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Can in-depth journalism flourish online?

Josh — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:33:54 +0000

How much do we want to read online? Is the screen really the domain of the breaking-news headline, while paper is better suited to in-depth reports? Apparently not, according to techdirt.com, who refer to the case of online magazine Slate , where writers were given the opportunity to research and produce lengthy pieces of journalism, with their work receiving millions of page views.

How much do we want to read online? Is the screen really the domain of the breaking-news headline, while paper is better suited to in-depth reports?

Apparently not, according to techdirt.com, who refer to the case of online magazine Slate, where writers were given the opportunity to research and produce lengthy pieces of journalism, with their work receiving millions of page views.

No content farm is going to create the type of content described above. They won’t even come close. Perhaps one of the problems with traditional media is that they’ve focused on writing stories that can be easily copied by content farms. Instead, they should be focusing on deeper, quality work.

This is also the thinking over at The Times, who believe such journalism can not only thrive online, but should be paid for.

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The Journalism Firm: What journalists have to learn from lawyers

Josh — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:39:35 +0000

Responding to ongoing discussion of the idea of journalists as entrepreneurs, videojournalism pioneer Michael Rosenblum suggests a new model for independent journalists going forward – the law firm: Lawyers, (while it is true some become employees), tend to organise themselves in partnerships in which they pool their skills and their business. A law firm hires its talents out to many clients. A Journalism Firm (to craft an interesting idea) would do the same. A partnership of journalists would contract with various magazines, newspapers, television stations and websites to offer content, as a law firm offers work.

Lawyers, (while it is true some become employees), tend to organise themselves in partnerships in which they pool their skills and their business.

A law firm hires its talents out to many clients. A Journalism Firm (to craft an interesting idea) would do the same. A partnership of journalists would contract with various magazines, newspapers, television stations and websites to offer content, as a law firm offers work. In this way, they would also be insulated from the predictable disaster if one newspaper or one magazine went under.

The Journalism Firm would be a partnership, and as a good law firm combines the high paying M&A with the lower paying family practice, so too could a Journalism Firm combine the low paying investigative journalism with the high paying Public Relations. Don’t cringe. Many of our grads go into PR and can make a fortune. It’s the same skill set.

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Nieman Journalism Lab: ‘Empowering citizens through public media’

Calls for Action — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:26:57 +0000

Nieman Journalism Lab is posting a selection of videos (those most relevant to the future of news) from a series of weekly discussions at the Berkman Center for Internet at Society .

Nieman Journalism Lab is posting a selection of videos (those most relevant to the future of news) from a series of weekly discussions at the Berkman Center for Internet at Society.

The latest features Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on ‘Empowering citizens through public media’.

See the previous two at the following links and look out further posts.

David Weinberger: How information became the “dominant metaphor” of contemporary intellectual life

Jure Leskovec: How memes move, heartbeat-like, through the news

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Wired gets ‘wired’ with Adobe for iPad edition

Calls for Action — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:08:19 +0000

The US edition of Wired magazine has launched its iPad app in characteristic fashion with its June edition, priced at $4.99. Writes editor-in-chief Chris Anderson: The irony that Wired, a magazine founded to chronicle the digital revolution, has traditionally come to you each month on the smooshed atoms of dead trees is not lost on us.

The US edition of Wired magazine has launched its iPad app in characteristic fashion with its June edition, priced at $4.99. Writes editor-in-chief Chris Anderson:

The irony that Wired, a magazine founded to chronicle the digital revolution, has traditionally come to you each month on the smooshed atoms of dead trees is not lost on us. Let’s just say the medium is not always the message.

Except that now it is. I’m delighted to announce thatWired’s first digital edition is nowavailable for the iPad and soon for nearly all other tablets. We have always made our stories accessible online at Wired.com, but as successful as the site is, it is not a magazine.

The tablet is our opportunity to make the Wired we always dreamed of. It has all the visual impact of paper, enhanced by interactive elements like video and animated infographics.

Most interestingly, the magazine’s iPad edition has been in development for a year and will use new publishing technology from Adobe which will allow the title to create both the print magazine and its digital edition using the same system.

