L'avenir de LCI en question TF1 considère que, si aucune solution n'est trouvée pour remédier à la défaillance de Canal+ qui ne financera plus LCI et si le CSA refuse une diffusion gratuite, il faudra malheureusement en tirer les conséquences sur le plan social. Canal+ a pris la décision irrévocable de ne plus financer LCI à hauteur de 15 millions d'euros dont le budget est de 42 millions d'euros. « À l'heure où l'information est totalement gratuite, cela n'aurait aucun sens que nous continuions à payer des abonnements payants pour proposer cette chaîne à nos clients, précise-t-on. I-télé, BFMTV, Euronews, France 24 sont diffusées gratuitement , LCI est la seule télévision à faire encore exception dans le paysage français. » Averti de cette situation qui verra Canal+ cesser de verser la moindre contribution le 31 décembre prochain, TF1 a lancé des pourparlers et un appel d'offres pour opérer un transfert de la chaîne sur la Toile. LCI ne répond pas encore à cette spécificité .
datajournalismelab How Biased is the Media? Tim Groseclose, Author of Left Turn, Answers Your Questions Last week we solicited your questions for Tim Groseclose, a political science professor at UCLA and author of the new book, Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind. The response was fast and furious. A total of 149 questions (and counting) have been posted in the comments section. We selected 14 of them for Groseclose to answer, and he obliged us quite promptly. Q. A. Why are newsrooms so liberal? A manager or owner of a media outlet could try to counteract this by trying to hire more conservatives, but he will have a hard time trying to find conservatives who want to be journalists. How can journalists be aware of their own biases? And if a journalist is really serious about understanding his or her own biases, he or she could visit Washington County, Utah. Q. A. Although Republicans and Democrats probably do get their news from vastly different sources, in one sense it hardly matters. Q. A. I think probably the most conservative profession is military officer.
Which TV Shows Were the Most Social in June? [INFOGRAPHIC] Realtime social media tracker Trendrr has released an infographic detailing the biggest winners in the social TV space in June 2011. Culling data from the Trendrr.tv social TV index, the graphic breaks down the top broadcast, cable networks and TV shows, based on social interaction. From a programming standpoint, the two big winners in June 2011 were NBC's The Voice and the BET Awards. The BET Awards drew 1.4 million social impressions, which helped it rank first in cable programming and helped BET rank as the most social cable network. Likewise, NBC's big hit, The Voice, was not only the most social show on broadcast TV, it helped NBC maintain a sizable lead over other broadcast networks in terms of social engagement. This is an example of programming with a decidedly social bent performing well on social networks.
Learning How To Visualize Been getting a ton of requests for ‘how to’s and guides for creating decent visualizations and information designs. Made me think: maybe I could do some workshops in this area. I like developing ideas and working with people. Could be fun! So if you think you’d like to attend a workshop on visualization or organize one for your organisation, please fill in this quick form (30 seconds). In the meantime, you might be interested in a section I’ve been building in a far-flung corner of the site. The most recent one explores the stages we went through creating an infographic for Wired magazine about planets in other solar systems – or “exoplanets”. (Microscopic, dark and unimaginably far away, these tiny celestial objects should be impossible to spot. Here’s how we created it. Timelines: TimeTravel in TV and Film Yup, we went through 36 drafts of this. Versioning: Because Every Design Is Good For Something How do you flag and label 142 countries on a single map without choking the result?
Désintermédiation et perte de pouvoir des journalistes : Crise d Avec Internet, on s'habitue à accéder à l'information de façon directe, sans l'aide d'intermédiaires. Le rôle de médiation des journalistes est remis en cause. Ce rôle ne disparait pas: il se modifie. Avant de se rendre à Davos, le locataire de l'Elysée a participé à l'émission « Paroles de Français ». Cette émission, on peut la voir de deux façon: 1) c'est juste un trompe l'œil, une émission de télé réalité politique, un pseudo échange entre un homme politique et des citoyens triés sur le volet; l'essentiel se passe ailleurs, par exemple au sommet Davos, qui réunit les super riches. 2) cette émission atteste de la montée en puissance de la « parole » des citoyens, de l'opinion qui s'exprime de façon directe, avec un rôle restreint des journalistes Désintermédiation L'émission de TF1 n'est pas la première du genre. Cette désintermédiation est de plus en plus souvent à l'œuvre. Les citoyens s'expriment directement. Médias sociaux et parole citoyenne Le Facebook des partis politiques
Ten ways journalists can use Google+ Since Google+ (plus) was launched a week ago those who have managed to get invites to the latest social network have been testing out circles, streams and trying to work out how it fits alongside Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Here are 10 ways Google+ can be used for building contacts, news gathering and sharing: 1. As “a Facebook for your tweeps” This is how Allan Donald has described Google+ in an update. And it is pretty good way of understanding it. 2. As the Google+1 button takes off and your contacts recommend articles (Google +1 is like Facebook’s like button), you can keep track of what they like by taking a look at what they are +1ing and use it like a bookmarking service to flag up articles to read later. Reading what others are +1ing relies on users changing their settings as the standard set-up does not allow +1s to be viewed by others. 3. If you signed up to Google Buzz, you will find tweets are included in your profile. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Similar posts:
Statistics Help for Journalists Numbers can't "talk," but they can tell you as much as your human sources can. But as with human sources, you have to ask! So what should you ask a number? In 1996, I first published Statistics Every Writer Should Know, an online tutorial for math-phobic journalists. Running a business demands at least a basic knowledge of math and math concepts, so I'm including this tutorial as an appendix my 2012 book, How to Make Money Publishing Community News Online. Here, described in plain English, are some basic concepts in statistics that every writer should know... So, You're a Beginner? Mean Let's get started... Median How to find out how the "average Joe" is doing Mode So, like, who's popular? Percent Ch-ch-ch-changes... The Next Step: Not Getting Duped Per capita and Rates When an increase is really a decrease and other ways people can use numbers to trick you Standard Deviation and Normal Distribution A quick look at the King of Stats Regression Analysis It's all about relationships... Moving On
Avoid Making the First Concession When Bargaining to Come Out Ahead in the End It's almost common sense, yet Obama still hasn't figured it out. This "common sense" is what led to the budget gridlock and the subsequent debt limit gridlock that both led to two dramatic drops in job growth in the month immediately afterward. Two-sided negotiation is hard (almost impossible) when both sides are populated by people with strong opinions who effectively have veto power over the other side. That's why the most successful negotiations are mediated negotiations, with a non-partisan third party moderating the discussion. By taking the middle road each time these negotiations have come up, Obama's trying to position himself as that mediator. The solution isn't getting rid of Obama. Upon election, Obama and the Dems had control of both House of Congress, and the mandate of a decisive victory in the election. Obama could've got to work and told the Republicans, my way or the highway and railroaded through many of the reforms he promised and got elected on.
