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Tom McHale

Andrew Sullivan announces shift to independent, reader-funded blog | Poynter. - 0 views

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    "After six years of affiliating his popular blog with major media companies Time, The Atlantic and most recently the Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan announced he's returning to independence. As of Feb. 1, the blog will live at andrewsullivan.com without any ads, sponsors or investment backing. Just Sullivan and a couple of colleagues blogging - and hopefully, readers paying. Sullivan is asking for $19.99 a year to subscribe ("around a nickel a day"). Sullivan calls it "the purest, simplest model for online journalism: you, us, and a meter. Period. No corporate ownership, no advertising demands, no pressure for pageviews … just a concept designed to make your reading experience as good as possible, and to lead us not into temptation." The metered model, to be administered by TinyPass, allows a yet-unspecified number of free reads per month, with exemptions for any visitor following a link from another blog. "No blogger or writer need ever worry that a link to us will push their readers into a paywall," Sullivan writes. He hopes this will pave the way for other writers:"
Liz Winar

Journalistic Blogging  | American Journalism Review - 0 views

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  • Weblogs are online journals consisting of brief entries displayed in chronological order on a page (see "Online Uprising," June). They are usually (but not always) written in a conversational voice and usually (but not always) peppered with links and references to other sites.
  • The best news bloggers are articulate, independent thinkers. In some ways, they are the antithesis of traditional journalists: unedited, unabashedly opinionated, sporadic and personal.
  • MSNBC.com is one of a few big news sites to jump on the blogging bandwagon
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  • Unlike free-range species, MSNBC's blogs are edited--"but with a light hand," says Managing Producer Reed Price. "We want to take advantage of the transparency offered by blogs, allowing readers to draw a clearer bead on the writer's personality."
  • News blogs can also focus on specific stories or events.
  • Any news site could set up topical Weblogs to monitor major stories, summarizing and linking to international and alternative coverage that readers wouldn't encounter on their own.
  • "One of the great things about having a Weblog is having a forum for expanding on points that must be dealt with briefly in conventional article writing. The article on Iraq which I just wrote for The Washington Monthly is a case in point."
  • Even journalists who have no interest in running a blog can glean story tips and ideas from them.
  • Get the picture? Blogs can be a rich resource, an easy publishing tool and a repository for notebook overflow. I seriously doubt they'll usurp online newspapers in five years--but newsrooms could borrow a few tricks from today's bloggers to make their own journalism better.
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      Discipline of Verification: In this article he is reporting with different perspectives, he is stating facts and than giving you the information based on where he got it from. It is in depth enough to get the information across, but not to in depth that its hard to follow.
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    This article is a good source that compares and contrast whether or not blogging can be considered journalism.
Marisa M

Nieman Reports | Blogging News in China - 2 views

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    In China, the Internet enjoys relatively greater freedom than other media. Even so, three of the articles I posted on my blog vanished without notice.'
Liz Winar

Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the future | ZDNet - 1 views

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  • “Journalism” may not be guaranteed work all of the time, but it is most certainly in my eyes one of the main focuses of future careers for students.
  • I think that citizen journalism is a much broader topic of ‘non-professionals’ engaging in information collection, distribution and dissemination. 
  • e said that he found amateur reviews annoying because most of them had very little overall knowledge of
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  • of their tastes (for example ‘the new White Stripes album does not rock as hard as the last one’).
  • music, and therefore could only really state their opinion within the narrow contexts
  • A journalist (ideally) has a professional responsibility to verify information,
  • Microblogging is a bit of a different case, I think, and builds much more on this idea of intimacy with the audience and among the audience
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      Promote a Discipline of Verification: When this person reported on this subject he gave a perspective and gives good background where he got the information and gave his points on it.
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    This article is a good sources talking about where journalism and blogging are now and where it will be going in the future.
Marisa M

Occupy Wall Street Timeline: From A Blog Post To A Movement : NPR - 0 views

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    This article discusses the major impact blogging can have on a society. One blog post in mid July led to an entire movement known as Occupy Wall Street.
Rebecca Salvatore

New Guardian blog puts readers next to editors as stories unfold | Poynter. - 0 views

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    Newsdesk Live is not another bloggy account of today's top stories like Yahoo News' The Upshot or The New York Times' The Lede. Newsdesk Live includes the day's story budget and conversational updates on what Guardian journalists are seeking and learning. The blog invites readers to contribute by posting comments, emailing or tweeting.
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    You might remember last year that the Guardian tried publishing its story budgets online to invite feedback and tips from readers. Today the UK newspaper takes the next step toward a transparent, "open" newsroom with a daily live blog from the news desk.
Liz Winar

Blogging vs. Journalism: Can They Be Considered Equal? - EJC - Online Journalism Community - 0 views

  • "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer; also : the contents of such a site."
  •  a writer who aims at a mass audience
  • For example, both bloggers and journalists are writing for a particular audience and both aim at telling a story in order to get information out quickly.
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    This gives good information about how blogging and journalism are very similar in their definition.
Tom McHale

The New, Convoluted Life Cycle Of A Newspaper Story - 10,000 Words - 0 views

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    News must be really hard to follow for an everyday consumer of a newspaper website. First tweets go out, sometimes with no links to additional coverage. Then a few grafs go up on a blog, followed by additional updates, either to the top of that post or as new posts. Eventually, a print story gets started, which is posted through an entirely different workflow onto a different-looking story page. This version is usually written as an hourglass-style narrative, following typical print conventions. For the rest of the day, new updates start going to this story rather than the original blog post. Having a hard time following? Here's a graphic to help:
Liz Winar

