May 2013
28 posts
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Vine represents another level for citizen... →
I’m sure you’ve all seen a Vine, the six second looping images have been widely embraced by brands across social media. Some have got it completely right with well thought out directed mini movies whilst others just post content and hope for the best. A potential use for Vine, which has gone mostly unnoticed so far, is it’s potential use in Citizen Journalism.
Back in 2009 the Hudson River plane...
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“It’s 4:40 p.m. on a spring Monday in New York City and Jose Antonio Vargas is...”
– Jose Antonio Vargas on Using Social Media to Change Perceptions and Policy | Mediashift | PBS
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YouTube as War Correspondent - When is Reality... →
Social media and social uprisings have been linked since photography was invented. The first war to be photographed was the Mexican American War of 1846-1848. Posed soldiers and landscapes were the subjects delimited by the technology of the time.
To expand on this “still” reality, Civil War photographers Haley Sims, Alexander Gardner and Matthew Brady, recreated battle scenes and...
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“I have just spent 10 months publishing an ebook. Not ‘writing’, or ‘producing’,...”
– Why I stopped working with print publishers (for a while) | Online Journalism Blog
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“Five hyperlocal news websites have received £10,000 each as part of a new...”
– Five UK hyperlocal news websites receive £10k funding from the Carnegie Trust | PressGazette
Why can’t this happen in Canada?
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Soo Meta, the Storify for online video... →
Soo Meta redefines video storytelling by turning Storify-like content curation into great-looking video slideshows. The platform even allows producers to add polls and quizzes to their videos.
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Why hyperlocal websites like New Raleigh can't... →
t started, as good ideas often do, in the back room of a bar. David Millsaps, a designer and web consultant in his mid-20s, brought together several other creative types at Mitch’s Tavern in 2007. The topic was the need for a Raleigh-focused online publication that could capture the city’s growing cool.
“You’ve got this downtown that’s just budding. Raleigh Times...
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“A few days ago I wrote about Mike Fourcher, a new-media trailblazer in Chicago...”
– A local community meets to save hyperlocal digital journalism | Bleader
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#SFSNYC: Think Context Not Platforms, Says... →
While 2012 may have been mobile’s breakout year, Tim Reis, head of mobile and social solutions at Google, urged marketers to move this year beyond platforms and instead focus on context during a morning keynote at the Street Fight Summit on Wednesday.
“Consumers are very comfortable across [multiple] platforms; they don’t silo these activities,” Reis said. “ We as marketers need to adapt and...
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For Hyperlocals, How Long the Roller-Coaster Ride?... →
Last week Borrell Associates delivered an upbeat 2013 projection for a 31% increase in ad spending in the local digital space — from $18.7 million to $24.5 million, led by more small and medium-sized businesses moving a bigger share of dollars from traditional media to digital.
But even as the outlook seems brighter for local online, last week highly regarded hyperlocal editor and publisher Mike...
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“Canada’s largest newspaper company is launching two hyper-local business sites...”
– Can Pay Walls Work for Hyper-Local Business News Sites? | Mediashift | PBS
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GuardianWitness – the latest development in 'open... →
The platform, developed in collaboration with mobile network EE, will “crowdsource content from around the globe by enabling users to share videos, pictures and text directly with the Guardian’s editorial team, as well as to browse the contributions submitted by other GuardianWitness users.” By facilitating reader participation and influence, the Guardian’s new tool reveals...
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Howard Owens on What It Takes to Sustain a... →
When Street Fight co-founder David Hirschman initially spoke with Howard Owens — the founder, editor and publisher of the independent Batavian in Upstate New York — Owens’ message was really about how indie hyperlocal news sites could create sustainability by starting to sell ads “on day one.” On our second anniversary, we asked Owens to take a new look at those same questions, and talk about how...
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ISOJ: Future of mobile journalism in letting... →
Mobile journalism, better known as “mojo,” no longer means linking your news articles and video onto apps for consumers to read on the go. It now means engaging audience with simplified mobile apps and creating better tools for people to create and share their own stories.
These were some of the themes explored during the second day of the International Symposium on Online Journalism in a panel...
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When Everyone is an Eye-Witness, What is a... →
On the night of the Boston bombings, my Twitter timeline was filled with the ambivalent cry of those who saw danger and opportunity around them. In the words of one angst-ridden tweep:
“Today reminds me how Twitter has become one of the greatest tools as well as one of greatest threats to true journalism”.
I share the sentiment. But I also despair at the failure of the guardians of ‘True...
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GuardianWitness Takes Citizen Journalism to the... →
With print media on the verge of extinction, social media has given rise to a new form of journalism: Citizen journalism. Reliant on the dissemination of information on social media, citizen journalism allows every-day citizens to assume the role of reporter, using technology to create and share the news.
