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Q&A: Miles O’Brien, Back in Action : CJR
Bucking the trend in science journalism, the PBS NewsHour announced last Tuesday that it has created a new Science News Unit under the leadership of veteran reporter Miles O’Brien . An award-winning journalist (and general aviation pilot), O’Brien was a science reporter for CNN from 1992 until 2008, when the network cut its entire science team. Since then, O’Brien has been a writer/correspondent for WNET’s Blueprint America series, FRONTLINE and Discovery Science’s Innovation Nation series. He has also led the efforts to stream live coverage of space shuttle launches and produce “This Week in Space” for the website Spaceflightnow.com. Following PBS’s announcement, CJR’s Curtis Brainard spoke with O’Brien about his return to a major network, big issues in science, and his plans for the NewsHour. So, how does it feel to be covering science full-time for a major network again?
Journalism 2.0 | Mark Briggs | A conversation about journalism and technology » You are what you tweet: Balancing journalism with social media
September 22nd, 2010 How does one balance the ethics and values of being a journalist with the demands of personality and transparency required by social media? That was the question we tackled last week at an ONA Seattle panel discussion titled “ You are what you tweet .” It was run in conjunction with the #wjchat weekly series run by USC professor Robert Hernandez and held at the Seattle Times. The key takeaway, at least from my perspective, was that journalists must jump in and get involved with social media, while bringing the values from old media to new. Kirk Lapointe, managing editor of the Vancouver Sun and author of themediamanager.com, and Nancy Leeson, food writer/blogger at The Seattle Times , offered keen observations as well.What’s in a journalism job ad? Analysing the skills required by employers | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
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 . What requirements and skills are employers stipulating and which are the most popular? (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)
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.
How mobile devices can absolve journalism of its original sin: giving away online content 1 Talk to people who are into mobile reading devices like the Kindle and the iPad, and a scene from the movie Minority Report tends to come up. Tom Cruise, who is on the run from the law, is on a train. Next to him, a man reads USA Today on what looks and acts like broadsheet paper but is clearly digital film of some sort, with animated graphics and flashing news updates.
A Second Chance : CJR
“Newsrooms have shrunk by 25% in three years.” — Project for Excellence in Journalism, “State of the News Media 2010” “A large majority (75%) of editors said their story counts . . . had either increased or remained the same during the past three years.” — PEJ, “The Changing Newsroom,” July 2008 “We’re all wire service reporters now.” — Theresa Agovino, Crain’s New York Business, at a conference of women real estate writers, December 2009 “NBC’s chief White House correspondent, Chuck Todd, in a typical day does eight to sixteen standup interviews for NBC or MSNBC; hosts his new show, ‘The Daily Rundown’; appears regularly on ‘Today’ and ‘Morning Joe’; tweets or posts on his Facebook page eight to ten times; and composes three to five blog posts.
The Hamster Wheel : CJR
Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » Fauber at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Hits Another Home Run
I find myself at something of a loss to track the work of John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. I’ve praised him before for stories on physicians’ conflicts of interest , and I’m reduced now to doing more-or-less what I did then: Let Fauber’s stories speak for themselves. The stories, in my view, are textbook cases of investigative reporting–and writing. I can’t think of any higher or more sophisticated thing to say than that these stories are done exactly the way that such stories should be done–and Fauber’s doing them better than almost anybody else. From the latest effort, a two-part series ( here and here ) on an experimental drug that causes bone growth and was intended to revolutionize back surgery: The product was like nothing the burgeoning field of spinal fusion surgery had seen before.
Guess which media company this person works for: We have six domestic networks, a major magazine, a heavily trafficked website and some of most trafficked and downloaded mobile apps, and a national radio network with hundreds of affiliates. Still guessing? How about if I told you that they are, as far as I can tell, the only cross-platform media organization with a centralized corrections policy and process that covers TV, radio, print, and online? This company also airs what may be the only TV show that ends each broadcast by listing and correcting all of the errors made by the hosts during the episode. One more hint: a trademark of the show is this phrase, “Good night, Canada.”
The Worldwide Leader in Corrections Policy : CJR
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 :
Traffic Jam : CJR
T he open secret of online publishing is that such wild discrepancies are routine. Whether you ask The Washington Post or a stand-alone site like Talking Points Memo (TPM), you’ll hear the same refrain: publishers looking at their own server data (via software like Omniture or Google Analytics) always see much more traffic than is reported by Nielsen and comScore, both of which extrapolate a site’s audience by tracking a small “panel” of Web users, just as Nielsen does for its famous TV ratings. “The panel-based numbers are atrocious,” says Kourosh Karimkhany, TPM’s chief operating officer, pointing out that Nielsen and comScore have a hard time measuring workplace Web surfing. “But as long as they’re equally inaccurate for our competitors, it’s okay. It’s something we live with.” For that matter, the two ratings firms frequently disagree with each other.
Blogger Bora Zivkovic alerted me via Facebook to an interesting post by Sheril Kirshenbaum (left) on her Discover Magazine blog, The Intersection. She asked her Facebook friends what they thought about the future of science writing, and she reprints their comments in her post, entitled “ The Science Writing Renaissance .” Take a look at the discussion, and the additional comments that the post attracted. I was happy to see the discussion, because I think we are in the midst of a science-writing renaissance.
Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » Discover Magazine blog: A Science Writing Renaissance?
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.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.Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » A journalism professor asks, and answers: How many tea partiers on the mall on Saturday? Try ~80,000. Why’d we read 300,000-plus!!?
CBS News apparently got tarred and feathered by a few critics on Sunday because, in its broadcast reporting of the Tea Party and Glenn Beck rally in DC the day before, it told its audience that about 87,000 people were there . That’s enough to fill a very large stadium for an NFL game. That’s a big crowd that had itself a good time under the gaze of Lincoln’s statue. But after organizers of the rally declared they’d gotten 300,000 or even twice that, CBS got itself hammered for, in the minds of some, underestimating the crowd. Liberal bias, etc etc.Sorry, the page you are looking for has moved. You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive.