancing its techno-made-the-visitors-get-in-trouble thesis, headlining the piece "For Parkgoers Pushing Luck, Technology and Trouble Got Together" in print and "Technology Leads More Park Visitors Into Trouble" online.

And now on to the data. Not precisely. Blogging Week #1: why journalists must blog and how « Adam Westbrook. In this week-long series, I’ll be explaining why you really can’t ignore blogging if you’re a journalist. I’ll guide you through the basics of getting started, and reveal some top tricks for making blogging work for you. When I wrote my first blog post in October 2004, the word ‘blogging’ was only just being used. It had only just – perish the thought – made it into the Oxford English Dictionary. And I’d never really heard of it either, until Warwick University, where I was studying, introduced its own in-house blogging platform: Warwick Blogs. If the name wasn’t very imaginative, the idea certainly was – to give every student at the university the opportunity to create their own blog & website and get publishing online.

And thousands of us did. We wrote serious blogs about politics, ones with funny pictures and rude jokes and even some about student union politics. Fast forward nearly six years and a lot has changed. What is the point of a blog? 01. you’re a specialist in your field. Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism and technology » Jobs in journalism growing.

Did you go to journalism school to become an online community manager? Probably not, but that is one of the hottest jobs on the market these days and you can’t launch a successful digital news business without it. The era of specialization is dead, but a new class of jobs and roles at new era news businesses offer exciting opportunities for journalists and communicators who are interested in new thinking and new approaches. In terms of jobs, journalistic occupations are outperforming the overall economy, according to Michael Mandel, former chief economist at BusinessWeek and founder of Visible Economy LLC. That certainly seems counterintuitive to anyone who has heard about, or directly experienced, layoffs at newspapers and TV stations in the past five years. A shift in journalistic employment to nontraditional companies such as Yahoo and AOL, plus an increase in self-employed journalists has created surprising growth. Journalists are getting jobs.

Luddites need not apply. Truthsquad - Fact-check the news - Overview Page. Seven Years as a Freelance Writer, or, How To Make Vitamin Soup. People like my resume—here’s a PDF! But a resume is only the skin of a career. And, even then, it’s skin with a lot of make-up on it. People live their lives, knowing the interior of their existence, and can only compare it to the exteriors of the lives of others—so, as a public service, here’s a look at the interior of my seven years as a freelancer. That is to say, seven years as one of the choosiest beggars imaginable. The Devil does not wear Prada. The Devil wears Times New Roman. Or Arial Narrow. In 2003, at my mother’s house in Apex, Nawf Carlana, I read a Mediabistro panel discussion that described Chris Napolitano, then the front-of-the-book editor at Playboy, as the only editor in Manhattan who still answered his phone.

I pitched him over the phone. Even before I attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, I was writing features for Details that were being debated on “The O’Reilly Factor.” There’s a lot of good times in freelancing! “Oh, really?” Huh. What the New York Times could teach WikiLeaks' Julian Assange about printing secrets. - By Jack Shafer. No government wants even its most junior secrets divulged. So last week, when the New York Times, the Guardian, and Der Spiegel published stories based on the 92,000-document Afghanistan stash obtained and distributed by Julian Assange's WikiLeaks, U.S. officials obviously deplored the coverage. But after the stories ran, Assange and WikiLeaks became the target of official ire, not the publications.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, White House national security adviser James Jones, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen condemned the WikiLeaks founder. Perhaps the only hostile critic of the press—as opposed to WikiLeaks—was Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. I don't expect the Pentagon to pin Distinguished Service Crosses on the lapels of the redacting editors any time soon, but the WikiLeaks coverage shows how conscientious the press generally is when publishing information the government would rather keep secret. How conscientious?

Electronic Journal of Communication. CALL FOR PAPERS Electronic Journal of Communication / La Revue Electronique de Communication Special Issue: Social Media in News Discourse As professional media producers pay more attention to social media, from personal blog entries and tweets to Facebook updates and YouTube videos, journalists are faced with numerous decisions. Among these are how to integrate personal and often-relationship-focused media with the public and fact-centred discourse of the news. This special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication invites contributions exploring the conventions that are emerging around the use of social media by news organisations, and the implications of those conventions for public communication.

Contributions will have as their central concern whether or not the encounter with social media is changing aspects of news journalism. Papers should be 5000-7500 words in length and submitted electronically to the guest editor, Donald Matheson, at donald.matheson@canterbury.ac.nz. WSJ offers New Yorkers $200 to talk about their iPads | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog. Online - NewsPay. Phil Balboni believes in his bones that consumers will eventually pay for online news.

