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Tom McHale

Why Reporting Is Ripe For Innovation - 0 views

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    While it's become easier for journalists to find information, discover sources through the web, and use tools like Storify to curate content, the process still relies on having the bodies to scour for this information. And that's the challenge. In the newspaper industry, there were more than 13,000 newsroom jobs lost between 2006 and 2010, according to Pew's State of the News Media report. At the same time, the amount of information available has grown at an astronomical rate. These two things are at odds.
Tom McHale

MediaShift . How Storify Helps Integrate Social Streams Into Articles | PBS - 0 views

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    Curation seems to be the big buzz word in journalism and online content these days. It's also an area that's generating a lot of product innovations. New services such as Keepstream, Storify, Storyful and Qrait are jumping into the space, aiming to offer new tools to help people curate web and social media content. Curation is a way for journalists and bloggers to help the public make sense of the overwhelming amount of information out there by carefully selecting the interesting bits and pieces and by providing context. In this new information environment, the thinking goes, we need fellow humans to make sense and filter for us. For me, curation is part of the all-important process of telling stories and connecting people around these stories. Storytelling is about involving people, finding out new information and providing context so people can find out why that particular story is meaningful to the
Tom McHale

American Public Media: Public Insight Journalism - 0 views

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    Become part of the Public Insight Network and join 90,000 people like you who help improve, deepen and diversify reporting at American Public Media and our partner newsrooms. We'll ask you to share your observations, insights and experience. We then pass on your information to reporters and editors who may follow up with a request for more information, or perhaps an interview. Or, with your permission, they may post your insights directly to the web. It's a great way to share what you know. So open up. And add your insight to the news coverage that millions of people count on every day.
Connor Donnelly

In real-time, journalists' tweets contribute to a 'raw draft' of history | Poynter. - 0 views

  • When historians look through the Library of Congress’ Twitter archive years from now, Andy Carvin’s tweets will be among those that help tell the story of the Arab Spring.
  • Carvin worked with Twitter for six months to get the archive, which includes his 96,000+ tweets dating back to February 2007.
  • Carvin’s archive made me think about the value of Twitter not just as a real-time tool, but as a record of history.
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  • “Generally, when something big is going on, I’m in the zone and not thinking of much else except capturing what’s happening and figuring out what’s true. I definitely try to add context when it seems appropriate, but it’s really directed at real-time consumption.”
  • But collectively, tweets tell stories — about media scandals, natural disasters, political speeches and more.
  • If journalism is the “rough draft of history,” Twitter is the “raw draft of history” — imperfect and less polished, but important nonetheless.
  • In a phone interview, he said tweets are “not decisive by themselves, but certainly if properly cataloged and researched, they will make a meaningful contribution when someone writes the history of what we’ve sewn together over the years.”
  • But while consecutive tweets can be helpful in the moment, the need for context becomes greater over time.
  • “If you look back at the books written on history, among the most valuable contributions are when historians are able to get their hands on a leaders’ diary or a leaders’ letters,” Crowley said. “It helps when you’re able to understand what a historical figure was thinking and seeing and doing at a particular time and then add context.”
  • We do feel that as a means of communication, tweets become a part of history.”
  • “can have particular meaning in the moment, but obviously they evolve. And in order to make sense of tweets, you’ve got to be able to look at them in a broader context.”
  • “Certainly in the context of Twitter there are memorable tweets that reflect the drama of a particular moment, but the dilemma for Twitter, which is to some extent the challenge for all of us in this information revolution, is how do you discern meaning from this overwhelming array of information that we are now exposed to?”
  • Storify is a great tool for pulling together tweets to tell a story, but it doesn’t let users see trends over time.
  • When he looks at it, he’s reminded that Twitter has become “both a professional and personal journal.”
  • In some ways, tweets are like modern-day journal entries that writers choose to share publicly.
  • It would help, Crowley said, if there were a tool that made it easier for people to discern meaning from tweets and other information streams over time.
  • Smith’s tweets convey scenes, emotion and dialogue that tell a story about the earthquake
  • Similarly, Carvin’s tweets tell a powerful story about the turmoil in the Middle East.
  • “give a perspective of what a development means at a particular moment.”
  • “It’s a lot of fun to be able to engage in these kinds of debates, and I try to take some time to do it every day
  • We don’t always know when or if we’re going to make our way into history. We may never invent something revolutionary or find a cure for cancer, but we can contribute to history in our own small ways — 140 characters at a time.
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    We may think of our tweets as real-time snippets of information. But collectively, tweets tell stories - about media scandals, natural disasters, political speeches and more. Over time, these stories become part of an important historical record - one that's made up of a multitude of voices, opinions and ideas. If journalism is the "rough draft of history," Twitter is the "raw draft of history" - imperfect and less polished, but important nonetheless.
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    This article talk about how tweets from other people can have a large impact and can contribute to history.
Sam L