On achève bien les agences photo Après Sygma et Gamma, c'est au tour de l'agence Sipa Press d'être rachetée. Les deux tiers des photographes passent à la trappe. Tout un symbole. L’annonce a été officialisée la semaine dernière : l’agence photo Sipa Press est sur le point d’être vendue à une agence allemande, DAPD, au prix de 34 licenciements sur les 92 salariés, dont 16 des 24 photographes, d’après Le Monde. Une véritable saignée à blanc, où l’activité de photojournalisme d’une des dernières prestigieuses agences survivantes est sacrifiée. À terme, toujours d’après le quotidien, l’agence DAPD (deuxième agence de presse outre-Rhin), contrôlée par un fonds d’investissement, vise à transformer Sipa en agence filaire généraliste, donc en concurrence directe avec l’AFP et autres Reuters. L’annonce est loin d’être anecdotique, et révèle une fois encore l’évolution (la disparition annoncée ?) La dégringolade pour Sipa Presse avait commencé en 2001. Concurrence des agences filaires Tentatives de virages numériques blentley et
22 free tools for data visualization and analysis You may not think you've got much in common with an investigative journalist or an academic medical researcher. But if you're trying to extract useful information from an ever-increasing inflow of data, you'll likely find visualization useful -- whether it's to show patterns or trends with graphics instead of mountains of text, or to try to explain complex issues to a nontechnical audience. There are many tools around to help turn data into graphics, but they can carry hefty price tags. Here's a rundown of some of the better-known options, many of which were demonstrated at the Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) conference last month. Data cleaning Before you can analyze and visualize data, it often needs to be "cleaned." DataWrangler What it does: This Web-based service from Stanford University's Visualization Group is designed for cleaning and rearranging data so it's in a form that other tools such as a spreadsheet app can use. What's cool: Text editing is especially easy.
The bond between data and journalism grows stronger While reporters and editors have been the traditional vectors for information gathering and dissemination, the flattened information environment of 2012 now has news breaking first online, not on the newsdesk. That doesn’t mean that the integrated media organizations of today don’t play a crucial role. Far from it. In the information age, journalists are needed more than ever to curate, verify, analyze and synthesize the wash of data. To learn more about the shifting world of data journalism, I interviewed Liliana Bounegru (@bb_liliana), project coordinator of SYNC3, the first international Data Journalism Awards, and Data Driven Journalism at the European Journalism Centre. What’s the difference between the data journalism of today and the computer-assisted reporting (CAR) of the past? Some argue [PDF] that there is a difference between CAR and data journalism. On the other hand, some argue that there is no difference between data journalism and computer-assisted reporting.
Comment bricolons-nous le numérique Par Hubert Guillaud le 05/07/11 | 7 commentaires | 3,056 lectures | Impression La technologie est sensée nous rendre la vie plus facile, mais les pires frustrations de nos contemporains sont dues aux nouvelles technologies qui peuplent nos maisons, estime Philip Ely, doctorant au Centre de recherche sur le monde numérique de l’université du Surrey. Pour affirmer cela le chercheur a étudié, à la manière d’un ethnographe, comment les gens vivent leurs relations aux technologies domestiques qui nous entourent, comment ils configurent et reconfigurent leurs pratiques à l’aune du fonctionnement des objets sociotechniques qu’ils utilisent (voir notamment sa contribution dans le livre New Media Technologies and User Empowerment du programme européen Participation in Broadband Society qui se tenait en 2009). Pour évoquer cette écologie technologico-domestique de nos pratiques, Philip Ely parle de “bricolage numérique” (Do It Yourself digital), explique le Guardian.
How to: get to grips with data journalism A graph showing the number of IEDs cleared from the Afghanistan War Logs Only a couple of years ago, the idea that journalists would need to know how to use a spreadsheet would have been laughed out of the newsroom. Now those benighted days are way behind us and extracting stories out of data is part of every journalist's toolkit of skills. Some people say the answer is to become a sort of super hacker, write code and immerse yourself in SQL. If you decide to take that approach, you can find a load of resources here. But a lot of the work we do is just in excel and that's what I'll deal with here. Of course, you could just ignore the whole thing, hope it'll go away and you can get back to longing to write colour pieces. 1) Sourcing the data This is a much undervalued skill - with many journalists simply outsourcing it to research departments and work experience students. But broadly, the general approach is to look for the most authoritative place for your data. 3) Keep the codes