Blogging vs. Journalism: The Ongoing Debate - The Next Web - 7 views

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    This article is about the different opinions that people having about bloggers being considered journalists or not.
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    In recent weeks, the debate regarding the differences between blogging and journalism has re-emerged.
Gary G

Storify iPad app should draw more users and live coverage | Poynter. - 1 views

  • The app does not offer login via Twitter or Facebook like the website does, so you’ll need to set up a unique Storify password to use it.
  • Facebook content is limited
  • The app has a landscape-orientation mode only, you can’t hold the iPad upright while you use it.
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  • Storify’s brand-new iPad app unveiled this morning should extend the curation tool to new, more-casual user
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    Storify's brand-new iPad app unveiled this morning should extend the curation tool to new, more-casual users and increase the live-blogging of conferences and events.
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    Storify's brand-new iPad app unveiled this morning should extend the curation tool to new, more-casual users and increase the live-blogging of conferences and events.
Rebecca Salvatore

Journalists learn what works (& doesn't work) on Tumblr | Poynter. - 4 views

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    Tumblr's "media evangelist" Mark Coatney recently announced the arrival of big names in the industry that have launched their own tumblelogs, including The Los Angeles Times, Al-Jazeera English and The Guardian. In the past year, more than 160 media organizations, as well as individual journalists, have started using Tumblr. So why has the media become so enamored with the micro-blogging platform?
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    A lot of major media is becoming involved in micro-blogging platforms such a tumblr. It's easy to use, very accessible, a visual medium, and already has a large following.
Tom McHale

Net Worked » Blog Archive » How can the Engaging News Project help journalism... - 0 views

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    "That is why the Engaging News Project launched. We're a research group dedicated to helping newsrooms meet their business and journalistic goals. To do this, we test web-based strategies for informing audiences, promoting substantive discourse, and helping citizens to understand diverse views. At the same time, we analyze business outcomes, such as clicks and time on page."
Tom McHale

Category Profile: #Journalist - The Shorty Awards Blog - 1 views

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    "Here's a run-down of the finalists of the Shorty Award for #Journalist, presented with Muck Rack. These finalists have done an exceptional job using social media to share breaking news and provide real-time answers to real-world questions, while speaking in a relevant and honest voice."
Tom McHale

No more sugar daddies : Columbia Journalism Review - 0 views

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    "Will this experiment in free-market journalism work, and no matter the outcome, what does it say about the future of the trade? Sullivan, in many ways, is sui generis. He was one of the first mainstream journalists to start blogging, back in 2000, and he has built a large and loyal following-a real community of people who share his interests (everything from politics to poetry), and his take on those interests. The question is whether that's enough to support a business that currently employs seven people. As Sullivan put it, "We have almost no precedents for where we want to go." "
Tom McHale

MediaShift . When Following Breaking News, Why it Helps to Think Like a Journalist | PBS - 0 views

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    "So what can we take away from events like today in Boston? We can think about how we read about it. And in the era of everyone having a voice and a blog and the power to create content, it might help to think a little bit like a journalist."
Tom McHale

A totally unsexy, vitally important blog that should be talked about as much as BuzzFeed - 0 views

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    "While much industry attention of today's era of new-media companies is focused on the likes of BuzzFeed, Vox Media, NowThisNews, The Atlantic's Quartz, The Magazine, and PandoDaily, one publication with a decidedly old-school approach to news is finding success with what is increasingly looking like an old-school medium. the SCOTUSblog drills down deep into one issue, the Supreme Court of the United States, and in an old-fashioned reverse-chronological weblog format."
Tom McHale

3 Reasons Participatory Journalism Will Rise at Traditional Newsrooms | Idea Lab | PBS - 2 views

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    "Editor's Note: This blog post is the third installment in a 3-part series intended to look at engaging citizen reporters beyond crisis events. Part 1 can be found here, and Part 2 here. I've previously written that traditional newsrooms could better foster participation from citizens outside of widespread crisis events. In my first post, I explained why I thought it was common for both newsrooms and citizens to change their behavior during a large scale emergency. In my second post, I listed factors newsrooms might consider if they wish to create a more participatory culture. In this post, I note external forces that might encourage or even force a more participatory model for newsgathering and distribution. The combination of three factors, outlined below, point to the scales tipping towards increased citizen engagement in creating and sharing news."
Tom McHale

What the hell is a "real journalist" anyway? | PandoDaily - 1 views

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    "The world of journalism isn't burning. The Internet is killing the old model, yes, but the new models are only starting to emerge. That's not destruction. It's change. And as brutal as that transition is at times, it's exciting to be a journalist right now to see how the change will play out. In the meantime, things will be messy for a while. The furor over things like Parker's wedding, the rush to judgment and subsequent retractions, the public lynchings on Twitter, the boiling over of conversational media into childish shouting matches, the shoddy reporting drowning out the good, the spurious opinion obscuring the boring old facts - these are going to be a part of the world of journalism. But in time we'll learn from our mistakes. None of this is happening because a journalist is real or fake. The change, and the chaos it's creating, is systemic. It's not personal. And when the dust settles, there will be a better balance between the old model of deeply reported journalism and the newer models of blogged opinion and social-media conversations."
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