The New York Times » Encyclo. Future of Media: Lots of Questions, But No Easy Answers: Tech News and Analysis « The Columbia School of Journalism released a massive report on Tuesday that looks at the current landscape of digital media — the small and the large, the mainstream and the alternative — and finds what will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the industry: disruption and confusion, and a notable lack of any obvious solutions. Although there are hints of some possible new business models, the bottom line is that journalists and media companies simply don’t understand enough about what is happening to their traditional business. And until they do, the chaos is likely to continue. Within the span of a single human generation, people’s access to information has shifted from relative scarcity to surplus. As Clay Shirky has said, the problem we suffer from now isn’t information overload, it’s “filter failure.” Digital disrupts the aggregation model that was so profitable for so long.
Post and thumbnail photos courtesy of Flickr users Zert Sonstige and Zarko Drincic. Introduction. The_Story_So_Far.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Journalisme et réseaux sociaux: 8 tendances venues des Etats-Unis. Deux semaines en «mission» aux Etats-Unis, une quinzaine de visites dans des rédactions dont le Washington Post, NPR, Fox News, CNN, Politico, Bay Citizen, et des rendez-vous auprès des entreprises de nouvelles technologies, dont Google et Twitter.
Quel bilan? Quelles tendances relever? Quels sujets préoccupent les journalistes américains? Quels sont les nouveaux usages qui émergent? Résumé. Le rôle de «social media editor», c’est fini? En décembre dernier, le New York Times a supprimé ce poste créé un an et demi plus tôt, occupé par Jennifer Preston, qui est désormais retournée au pôle reportages. Cindy Boren, social media editor dédiée aux sports pour le Washington Post, sait bien que cette phase n’est pas éternelle. Crédit: AA N’écris pas sur Twitter ce que tu ne dirais pas à l’antenne Il y a un an, les rédactions anglo-saxonnes complétaient voire rééditaient leur charte déontologique pour statuer sur la posture journalistique à tenir sur les réseaux sociaux. Crédit: DR Alice Antheaume. NYU Professor Jay Rosen Offers Advice to an Incoming Class of Journalism Students. He Should Offer the Same Advice to Advertising Students. ? Burst Media Company Blog.
Poynter. By Alan Rusbridger In 2009 you could smell the fear. As banks crashed and the recession hit, even the grandest media companies trembled a little. We had all known for some time that the revolution we’re all living through would at some stage get really tough. But, for many, as advertising drained out of our pages and websites, thoughts of survival clouded out all else. It’s hardly time to relax yet in 2010 but — for the moment — we can come up for air and look at the landscape.
Well, much depends on how you saw the revolution in the first place. I tend, by nature, towards the first camp. Utopians can’t stop thinking about the possibilities ahead: We literally lie awake at night fighting off the thoughts of what can be done — and what, even as we eventually submit to sleep, others are busy doing. We think the future is about endless experimentation, that this is a journey which has barely begun. Collaboration refers to the way we can take this openness one stage further.
Trafigura. Why spreadable doesn?t equal viral: A conversation with Henry Jenkins ? Nieman Journalism Lab. For years, academic Henry Jenkins has been talking about the connections between mainstream content and user-produced content. From his post as the founder and former co-director of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, Jenkins published Convergence Culture, which is about what happens when, as the book puts it, “old and new media collide.” It’s a tale of fan mashups and corporate reactions. And now he’s back with a new catchphrase.
If convergence culture was 2006, spreadable media is now. The argument: If it doesn’t spread, it’s dead. But what does this mean for news? These were some of the questions I had when I first heard the concept, which Jenkins and his collaborators first put out in a white paper in 2009. NU: What is spreadable media? Webbmedia Group | Interesting hyperlink annotations at NYT. Delayed Gratification: new magazine launches dedicated to 'slow journalism' Time Out international editor Marcus Webb will edit the quarterly title, which describes itself as 'an antidote to throwaway media' A new magazine dedicated to "slow journalism" has been launched by the international editor of Time Out. Marcus Webb will edit Delayed Gratification, which will publish quarterly from January. The title is the first launch by the Slow Journalism Company headed by Webb and director Rob Orchard, who met Webb while working in Dubai as a writer eight years ago.
The magazine describes itself as "an antidote to throwaway media" with the tagline 'Last to breaking news' and wants to be a collectible for readers. It will cover politics, culture, science and sport through a combination of essays and reportage using the principles of slow journalism: "It measures news in months not minutes, returning to stories after the dust has settled. " Four main editors and an art director will be supported by a roster of freelance writers and journalists, Webb told Journalism.co.uk. L'actu media web - Pour les étudiants de l'ESJ, difficile d'être journaliste sans être sur Twitter. Il y a quelques semaines, nous proposions aux étudiants de l'Ecole supérieure de journalisme de Lille de répondre à un questionnaire sur leur usage de Twitter. 64 d'entre eux ont participé, soit 56,1% des étudiants de la filière généraliste (sur 2 ans).
Une étude particulièrement intéressante, qui donne une idée assez précise de la place qu'accordent les futurs journalistes au site de micro-blogging. Déjà sur-représentés au sein des utilisateurs de Twitter, les journalistes devraient encore plus nombreux à Twitter dans les années à venir, avec des utilisations intéressantes à observer.En quelques années, Twitter est donc non-seulement devenu un outil quasi naturel pour les apprentis journalistes, mais il a également créé de nouveaux usages dont les générations précédentes ne disposaient pas, ou difficilement : - une veille professionnelle d'un nouveau genre. Il y a 10 ans, les échanges avec les professionnels étaient réguliers mais très normés. Les résultats de l'enquête en ligne :
Formats. Métier. Social Experiment.