How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream - 1 views

  • “there’s no such thing as information overload, there’s only filter failure.”
  • “The social stream is a means to filter success. Relying on friends and a personal network to filter the news and point out the best stuff solves that problem Shirky identified,” Rosen said.
  • Also, the trust that readers place in people they know isn’t the same as the trust they place in news organizations,
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  • 74.6% said that Facebook was a major way in which they received news and information from NPR, and 72.3% said they “expect” their friends to share links to interesting information and news stories with them online.
  • There’s a lot of value in having a personalized experience. It makes the experience more rich,” Osofsky said.
  • As news consumption evolves on Facebook, it’s news feed is likely to become more focused and targeted.
  • media sites are learning some lessons and are experimenting with ways to provide readers with a customized experience.
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    Personalized news is a new trend that makes the reader more informed as well as making news obtaining easier for the reader.
Tom McHale

How Will Ezra Klein's 'Project X' Add Context to News? - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    Ezra Klein's new journalistic venture, Project X, starts with the proposition that news organizations focus too much on what's new and not enough on what's important. What will his alternative look like? A "21st Century encyclopedia" as much as a news site. "We want to think really hard about how to connect not just new information, but to bring it together with important contextual information to create a more thorough source and place to understand the world," Klein said.
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.
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.
Gary G

3 Social Media Skills They Should Teach In Journalism School - 10,000 Words - 1 views

  • Not everyone sees the value in “live Tweeting/Facebooking” events or breaking news
  • But I believe that we’re trending towards a more wide acceptance of the medium for reporting live events.
  • When you’re the only person on the scene of a breaking news story, or the only person at the meeting, often that means you’re the only source of information available at that time
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  • Being able to dive in and start posting quality information and news items is a great skill to have.
  • In a few years I can see social media being a critical element of any journalism school’s curriculum
  • they risk being left behind as journalism — and journalism education — continues to evolve
  • many schools are still experimenting and, in some cases, “waiting out” social media to see if it eventually collapses in on itself.
  • Some see it as a lot of unverified information. In some cases it is
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      There were many elements of scholastic journalism that were visible throughout this article. Because this article made a focus on Twitter as a platform, promoting a discipline of verification is very important. When the author of this article wrote about live tweeting events, verification comes into play big time. The sources of news need to be reliable. This article also provides a forum for public comment, by allowing just that- the public to comment on stories below. Also, making the significant interesting and relevant is something that is required for journalism. NOBODY wants to read a boring article. Has to be upbeat, funny, and relateable.
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      THIS IS FOR THE KATIE COURIC SOURCE: The interview with Katie Couric, conducted by Brian Solis, was about social media, and Katie's involvement in sites such as Twitter, and cbsnews.com, where she hosts a webshow. Katie's interview shows that she supports independent thought ( as the good journalist she is!) and has certain segments that are significant, interesting, and relevant.
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    This article details three social media skills that the author of the blog "10,000 words" believes should be taught in Journalism school. The author believes that Social Media should be brought into the curriculum in these schools. This author's three points are that twitter is a "story machine", live teeting/facebook events is a skill, and that content scheduling is king. In my opinion, these three points are very interesting, and important in terms of the future of education.
Tom McHale

Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) | Understanding News in the Information Age - 0 views

shared by Tom McHale on 13 Aug 12 - Cached
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    The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism is dedicated to trying to understand the information revolution. We specialize in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press, particularly content analysis. We are non partisan, non ideological and non political. Our goal is to help both the journalists who produce the news and the citizens who consume it develop a better understanding of what the press is delivering, how the media are changing, and what forces are shaping those changes. We have emphasized empirical research in the belief that quantifying what is occurring in the press, rather than merely offering criticism, is a better approach to understanding.
Tom McHale

Reading More but Learning Less? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "if Americans are finding a more polarized reality online, they may have just grown more partisan with less knowledge, making it more important for forums like presidential debates to deal with the details of policy. In the Web 2.0 age, when many Americans see hundreds of articles every day, are we more informed than previous generations were?"
Tom McHale

Arianna Huffington: Tweet, Tweet: Announcing HuffPost's Twitter Editions - 0 views

