New Media Unit

This is an example of how one organization in reaching out to readers to become a network of sources for stories.

Stanford has used data from the Library of Congress to illustrate the spread of all kinds of newspapers across the U.S. from 1690 to 2011. Users can see which cities had multiple papers and click on them to learn more about them.

Carr joins Terry Gross on Fresh Air to discuss his Twitter usage, the future of newspapers, error correction, his own media consumption, religion and the accountability of social media. He says that he thinks of Twitter as a personalized "human-enabled RSS [feed]" that allows him to follow what his friends are reading and thinking about at any given moment.

Alisa Miller's TED Talk brilliantly illustrates what news industry observers have been warning for years: Our news diet is distorted. We get very little news about places outside the United States, and that amount dwindles further when we remove Iraq from the equation. If you look at our supply of news from places outside the United States that the U.S. is not directly involved in, the effect is even more pronounced. the Center for Civic Media, under the leadership of Ethan Zuckerman, is embarking on a project to build the tools to empower the individual, and the news providers themselves, to see at a glance what they're getting and what they're missing in their daily consumption. We seek to provide a nutritional label for your news diet.

One thing we kicked up and shared with the group was this takeaway handout on some things we find helpful. It's filled with Twitter accounts to follow, events to attend and places to start.

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.

This article talk about how tweets from other people can have a large impact and can contribute to history.

at the risk of sounding like I'm whistling past the graveyard, I'd like to point out that there are thousands of newspapers that are not just surviving but thriving. Some 8,000 weekly papers still hit the front porches and mailboxes in small towns across America every week and, for some reason, they've been left out of the conversation. So a couple of years ago, I decided to head back to my roots, both geographic and professional (my first job was at a weekly), to see how those community papers were faring. And what I found was both surprising and inspiring.

The Economist Online is hosting a debate on the news industry at http://econ.st/p9l5yK and we would like to hear your thoughts on Facebook. Like many other industries before it, the news industry is being disrupted by the internet. Among other things, technology is undermining the business models of newspapers: the news organisations that employ the most journalists and do the most in-depth reporting. At the same time, the internet enables new models of journalism by democratising the tools of publishing, allowing greater participation from readers and making possible entirely new kinds of organisation, such as WikiLeaks. Do the benefits of the internet to the news ecosystem outweigh the drawbacks?

Over the next four weeks, a very interesting experiment is going to unfold. The most exciting part about it is that it's entirely open source: You can observe it, interact with it, and improve it. We're calling this experiment the "learning lab." It's the second stage of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, which kicked off in May with an online competition that solicited 300 news innovation ideas from people around the globe.

Media is changing. In fact, our very concept of what media is is undergoing a transformation as well. I can explain the changes or I can simply show you this video. You'll think it's adorable, but it's sure to make traditional media types' blood run cold. Watch and then we'll continue.

The internet has turned the news industry upside down, making it more participatory, social, diverse and partisan-as it used to be before the arrival of the mass media, says Tom Standage

the launch of Twitter for Newsrooms, an official comprehensive guide on using Twitter in the world of news. The guide, also known as #TfN, was developed by the Twitter Media team and aims to be a one-stop shop, from learning the basics up to more advanced ways of using the network in journalism.

Here are five prominent news events that broke on Twitter:

The way we tell stories in print has been mostly the same for some time now. Space constraints and graphic layout have made the narrative flow a broken one. With the advent of digital devices and rich new ways of shaping content, the pressure is on to rethink how we produce and present our stories. Looking into why the broken-narrative experience happens may help us figure out how to prevent it in digital publishing.

The internet has turned the news industry upside down, making it more participatory, social, diverse and partisan-as it used to be before the arrival of the mass media

In the process of adding friends, following people and retweeting things, we have created a mosaic of what we like, which can be used to train Web services. We don't think about it, but it's there. And it's all out there. What you're seeing in these services and many more are early stages of a new layer spreading across the Web - the social layer. It's becoming key to how online content companies deliver information that increasingly flows through Twitter and Facebook. The social layer of the Web is the next phase. It uses our data and social graphs as machinery to power new services that have nothing to do with updating your status, "liking" or retweeting. It's just the Web, transformed into your Web.If you haven't already, take a couple of minutes to try out Intel's Museum of Me. When you log in with Facebook, it creates a stunning video tour of a futuristic museum about your life and friends.

Over the coming days, we will be talking to publishers, editors and entrepreneurs about the myriad challenges facing the industry and focus on solutions that can point the way to a revitalized, sustainable model for journalism in the 21st century.

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

Saying that journalism is at a crossroads is a great understatement and certainly no secret to RTDNA members. For the pessimist, dwindling newspaper circulations, smaller TV audiences and thousands of lost jobs reinforce the idea that the traditional American media may be dying. But to the optimist, new media platforms and fresh developments in technology present boundless opportunities for growth with virtually endless chances to reach a growing, more demanding news audience. A common theme among all RTDNA members is that we want to know where journalism is going and, more importantly, we want to know how to get there. Archived webinar available here.

If traditional media was all about broadcasting - distributing a one-size-fits-all message to a wide audience, usually via a platform controlled by the media - new media is more about personalization and customization. In other words, the quest for a "Daily Me." But it's still unclear how exactly we're going to get there. Two new entrants - a service called Trove and an iPad app called News.me - have joined the horde of players who are trying to answer that question, and they have taken very different approaches.