February 2012
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Medill at Northwestern Launches Investigative... →
Medill at Northwestern University has launched an investigative project that focuses on government accountability in suburban counties around Chicago.
Countering Misinformation: Tips for Journalists :... →
This article was written by Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler. It is adapted from Misinformation and Fact-checking: Research Findings from Social Science (PDF), a New America Foundation Media Policy Initiative report they co-authored that was released Tuesday in Washington, DC.
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Facebook's new pages give brands more flexibility... →
Facebook has introduced new brand pages that more closely resemble the ‘timelines’ that have already been available to individuals for some time. An introductory video from the social network’s marketing team says “We will be giving you new ways to tell your story and express your page’s identity” and promises “better tools to manage the activity on your...
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Ethics codes: the way to regain credibility -... →
The news media is a pillar of democracy: it informs citizens about issues in the public interest and acts as a watchdog over the powers that be. Consequently, journalism plays a significant role in emerging democracies.
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MediaShift . What Is Collaboration Anyway? | PBS →
Journalists, by nature, tend to be fiercely competitive, racing to break the news before their rivals. Given that tendency, anyone who’s engaged in a journalism collaboration knows that it’s an extraordinary endeavor. That’s why it’s worth stepping back and identifying what we really mean when we say we’re collaborating.
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MediaShift Idea Lab . As TriangleWiki Gets Ready... →
Whew! A lot has happened since our last PBS Idea Lab blog update! Our first focus community, DentonWiki, has been doing great, and several of our other focus communities are close to launching.
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MediaShift Idea Lab . What Will Bring More... →
For this month’s Carnival of Journalism I am going to invoke the rule of “no apologies” and change the question a bit. Host Steve Outing asks: “What emerging technology or digital trend do you think will have a significant impact on journalism in the year or two ahead?”
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MediaShift Idea Lab . Journo-Coders Take NICAR 12... →
Changing world of Computer-Assisted Reporting. Very cool!
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Global News with a Local Twist | Newspaper Death... →
If you’re the type of person who skips past the international section in the newspaper because it just isn’t relevant to you, maybe you should have a look at Latitude News.
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News sites take note: Web apps will triumph in the... →
Usability expert Jakob Nielsen’s recent prediction that mobile-optimized web sites will have the edge over mobile apps in the long run, has some implications for news sites.
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Hyperlocal news sites stay away from election... →
It’s election primary season in the United States, and I’ve noticed a traditional element of newspaper election coverage missing from the hyperlocal news websites I follow.
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Will hyperlocal news last? | WBEZ →
There was a time when a number of media types thought that hyperlocal journalism—think neighborhood-levels news—would save the fourth estate
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What If Rupert Murdoch Tried to Out-Patch Patch |... →
An interesting hypothetical where Murdoch suddenlly takes in interest in producing hyperlocal news. A best it is a good thought-experiment
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The Rundown: Does hyperlocal media matter? | WBEZ →
Patch, AOL’s big push to bring hyperlocal journalism—think neighborhood-level news—to the masses seems to be struggling. The numbers don’t indicate that the public wants it.
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Newspapers Future Isn't Paper - Palo Alto, CA... →
For years newspapers have been trying to incorporate internet versions of their news with traditional journalism with uneven results.
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The Press Association: Bryant calls for new media... →
A senior Labour MP has called for a powerful new media watchdog to be set up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
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Long-Form Journalism, Part II: The Challenge for... →
I seem to have touched a journalistic raw nerve with my post last week. It was about in-depth reporting and writing and how it’s finding a digital audience on Forbes.com, ReadItLater, longreads, The Atavist and other Web sites, apps, communities and startups that aggregate inquisitive readers.
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Inside Forbes: How Long-Form Journalism Is Finding... →
I recently took part in a round-table discussion on “the future of content” — not that I or anyone there has a crystal ball. At one point during the exchange it was suggested that stories written for print — that is, longer-form journalism — don’t work very well on digital platforms. I quickly took exception, knowing that 10 years ago I thought the same thing.
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gulftoday.ae | Social media vs folk media debated... →
There was a difference of opinion over which media channel to use to reach the public in “this part of the world” with some practitioners urging social media while an Arab journalism professor advocated folk media.
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Conflict Reporting in the Post-Embed Era -... →
More than 150 years later the reporting of warfare has changed utterly. Correspondents no longer get hilltop seats alongside generals as the lines of battle form, break and re-form in the valleys below them – the “painter’s eye” view as Russell described it – and reports are now transmitted within seconds, or even live, not by horseback, train and steamer.
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Can social media create citizen court reporters? |... →
A pair of court reporters are launching a project this week in the UK called Open Justice Week, urging ordinary citizens to step into court and cover proceedings.
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Program crowd-sources classifieds →
A Vancouver company, Ayoudo, has come up with a solution for this dilemma - a web and mobile app that marries the familiarity of Face-book, the brevity of Twitter and the ratings of eBay in a tailored want ad users write by finishing the sentence: “I need someone to help me -” Read more:...
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9 Ways To Make Your Startup Grow Virally →
The difference between getting one of your new users to convince one friend to sign up and that person getting two new friends, is huge.
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AP Finally Joins the 21st Century - EContent... →
When it comes to defining old media, you don’t get much older or stodgier than The Associated Press (AP), which has been delivering the news for 165 years. In December 2011, it decided to finally join us in the 21st century by defining a new policy that would go beyond merely breaking a story first and go so far as to add value to it with analysis, video, and more.
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Social TV survey: Social media is making you watch... →
Social activity drives tune-in, loyalty and more live viewing, according to a survey about social TV by TVGuide.com.
8 Strategies for Launching a Brand Presence on... →
Will this approach apply to hyperlocal journalism?
