Techcrunch. Weblog: Since You Asked: The Technorati Attention Index. How Social Media is Radically Changing the Newsroom. Leah Betancourt is the digital community manager at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn. She is @l3ahb3tan on Twitter. Did Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey or even Mark Zuckerberg ever portend that their means of connecting among social circles would be the news du jour in many newsrooms across the country?
Social networking sites are some of the newest tools for reporters to use in news gathering, networking and promoting their work. But many newsrooms are fuzzy on the usage. "It’s very much the issue of the day. Twitter and Facebook have exploded, and you can’t ignore them,” says Kelly McBride, ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, who gets a call about once a week from a television station or a newspaper with questions on the ethical issues involving the use of social media. She says journalists’ attitudes toward social media tools range from presuming nothing bad can happen to being terrified. “You don’t want to be on either end,” says McBride. Verify & confirm 1.
7 Ways News Media are Becoming More Collaborative. With the turn of the decade, the news media are seeing shifts from hyper competition to collaboration. News organizations are partnering to produce the news, while journalists are working with the audience to bring them content that they demand. Media mavens too are hoping for more collaboration in the coming year, perhaps with more action from media executives as well. And though old media may be slow to change, there are a few glimpses of tools, partnerships and models that show how news media are becoming more collaborative. 1. Curating and Filtering the Stream We've already talked about the importance of journalists being curators and contextualizers using collaborative tools like Publish2.
News consumers have created a social link economy from sources that they trust: their friends. “We're at the intersection of a more traditional, top-down editorial model and a direct democracy or crowd-edited approach,” Headley said. 2. 3. 4. “Could USA Today build its own Fark-esque site? 5. 6. 7. Starting a blog? 12 ideas for blog posts | Online Journalism Blo. I’m currently writing a chapter on blogging for a book on online journalism [ UPDATE: Now published ].
It includes 12 typical blog post types to kickstart ideas. Here are the examples I came up with – I’d welcome any more: Point 6 UPDATED January 20 2012 in response to this blog post (I’m now wondering: was that linkbait? ). : the best way to start blogging: simply link to something elsewhere that you feel is interesting, or (better) that you disagree with.
. : for a story or for a way of doing things. . : a straightforward and easy way to create a post. . : attend a relevant event – a conference, meeting, public talk, demonstration, or even just a conversation – and write about it. . : this typically only works once you’ve established a readership and generated goodwill by contributing yourself on your blog and in comments on other blogs, or if it’s for a worthy cause. . : there are two ways you can pick a fight on your blog – one good, and one bad. Journalists Still a-Twitter About Social Media | PB. Journalists are obsessed with Twitter. Obsessed. They use it, talk about it, analyze it, deconstruct it, reconstruct it, love it, hate it, capitalize on it, become experts on it, monetize it, argue about it, and become micro-famous on it. They are mesmerized with what it is and they are as giddy as Tom Cruise on Oprah just thinking about what it could be.
Last Wednesday, MediaBistro held a panel discussion titled, “Journalists and Social Media: Sources, Skills, and the Writer.” The panelists included NYU professor and PressThink author Jay Rosen, NPR senior strategist Andy Carvin, BusinessWeek.com community editor Shirley Brady, and Daily Beast columnist Rachel Sklar. The four journalists discussed which social networks they liked best, their top concerns for the industry, and what they saw as the future of journalism.
The main topic of conversation, however, was (of course) Twitter. Twitter is hope for the future. Geo-locating Sources Helps Niche Reporting Andy Carvin Rachel Sklar Related.