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As news consumption changes massively with new media, the NYT puts a lot of effort in developing interfaces. "Touch makes interfaces a lot more compatible and easy to use, in addition to the fact that the web is moving into the living room and offers new connections," Bilton told me. He has just written a book called I Live in the Future: & Here's How It Works, which will illustrate the changing landscape taking place in storytelling industries. For the New York Times, this aspect is apparent as they experiment a lot with different ways of telling the news. Apart from their regular homepage, the New York Times offers four different interfaces: Times Wire , Times Reader 2.0 , Times Extra and Skimmer ; all the interfaces deliver them background data – useful when developing an iPad app, for example. How the New York Times and CNN try to keep up with the tech comp http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/mar/15/new-york-times-cnn-tech-companies

Media Engineers Are Becoming A Reality... - SVW http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2010/01/media_engineers_1.php I have been writing about the need for media engineers since 2005 -- these are people who are part journalist and part software engineer. It seems that it is catching on. Ryan Tate on Valleywag put together a nice list of people that could easily be called 'media engineers' such as: Nick Bilton, New York Times: He might be lead blogger on Bits, the Times tech blog, but Bilton has also worked as a user interface specialist and hardware hacker in the Times R&D lab, helping to develop the TimesReader. He also knows his way around a C compiler.

As if the journalism job landscape weren't terrifying enough, now you've got to think about learning to code. It's yet another new media skill you'll need to stay ahead of competitors. And make no mistake: they're stockpiling O'Reilly books . In 2006, when news-app coder Adrian Holovaty called for more programmers in American newsrooms , he didn't get much response. But a few years and newspaper bankruptcies later, writers seem to be awakening to the advantages of learning to develop web apps or hack together quick scripts to handle labor-intensive data collection tasks. Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer - journalismis http://gawker.com/5448635/hack-to-hacker-rise-of-the-journalist+programmer

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/08/the_coming_era.php Why? Because it is a common commodity. Software, servers and algorithms are cheap and are going to get cheaper. That's why Internet 2.0, this next phase of the internet (lower-case "i" please) will become the era of the "media engineer" - tech-savvy content producers, including journalists. The coming era of the media engineer and media entrepreneur - SV

Journalism Schools Wake Up To Need For Media Engineers - SVW About four years ago I began writing about the need for "media engineers" a skill set that is part journalist and part software engineer. Software skills should be part of a modern journalist's toolbox. (My first job was as a software engineer 29 years ago.) Aug 17 2005 Journalists need to learn to speak some geek. . . Posted by Tom Foremski - May 12, 2009 http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/05/journalism_scho.php

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/10/mediawatch_an_e.php MediaWatch: An Example Of Data Journalism - SVW For several years I've been writing about the need for "media engineers" part software engineer and part journalist. And others have also started to write about teaching journalism to programmers. MediaShift .

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/10/mediawatch_putt.php MediaWatch: Putting Journalists And Programmers In The Same Room Foremski's Take: I've written on this topic many times and I think it is easier to teach journalists to become programmers. They then become "media engineers" rather than software engineers. Today's development tools are very powerful and they make building complex software applications easier than ever before. "I've seen a lot of cases where some piece of code did exactly what the requirements document specified, but it didn't do what anyone wanted," Waite said.

Elke Heiss pointed me to this: The Associated Press: Sarkozy offers new help for French print media The French state will help provide free newspaper subscriptions to teenagers for their 18th birthdays, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Friday. But the bigger gift is for France's ailing print media. Posted by Tom Foremski - January 26, 2009 Sarkozy also announced a ninefold rise in the state's support for newspaper deliveries and a doubling of its annual print advertising outlay amid a swelling industry crisis. http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/01/searching_for_a.php Searching For a Viable Media Business Model: French Government A

Ten Basic New Media Skills Journalists Need To Know - SVW http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2008/03/ten_basic_new_m.php Software engineers have to update their bag of skills constantly. They learn new programming languages, new web standards, new development systems, and new lexicons constantly. Most traditional journalists can barely type, they certainly can't spell. And they are unusually useless in terms of PC and other tech skills.

I don't need to be proficient in these computer languages, but I should know enougth to be able to do basic things with these tools, because there is an opportunity for journalists to become "media engineers." By knowing something about these technologies--which are all essentially publishing technologies--journalists can craft new types of media, and CSS is a key enabling technology. When I worked as a mainstream journalist , we didn't have to learn an alphabet soup of new skills all the time. Software engineers and web site developers have to constantly update their personal bag of skills. I'm of the opinion that these days, I should be a "technology enabled" journalist and I encourage my media colleagues to do the same. I should know how these technologies such as CSS, RSS, XML, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, (not PERL) Ruby on Rails, do what they do. Getting the CSS Internet 2.0 religion . . . . . . . . . (don't m http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2006/10/getting_the_css.php

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