#SMObooks is not a "How-to-guide" but a "Wow-to-guide" and Guru-Free - Noland Hoshino. 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.” But I disagree — while real-time reporting is very powerful, we still need someone to make sense of those streams and put them in context. In fact, we arguably need that even more. As anyone who has read my posts on social media and the future of media knows by now, I am a big fan of the way that social tools such as Twitter and Facebook and Flickr and YouTube have democratized the production of content of all kinds — journalism and non-journalism.
I do *not* say that the article will no longer be necessary. And later: Protect Journalists in Libya. Name not displayed, Sweden Aug 14, 14:57 Name not displayed, IL Aug 02, 00:54 Name not displayed, PA Jul 28, 16:14 Name not displayed, MA Jul 22, 21:13 Name not displayed, SC Jul 10, 13:03 Name not displayed, WA Jul 03, 17:06 Name not displayed, NY Jul 02, 09:12 Name not displayed, OR Jun 30, 19:30 Name not displayed, CA Jun 23, 20:22 Name not displayed, NH Jun 23, 15:49 Freedom of the press is very important because the people need to know the truth rather than propaganda.
Jun 21, 20:47 Ms. megan schmall, WA Jun 21, 00:55 Freedom of the press forever ! Send a green star Ms. Jun 17, 13:54 Without press freedom, we will never know the truth. send a green star Mr. Jun 17, 04:15 So that people can know what is going on! Send a green star Ms. Jun 16, 21:49 A free press is essential for keeping accountable those in power. send a green star Ms. Jun 14, 17:16 Because everyone has a right to know what's going on in the world. send a green star Jun 12, 06:57 Name not displayed, DE Jun 11, 12:00 Name not displayed, United Kingdom Mrs. White House Beefs Up Online Rapid Response. 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.
"For the last two years, Jesse has often worn two hats working in new media and serving as the White House's liaison with the progressive media and online community. Starting this week, Jesse will take on the second role full time working on outreach, strategy and response. " The post is a new one for this White House. Rapid response has been the purview of the Democratic National Committee (and will continue to be). His new post may require even more delicate hand-holding. What Journalism Is Like Now: Working With 2,000 Sources: Tech News and Analysis « 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.
Now a young journalist who works for Sky News in Britain has put the reality of that into words in a blog post at the BBC’s College of Journalism website. In the post, Neal Mann describes how much his job has changed in just the past few years — and how a key part of it involves interacting with “a personalized wire service” of more than 2,000 sources he has curated via Twitter. Mann says when he trained as a journalist five years ago, his use of social media was limited to posting the occasional picture of himself to Facebook, and Twitter “wasn’t even on my radar.” Now, he says, as a desk editor for the international TV network Sky News, the real-time information network has become a crucial part of the way he does his job.
Why Is It Still So Hard to Get Some Media Outlets to Link?: 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. Blogging veteran Doc Searls of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society got the latest discussion going with a blog post about how so many mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times and Associated Press don’t link in their news stories. That in turn led to a late-night Twitter discussion I had with Patrick LaForge, an editor at the New York Times, and Jacob Harris, who is a senior developer on the paper’s “data journalism” team, (as well as several others) about the relative value of linking. To me, the fact that we are even having debates like this says a lot about how far the traditional media has to go in terms of embracing the online world. I collected some excerpts of the Twitter discussion on my personal blog last night using Storify (it’s also embedded at the bottom of this post), and Alex Byers of Politico also put together a Storify summary.
5 Lessons AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Has Learned About Online Video Success. Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 7:58 AM ET 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: 1. Dedicated teams for video are required; it's too important to share resources 2. Video assets must be organized and catalogued; most companies don't even know how much or what they own as he found when he arrived at AOL 2 years ago 3. 4. 5. Armstrong described how AOL has spent $200 million acquiring video companies and investing in video in the past 2 years, and has focused significant energy on new partnerships and site redesign. As a closing surprise, Armstrong brought Queen Latifah on stage to talk about her partnership with AOL announced in March. Newspaper map | all online newspapers in the world, translate with one click.
White House Announces End To Re-Enactments For News Photographers. 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. After Obama's live, late-evening address from the East Room of the White House on May 1, five photographers were ushered in to shoot pictures as the president stood at the podium and re-read a few lines of his speech – a practice that news organizations have protested for years.
Even though The Associated Press and other news outlets said in captions to the photos that they were taken after the president delivered his address, many people who saw them may have assumed they depicted the speech itself. That raised questions of whether news organizations were staging an event. This week, the White House stepped in. The practice of re-enactments has a long history.
Victory! ALDF Wins Freedom for Tony the Truck Stop Tiger. Tony, the 10-year-old Siberian Bengal tiger who’s been at the heart of an ongoing catfight over his living conditions at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, La., has had his freedom granted! On Friday, May 6, District Judge R. Michael Caldwell of the East Baton Rouge District Court granted the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s (ALDF) request for a permanent injunction against the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), preventing them from renewing the annual permit that allows Michael Sandlin to keep Tony as of this December 14.
