Is live-blogging serious journalism? In an effort to understand the changes to the NHS, The Guardian created a series of blog posts starting last April following the injection of the private sector into the National Health Service. The daily blog posts were updated routinely, aggregating podcasts, expert commentary, and government statements. Last Thursday, Guardian journalist Rowenna Davis covered a baby girl's open-heart surgery in real time on the blog via Tweets and pictures sent from her phone. The little girl survived and the Twitter feed received a frenzy of feedback. The blog described the object of the live-blogging experiment as to "describe how the NHS works", but not all readers agreed.
One reader pointed out that documentaries have done the same thing before. In an article defending her live blog, Davis conceded that some of the Tweets were more emotional than seriously analytical, as raw reporting inevitably is. Sources: The Guardian 1,2,3, MediaWise.org Photo Credit: Hongkiat. Renaud Dely : "Les médias peuvent-ils encore être civiques?" Log In - The New York Times. L’article est mort, vive l’article. Le monde de la rédaction web est en émoi.
L'"écriture" Twitter, nouvelle source d'inspiration pour la presse écrite. Tweets-chroniques, tweets du jour (ou de la semaine / du mois, au choix), et même tweet-interview..
C'est incroyable à quel point Twitter est devenu une source d'inspiration pour la presse écrite depuis quelques semaines. Bon bien sûr il y a eu une floraison d'articles pratiques ("On vous donne les clés" sur Europe1.fr, "Mode d'emploi - Le tweet c'est chic" dans Elle il y a 15 jours...) sur ce formidaaable outil qu'est Twitter, plateforme de micro-blogging qu'ont découvert nombre de journalistes lors de l'affaire DSK, qui a consacré Twitter comme canal d'information immédiate. Ou à propos de son impact sur les pratiques journalistiques. Mais aussi, des formats de rubriques commencent à fleurir dans la presse écrite, qui s'imprègne inévitablement des pratiques issues du Web. Sur Internet, l'article journalistique a-t-il encore un sens ?
Cet article, dont vous commencez la lecture, fait-il partie d’un genre en déclin, une forme bientôt « optionnelle » du journalisme, un « produit dérivé » ou un luxe dans la manière dont les médias nous informent ?
Tel est l’avis du professeur de journalisme et blogueur Jeff Jarvis. Une position qui suscite un débat soutenu parmi les passionnés de l’information en ligne aux Etats-Unis. Selon Jarvis, les articles ne sont plus une forme nécessaire pour la couverture des événements. Ils le sont encore pour les journaux imprimés, mais pas pour « le flux qui ne commence jamais et ne se termine jamais du numérique ». Jeff Jarvis appuie sa démonstration sur plusieurs exemples : The article as luxury or byproduct. A few episodes in news make me think of the article not as the goal of journalism but as a value-added luxury or as a byproduct of the process. * See the amazing Brian Stelter covering the Joplin tornado and begging his desk at The Times to turn his tweets into a story because he had neither the connectivity nor the time to do it in the field and, besides, he was too busy doing something more precious: reporting.
(It’s a great post, a look at a journalist remaking his craft. Highly recommended for journalists and journalism students particularly.) (And aren’t you proud of me for not drawing the obvious and embarrassing comparison to Times editor Bill Keller’s Luddite trolling about Twitter even as his man in Twitter, Stelter, proves what a valuable tool it is?) * At South by Southwest, the Guardian’s folks talked about their steller live-blogging.
. * Of course, I need to point to Andy Carvin’s tweeting and retweeting of the Arab Spring. The orthodoxy of the article, part II « BuzzMachine. Frédéric Filoux willfully misrepresents me so that he may uphold the orthodoxy of the article.
He will be disappointed to learn that we agree more than he wishes. Here is what I am really saying about the article. First, far from denigrating the article, I want to elevate it. When I say the article is a luxury, I argue that using ever-more-precious resources to create an article should be taken seriously and before writing and editing a story we must assure that it will add value. Do most articles do that today? Jazz Is not a Byproduct of Rap Music. Defining article as a “luxury or a byproduct” as Jeff Jarvis did last month, is like suggesting jazz is secondary to rap music, or saying literature is a Deluxe version of slamming.
Reading Jarvis’ Buzz Machine blog is always interesting, often entertaining and more than occasionally grating. His May 28th blog post titled The article as luxury or byproduct reverberated across the media sphere – as provocative pieces are meant to, regardless of the argument’s actual connection with facts. Quite frankly, I didn’t pay attention to Jarvis’ latest taunt until the issue was raised in a conference I was invited to. Sacré article… Les mutations du journalisme.