Wikileaks. Photojournalism. Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization « Mediactive. 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. So here’s a list of 11 things I’d insist on, just for starters, if I ran a news organization. Why 11? See the last item. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. If we were a local newspaper, the editorial and op-ed pages would publish the best of, and be a guide to, the conversation the community was having with itself online and in other public forums, whether hosted by the news organization or someone else. 6. 7. So and so is not worth some amount of money. The Future of Journalism Will Be Radically Different.
An Interview with Spot.us about the changing nature of journalism.
These days, everywhere you look it seems that some newspaper is closing its doors, stopping its presses, or maybe just going online-only. This sea of change is being heralded by some as the "death of journalism," a transformation that has been brought about thanks to the web. But is the web really killing journalism? Or, is it allowing an entirely new type of journalism to emerge? David Cohn would probably argue it's the latter.
At last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, we had an opportunity to sit down with David and ask him about the project, what's been happening with it, and where he sees it going. The "Death of Journalism? " About Spot.us Spot.us is a non-profit startup which distributes the cost of hiring a journalist across a community of people. After a story is funded and the final copy is turned in, Spot.us will try to sell the first publishing rights. The Journalist's Guide to Twitter. Leah Betancourt is the digital community manager at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn.
She is @l3ahb3tan on . Journalists are using Twitter to engage with their audience, connect with sources and continue building their personal brands. The 140-character format forces writers to focus their attention and get to the point quickly. But this isn’t just sound-bite style reporting. I talked with some reporters about Twitter and how they use it. Twitter enhances reporting Jason DeRusha, who’s @derushaj on Twitter, a reporter at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, uses Twitter daily as part of is his job.
DeRusha uses it specifically to crowdsource stories and promote his work. He often puts his questions on Twitter at the start of the day, and then his followers (more than 2,200) help him come up with angles, or chime in with their opinions. DeRusha’s first Twitter success story was in late 2007. Twitter tools Muck Rack is a site compiled of real-time Twitter activity by journalists. Tracking tweets.