But the runway he envisions — maybe 10 or 15 years — is too long to count on, even for the well-financed GlobalPost venture he founded 19 months ago in Boston. So he has an interim plan he expects to roll out as soon as he can finish implementing Journalism Online’s Javascript to make it happen: a soft, metered approach to paid content, set up to “invite support” rather than charge a fee.

[Update: Balboni told me by e-mail Monday that launch with the Journalism Online software has been set for Aug. 12.] “We’re not charging,” he said. “We’re asking people to support GlobalPost journalism — and not without giving them something in return.” Balboni plans to use Journalism Online for GlobalPost’s Passport membership program.

His short-term goal is to convert 1 percent of the site’s 900,000 unique monthly visitors from free to paid membership. A request, not a fee Changing the Passport program. HOW TO: Launch Your Own Indie Journalism Site. Maria Schneider left mainstream publishing behind last year to start Editor Unleashed, a site covering writing, publishing and social media. Share tips and advice for startup journalists here. Downsizing, layoffs, newspaper and magazine closings have put journalism on the most endangered careers list. But hundreds of smart journalists are realizing the opportunity and using their connections, reporting savvy and deep knowledge of their subjects to start sites covering their familiar beats.

These bootstrapping indie journalists are learning to run their own small business, including tending to many details they never had to worry about before—ad sales, marketing, promotion, tech and design to name a few. Here, five former mainstream media reporters share their tips and best advice for creating a startup journalism site. The Reporters James Erik Abels was recently laid off from Forbes where he covered the digital media beat. Startup Costs But don't quit the day job yet. Tech and Design. Magda Abu-Fadil: Funding Journalism in the Digital Age. Finding money to pay for news is an obsession haunting media executives worldwide, a constant in journalism-related conferences, and it's not likely to disappear any time soon. That's because the very essence of journalism is going through metamorphoses causing its traditional producers sleepless nights and no small measure of whiplash.

Enter Stephen Quinn and Jeff Kaye with their recently published book Funding Journalism in the Digital Age: Business Models, Strategies, Issues and Trends, to shed light on available options. "Emerging technologies and changing social trends began to disrupt established media business models long before the latest crisis on Wall Street," according to the authors who note that the news industry is transitioning away from print and broadcast distribution to mainly digital platforms. The authors deftly explained how the news media entered the digital age, in some cases, limping and reluctantly, and how the newspaper business model became obsolete. Stephen Quinn. How is WikiLeaks' relationship with the news media evolving? The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan Logs. Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. Ex-Google and Bing engineers create personalised mobile newspaper for the iPad. Understanding the Participatory News Consumer | Pew Research Cen.

UK: Highlights from the CMS report on libel, privacy, and press. Nordicom. #IWD: Why do men dominate newspaper letter pages? | Journalism.c. Who Says. Trust Falls. Why We’re Giving Away Our Reporting Recipe. Who will create the news experience? Columbia Journalism Review. CIR Featured Projects. The NYT Needs to Learn the Value of the Link – GigaOM.

Reuters to Journalists: Don’t Break News on Twitter. Reviving Science Coverage in the Carolinas. How Will Online Journalism Ever Make Money? - Business - The Atl. News sites are popular, but few will pay, industry report says | Media Concentration: What? And So what? | NewAmerica.net. Russian Tycoon Acquires British Newspaper. The sale of the Independent: What will it mean for the publicati. The Changing Role of Journalists in a World Where Everyone Can P. Turn Your iPad Into a Futuristic News Portal - print is dead - G. Study: 52 Percent Of Bloggers Consider Themselves Journalists. Online - Mobile Media. How Often Is The Times Tweeted? - Open Blog. The News About the Internet. US paper sets limit for free local articles. How to Save the News - Magazine.

Untitled. Yahoo’s Buy of Associated Content Makes It a Publisher, Syndicat. ProPublica and WaPo on the Rotten Culture at BP. WaPo denies allegation it sat on WikiLeaks video. Could loading a feed into an RSS reader be grounds for legal act. Information Wants to Be Paid For - Magazine. <em>New York Times</em> to Launch Beta Site to Test New Features. News:rewired, 25 June 2010, Microsoft UK, London » Blog Archive. Blogs | Periodismo en las Américas. Creating a converged news operation. All The News That’s Fit To…Tweet? Re-writing the New York Times.

Jornalismo e empreendedorismo. Time Magazine putting up a paywall to protect print? » Nieman Jo. Freelance writing's unfortunate new model - latimes.com.