Journalism, newspapers and the future
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Why “Bloggers vs. Journalists” is Still With Us » Pressthink
Mar. 4 A pre-conference post. Ideas in motion.
With the Internet still inaccessible for the majority of people in Egypt, much of the international community is relying on journalists with satellite phones for real-time updates on the violent protests calling for Hosni Mubarak to resign after 30 years in power.
How Journalists Are Using Social Media to Report on the Egyptian Demonstrations
Liveblogging is one of my favourite journalistic forms to have emerged in the last few years.
Liveblogging versus second stage shovelware - One Man and His Blog
Michael Skoler on newsroom culture » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
Here’s the final installment of the Nieman Foundation’s recent panel on the future of journalism.Endemic - Telecommuting can replace newsrooms
We just don’t need to be face-to-face to do it. The NYU students who work on the project don’t need to be at NYU or even in the New York area to get work done. We can work from anywhere.
You may have noticed — you could hardly miss it — the current blizzard of one-year anniversary stories about the fall of Lehman Brothers , an event that helped spark last fall’s financial meltdown. The coverage mainly reminds me that journalists failed to do their jobs before last fall’s crisis emerged, and have continued to fail since then. It also reminds me of a few pet peeves about the way traditional journalists operate.
Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization
Databases drive traffic
When The Texas Tribune launched, Matt Stiles said the site was the .10 version of what it would be six months out. Sixteen months later, the site’s traffic and audience have grown tremendously , in large part because of its work with data. The Tribune has created more than 50 data-driven projects that readers are using to locate their lawmakers in the Capitol , access information about prison inmates , and see how minorities have driven population growth in Texas .
What future for media and journalism?
I presented the Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Explainer.net
The Studio 20 Building a Better Explainer Project was launched in November 2010 by Professor Jay Rosen ’s graduate journalism class, in partnership with the non-profit investigative newsroom, ProPublica . The project will experiment with the form of “the explainer,” a genre in journalism that provides the essential background knowledge necessary to follow events in the news.