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Where Community Meets Journalism | Social Media... →
Last week I went back to my journalism roots, attending the digital journalism conference news:rewired. But this time I could wear two hats: journalist and community manager. In a week when The Guardian launched a Platform for citizen journalists, and social media wrongly identified suspects in the Boston bombings, I was eager to hear how news organisations and journalists are using social media...
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How Vine is Changing the Face of Online Journalism... →
If you haven’t heard of Vine, you need to get with the times – the six-second video app, owned by Twitter and dubbed ‘the Instagram of Video’, shot to the top of the free charts in Apple’s app store shortly after release, and it’s set to come to Android soon.
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FAQ: Does citizen journalism impact on... →
What effect do you think citizen journalism will have on the future for professional journalists?
It’s already had an impact on their awareness of scrutiny: I’ve heard journalists and editors saying they feel they have to produce better quality journalism and get it right, because they know if they get the facts wrong people will point it out.
It’s also already had an effect on how they work:...
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BBC News - What is visual journalism? →
So what is visual journalism? It’s a question I get asked a lot - not just by friends and family but by many colleagues in the more traditional walks of media life.
For many in the newer fields of digital journalism, it’s simply about visualising data, or using graphics such as maps or charts to explain stories - and of course it is about that.
But in the BBC, it’s also about...
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10 Months After Furor, Hyperlocal News Service... →
In April of 2012, Journatic, the for-hire community news shop, was a hot property in the hyperlocal industry. The company had struck a deal with the Chicago Tribune that put it in charge of producing all editorial content for the paper’s print and digital TribLocal network covering 78 communities in sprawling “Chicagoland.” That wasn’t all. Tribune Co. became a minority investor in privately owned...
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Daily Voice bankruptcy is a setback for... →
FORTUNE — Good news! The Daily Voice, a company that produces “hyperlocal” news sites in Connecticut and suburban New York, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
OK, that’s not good news at all, but neither are layoffs. And when the company was preparing to announce mass layoffs to its staff last March, Chairman Carll Tucker sent out a memo on a Friday saying: “Monday...
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Is it the best of times or the worst of times for... →
There are plenty of reasons for pessimism about the state of the media and journalism, including repeated layoffs, bankruptcies and so on. But there are also many reasons to be optimistic about the current environment.
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The Problem With Citizen Journalism - 10,000 Words →
Citizen journalism is a lofty little term thrown around by interweb idealists.* This week, Trevor Knoblich wrote a column on PBS’ MediaShift blog asking “Can Citizen Journalism Move Past Crisis Reporting?”
No, no, it can’t.
The first lonely comment under the article was from an editor of CNN’s iReport, championing the organization’s efforts to help citizens gather and report stories that are...
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MediaShift Idea Lab . Can Citizen Journalism Move... →
The aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings demonstrated yet another significant marker for citizen journalism. Felix Salmon, in an excellent post on the Reuters blog, wrote that the manhunt for a suspect in the bombings “in many ways represented the first fully interactive news story.” The crisis again demonstrated the value — and risks — of citizen reporting via social...
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“Chatter about hyperlocal news in some form or another is a dozen years old or...”
– Neighborhood news makes a difference: state of Philly hyperlocal news » Technical.ly Philly
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“The dwindling number of professional local reporters doesn’t imply a...”
– In the Era of Networked Local Journalism, Everyone Can Contribute | Street Fight
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Wanted: journalists who know how to code -... →
From the New York Times ’ award-winning multimedia feature Snow Fall to the Guardian ’s infographic synopsis of the Thatcher legacy, newsrooms are increasingly using showpiece interactive graphics in their storytelling.
But the data visualisations being produced are sometimes “a little bit impenetrable” to audiences, says Shazna Nessa, who until recently was deputy managing editor of editorial...
April 2013
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Hyperlocal site goes into print with pilot... →
A hyperlocal news site is set to go into print with the launch of a pilot newspaper this month.
The Port Talbot Magnet has been running for a number of years after the town’s local newspaper the Port Talbot Courier closed down in 2009.
Now the team behind the website plan to launch a free monthly newspaper and a pilot edition with a limited print run will be out at the end of this month.
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ISOJ: Full transcript of NPR’s Andy Carvin keynote... →
The following is a transcript of NPR social media senior strategist Andy Carvin’s keynote speech on April 19 during the 14th International Symposium on Online Journalism. In it, Carvin makes an urgent call to reflect on the role of journalists in a world where rumors and information spread virally and “speed is often the scurge of accuracy.” The text was originally posted on Carvin’s...
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Community engagement pointers for journalists |... →
Many news outlets today have editorial team members who have the specific role of engaging with the online community, be it a social media editor or community manager, if not a department focused on this area. Online community and social media management also falls within the wider toolbox of most digital journalists as well, if only to a certain degree, and is a part of their day-to-day role.
