HuffPost vise les lycéens – Forbes. Comment les médias sociaux ont changé les rédactions - BBC. L’infographie sert aussi à persuader contre la désinformation - NiemanLab. At this point, we pretty much take for granted the power of graphics to help journalists explain — stories, concepts, context. What we pay less attention to is graphics’ power to persuade. But that could (and, maybe, should) be changing. A new paper (pdf) on motivated reasoning and political misperception — the latest from political science professors Brendan Nyhan, of Dartmouth, and Jason Reifler, of Georgia State — suggests that graphics can also provide a powerful, and perhaps essential, way of counteracting misinformation.
In the political world, in particular — but presumably in the broader sphere, as well. The paper (full title: “Opening the Political Mind? The effects of self-affirmation and graphical information on factual misperceptions”) shares findings from three experiments that asked participants to assess sets of controversial data: on the U.S. troop-level surge in Iraq in 2007, the jobs market under the Obama administration, and global temperature change. Comment Tumblr change le journalisme - RWW. Earlier this week we looked at the remarkable growth of Tumblr, a blogging and curation service that now gets over 12 billion page views per month.
Tumblr is mostly used as a consumer curation tool - it's an easy way for people to re-post articles, images and videos. But Tumblr can also be used to power a news website. That's exactly what ShortFormBlog does. Launched in January 2009 by Ernie Smith from Washington D.C., the site publishes about 30 news soundbites a day. The concept behind ShortFormBlog is very simple: to publish really short posts throughout the day. The site publishes over 200 posts per week, an average of about 30 per day (higher on weekdays). The audience reaction and feedback - mostly via Tumblr, but also other social media such as Twitter - is a key part of the site. The Tumblr community is especially important. How Tumblr is Being Used ShortFormBlog uses a mix of Tumblr and Wordpress as its publishing platform.
This is what their posting interface looks like: 8 règles simples pour un journalisme plus fiable - CJR. It’s a cliché to say clichés exist for a reason. As journalists, we’re supposed to avoid them like the, um, plague. But it’s useful to have a catchy phrase that can stick in someone’s mind, particularly if you’re trying to spread knowledge or change behaviour. This week I began cataloguing some of my own sayings about accuracy — you can consider them aspiring clichés — and other phrases I find helpful or instructive in preparation for a workshop I’m giving with The Huffington Post’s Mandy Jenkins at next week’s Online News Association conference. Our session is called B.S. So, with apologies to Bill Maher, I offer some new, some old, and some wonderfully clichéd rules for doing accurate journalism. The initial, mistaken information will be retweeted more than any subsequent correction — I’ve started calling this the Law of Incorrect Tweets.
Verification before dissemination — Our job is to apply the discipline of verification to everything we gather. Those are my maxims. Comment convertir un journaliste bourru à Twitter - Steve Buttry. September 17, 2011 by Steve Buttry Brian Moritz asks a question you face in almost every newsroom addressing the challenges of digital journalism: How do you “convert” the curmudgeons? In a comment on my recent blog post providing social media resources for journalists, Brian, a Syracuse graduate student, asked: There are some reporters (mainly older vets, but a surprising number of young ones, too) who just do not like Twitter. At all.
Think it’s a waste, that it’s ruining our craft. Won’t even give it the time of day. I have two responses: one optimistic and helpful and one dismissive. First, the helpful, optimistic response: I believe we all learn and grow at different rates and in different ways. If a good journalist is still resisting Twitter use, I would try to identify the reason. Sometimes the resistance is based in fear that an old-school journo can’t learn this new skill. Some people have valid ethical questions or concerns. And traditional journalism skills still matter. Infographie : 3 tendances de l’avenir – Fastcodesign; et 10 outils gratuits – Makeuseof. Now that everyone loves them, early adopters and forward thinkers want to know what is next for the infographic. Is this just the beginning of a visual revolution, or have they already jumped the shark? This is an important question, especially for those who are making large investments in the medium, such as publishers and marketers.