There is no finish line. Wired Magazine will be digital from now on, designed from the start as a compelling interactive experience, in parallel with our print edition.Wired is finally, well, wired.

Wired Magazines iPad Edition Goes Live | Magazine.

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E&P: US media ‘unabashedly biased’ toward Barack Obama

Josh — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:26:04 +0000

Editor & Publisher have a comment piece from Congressman Lamar Smith in which he claims the US media have been exceptionally favourable toward President Obama and relatively disparaging of George Bush and the tea party movement. The mainstream media’s treatment of President Obama provides an interesting case study

The mainstream media’s treatment of President Obama provides an interesting case study. Journalists who gave to President Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign outnumbered those who contributed to Sen. McCain by 20-to-1.

And once the election was over, the slanted coverage continued. The nonpartisan Center for Media and Public Affairs, comparing media coverage of Presidents Bush and Obama at the same point in their presidencies, found that 58 percent of all network news evaluations of Obama and his policies were favorable, while only 33 percent of assessments of Bush were favorable.

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Late Night Marketing: How one newspaper lost 5,000 incoming links

Calls for Action — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:12:28 +0000

Late Night Marketing discusses how Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.no lost more than 5,000 natural “inlinks” (links to its website from external sites and blogs) to its website by disabling a feature from blog search engine Twingly on its website: The first thing here is that Dagbladet.no now looses a lot of blog traffic, but this is not the most important thing, because the traffic from blogs is not enourmous compared to the traffic a newspaper can gain from good rankings on search engines.

The first thing here is that Dagbladet.no now looses a lot of blog traffic, but this is not the most important thing, because the traffic from blogs is not enourmous compared to the traffic a newspaper can gain from good rankings on search engines.

What do you think that Google will think of your site if you suddenly have approximately 5,000 fewer incoming links per month?

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#gv2010: Follow the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2010

Josh — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:39:14 +0000

The two day Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2010 is about to kick off in Santiago.

Organisers plan to webcast from the main auditorium 6-7 May.

Global Voices, the citizen media project translated into more than 15 languages, will be hosting discussion and activity around “next generation citizen media, public access and citizen participation” at the two day event.

Global Voices Online will gather with a diverse group of bloggers, activists, technologists, journalists from around the world for two days of public discussions and workshops. A two-day internal meeting for Global Voices editors, translators and contributors will follow the public gathering.

GV is also live blogging in English and in Spanish on its site, and via Twitter (@gvsummit2010 / #gv2010).

The AWL: Cash-for-traffic scheme underway at New York Observer

Josh — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:29:57 +0000

The New York Observer has instigated a new cash reward scheme for its staff.

The New York Observer has instigated a new cash reward scheme for its staff. There are five categories: pageviews; posts; Twitter followers; comments; and external pickups.

In each of the five categories there will be a $500 dollar bonus for the staffer with the highest number, and $350 for the runner up.

According to AWL, “The tips for “pageviews” included using Google Trends and Twitter and other web tools to see “what’s buzzing” on the web, so as to write about more popular things”.

AWL puts the scheme into context: “Annualized, the bonus pool of $48,000 could hire two extremely junior reporters with no benefits or a single rather senior one.”

Follow this link to read David Amerland on Journalism.co.uk last month discussing performance-related pay in journalism.

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TheRecord.com: Blind journalism student takes on photography class

Josh — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:10:26 +0000

From last month, but worth a read – the story of Ashley Welford-Costelloe, a blind journalism student at Conestoga College in Ontario, US, and her determination to complete the photography module of her course. “It’s not as hard as I thought it would be,” says Welford-Costelloe, 23. “All I need help with is how to hold the camera.

“It’s not as hard as I thought it would be,” says Welford-Costelloe, 23. “All I need help with is how to hold the camera. I just need someone to show me where to point the camera.”

She has an aide for that, provided by the college. The aide acts as Welford-Costelloe’s eyes, by telling her where the subject is in the frame. Then Welford-Costelloe pushes the button to shoot the picture.

