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No, Twitter Is Not a Replacement For Journalism Tech News and Analysis
Updated : In the wake of a number of events, including the use of Twitter as a real-time reporting tool by New York Times writer Brian Stelter during the aftermath of the recent tornado in Missouri, media theorist and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis has written a post about how the “article” or traditional news story may no longer be necessary . With so much real-time reporting via social networks, he argues that the standard news article has become a “value-added luxury.”WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has created and staffed a new position tucked inside their communications shop for helping coordinate rapid response to unfavorable stories and fostering and improving relations with the progressive online community. "This week, Jesse Lee will move from the new media department into a role in the communications department as Director of Progressive Media & Online Response," read an internal memo from Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, provided to The Huffington Post.
White House Beefs Up Online Rapid Response
We’ve written many times at GigaOM about how the media industry is being disrupted, and how that is being caused in part by the “democratization of distribution” that social-media tools such as Twitter and Facebook allow .
What Journalism Is Like Now: Working With 2,000 Sources: Tech News and Analysis «
You wouldn’t think that in 2011, we would still be having debates about the value of linking to things, yet we are.
Why Is It Still So Hard to Get Some Media Outlets to Link?: Tech News and Analysis «
At WPP Group's Global Video Summit yesterday afternoon, (hosted by Kantar Video, GroupM and WPP Digital), AOL CEO Tim Armstrong shared 5 lessons he's learned for online video success:
5 Lessons AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Has Learned About Online Video Success
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We have indexed all newspapers and plotted their correct locations, in 39 countries. Might have missed some. And most newspapers in another 199 countries, a bunch of them not in their correct locations.
NEW YORK — The White House said it is ending its long-running practice of having presidents re-enact televised speeches for news photographers following major addresses to the country, a little-known arrangement that fed suggestions of fakery when Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden.
White House Announces End To Re-Enactments For News Photographers
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Watching the Mississippi River spill deeper into downtown Memphis than it has in my lifetime, I went in search of something I wrote during the 1993 flood between the breaking stories — an essay about the river’s power, ordered by an editor at the Chicago Tribune who thought people needed a history lesson. It took less than a minute to find the 18-year-old article by googling Mississippi River and my byline.
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Aol News to Fold | Huffington Post and Aol Merger | Red State vs Blue State | Mediaite
Its no surprise to anyone that Huffington Post and Aol News will be merging, but what surprised us, is that in the days to come, Aol News will no longer be producing any original content, and will instead be entirely serviced by Huffington Post. Since Aol CEO Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington jointly announced plans to merge their companies on Super Bowl Sunday , many media critics have guessed how these household brand-name media companies would specifically co-mingle. And while its been widely reported that, post-acquisition, Aol has bee shedding numerous writer, reporters and content producers, Mediaite hears from a credible source that in the coming days, Aol News will officially fold its operations entirely.
Dan Rather: ...And in Other News
The next time you hear about another round of layoffs at a TV news division, the closing of a bureau, the decision not to cover a foreign story with full force, remember this week of silliness in April.
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This is the story of how one elephant drove us to make a change... and another elephant, courtesy of Switch authors Chip and Dan Heath, showed us the way.