Is the Infographic Dead? My cofounder, Jason Lankow, says it well when people ask about the fate of infographics in the face of increasing web saturation. As he describes it, we are seeing the death of the novelty of infographics, not a decline in their value. Infographics at Present Infographics have been utilized for hundreds of years for various purposes, but have taken on a new face in the last few years, with a bit of help from the Internet. [An infographic video created by Chris Harmon] Motion Graphics Utilizing motion and animation in infographics is another current trend that is on the rise. The Future of Infographics. Les journaux régionaux hollandais lancent un projet de data-journalism - OJB. In a guest post for OJB, Jerry Vermanen explains the background to RegioHack The internet is bursting with information, but journalists – at least in The Netherlands – don’t get the full potential out of it. Basic questions on what data driven journalism is, and how to practise it, still have to be answered.
Two Dutch regional newspapers (de Stentor and TC Tubantia) have launched RegioHack, an experiment with data driven journalism around local issues and open data. Both newspapers circulate in the eastern and middle part of the Netherlands. In November, journalists will collaborate with local students, programmers and open data experts in a 30 hour coding event. In preparation for this hackathon, the forum on our website (www.regiohack.nl) is opened for discussion. Anyone can start a thread for a specific problem.
The newspapers provide the participants with hot pizza, energy drink and 30 hours to find, clean up and present the data on these subjects. Like this: Like Loading... Apprentis journalistes, utilisez Quora. Priorités de la rédac du Seattle Times: production, curation, communautés – Knight. September 20, 2011 {*style:<b> The Seattle Times recently reorganized its newsroom and the new structure recognizes three key roles for the organization: Creation, Curation, Community </b>*} The Seattle Times newsroom previously had a managing editor for print and an managing editor for digital. The new structure separates functions quite differently, Executive Editor David Boardman says, with three key roles: 1 . 2. 3.
“We portray these three things as being interlocking circles and in the center of it all is engagement. Boardman sees the reorganization as . He believes the structure will . Interestingly, the reorganization puts Kathy Best, the managing editor who has led the Times’ digital efforts for several years, in charge of the news gathering time. Both seem promising departures from structures in many newsrooms that still focus on the print cycle rather than putting digital on equal or primary footing. Commenting is not available in this section entry. Gérer les données dans les rédactions - PBS. The first PANDA task officially checked off our to-do list was the drafting of our Future Users Survey. We distributed a link to the survey via Twitter, the NICAR-L mailing list and email. The PANDA project aims to make basic data analysis quick and easy for news organizations, and make data sharing simple. The survey covers a range of topics that we felt were crucial to understanding our future users, including the technical aptitude of the staff in their newsrooms, the quantity of data they work with, and possible barriers to using the software.
So far, we’ve had 77 responses to the survey. Our future users We had responses from many of the major newsrooms around the country. Most of the newsrooms surveyed indicated they are technically savvy, with 74 percent reporting they are likely to support running applications in-house. Big data One of the most striking things to emerge from the survey is the quantity of data our future users reported working with. Tools of the trade Security. Tout le monde veut désormais devenir un filtre - Gigaom. As the avalanche of information coming through social networks and real-time tools like Twitter continues to grow, the need for filters to make sense of that tsunami of data also increases, and it seems as though everyone has a different way of trying to solve that problem.
Facebook threw its hat into the ring this week with what it says is an improved “newspaper-style” news feed that highlights important content, while Digg has just launched “newsrooms” aimed at doing the same thing, and online influence-ranking service Klout is rolling out topic pages based on what’s being shared by those with influence. But will any of these be able to solve the filtering problem, or will they just add another source of noise? Facebook says that its changes (which my colleague Colleen covered for GigaOM) are designed to create “your own personal newspaper” when you log in to the social network, by showing you what the site believes are the most important items at the top of your news feed.