May 2012
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EveryBlock unveils major update to its iPhone app... →
EveryBlock, a pioneer in data-driven hyperlocal journalism, just released a substantial update to its iPhone app that allows users to more quickly and easily report on events happening in their neighborhoods.
April 2012
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Inside Forbes: The 9 Realities of Building a... →
I set out as an entrepreneur four years ago to change the world of journalism and build a digital business. I had a few decades in the news industry, one of them in new media, to guide me. During my journey, I’ve kept two quotes locked in my mind. This one, from Don Logan, the former CEO of Time Inc., in response to how much he spent building the ill-fated Pathfinder Web site: “It’s given new...
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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – 30... →
Journalists may find TinEye and PicSearch particularly helpful when verifying photos from social media, Greplin handy to search their own accounts, and should take a look at some of the blog and social media search options.
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The Economist, NewsCred discuss profitability of... →
On Thursday, Andrew Rashbass, CEO of the Economist; Shafqat Islam, CEO of NewsCred; sat down with Kamal Bherwant, CDO of PRISA to discuss profitability in the news business.
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8 must-reads detail how to verify information in... →
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been trying to collect every good piece of writing and advice about verifying social media content and other types of information that flow across networks.
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Hyperlocal news manifesto - Boing Boing →
Ned Berke, editor of the Sheepshead Bites site — which provides comprehensive local news for the neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay — has a great manifesto about the delights and rewards of making hyperlocal news.
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Gatekeepers need to find new value when the fences... →
The gatekeeper days of journalism were fun. But they’re over. And they weren’t as good as we remember them. In a Facebook discussion today, Arkansas State journalism professor Jack Zibluk wrote, “By abandoning the gatekeeper role, I believe you are abandoning the profession.” I replied: “Jack, no one abandoned the gatekeeper role. It became irrelevant when the fences blew away.”
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How tomake money as an online journalist |... →
Internet has reduced our world to a global family. It is good for civilization and for the entire humanity. This simply means that with the click of the mouse, you could successfully deliver a business deal, no matter the country you are operating from.
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Live debate: the journalist of tomorrow | Media... →
t seems we can’t go even a day without hearing about the next biggest thing to impact or “fundamentally change” modern journalism. From new tools like the Apple iPad to emerging disciplines like data, interactive and visual storytelling, the next generation of journalists needs to have a lot more than just good writing and reporting skills.
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Social media not necessarily journalism’s panacea,... →
Tech giants may have their own views on what journalism should become, but some news organisations are questioning what benefits the social vision of future news can really bring at a time when they’re struggling for business survival…
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Editors Weblog - Moderation and participation in... →
Are moderation and participation the future of news? A panel discussion moderated by Justin Peters of the Columbia Journalism Review Online at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia debated the right way to get the community to participate in life of the news organization?
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How the social media community can shape the news... →
journalism.co.uk | Soundcloud :: In this week’s Journalism.co.uk podcast Sarah Marshall looks at how the social media community can set the news agenda, participate in the story, and how news organisations are using the passion and enthusiasm of the audience to shape output. This podcast hears from: Malika Bilal, digital producer and co-host of The Stream; Jason Mills, editor of web...
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Is Twitter ruining journalism or are journalists... →
Good piece on Poynter hightlighting a debate taking place on the web this week about Twitter and what it is doing to news and how news is covered online. We’ve kind of been here before (numerous times). On The Wall when we asked the question last year, for instance, we asked if social was media killing journalism. The answer I thought was convincingly no, but as Mark Rock put it social media is...
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How tech’s giants want to re-invent journalism —... →
Some of Silicon Valley’s biggest technology companies reject suggestions they are now news organisations. But they nevertheless think they have the prescription for what news media must do next…
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Are robots and content farms the future of the... →
There was some consternation in the media industry this week when the Chicago Tribune announced that it was letting more than 20 of its journalists go and handing over its local coverage to an outfit called Journatic, which looked to some like a “content farm” not unlike AOL’s hyper-local Patch unit. Meanwhile, Wired magazine wrote about another emerging competitor for the traditional news...
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MediaShift Idea Lab . How 'Screenularity' Will... →
Yesterday I announced the next project I’m going to work on which will focus on mobile news consumption (Circa). As a result, I’ve been thinking a lot about screens. In the future, consumers will not make a distinction between their television, phone or computer screens. The only difference will be the size of each screen, its placement and, therefore, what you most likely do with it.
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4 Questions With Matthew Keys, Deputy Social Media... →
So, what is it like to be a social media or community editor? What are the job responsibilities and how does one end up landing such a gig? The goal of “Four Questions With …” is to answer some of these questions and to give insight into what is a new and constantly evolving field.
