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Newspapers. Tips. For:florcoelho. Linking. La arquitectura de la serendipia. Por JUAN FREIRE (SOITU.ES) Actualizado 23-06-2008 11:10 CET Nuestra lenta adaptación a lo digital no parece ser un proceso lineal, simple y previsible. Lo mejor (y lo peor) nos vendrá dado posiblemente por lo que ahora es en gran medida impredecible. Así, entre los apocalípticos se empieza a proponer que estamos condenados a la estupidez digital, dado que el "exceso" de información hace que perdamos nuestra capacidad de concentración y análisis. La 'revelación' casual de Arquímedes en la bañera Pero existen otros riesgos, menos catastróficos aunque posiblemente más reales. Ethan Zuckerman ha resumido algunos aspectos de este debate en The architecture of serendipity, donde comenta el reciente diálogo mantenido entre los profesores de Derecho estadounidenses Cass Susstein y Eugene Volokh.

Sunstein propone que la arquitectura de la red reduce nuestras oportunidades de serendipia: la capacidad de personalización nos aislaría y las oportunidades de descubrimientos se anularían. Newser - Current News - Breaking Stories | Newser. El periodismo de investigación en la era digital - re-visto. Paul Steiger, el director de la organización periodística ProPublica, escribe sobre los dramas a los que se enfrenta hoy el periodismo- y sobre las puertas que se le abren en el futuro. El domingo 12 de julio de 2009, Los Angeles Times publicó en portada y le dedicó cuatro páginas interiores completas a un artículo titulado: “Enfermeras problemáticas conservan sus empleos mientras los pacientes sufren”. Entre las muchas cosas sorprendentes que revelaba esta historia sobresalían dos: había sido escrita e investigada por dos reporteros, Charles Ornstein y Tracy Weber, que no trabajan para el Times, sino para ProPublica- un equipo neoyorquino de periodistas de investigación, independiente y sin ánimo de lucro, fundado en 2008 y financiado por la filantropía, principalmente por la Fundación Sandler.

¡Cómo ha cambiado el mundo! La pieza de Ornstein y Weber revelaba las terribles negligencias cometidas por el organismo público encargado en California de otorgar las licencias a las enfermeras. Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta cu. An alarm went off on some desk at The New York Times business section: Oh-oh, time to slam blogs again. But the latest assault reveals as much about The Times and the culture of classical journalism as it does about bloggers. Like the millennial clash of business models in media – the content economy v. the link economy and the inability of one to understand the other – here we see a clash over journalistic culture and methods – product journalism v. process journalism.

In The Times, Damon Darlin goes after blogs for publishing rumors and unfinished stories, calling it a “truth-be-damned approach” and likening it to yellow journalism, the highest insult of the gray class. He hauls out the worst example again – just as bloggers trying to go after MSM reporters do: the Steve Jobs heart attack rumor and Times WMD reporting (or Jayson Blair or Dan Rather), respectively. Darlin leads with TechCrunch and Gawker sharing bogus rumors of Apple buying Twitter. One word: standards. What’s a medium? At CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism we just told the students that they no longer need to commit to a media track – print, broadcast, or interactive. We believe this is the next step in convergence. All media become one. Since the day we opened our doors, CUNY has taught all students all media. In the first of three semesters (plus an internship), everyone takes the fundamental of interactive course and (as of this year’s class) a fundamentals of broadcast course.

They all learn how to gather news and tell stories in audio, video, blogs, live blogs, wikis, Twitter, social tools, and whatever comes next. Of course, they also learn the eternal verities of journalism and techniques of reporting and writing. We had still required our students to pick a track and I’ll confess that many people asked us why we did that. From the day the school started, various faculty members – including, notably, the head of broadcast – wanted to find the way to tear down the walls between the tracks. How is writing for the web and print different and how do you ex. Attention Online Newsers, I’m looking for your advice on the difference between writing for print and writing for web. Here’s some general standards in web writing that I think we can skip: Write short (or at least succinct)Write in scan-able text (using bolding and subheads)Include multimedia (although this isn’t really always necessary or correct) But there’s a lot more that goes into writing for the web than including a YouTube video or link to another article in your blog posts.

What are your thoughts? What makes writing for the web different than writing for print? Do you approach the different forms of writing differently? Thanks for the help! Tagged as: online journalism, print vs. online, web journalism, writing. How the newspaper industry tried to invent the Web but failed. - A moment of sympathy, please, for newspapers, whose readers and advertisers have been fleeing at a frightening rate. It would be easy to accuse editors and publishers of being clueless about the coming Internet disruption and to insist that the industry's proper reward for decades of haughty attitude, bad planning, and incompetence is bankruptcy. But newspapers have really, really tried to wrap their hands around the future and preserve their franchise, an insight I owe to Pablo J. Boczkowski's 2004 book, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers. The industry has understood from the advent of AM radio in the 1920s that technology would eventually be its undoing and has always behaved accordingly.

For instance, publishers aggressively pursued radio licenses in the early days of broadcasting and, later, sought and acquired TV licenses when they were dispensed. As early as 1947, Walter Annenberg's Philadelphia Inquirer and John S. Broadcasters joined the text fray, too. Why not writing a story is innovation. Discussions about journalism innovation usually focus on technology: Twitter, RSS, Flash, Django, data visualization, and all the other cool stuff that’s making online news so rich. But there’s an equally important conceptual aspect of journalism innovation.

Newsrooms have to rethink the kind of stories they cover and the way they tell those stories, or all the new technologies could be wasted on news that readers don’t find relevant or interesting. To do this, they have to practice innovation-by-omission. That is, they need to stop writing stories that don’t deserve to be written. Newsrooms no longer have the luxury of wasting resources on non-stories — on “the journalism of filling space and time,” as Jeff Jarvis put it.

Jarvis offers a mental checklist for journalists to consider before publishing a possible non-story: Filler news can take many forms. Most of these story approaches are so ingrained that it’ll take conscious effort to stop and come up with more effective alternatives. Otra vez entreverado con periodistas, sin quererla ni beberla —

Otra vez los desafios del periodismo en la era digital El despiste es una de mis especialidades. Bastante seguido recibo invitaciones a reuniones y o bien no las anoto, o se me pasan (hace poco fue el colmo, me confundí por una semana una reunión en Mendoza, y perdí la audiencia y la paga), o no se muy bien donde quedan, quien las organiza, y hasta a veces no está demasiado claro cual es el tema. Por suerte los organizadores me mandan mails, me insisten con los detalles prácticos, tratan de que no se me pase el día y el lugar, y me halagan lo suficiente como para que finalmente contrarreste mi molicie y aparezca en el lugar indicado a la hora justa.

Fue el caso esta semana del III Congreso Nacional e Internacional de Fopea. “Los Desafíos del periodismo en la era digital” que por suerte tenia lugar a pocas cuadras de mi casa. Como siempre llegué tarde, así que solo pude ver las últimas slides de Mr. Los tres tercios de siempre Clásicos que dieron en el clavo.