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Caerphilly Observer website goes into print with... →
A hyperlocal news website is going into print with the launch of a free fortnightly newspaper. Journalist Richard Gurner will launch the Caerphilly Observer as a 16-page tabloid newspaper next month after running the news website since 2009.
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“Hyperlocal news website Caerphilly Observer will launch a print edition next...”
– South Wales’ Caerphilly Observer to launch print edition | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
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Guardian launches platform for user-generated... →
Readers will be able to submit videos, pictures and text directly via free GuardianWitness iPhone and Android apps or online
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Tumblr Axes 'Storyboard,' Decides It Doesn't Want... →
After a year of trying online journalism as a side project, Tumblr has learned what so many other digital publications could have just told them: online reporting is hard.
In a very late-night news dump Tuesday on his company’s official Tumblr blog, CEO David Karp announced the closing of Storyboard, the company’s journalism project that reported on the best of Tumblr.
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“Rob Wijnberg thought his chances were 50/50. Getting 15,000 people to pledge €60...”
– A Dutch crowdfunded news site has raised $1.3 million and hopes for a digital-native journalism » Nieman Journalism Lab
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“People in Denver are deeply worried about the future of journalism. This week, a...”
– Daniel Moulthrop: Engagement Can Save Journalism
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“We’d all like to get to know our neighbors and improve the places we live,...”
– How Nextdoor Can Help You Be A Better Citizen – ReadWrite
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‘Robo-reporter’ raises questions about future of... →
Journalist Ken Schwencke has occasionally awakened in the morning to find his byline atop a news story he didn’t write.
No, it’s not that his employer, The Los Angeles Times, is accidentally putting his name atop other writers’ articles. Instead, it’s a reflection that Schwencke, digital editor at the respected U.S. newspaper, wrote an algorithm — that then wrote the story for him.
Instead of...
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Hashtags considered #harmful » Nieman Journalism... →
The noble hashtag is cursed by a problem Yogi Berra could appreciate: Too many people use it, so no one goes there.
Presumably, most Twitter users use hashtags intending to add their tweet to a river of similar information and to expose their own thoughts to a wider, interested audience. Twitter itself markets the hashtag to those ends. But does that actually happen? It’s unlikely, especially for...
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Solving the Hyperlocal Puzzle | American... →
Joe Ricketts doesn’t think small.
Ricketts helped revolutionize online stock market trading by creating TD Ameritrade. More recently, he has been using his money to torment President Barack Obama and – with family members – buy the Chicago Cubs. But trying to lead the Cubs out of a 104-year championship drought may prove to be a simple task compared with Ricketts’ latest venture:...
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iPhone app Vizibee is 'video network for... →
Two BBC journalists are part of a team which has launched a video app for iPhone which allows journalists to share films of up to 75 seconds in length. Vizibee is a “video network for journalists”, David Tomchak, co-founder and chief executive of Vizibee and a BBC journalist told Journalism.co.uk. Vizibee joins a number of other video apps, such as Tout, SocialCam, Viddy and...
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Press Publish 10: Tiffany Shackelford on the... →
They face many of the same financial challenges as their daily peers — how many alt weeklies can navigate a path to sustainability?
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iPhone app Vizibee is 'video network for... →
Two BBC journalists are part of a team which has created a video-sharing app – which can only be used by journalists
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Separating the News from the Noise →
In all the talk about the future of news, it’s rare that you actually come across an innovation that alters the way you think about reporting and news gathering. Digital journalism innovations too often focus on how stories are presented to audiences. Social media is used to generate and sustain interest in news, rather than as a source of news. Where news is sourced from social media it is...
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“Head of the BBC newsroom Mary Hockaday tells the Polis Journalism Conference...”
– BBC newsroom head: Trust has been restored | Media news | Journalism.co.uk
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about - Canada Writes Presents HYPERLOCAL - Put... →
PUT YOUR STORY ON THE MAP
The essence of the project is a five-week national call-out to all Canadians starting April 3: we want to know what’s new and changing in your neighbourhood and what that change means to you. Send us your true, personal stories as text, photo essays, audio or raw video. Stories may touch on some of the big issues we face in a fragile economy, or may reflect small...
March 2013
28 posts
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“Over at Slate the other day, Matthew Yglesias argued that journalism consumers...”
– This is no ‘golden age’ of journalism. These are the news media end times | Bob Garfield | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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“For the latest in our Hyperlocal Voices series, Damian Radcliffe talks to Geoff...”
– Hyperlocal Voices: Geoff Bowen, Sheffield Forum | Online Journalism Blog
Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the... →
onaissues:
Haven’s had time to read the Tow Center report on Post-Industrial Journalism, which explores the transformation of American journalism? Brett Macfarlane has created a useful PDF with 21 key takeaways from the report.
Via Poynter.