Full story at this link…

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Wired: New York print war is really about digital future

Josh — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:51:48 +0000

There has been plenty of excited coverage of the playground spat between the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times started by the Journal’s move into general interest metro coverage. The Journal’s news section, Greater New York, launched yesterday, and the Times war committee responded quickly with a memo to subscribers reminding them just how great the paper’s New York section is, and has been for so much longer than the Journal’s johnny-come-lately. Harold Evans has taken up a ring-side seat at the Daily Beast to take score as the bout progresses over the week

There has been plenty of excited coverage of the playground spat between the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times started by the Journal’s move into general interest metro coverage. The Journal’s news section, Greater New York, launched yesterday, and the Times war committee responded quickly with a memo to subscribers reminding them just how great the paper’s New York section is, and has been for so much longer than the Journal’s johnny-come-lately.

Harold Evans has taken up a ring-side seat at the Daily Beast to take score as the bout progresses over the week.

So far the whole thing seems, unsurprisingly, to have revolved about print, but Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk claims the war is “really about digital”.

The spat appears to be about local New York coverage, but really, it’s about both organizations’ digital future (…) By cutting ad rates and suddenly going after the same non-financial local stories as the Times, Murdoch is waginga good, old-fashioned newspaper war in the traditional sense. But the spoils this time will be the hearts and minds of a digital audience faced with far more choices than consumers of print.

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Guardian asks readers who it should back for the UK election

Calls for Action — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:03:35 +0000

The Guardian is using Comment is Free to ask its readers which political party the paper should back in its election editorial. Comments have to be submitted before 1pm today. Beyond this, however, there’s a great table showing UK national newspapers’ support for different parties since 1945 – the data can be sorted by individual title, year and election winner: Similar Posts: Hacks and Hackers play with data-driven news BBC release: BBC, ITV and Sky submit joint letter calling for three live televised election debates Guardian Politics: Second BNP membership leak expected Jonathan Rayner: ‘Time to put some balance back into journalism’ An experiment with UK newspapers’ coverage of political polls

The Guardian is using Comment is Free to ask its readers which political party the paper should back in its election editorial. Comments have to be submitted before 1pm today.

Beyond this, however, there’s a great table showing UK national newspapers’ support for different parties since 1945 – the data can be sorted by individual title, year and election winner:

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NYTimes.com: New York Times reports profit; will charge from January

Calls for Action — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:54:53 +0000

A few takeaway points from the New York Times Company’s results yesterday: A net income for Q1 of $12.8 million; Introduction of the planned metered-pay system in January 2011; Launch of paid-for iPad application in January too. Full story at this link… Similar Posts: Confirmed: New York Times website will introduce FT-style charging system Daily Intel: New York Times to bring back pay wall?

A few takeaway points from the New York Times Company’s results yesterday:

A net income for Q1 of $12.8 million;
Introduction of the planned metered-pay system in January 2011;
Launch of paid-for iPad application in January too.

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Lost Remote: New journalism programme to mix digital storytelling and business

Calls for Action — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:50:40 +0000

“Even with the state of journalism today,” claims Lost Remote’s Cory Bergman, “most university professors would be loath to meld a curriculum of storytelling with the business side of the equation”. This is not the case at the University of Washington digital media programme though, which aims to become the ‘Columbia Journalism School of digital media and communication’, and teach “a unique blend of digital storytelling, social media and the business of digital media”. “The three go together,” says Hanson Hosein, the director of the Masters of Communication in Digital Media program and a former NBC News correspondent who covered the Iraq war as a one-man band.

“The three go together,” says Hanson Hosein, the director of the Masters of Communication in Digital Media program and a former NBC News correspondent who covered the Iraq war as a one-man band. “Were hearing from our applicants that theres nothing else like our program.”

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NYT: What would Daniel Ellsberg have done with Pentagon Papers if Wikileaks had existed?

Josh — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:51:02 +0000

Now that it is relatively simple for anyone in possession of leaked documents to publish them directly to the internet, is there any reason to pass them on to a national newspaper? With the viral advantages of internet publishing and social networking, can dedicated sites such as Wikileaks – which made a huge impact two weeks ago with the release of a classified military video showing the killing of civilians in Baghdad by a United States Apache Gunship – replace mainstream news organisations as the place to take leaked information

Now that it is relatively simple for anyone in possession of leaked documents to publish them directly to the internet, is there any reason to pass them on to a national newspaper?