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The limits of citizen journalism « Online... →
Why were new media able to topple governments in Egypt and Tunisia, but sparked new waves of oppression in Syria and Iran? During the Arab Spring last year, citizen journalists, using Facebook, Twitter, email and iPhones, undermined state censorship and contributed to the success of massive pro-democracy demonstrations in Cairo and Tunis. Yet in Iran, many of the activists were arrested while in ...
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How social media changes the function of... →
The revolution in media has created a revolution in journalism ethics. One area where the ethical revolution is evident is a new emphasis on certain functions of journalism that have long played a secondary role in the history of journalism and its ethics.
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Storyful: How we verify social media (and debunk... →
Malachy Browne of Storyful — “we deploy the ‘Human Algorithm’ to deliver international stories told through the social web” — has a good blog post detailing how his outfit works to verify (or debunk) videos, photos, and text from social media platforms:
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Is Monitoring Athletes’ Social Media Use Lawful? –... →
Nowadays, most sports fans are told that they are missing out on the fun if they do not have a Twitter account. And frankly, it’s true. The No. 2 most popular social media site has become the steadiest stream of information and analysis about games and other happenings in the sports world every day.
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Robot Journalism Still Doesn't Sound So Scary -... →
Narrative Science’s claim that its algorithm-driven journalism will one day win a Pulitzer has human journalists quivering, yet we’re still not convinced it’s all that threatening to the future of journalism.
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Live debate: the journalist of tomorrow | Media... →
It seems we can’t go even a day without hearing about the next biggest thing to impact or “fundamentally change” modern journalism. From new tools like the Apple iPad to emerging disciplines like data, interactive and visual storytelling, the next generation of journalists needs to have a lot more than just good writing and reporting skills.
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Human-assisted reporting, mass intelligence, and... →
After attending a conference like the International Symposium on Online Journalism, it can be hard to pinpoint just one major takeaway. ISOJ features a mix of quantitative academic research, practical insights, and data from media companies like CNN, The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, and Google News — all assembled by the ace team of Rosental Alves and Amy Schmitz Weiss.
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Facebook and Twitter: Why Print Journalism is... →
here is little doubt that social media is an ever-present force in most of our daily lives and it is used for almost anything from consuming the news to interacting with friends. Journalism, as whole, is a form of media which probably everyone sees in either a positive or negative light. Regardless of how you may view the media, journalism is the news and it is current. This is partly the reason...
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Userfarm.com - Video Crowdsourcing, Changing The... →
The unique new phenomenon of ‘crowdsourcing news’ has hit Italy in recent weeks, with a leading quality National newspaper, Repubblica choosing to launch a new platform that sees their audience of readers become their journalists.
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Young Media Weekend Panelists Confront The Old... →
“I just think my entire career, whatever I have left of it, will be teaching people the Internet.” The New York Times’ Amy O’Leary threw that line out in jest at the general panel during this recent Young Media Weekend, yet it set the tone for much of the free-flowing conversation that both preceded and followed it. The topics of said conversation jumped around -from the importance of maintaining...
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Journatic to provide TribLocal content -... →
Tribune Co. announced Monday it has made an investment in Chicago-based media content provider Journatic, which will take over production of TribLocal, the Chicago Tribune’s hyperlocal news report. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.
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ChiTrib outsourcing TribLocal →
The Chicago Tribune is shifting the operation of its TribLocal hyperlocal news service to an outside company, putting an end to its oversight of the five-year-old venture.
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Data Journalism Handbook to launch this week |... →
The Data Journalism Handbook, an open-source guide to working in the field of data journalism, is set to be launched this week. Initially drafted in just 48 hours at last year’s Mozilla Festival in London, the guide will be launched at this week’s School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia.
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Step by step: how to start in a data journalist... →
Following my previous posts on the network journalist and community manager roles as part of an investigation team, this post expands on the first steps a student journalist can take in filling the data journalist role.
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Inside Forbes: It's 4:30 pm, Do You Know Where... →
I’m an obsessive-compulsive when it comes to watching our traffic on Forbes.com. It helps me understand our audience. It also gives me a clear view into what our staff reporters and contributors are covering. Last Tuesday, I used Chartbeat, one of my favorite analytic tools, to sink to an entirely new level. For three consecutive hours, I sat and stared at my computer as FORBES headlines moved...
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NYU Local hosts panel on media | NYU's Daily... →
Journalists, bloggers and techies gathered Saturday at NYU’s Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life for the second Young Media Weekend Panel hosted by NYU Local.
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MyNewsDesk Gives Companies A Centralized Newsroom... →
One Swedish startup we’ve been using (and should have included in our what we use post) is MyNewsDesk. The company provides a platform for companies to publicize their news and share their PR material in a central and obvious location. It makes it easy for journalists to search for the companies and news they’re looking for, as well as follow customized feeds to passively gather news....
