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Is Corporate Storytelling Replacing The News Business? Journalism Warning Labels. Contents Not Verified It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there's no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.

Journalism Warning Labels

Why Solutions Journalism Matters, Too. Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work.

Why Solutions Journalism Matters, Too

This is a follow-up to last Friday’s column revisiting social change organizations that grew in 2011. On Friday, I did a recap of stories that we had featured in Fixes over the past year ― and I was surprised to discover that many of the organizations we’d written about had managed to expand their work, even in a difficult economy and political context. 2012 : tournant du journalisme web. The Guardian is opening up its newslists so you can help us make news. Few documents are more carefully guarded in newspaper offices than the newslist.

The Guardian is opening up its newslists so you can help us make news

The mixture of what's coming up and what the editors are hoping for can be so valuable that rivals have even been known to pay for a sneaky look. Some newsrooms I've worked in have relied on code words to describe really juicy stories. Often, it can be an embarrassingly blank sheet of paper – best kept hidden, even from the boss.

The idea of giving this information away before publication might therefore seem to be putting digital dogma before common sense. Just because the internet theoretically allows journalists to give readers a peek behind the curtain by sharing the list with them does not make it a good idea. We suspect otherwise though at the Guardian. TBIJ. Tottenham riots: Data journalists and social scientists should join forces. In the wake of some of the worst riots in London in more than a decade, Ben Goldacre has said on Twitter:

Tottenham riots: Data journalists and social scientists should join forces

The Washington Post Owes the World an Apology for this Item - James Fallows - International. Read it and weep.

The Washington Post Owes the World an Apology for this Item - James Fallows - International

On the Post's site Jennifer Rubin first quotes the Weekly Standard, in a rushed item about the Norway horror: >>We don't know if al Qaeda was directly responsible for today's events, but in all likelihood the attack was launched by part of the jihadist hydra. Prominent jihadists have already claimed online that the attack is payback for Norway's involvement in the war in Afghanistan. The Hack who has never Hacked. Journalists are largely unloved by the public.

The Hack who has never Hacked

Survey after survey puts my chosen profession towards the bottom of the likeability scale, only estate agents are held in more distaste, and even that might be a close run thing now. In TV and the movies, the journalist is rarely the hero, and when he is (and it's more often a he) he is flawed and broken, ruined by the job and the demands it makes.

Les journalistes priés d'être sérieux sur Twitter. Who’s Doing It Right? Storify Empowers Journalists to Write a Different Kind of Story - Lewis DVorkin - The Copy Box.

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WikiLeaks et la déontologie journalistique « Wikileaks : un nouveau média? Pour appliquer un raisonnement déontologique, il faut répondre à une question au centre de notre problématique ; est-ce que WikiLeaks fait du journalisme ?

WikiLeaks et la déontologie journalistique « Wikileaks : un nouveau média?

L’information que l’on trouve sur WikiLeaks est brute. Elle n’est généralement pas traitée ni mise en forme de la manière dont les médias traditionnels traitent l’information. Mais bien qu’elle ne soit pas considérée comme une organisation médiatique, elle joue toutefois un rôle indéniable dans l’espace médiatique actuel, et dans l’espace public. WikiLeaks respecte-t-il la déontologie journalistique ? NOVA, retour sur une première nuit d’amour » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism.

L'éthylotest et le compteur de décibels sont retombés à zéro mais l'enthousiasme anime encore Mathilde, co-animatrice de la #nuitsujet, au moment de jeter un coup d'œil dans le rétroviseur.

NOVA, retour sur une première nuit d’amour » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism

SUR MON ECRAN RADAR. Internet ou la possibilité d'une île. Of Cyber-Skeptics and Cyber-Utopians – Debunking Myths and Discussing the Future » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism. This post was originally published on the Meta-Activism Project About ten days before the events of January 25, the media was abuzz with writers and influential thinkers wondering if the Tunisian revolution was a Twitter revolution or not.

Of Cyber-Skeptics and Cyber-Utopians – Debunking Myths and Discussing the Future » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism

Comment le web a libéré l'’info...ailleurs. Media Companies Must Become Trusted Data Hubs » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism. This article was written by Mirko Lorenz, information architect (Cologne, Germany), Nicolas Kayser-Bril, head datajournalist at OWNI (Paris, France), and Geoff McGhee, online journalist who created Journalism in the Age of Data (Stanford).

Media Companies Must Become Trusted Data Hubs » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism

It was started by a tweet from @mirkolorenz which led up, 20 days later, to this piece which aims at inspiring media companies, showing new editorial and business opportunities. Journalists and media companies in general have had to answer a fundamental question ever since their traditional business model collapsed: What are we? Le plagiat dans la culture du partage » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press. Like PressThink? More from the same pen: Read about Jay Rosen's book, What Are Journalists For? Excerpt from Chapter One of What Are Journalists For? "As Democracy Goes, So Goes the Press. " Essay in Columbia Journalism Review on the changing terms of authority in the press, brought on in part by the blog's individual--and interactive--style of journalism. "Web Users Open the Gates. " Digital Journalism. Les textes belges - Conseil de déontologie journalistique.

Les principes de base. FAQ - Conseil de déontologie journalistique. Déontologie du journalisme. Pour une déontologie marchande du journalisme. Docteur en Droit des Médias et des NTIC, chargé de cours en « communication et marketing européens » à l’IUT de Nice, Philippe Boure nous a fait parvenir cette « nouvelle charte de déontologie du journalisme », plus exactement conforme à la réalité du journalisme dominant que les chartes, au demeurant respectables, que tant de journalistes ne parviennent pas à respecter ou à faire respecter [1] (Acrimed). La déontologie journalistique.

» Politique et Société Les médias ont, dans notre société, un rôle prépondérant. On parle même de quatrième pouvoir . Code de déontologie du journalisme - information, public et critique. Notre charte éthique. Le Centre de formation de journalistes en Suisse romande - L'éthique journalistique. A manifesto for the simple scribe – my 25 commandments for journalists. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The Lego approach to storytelling. June 02, 2011 {*style:<b>The cutting room floor of journalism is a sad place: all those facts, interviews, asides, anecdotes, context, insights, and media gathered during reporting which, while relevant and interesting, just don’t fit comfortably into the narrative flow or length/time limits of the finished story.

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