With the viral advantages of internet publishing and social networking, can dedicated sites such as Wikileaks – which made a huge impact two weeks ago with the release of a classified military video showing the killing of civilians in Baghdad by a United States Apache Gunship – replace mainstream news organisations as the place to take leaked information?

Noam Cohen of the New York Times casts an eye back at the case of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, and asks how it might unravel differently today.

If someone today had the Pentagon Papers, or the modern equivalent, would he still go to the press, as Daniel Ellsberg did nearly 40 years ago and wait for the documents to be analysed and published? Or would that person simply post them online immediately?

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Cartoon journalist recognised on Journalisted.com

Josh — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:51:48 +0000

Journalisted.com, sporting a new and refreshed look, has added a pseudonymous 18th century journalist to its byline directory . As Media Standards Trust director Martin Moore describes on his blog , Journalisted is to support Matt Buck and Michael Cross’ cartoon creation ‘Tobias Grubbe’, an 18th century journalist.

Journalisted.com, sporting a new and refreshed look, has added a pseudonymous 18th century journalist to its byline directory.

As Media Standards Trust director Martin Moore describes on his blog, Journalisted is to support Matt Buck and Michael Cross’ cartoon creation ‘Tobias Grubbe’, an 18th century journalist. Grubbe’s work is also to be published on the Guardian website during the general election.

“Grubbe will be expressing his opinions about the election on the Guardian website from Monday 12 April to the election (and a bit after). He has also become an honorary member of journalisted.com, joining over 18,000 of his colleagues,” says Moore.

Grubbe can also be found on Twitter: @tobiasgrubbe.

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Nieman Journalism Lab: Barriers to entry can improve quality and quantity of reader comments, says Gawker

Josh — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:06:58 +0000

In 2009, blog network Gawker Media introduced a new, stricter commenting system in an attempt to free the site from certain readers who were dominating comment threads. Nieman Journalism Lab has the full rundown of how the system now works, which includes trusted commenters having greater access to discussions and most recent comments placed at the top rather than bottom of threads to steer discussion. “We’ll be able to encourage the kind of discussion that *we* want – not one that is dominated merely by the most prolific of our commenters

“We’ll be able to encourage the kind of discussion that *we* want – not one that is dominated merely by the most prolific of our commenters. It’s our party; we get to decide who comes,” wrote founder Nick Denton at the time.

A graph on the blog of Gawker Media chief technology officer Tom Plunkett shows an initial dip in comment volume when the changes were first made, followed by a steep incline:

Though there were some calls to do so, purging commenter accounts is not a solution for the out-of-control commenter community. Nor is a large moderation staff. We believe pruning, and a commenting platform as we have implemented, will lead to increased participation, while at the same time encouraging quality. This data, and the subjective opinion of many, seem to back this assertion.

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Wired.com: Columbia to offer joint computer science and journalism degree

Calls for Action — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:23:15 +0000

US university Columbia has created a new masters’ degree combining computer science and journalism. The Columbia programme, which will accept its first 15 students (tops) in the fall of 2011, seeks to attack the barrier between journalists and the increasingly important IT professionals whose web and digital savvy are crucial to any form of newsgathering, reporting and delivery. The problem: users really don’t know what to ask developers for (or how), and developers have no real idea what their software will need to do in the hands of the users

US university Columbia has created a new masters’ degree combining computer science and journalism.

The Columbia programme, which will accept its first 15 students (tops) in the fall of 2011, seeks to attack the barrier between journalists and the increasingly important IT professionals whose web and digital savvy are crucial to any form of newsgathering, reporting and delivery. The problem: users really don’t know what to ask developers for (or how), and developers have no real idea what their software will need to do in the hands of the users.

The cross-disciplinary programme will equip journalists with vital data mining skills, technology to make their work more efficient and ideas for “new storytelling media using 3D photography and other methods”.