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Better blogging made easy | NewsLab →
If blogging is just writing, why is it so hard to do well? Maybe because it’s not just writing, or at least it shouldn’t be. Journalists who ought to know the basics seem to struggle with blogging as much as anyone else. They aren’t sure what to write about or how to make it interesting.
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Nieman Reports | Guided By a Simple Vision →
Not far from the Nieman Foundation’s Greek Revival house on Francis Avenue, the future dimensions of media are being explored in the modernistic glass-walled zones of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab.
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Nieman Reports | Books Take Over Where Daily... →
‘It is difficult to do justice to the complexities of Zimbabwe’s story while still grabbing and sustaining readers’ interest when so much of what reporters hear is depressing.’
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Nieman Reports | E-Books as a Business Strategy →
Owni ‘doesn’t carry advertisements and publishes all of its content under a Creative Commons license. Selling products—including e-books—is its big bet.’
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If your news website ads aren't selling... →
If you’re interested in how to make a hyperlocal news website work, please take a few moments to read the transcript of the chat I did with several other news entrepreneurs for the ASNE yesterday. ASNE put together a panel of half a dozen journalists who are running hyperlocal or start-up websites and asked us how we make these things work.
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Want to make money online? Here's what sells →
Let me take one more swing at killing the zombie belief that “No one can make money online.”
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The advertising industry Rorschach test →
If you’re working at a print newspaper (or magazine), here’s a link to the scariest chart you’ll see this year.
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From the Expense Column to the Revenue Stream: Q &... →
A young journalist for the Tribune Company becomes a product manager and money maker by acting entrepreneurially inside a large organization. Her big idea: Teaching the Web to the people formerly known as the advertisers.
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Definition: Social media « Teaching Online... →
A worthy start and a helpful post
BBC News - BBC local radio 'must stay local' →
Even the big guys get it.
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MediaShift . Introducing Collaboration Central, a... →
Today, I’m happy to share a different kind of birth announcement: a new website from MediaShift called Collaboration Central. It’s got all 10 fingers and toes, and an ambitious mission: to figure out how journalists can work together better in the digital age.
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MediaShift . Pinterest: Why What It's Not Says So... →
It’s almost impossible to explain Pinterest to someone who has never been on it. And now that it’s hit the big time, there’s a lot of explaining to do — especially, it seems, to men who can’t seem to avoid hearing about Pinterest from the women in their lives.
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MediaShift Idea Lab . Knight Lab's Election... →
CongressionalPrimaries.org, the first major initiative of the Knight News Innovation Laboratory, went live officially this week. The site demonstrates several technologies that enhance coverage of this year’s congressional primary elections in Illinois — while also providing components that publishers can incorporate into their own websites between now and the March 20 primary...
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MediaShift Idea Lab . After Crystal Cox Verdict,... →
Last month, the Crystal Cox verdict re-energized a debate among journalism’s most passionate and articulate thought leaders and professionals by begging the question: Who is a journalist?
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The Other Side of Entrepreneurialism – DigiDave →
It is yet another Carnival of Journalism (our one-year anniversary). The Carnival is a network of bloggers I reinvigorated who all write a response to a different question every month. This month’s question comes from Michael Rosenblum: “Can a good journalist also be a good capitalist?”
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MediaShift Idea Lab . OpenRural Takes Public... →
Storing paper records in the attic of a police station might sound like a practice from the distant past, but that’s what I learned happens in at least one rural North Carolina county. In fact, good old-fashioned paper copies of public records are still common in rural parts of North Carolina.
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MediaShift Idea Lab . Knight-Mozilla Partnership... →
Change is awesome — it’s a necessary component to anything remaining vital and a required ingredient to facilitate organic growth. And so it’s with real excitement that today I’m announcing changes to the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership.
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Is Celebrity News like Pizza Dipped In Honey?... →
Today at the Center for Civic Media, Clay Johnson, Sean Cash, and Ethan Zuckerman debated whether the metaphor of media nutrition could help us improve American media.
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A Guardian Pinterest tribute to Andy Warhol |... →
The Guardian showed how easy it is for media companies to add value using Pinterest by creating a fun tribute to Andy Warhol today on the anniversary of his death.
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Storify goes mobile with a new iPad app - Editors... →
Storify, one of the best-known tools for creating narratives based on social media, announced the launch of its iPad application today, Mediabistro reported. The new app, which is available free on iTunes, is aimed at making on-the-go social media curation even easier than before.
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Community-funded news in South Wales: The Port... →
A team of eight journalists has created a local news cooperative to tackle the closure of the traditional media in their South Wales town of Port Talbot, and to continue to provide community’s news coverage (hat tip to the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade.)
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Collaboration is key: professional and citizen... →
“Everybody is a journalist now”. This phrase has been repeated so many times that it’s become a cliché, but that’s not to say that a consensus has been reached about what it really means for the news industry. How should news organisations approach material from citizen journalists? Should lines be drawn between professional and citizen media? How can the work of citizen...
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Heather Brooke on the media after WikiLeaks: it is... →
The Wikileaks phenomenon encapsulates several issues and challenges faced by mainstream media, said Heather Brooke in her keynote speech opening the two-day conference on the future of journalism after WikiLeaks and The News of the World, organised by the World Press Freedom Committee and UNESCO.
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The impact of WikiLeaks on professional media -... →
How has WikiLeaks affected professional media? What does it mean for journalistic techniques? Representatives from three news organisations who have worked with WikiLeaks, plus two authors of books on the controversial whistle-blowing platform, discussed these issues today at The Media World after WikiLeaks and News of the World, a conference organized by the World Press Freedom Committee and...