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This Week On Twitter: Getting Twitter, Social... →
Need a little weekend reading? We’ve compiled our top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes a look at the five stages of getting Twitter that many of us go through, how social media is replacing traditional journalism as a news source, false Twitter assumptions, how Twitter helped catch a hacker and how marketers are using Twitter in 2012.
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Mashable Infographic Looks at Social Media vs... →
Whether or not social media is digging journalism’s grave can be something of a touchy topic. There’s no doubt that an impact has been made on traditional mediums (print especially), but have social sites like Twitter and Facebook really become the places where we consume news?
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International Symposium on Online Journalism: New... →
Angela Lee: Audience preference and editorial judgment: a study of time-lagged influence in online news To what extent are audiences influencing editors and journalists, and vice versa? Editorial judgement measured based on placement on paper; audience preference measured by clicks, looking at a 3-hour interval. Audience preference influences editorial decisions three hours later (which suggests...
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Crowdfunding Could Upend Hyperlocal — Here’s What... →
The new JOBS Act has opened the door for crowdfunding, a boon to hyperlocals seeking new ways to launch their businesses. But it may take until early next year before the Security and Exchange Commission establishes rules that will govern the process. What to do in the meantime? Keep an eye on what regulators may churn up, see what major crowdfunding sites plan to offer, and explore whether...
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NY tabloid’s new South Asian section shows ‘local’... →
What do local New Yorkers really want to read about? Well, cricket and Bollywood, of course. One of New York’s longtime tabloids The Daily News has added a news section to its website called Desi that targets the city’s large South Asian community. The paper is using technology to siphon South Asian stories from papers around the world. A small staff helps ensure the content reflects the...
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Social Curation Tools Like Pinterest Are a Great... →
With the continuing fragmentation of information on the Web, “curation” is become more and more important — and it’s likely to change the way we view and experience local content online. The emergence of new tools like Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr and Chill.com mean that anybody can now curate visual content and build their own local multimedia publications.
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How Niche Content Sites Can Build And Keep... →
n Sept. 2007, I was on a well-deserved holiday, having spent an excruciating 11 months with a startup where 80-hour weeks were normal. I was the Chief Technology Officer and in my short tenure, I had gained new clients, setup the company infrastructure and trained a few interns. On the morning I came back from holiday, my office was packed up, and the bosses were in it to hand my stuff to me. They...
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Whether the digital era improves society is up to... →
Most technology designers engage in their trade to make the world a better place. Technologists love to celebrate the amazing things that people can do with technology – bridge geography, connect communities and transform societies. Meanwhile, plenty of naysayers bemoan the changes brought on by technology, highlighting issues of distraction and attention for example. Unfortunately, this results...
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Storify: ISOJ panel examines journalists' toolbox... →
This Storify captures just a few of the tweets coming from the first research panel on the first day of the 13th International Symposium on Online Journalism. The panel discussed journalism ethics, community engagement and the role of social media in the new digital era.
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All about the Participation | American Journalism... →
Participation is the key to new media. It’s also the driving force behind the Newseum’s new-media gallery, set to open Friday, April 27. “Everything we tried to do in here was a way to illustrate that participation, that conversation, that engagement that new media has empowered,” Newseum Senior Vice President Paul Sparrow says.
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Practitioners panel discusses the increasing... →
How are we using social media to sell our news stories? That was the main question during the second practitioners’ panel on the second day of the 13th International Symposium on Online Journalism held at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Reportr.net » Study points to prominence of... →
A new study shows how far NPR’s Andy Carvin, known as “the man who tweets revolutions,” favoured the voice of protesters in his reporting on Twitter of the Arab Spring. The rigorous analysis of more than 5,000 tweets found that Carvin’s feed gave higher priority to the messages from citizens in repressive societies who were documenting and expressing their desires for social change on Twitter.
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Social Media Replacing Journalism? | media... →
There is a fantastic post on Media Bistro’s blog, 10,000 WORDS by Meranda Watling. ”Infographic: How Social Media Wins AtBreaking News” speaks volumes of how news consumers get their breaking news and how much that has changed over the last decade.
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Newton to Journalists: Focusing on the Story Isn’t... →
In the digital age, journalists are required to don different hats; from multimedia to social media, there is an increasing amount of tools available for telling the story and sharing it. Still, it may not be enough. Research shows that Americans’ distrust of the media is at record highs, and even though social media has made it easier and faster for information to spread, it can be difficult to...
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#jpod – Hyperlocal news: Struggles for... →
This podcast looks at the current ideas for making hyperlocal sites sustainable, including public funding, and we hear from three hyperlocals, all of which have published print products to raise awareness of their web offerings or to make their business models pay.