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Journalist makes the news for councillor assault

Josh — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:42:35 +0000

A story you’ll find in Newsquest’s Streatham Guardian , but not in its rival, the Tindle-owned South London Press – an extract: A journalist from our rival newspaper the South London Press has admitted assaulting a senior Lambeth councillor at a glittering charity fundraiser. Chief reporter Greg Truscott pushed Councillor Mark Bennett at the Mayor of Lambeths annual fundraising dinner, held on a cruise boat on the Thames on Wednesday, March 3. He was cautioned by police after admitting an offence of common assault on the cabinet member for community safety, when interviewed at Brixton police station last Wednesday.

A story you’ll find in Newsquest’s Streatham Guardian, but not in its rival, the Tindle-owned South London Press – an extract:

A journalist from our rival newspaper the South London Press has admitted assaulting a senior Lambeth councillor at a glittering charity fundraiser.

Chief reporter Greg Truscott pushed Councillor Mark Bennett at the Mayor of Lambeths annual fundraising dinner, held on a cruise boat on the Thames on Wednesday, March 3.

He was cautioned by police after admitting an offence of common assault on the cabinet member for community safety, when interviewed at Brixton police station last Wednesday.

Lambeth Council has now banned him from all its buildings and events – including the town hall and the boroughs leisure centres.

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Ken Kobre: Visual journalism trends

Calls for Action — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:29:05 +0000

Photojournalism professor Ken Kobre takes a look at Harvard’s Nieman Report and its visual journalism feature. We had to ignore our email inbox and take the phone off the hook find the requisite time to delve into it.

Photojournalism professor Ken Kobre takes a look at Harvard’s Nieman Report and its visual journalism feature.

We had to ignore our email inbox and take the phone off the hook find the requisite time to delve into it.

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AP: Search engines must pay up, say Murdoch and AP’s Curley

Josh — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:26:51 +0000

Publishers must take back control of their content from search engines, aggregators and bloggers, which have become the ‘preferred customer destinations for breaking news’, the Associated Press’ (AP) Tom Curley has said at an industry summit in Beijing. “We will no longer tolerate the disconnect between people who devote themselves – at great human and economic cost – to gathering news of public interest and those who profit from it without supporting it,” Curley said (though slightly strangely citing Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook as key examples of threats)

“We will no longer tolerate the disconnect between people who devote themselves – at great human and economic cost – to gathering news of public interest and those who profit from it without supporting it,” Curley said (though slightly strangely citing Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook as key examples of threats).

Speaking separately at the event, News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch said ‘the aggregators and plagiarists’ would soon have to pay the price for using publishers’ content for free.

If publishers and news organisations don’t regain control they will pay ‘the ultimate price’ and it will be ‘the kleptomaniacs who triumph’, he added.

Earlier this week the Associated Press (AP) said it is considering whether it could sell news items to online clients for a short, exclusive period.

The agency is also developing a new system for tracking its content online and monitoring copyright infringements.

Full story at this link…

David Weir: ‘Is AOL on a mission to save journalism?’

Josh — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:04:40 +0000

“AOL now has 1,500 people writing content across its scores of content sub-brands,” TechCrunch reported earlier this week. Bnet’s David Weir takes a fresh look at AOL: is it on a mission to save journalism?

“AOL now has 1,500 people writing content across its scores of content sub-brands,” TechCrunch reported earlier this week.

Bnet’s David Weir takes a fresh look at AOL: is it on a mission to save journalism?

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Guardian gives comedians right of reply: There isn’t a ‘new offensiveness’ say Herring and Burns

Calls for Action — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:26:34 +0000

As noted here earlier this week, comedian Richard Herring (@herring1967) objected to Monday’s Guardian G2 feature on offensive comedy. Herring felt that quotes and examples from his shows were used out of context, giving the impression that he was a racist. He used his personal blog and Twitter account to air his frustration while others (including fellow comedians) used their own platforms to express surprise at the article. Other supportive blog posts sprang up, and tweets quickly flew round, condemning the original Guardian article. Following his complaint, the Guardian gave Herring, and Australian comedian, Brendan Burns, the chance to respond in print in today’s G2. Find them at these links:

“There is no New Offenders movement: We don’t have a clubhouse. Standup comedian Brendon Burns responds to Guardian critic Brian Logan’s attack on ‘the new offensiveness’.”
“There isn’t a ‘New Offensiveness’: Standup comedian Richard Herring defends his ‘Hitler Moustache’ act after comments made by Guardian critic Brian Logan.”