Unbeknownst to Tony, he’s garnered the attention of people around the world who have been fighting to have him freed from the concrete cell he’s spent his entire life in for years. Unfortunately, officials have bent the rules and looked the other way when it came to the Tiger Truck Stop. “Today, the law was upheld in the state of Louisiana, which has explicit regulations designed to protect tigers like Tony,” said ALDF Executive Director Stephen Wells.
Aol News to Fold | Huffington Post and Aol Merger | Red State vs Blue State. 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. In early March, reports surfaced of upwards to 750 individuals being laid off as a result of the merger, the majority of which they claimed were technical staffers overseas. When reached, Aol did not immediately provide comment.
Is This The Greatest About Us Page Ever Written? | Content Marketing. 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. Remember the millions of dollars, hundreds of staff and hours of coverage spent on a wedding in London when crises around the globe and here at home festered. Remember the unseemly pas de deux between the press and a reality TV show huckster peddling racially-fraught falsehoods, as both interviewers and the interviewee seek a bump in ratings.
And then please take a moment to remember the eight American soldiers and one contractor killed by an Afghan soldier at the Kabul airport in a war too easily forgotten. Remember the hundreds likely being killed in Syria and Libya, not to mention the death and unrest plaguing countries like the Ivory Coast, which almost never earn more than a mention on our most-watched newscasts. What bothers me is the hypocrisy.
War Time Reporting. How a big push and a little help can convince people to change. 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. We've been meaning to leave domain registrar GoDaddy for a long time. The endless come-ons and up-sells, the relentless and depressing sexism of their marketing, and one or two appalling posts on CEO Bob Parsons' blog all combined to alienate us completely from the company over the years. If it had been a question of switching grocery stores or vitamin brands, we'd have done it long ago.
But registrars tend to make leaving kind of complex; they don't see it as being in their interest to have one big Transfer All of Your Domains Somewhere Else button. And since we own dozens of domains, the barrier to action was even greater. Enter the first elephant. In March, Parsons uploaded a video himself shooting and killing an elephant in Zimbabwe, and there was an immediate outcry. I watched the video on March 31, agog. Cue the second elephant. Celebrity Twitter Ghost Writer, Hot Job For The Recession. Will YouTube Live be the tipping point for livestreaming? The digital video transition has been a long time coming. It’s still early, early days. Many of dreams of the .com boom that shattered upon technical, social or financial reality a decade ago, however, are finally coming to pass. When the world can watch live rock events and cricket matches on YouTube.com, livestreams from revolutions in the Middle East and watch the President of the United States announce the resolution to a Congressional budget impass on a smartphone, it does feel like a bit has flipped.
As usual, a famous observation by William Gibson (@GreatDismal) feels apt: “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” Yesterday, Google announced that YouTube is going live and pushed the initial version of “YouTube Live” live. Live will allow selected users, like Pop17, to livestream channels directly to YouTube platforms. According to YouTube, the world should expect “thousands” of livestreams to go online in the months ahead. Like this: Like Loading... Those Other Social Networks. Image from the Outsiders With an over-focus on Facebook and Twitter during the past few years, organizations may be doing themselves a disservice by failing to cultivate communities in other networks. These networks have their own strengths and weaknesses, and because of their sizable communities are significant in their own right. Here is a look at three that maybe worth your organization’s time. In each case, if one invests the same amount of time they would in Facebook or Twitter — in essence replacing one with the other — they would likely get the same if not a better result from the community.
So why ignore them? 1) LinkedIn: It may not make sense to call LinkedIn a second tier social network for much longer. Maintaining a competitive position with Facebook is not easy, but somehow LinkedIn keeps it coming. 2) YouTube: You must be thinking, “So 2006.” 3) StumbleUpon: StumbleUpon has recently gained a few million new users, with more than 15 million accounts in total now. Google Saves The News! - Forbes.com. Google to Revamp YouTube With 'Channels'
HuffPo Harnesses Patch Hyperlocals for Bin Laden News. In the months since AOL bought The Huffington Post, the company’s execs have talked a number of times about plans to incorporate coverage from Patch’s network of hyperlocal sites into HuffPo’s national report. Arianna Huffington herself said she expects Patch will be a key element of HuffPo’s coverage of the 2012 presidential election, and Patch local reports from California were recently used in stories about the Japanese tsunami.
But last night we really saw that collaboration in action, as HuffPo drew on Patch’s network to flesh out out its coverage with hyperlocal reactions from around the country to the death of Osama bin Laden. In the process, it perhaps showed how a scaled network of hyperlocals can mimic an old-fashioned wire service in the midst of major news stories, with reports from all over feeding the mothership.
So does this approach mean that Patch’s sites now function as local news bureaus for HuffPo?