Guardian.co.uk. Nieman. Twitterlists. Nonny de la Peña speaks at USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism The golden age of computer-assisted reporting is at hand. Computer-assisted reporting or CAR has been around, well — ever since there were computers.
Even when I was in journalism school (which was longer ago than I care to remember), we learned about databases we could search, etc. But the explosion of Web-based tools and ways of sifting through and sharing data has created something approaching a revolution, and the potential benefits for journalism are only just beginning to reveal themselves. If this movement has a patron saint, it is probably Adrian Holovaty, who gained renown for creating the amazing Chicagocrime.org — one of the first Google Maps mashups — and then worked on data-driven features at the Washington Post, followed by his fellowship-financed Everyblock, which aggregates local data about an area.
A template for ’100 percent reporting’ Last night Jay Rosen blogged about a wonderful framework for networked journalism – what he calls the ‘100 percent solution‘: “First, you set a goal to cover 100 percent of… well, of something.
In trying to reach the goal you immediately run into problems. To solve those problems you often have to improvise or innovate. Contextualizing Context « Hey Elise // by Elise Hu. Some great thinkers in media are leading what I’ll call the “context movement”, a push toward giving audiences more satisfying, better understanding of the worlds in which they live instead of simply presenting ephemeral, episodic stories as journalists always have.
As the daughter of immigrants, helping provide better entry points for news is near and dear to me. I’m also a fervent believer in this because Texas Tribune founder John Thornton imagined the TT as an attempt to do what the movement talks about — provide knowledge, not news. I first heard Matt Thompson talk about context at the 2008 Reynolds Journalism Institute dedication at the Missouri School of Journalism (Go Tigers). The principle then became crystallized when Thornton said the context void inspired him to start the Tribune. Matt Thompson, NPR and formerly of the Knight Foundation; Jay Rosen, author of PressThink and professor at NYU; Tristan Harris, CEO/Founder of Apture. TALK: "New Tools for Journalists" with Mashable's Ben Parr. Live video here, starting around 7 pm ET: Live blogging here: "Changing Media Landscape, 2010" Columbia J-school & Hearst Foundation's annual look at the journalism revolution, with several fascinating influencers.
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—Josh] A meter for the Times’ blogs: Plenty of stuff happened at the intersection of journalism and new media this week, and for whatever reason, a lot of it had something to do with The New York Times. We’ll start with the most in-depth piece of information from the Times itself: A 35-minute Q&A session with the three executives most responsible for the Times’ coming paywall (or, more specifically and as they prefer to call it, a metered model) at last Friday’s paidContent 2010 conference.
No bombshells were dropped — paidContent has a short summary to go with the video — but it did provide the best glimpse yet into the Times’ thinking behind and approach to their paywall plans. The Times execs said they believe the paper can maintain its reach despite the meter while adding another valuable source of revenue. Where do reporting and aggregation fit? Arianna Huffington: Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, And The Desperate Need For Better Journalism.
I was asked to give a speech this morning at a journalism conference in Washington, DC sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission.
The topic, as it so often seems to be these days, is what can be done to save journalism? Since Rupert Murdoch was scheduled to address the conference a little before me, I thought this would be a good time to take a look at Murdoch's increasingly bellicose war against new media sites that aggregate the news, the increasingly desperate revenue models being discussed for online news, and what, in fact, needs to be done to ensure that journalism will not only survive, but thrive. Journalists and twitter. Nico Luchsinger writes about the microblogging tool.
Based on an article he wrote for the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung. I recently mentioned to a colleague of mine, who also is a freelance journalist, that I’m researching an article about Twitter. “I hope you really trash this service”, was his answer. “This is nothing else than verbal diarrhoea.” This reaction is not untypical for people having never used the service – I remember that I thought more or less the same when I first heard about Twitter. Nonetheless, Twitter has in the past six months nearly tripled its user base, to an estimated 800’000 in January. Breaking the news quickly (and easily) First of all, Twitter is a great way of breaking news very quickly and easily.
There are the “classical” examples, where a media company just distributes its news updates via Twitter. Ruffini in turn then aggregated the results and re-distributed them on a Twitter channel he had set up specifically for the Iowa caucuses.