Richard Herring’s latest blog post can be found here; an interesting account of writing the article, and the searching questions he asked himself about the whole thing.

A new Chinese Arabic language TV channel

Calls for Action — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:40:29 +0000

FollowtheMedia’s Michael Hedges asks what an Arabic-language channel achieves, in his short commentary on Chinese state television’s new station. “Every government with a story to tell wants to tell it on television

FollowtheMedia’s Michael Hedges asks what an Arabic-language channel achieves, in his short commentary on Chinese state television’s new station.

“Every government with a story to tell wants to tell it on television. Internet services of state-run news agencies can put out all the press releases and official statements. Nothing, however, beats a television channel for a foreign audience.”

The BBC and the Associated Press (via the New York Times) have both reported on the launch of China Central Television Arabic channel.

Please do share other links, especially to articles or blog posts sharing views on the new channel’s content.

The Blog Herald reports that Shiny Media has gone into administration

Calls for Action — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:34:59 +0000

Early this morning, Andy Merrett, who formerly worked for some of the network’s blog titles, broke the news on the Blog Herald that the Shiny Media had gone into administration.

Early this morning, Andy Merrett, who formerly worked for some of the network’s blog titles, broke the news on the Blog Herald that the Shiny Media had gone into administration. He wrote:

“Despite this years cutbacks and new additions, it doesnt seem to have been enough to save the company.”

Full story at this link…

Interestingly, Shiny’s co-founder, Katie Lee claims today, via Twitter, that Shiny Media never received the reported $4.5m of funding from Bright Station Ventures in 2007, an amount confirmed here on Shiny’s own blog.

Lee, who left the company in February, wrote today:

“$4.5m was incorrectly reported in the press and we were told to stick with the story. Was mortified.”

Lee also said she thought the company had already been bought:

“As far as I know, Shiny Media has already been bought (before I even knew it had gone into administration). So hopefully some jobs OK.”

More to follow from Journalism.co.uk.

MediaShift: How can journalists prove their value?

Josh — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:59:54 +0000

…in a world where the crowd is increasingly filling the role of reporter. Dan Schultz offers five suggestions all focusing on defending a journalist’s credibility: Make your source documents public Provide timelines and notes Share author and editor information Reference the past Track your news trends Full article at this link… Similar Posts: TechCrunch decides to release confidential Twitter documents; ethical questions raised Nieman Journalism Lab: NYTimes appoints Jennifer Preston as social media editor contentious.com: Why the New York Times should show its sources Sunday Tribune: Paper defends editor’s right to keep confidentiality Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – tools for timelines

…in a world where the crowd is increasingly filling the role of reporter.

Dan Schultz offers five suggestions all focusing on defending a journalist’s credibility:

Make your source documents public
Provide timelines and notes
Share author and editor information
Reference the past
Track your news trends

Full article at this link…

Slideshare: Steve Buttry’s ‘Twitter for journalists’ presentation

Calls for Action — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:51:54 +0000

Courtesy of Slideshare comes Steve Buttry’s presentation on Twitter for Journalists . ( @stevebuttry is coach for the ‘Complete Community Connection’ (C3) programme at Gazette Communications in the US) A great resource for those just getting into tweeting or if you need to talk your news colleagues around… View more presentations from Steve Buttry

Courtesy of Slideshare comes Steve Buttry’s presentation on Twitter for Journalists.

