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10 Predictions for the News Media in 2011

10 Predictions for the News Media in 2011
In many ways, 2010 was finally the year of mobile for news media, and especially so if you consider the iPad a mobile device. Many news organizations like The Washington Post and CNN included heavy social media integrations into their apps, opening the devices beyond news consumption. In 2011, the focus on mobile will continue to grow with the launch of mobile- and iPad-only news products, but the greater focus for news media in 2011 will be on re-imagining its approach to the open social web. The focus will shift from searchable news to social and share-able news, as social media referrals close the gap on search traffic for more news organizations. In the coming year, news media's focus will be affected by the personalization of news consumption and social media's influence on journalism. 1. In 2010, we saw the rise of WikiLeaks through its many controversial leaks. 2. At the tail end of 2010, we saw the acquisition of TechCrunch by AOL and the Newsweek merger with The Daily Beast. 3.

Journalisme et réseaux sociaux: 11 tendances pour 2011 » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism Rétrospective non exhaustive des idées qui ont été discutées ces derniers temps sur les blogs et dans les conférences sur le blog de Citizenside. Bon, c’est vrai, le titre est facile, mais vous connaissez un titre davantage Google-Facebook-Twitter-friendly pour cette fin d’année ? Ni prédictions, ni révélations ici, mais une synthèse non exhaustive des idées lues, vues, entendues en cette fin d’année sur les blogs et dans les conférences (notamment Rencontres RSLN, LeWeb, news:rewired), par Citizenside On aurait pu titrer en parlant de “mots-clés”, mais c’est so 2008. 1/ SEO journalism, ou le journalisme d’autocomplétion Écrire et titrer pour Google ? Des spécialistes interviennent dans les rédactions pour aider les journalistes à mieux référencer leurs articles, comme Masha Rigin de TheDailyBeast.com, invitée par l’École de Journalisme de Sciences Po (merci à Alice Antheaume pour son récit de la journée). Les journalistes peaufinent le titre que vous avez envie de lire. Dingue. Le modèle ?

Online Video in 2011: Ready for Drama? Friends, online-video is going to be a fun storm in 2011 as the drama has just begun. It’s the first official business day of 2011, and that prompted me to awaken at 3:00 a.m. with great curiosity. I spent 4-plus hours diving into dozens of articles and blogs, and have wrapped it all up nicely for you. Here are “things to watch” in early 2011, including some recent articles. Can WebTV tame the "Big Media" Tiger? 1. Click image to read more of Fortune's "What the HELL is Going on With TV" 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Finally take note of NewTeeVee’s Liz Shannon Miller’s poll about what force will really impact the space. Like this: Like Loading... La parenthèse Gutenberg La lecture de la semaine n’est pas toute jeune, il s’agit de la retranscription d’un entretien donné en avril dernier au Nieman Journalism Lab (voir également sur le Forum du MIT) par un professeur danois du nom de Thomas Pettitt. Le Nieman Journalism Lab est un projet de l’université de Harvard, aux Etats-Unis, qui vise à interroger la possibilité de faire un journalisme de qualité à l’ère numérique. Ce professeur Thomas Pettitt applique aux questions journalistiques une théorie qu’on appelle la “parenthèse Gutenberg” et qui postule que nous aurions vécu avec l’imprimerie une parenthèse, et que la révolution à laquelle on assiste en ce moment est une révolution au sens littéral du terme, dans la mesure où elle nous ramène à un état antérieur, celui d’avant l’imprimerie, d’avant le prima du livre comme support de la vérité. Voici comment l’explique Thomas Pettitt : “Il y a des changements qui se produisent et qui sont liés les uns aux autres. Et c’est ce qui se passe aujourd’hui.

Facebook Friends Recommend Movies, Music, Food & Now T.V. with Clicker Television shows, music, movies, good places to eat - these are all things that the typical five star review may be okay for, but it's really the personal recommendation from someone whose opinion you trust that matters the most. If everyone likes that Mexican joint down the street but your buddy, who also prefers spicy salsa and homemade tortillas, says it's no good, then you're likely to skip out on dinner there and head across the street. This is the basic idea behind Facebook's once controversial "Instant Personalization" program, which brings the personal reviews, tastes, opinions and browsing habits of you and your friends to external websites. Clicker is one of the five awesome apps to find content on your Internet TV that we featured last week and Facebook's Instant Personalization will help to add that personal touch that comes with friends' recommendations. Already, Facebook was working with a number of sites to offer personalized content.

Online journalism and the promises of new technology PART 6: Conclusion I totally forgot to wrap up this series – but here it is; the conclusion. Sorry about the delay. And by the way; the whole series is now published (in a slightly different version) as an article in the journal Journalism Studies (restricted access). Here are the previous posts: The revolution that never happened (part 1)The three main assets of new technology to online journalism — interactivity, hypertext and multimedia (part 2)Online journalism as hypertext (part 3) Online journalism and interactivity (part 4)Online journalism and multimedia (part 5) The previous posts of this series have left an impression that online journalism is left behind by the technological developments in new media. Journalists and editors seem, at least to some extent, eager to embrace change brought forward by new technology, while users don’t seem to care. Some researchers suggest that ethnography and a closer look at the practices and routines of online news production is the answer. Like this:

Starz Launches TV Series with Facebook Game Catering to fans' growing belief that a TV show should live on in other forms of media, cable network Starz is launching the series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, a Facebook game and an iPad app. The former, which launches January 6 to the first 10,000 Spartacus fans who register on the network's Facebook Page, is one of the first social media games based on a TV show. The game lets you run your own Ludus (gladiator school) in the role of Lanista (manager of gladiators) and assemble your team to be fighting champions and do battle in the top arenas of the Roman Empire. The full launch is set for January 21. Starz is also planning to introduce an iPad app based on Spartacus on January 22 that provides a screenplay of the show augmented by exclusive multimedia video segments, directors' notes and cast photos, among other extras. However, Schafer notes that developing a game of this scope could also fail.

Online journalism and the promises of new technology PART 5: Multimedia In this fifth and second to last part of this series I’ll review the research on how and to what degree multimedia is utilized in online journalism. Previous parts of this series have focused on ( part 1 ); how to define the three main assets of new technology to online journalism — interactivity, hypertext and multimedia ( part 2 ); the research on the use of hypertext in online journalism ( part 3 ); and the research on online journalism and interactivity ( part4 ). As with hypertext and interactivity, most studies of multimedia in online journalism rely on content analysis of websites. Jankowski and van Selm concluded that of all supposed added value facilities of online journalism multimedia “is perhaps the most underdeveloped” (2000, p. 7). In their extensive investigation of European online journalism, Richard van der Wurff and Lauf (Eds) (2005) found that print newspapers were as much about multimedia as online newspapers (this study is not available online).

How Social Media is Changing the Business of Television Lisa Hsia is Senior Vice President of Bravo Digital Media and is addicted to Flipboard on her iPad. There’s no question that the real-time conversations around TV shows on social networks — the virtual water cooler, if you will — enhance engagement and drive on-air ratings. Whether it’s the Taylor and Kanye debacle, the Bad Girls, or the Real Housewives, friends tell friends when things happen on the air, and that viral conversation turns TVs on. The significance of real-time participation is that it gives the audience a voice and a power it never had previously. The Social Effect on Ratings and Sentiment There’s debate about exactly how much online conversation is driving TV ratings. But ratings are just part of the picture. Now every single show, even pre-taped ones, can be a “live event platform” for fans. As real-time guru Mark Ghuneim of Wiredset said, “We have moved from must-see TV to must-tweet TV.” Social Media Can Influence Program Development Engagement and Marketing Potential

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