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Gay Talese described The New York Times as, variously, a “fact factory,” “a cathedral of quiet dignity,” a “daily miracle,” and a “necessary proof of the world’s existence.” At the same time, however — and understatedly, as if it were a fact so obvious it barely merited mention — he noted the paper’s “insular atmosphere.” Whatever the Times was, Talese suggested, it was so in part because, physically and figuratively, the paper sat sealed and slightly separate from the world whose stories it told. It’s been nearly half a century since the days of The Kingdom and the Power , and as the Times has sped from a daily to an hourly to a minute-by-minute miracle, the divides that have distinguished the paper from the people it serves have been steadily dissolving. The storytelling apparatus housed at 620 8th Avenue still has walls around it, definitely, but those walls are becoming increasingly transparent.
Syracuse documents rising Latino communities in central Pennsylvania. Reporting by nine fellows from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and two from the University of Texas at Austin's School of Journalism.
News21: Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education
The Death of Journalism? (or journalism in the era of open) | eaves.ca
For those that missed them two of my favourite authors - Clay Shirky and Steven Johnson - posted brilliant pieces on the future of the news industry this week. I’ve pulled some of the best lines from both so you can glimpse at why these to writers are models for me. These relevant paragraphs also reveal a further analysis, one I think both authors stop shy of but that both pieces hint at: the Death of Journalism. …in the long run, we’re going to look back at many facets of old media and realize that we were living in a desert disguised as a rain forest. Local news may be the best example of this. When people talk about the civic damage that a community suffers by losing its newspaper, one of the key things that people point to is the loss of local news coverage...
Hack, hacker - makes no difference - Chris L. Keller ...
A “six degrees of separation” database, nwsmkr will combine a journalist’s curated notes with public contributions & social APIs to visualize connections and distinctions between public figures, providing a new storytelling method for news organizations. I remember the shock of it all, when I learned the bar to coding a basic webpage wasn't that high. Three years later, I'm seeing more and more that the bar to coding a really great webpage isn't all that high either. It's patience and time, and the willingness to work hard. It was about this time in 2008, I was handed the keys to production of our newspaper's website.
Smart organizations recognize that Web design is more than just creating clean code and sharp graphics. A site that really works fulfills your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. Even the best content and the most sophisticated technology won't help you balance those goals without a cohesive, consistent user experience to support it. But creating the user experience can seem overwhelmingly complex.
Jesse James Garrett: The Elements of User Experience
News sharing, editorial collaborations, business partnerships – journalists and newsrooms are increasingly exploring new ways to collaborate. Some of these efforts are resulting in exciting new kinds of news, pushing stories beyond what could have been done by any one person, and producing more local news for communities. Others, however, are leading to further consolidation, newsroom layoffs and a notable decrease in the amount of local reporting in communities. In seeking a way to organize, evaluate and better understand these collaborations and their impact on local news and local communities, I have begun breaking them up into categories (so far these categories include: New Sharing, Public/Private Partnerships, Public and Noncommercial Media Collaborations, and University News Partnerships). Obviously, there are other ways of organizing this, and many of these collaborations straddle multiple definitions.
A Growing Inventory of Journalism Collaborations « Groundswell
July 12, 2011 Partnerships are a promising way to support community news and information. By joining forces to create, distribute and market content, news sites and local institutions, such as universities and legacy media, can better serve the information needs of their communities.
Partnerships for news: Promise and pitfalls | Knight Digital Media Center
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Every year, we put together an overview of the current iteration of the design process we’re teaching, along with some of our most-used tools. The guide was originally intended for recent graduates of our Bootcamp: Adventures in Design Thinking class. But we’ve heard from folks who’ve never been to the d.school that have used it to create their own introductory experience to design thinking. The Bootcamp Bootleg is more of a cook book than a text book, and more of a constant work-in-progress than a polished and permanent piece. You can download the entire Bootcamp Bootleg here . If you’re new to design thinking, you might want to try the “Get Started” methods on the right, which have proved to be most useful for folks as they’re running through their first few design cycles.
The End of the World and Journalism in the Era of Open | eaves.ca
For those not in the United Kingdom a massive scandal has erupted around allegations that one of the country's tabloids - the News of the World ( a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation) - was illegally hacking into and listening in on the voicemails of not only the royal family members and celebrities but also murder victims and family members of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The fall out from the scandal, among other things, has caused the 168 year old newspaper to be unceremoniously closed, prompted an enormous investigation into the actions of editors and executives at the newspaper, forced the resignation (and arrest) of Andy Coulson - former News of the World editor and director of communications for the Prime Minister - and thrown into doubt Rupert Murdoch's bid to gain complete control over the British satellite television network BskyB.
About Knight The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation advances journalism in the digital age and invests in the vitality of communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Mozilla is a global non-profit dedicated to putting you in control of your online experience and shaping the future of the web for the public good. We do this by creating great software, like the Firefox browser, and building communities, like Mozilla Drumbeat, that build and grow the open web.
Knight Mozilla News Technology Partnership
This post originally appeared on O’Reilly Radar (“ Data journalism, data tools, and the newsroom stack “). It’s republished with permission. MIT’s recent Civic Media Conference and the latest batch of Knight News Challenge winners made one reality crystal clear: as a new era of technology-fueled transparency, innovation and open government dawns, it won’t depend on any single CIO or federal program. It will be driven by a distributed community of media, nonprofits, academics and civic advocates focused on better outcomes, more informed communities and the new news, whatever form it is delivered in.
Data is Shaping the Future of Journalism - O'Reilly Media - O'Reilly Insights - Forbes
Mozilla Drumbeat | Beyond Comment Threads
We're giving readers a blank canvas: a textarea and a general instruction to "respond to this story". Yet we usually know perfectly well which kind of responses would be most fruitful in the context of each story. We need to change the language that invites readers into the conversation to reflect what the story is about: "pay your respects" for an obit, "how are you affected?" for a piece about new laws or policies, "Share a personal experience" for stories about education or society. We also need to change the interfaces to guide people towards those interactions: use a like button for some stories, a poll for others, a Q&A form so readers can ask questions to the journalist for yet others, an upload field if we want people to submit additional information or photos, and so on.Mixing it Up: Engaging News Partners « NathanielJames.org
It’s been an amazing launch week for the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership (aka “ MoJo ”). We saw hundreds of tweets every day , coverage by 15 news outlets and blogs (plus lots of re-posts), almost 200 sign-ups on our new community list serve , and over 20 news organizations have already asked me how to get involved. It would be better to concentrate on the smaller media organizations, especially neighborhood newspapers.The term ‘hacker’ warrants re-examining in light of the unravelling News of the World scandal. The circle within which my journalistic persona travels is that of hack/hackers. I am part hacker. I am a data journalism advocate for a developer platform called ScraperWiki ↑ . And I am very concerned about how this tumultuous time in journalism history will define the word ‘hack’ and all its related synonyms.