(@stevebuttry is coach for the ‘Complete Community Connection’ (C3) programme at Gazette Communications in the US)

A great resource for those just getting into tweeting or if you need to talk your news colleagues around…

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Guardian exclusive claims Murdoch papers ‘paid £1m to gag phone-hacking victims’

Josh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:30:36 +0000

On Guardian.co.uk, Nick Davies reports: “Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has paid out more than 1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists’ repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.” Full story at this link… Similar Posts: Media Guardian: 15m UK users visted newspaper, claims ComScore Media Guardian: BBC rejects claims that 10m staff flight bill is frivolous Paid Content: Ning raises 60m dollars – worth 500m South China Morning Post (via Editors Weblog): Hong Kong business papers launch paid-for websites J.co.uk: Murdoch dismayed by the amount of celebrity coverage in The Sun, claims its editor

Full story at this link…

Newsnight: Paxman interviews Huffington on ‘curation’ and editing of reports from Iran

Calls for Action — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:00:57 +0000

Jeremy Paxman interviews Huffington Post founder Ariana Huffington and the Evening Standard’s Anne McElvoy on the use of non-traditional media/amateur reports from Iran and the concept of ‘curating’ this information as opposed to traditional editing. McElvoy usefully describes the intersection of as a complex mosaic with each piece contributing subjective information – but information that requires an overview/comparison that can be added by an editor or professional journalist. BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Has internet journalism come of age

McElvoy usefully describes the intersection of as a complex mosaic with each piece contributing subjective information – but information that requires an overview/comparison that can be added by an editor or professional journalist.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Has internet journalism come of age?.

Why Nick Denton wouldn’t set up shop in UK

Josh — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:42:33 +0000

From Politico: a report on a panel at the Institute’s Ideas Festival in Colarado, asking ‘Whats the News Worth to You?’ For us Brits, this is the interesting part: “During the panel’s Q&A, Gawker Medias Nick Denton sarcastically thanked the American newspaper industry for being so unaggressive, making it possible for ‘thugs’ like him to succeed. “Conversely, Denton said he’d never set up shop in England. ‘Every single day, those editors get up and try to kill each other,’ said Denton

From Politico: a report on a panel at the Institute’s Ideas Festival in Colarado, asking ‘Whats the News Worth to You?’

For us Brits, this is the interesting part:

“During the panel’s Q&A, Gawker Medias Nick Denton sarcastically thanked the American newspaper industry for being so unaggressive, making it possible for ‘thugs’ like him to succeed.

“Conversely, Denton said he’d never set up shop in England. ‘Every single day, those editors get up and try to kill each other,’ said Denton. Not so in the U.S.”

(Hat-tip: Martin Stabe)

Science journalism: a row

Josh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:57:35 +0000

This week is the World Conference of Science Journalists (#WCSJ) . This is what the Independent’s Steve Connor had to say in an article entitled ‘Lofty medics should stick to their day jobs.’ “The sixth World Conference of Science Journalists is underway in London

This week is the World Conference of Science Journalists (#WCSJ). This is what the Independent’s Steve Connor had to say in an article entitled ‘Lofty medics should stick to their day jobs.’

“The sixth World Conference of Science Journalists is underway in London. I can’t say it’s going to change my life, as I missed out on the previous five, but I did notice that it has attracted the attention of a bunch of medics with strong views on the state of science journalism today.”

Connor picked up on a gathering advertised by Ben Goldacre (a post-event meet-up on July 1 with Petra Boynton and Vaughan Bell) and quoted Goldacre’s website, labelling him as the ‘bte noir’ of science journalists.

“All three speakers are gainfully employed by the public sector so they don’t actually have to worry too much about the sort of pressures and financial constraints the mainstream media are under. But they nevertheless condescended to offer some advice on the sort of ‘best practice guidelines’ I should be following, for which I suppose I should be eternally grateful.

“But their arrogance is not new. Medical doctors in particular have always had a lofty attitude to the media’s coverage of their profession, stemming no doubt from the God-like stance they take towards their patients. Although I wouldn’t go as far as to say their profession is broken, dangerous, lazy, venal and silly not yet anyway.”

Ouch. Goldacre spotted it and comments beneath his post, and Connor’s article are flowing pretty fast. Goldacre also reproduces a letter and email sent to the Independent, on his blog.

In other WCSJ news, Goldacre wasn’t too happy with the panel addressing science and investigative journalism yesterday. He tweeted from the event: “so what about investigative science journalism done by bloggers? not a single person addressed the question. these ppl need to read more.”

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