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    More and more people are using Twitter to get their news and to share the news that touches them. Our Twitter editions are a mash-up of breaking tweets and HuffPost stories that are attracting interest on Twitter, a combination designed to bring you the most important information and liveliest discussions -- in real time -- for each of our sections. The speed and immediacy that Twitter provides -- along with its great variety of voices -- is a great addition to what we are already doing: delivering a unique blend of news, opinion, and community... served up with our distinctive attitude and point of view, and super-charged for Twitter users. This is also a natural extension of something else we've always done: help curate the news. The more information there is out there, the more important it is to have gatekeepers you can trust to bring you the news and fresh takes you need to stay informed. We are launching Twitter editions for each of our 19 sections -- with a front page version slated to go live soon. In every section, our editors have hand-selected the most interesting Twitter accounts for that subject -- Comedy, Politics, Entertainment, Sports, etc, etc -- so you can be sure to get breaking news and on-target analysis as it comes in.
Kate K

MediaShift Idea Lab . Help Spot.Us Find a Path to Financial Sustainability | PBS - 0 views

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    In the two years since our site has launched, we've funded over 160 projects with the help of 5,000 contributors, a fifth of whom contributed more than once. We've done this in collaboration with 95 organizations, and our reporting projects have won eight journalism awards. In short, we're making a difference. Whether it's funding FOIA requests, exposing the lies of a sheriff, or providing a deeper understanding of those less fortunate in our society, the stories we fund make a difference. I earnestly believe in the power of an informed democracy. The guiding principle at Spot.Us is to make the process of journalism more transparent and participatory -- not merely to inform but to engage. Our site is a testament to the notion that people can take ownership over their information needs if there is a platform to support it.
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    This article provides examples of giving a voice to people that usually don't have one. It shows how people can give their input on a story.
Nick J

A Welcome Letter From Don Graham - 0 views

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    Trove harnesses smart, flexible technology that learns from the choices you make. Some have called it "Pandora for news," and the serendipity in its suggestions, pulled from around 10,000 sources, makes Trove a powerful tool for information discovery.   But it's not just algorithms that drive Trove. Our editors are constantly working to inject the latest news onto the site's home page and into channels of information that users can choose to follow. Meanwhile, our crew of engineers keeps Trove in a state of perpetual evolution.   As a Trove user, you'll have the power to create your own channels, which you can use to follow the people, places, things, and information sources that catch your eye. Starting up your Trove experience is easy; the site uses Facebook Connect to deliver to many users a slate of channels based on their already defined interests
Tom McHale

Journalists see Reddit's potential as the new "newsroom" | Knight Center for Journalism... - 1 views

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    "Reddit, the "front page of the Internet," looks like a bulletin board where users post content and vote whether it is worth reading or not. The range of topics on Reddit swings from cat memes to series news. Its use in covering recent shootings in Toronto, Canada and Aurora, Colorado, led GigaOm's Mathew Ingram to call Reddit a blend of "traditional reporting with crowdsourced reports." In the case of the Aurora movie theatre shooting, people involved in the attack started threads that snowballed into comprehensive accounts of what happened as commenters updated information and brought in new voices, according to Poynter."
Tom McHale

Columbia's New Journalism Dean Looks Ahead in a Digital Era - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    ""We are in the second phase of disruption, and I think this job is a great place to think about and participate in some of the ways we go forward," he said. "I think the great digital journalism of our age has yet to be created. The cohort that is at Columbia now is the one that will be making the journalism that is going to shape our democracy: working on mining data sets, creating video that is not 2012, coming up with much more powerful ways of accruing and displaying information.""
Tom McHale

I am a journalism ethicist, analyzing coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing. Ask me a... - 2 views

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    I work at the Poynter Institute, where I teach and advise all kinds of journalists, including professionals, activists, amateurs, the Fourth Estate and the Fifth Estate, to tell stories and provide information that supports democracy. Here's our website: www.poynter.org Here's my faculty page: http://about.poynter.org/about-us/our-people/kelly-mcbride Here's my personal website: www.kellymcbride.com
Tom McHale

Radio storytelling: When is a story just a story, and when do listeners expect more? - ... - 0 views

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    " Bit by bit, the understanding was that theatrical values - by which I do not mean fiction - were incredibly important to holding attention, even to conveying information, to creating expectation and then to finally creating a memory. All of those scene-painting skills were the very heart of radio." And they still are. With so many storytelling shows on the air - The Moth, Radiolab, This American Life and, rising quickly, Snap Judgment - here's a question that programs have been dealing with lately in the new "golden age" of public radio: What happens when a story turns out not to be true? Or true-ish? What level of accountability do listeners expect? How is the storyteller's compact with the listener changing?"
Tom McHale

LabCAST - The MIT Media Lab Video Podcast » Archive » #40 Future of News - 0 views

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    Six minute video from the Center for Future Civic Media's "Future of News and Civic Media" conference showcased some of the work done as a part of the Knight News Challenge, focusing on creative ways to provide people with the news and information needed to manage their communities effectively.
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.
    • Liz Winar
       
      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.
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