New Media Unit

Google News is also doing a lot of thinking about the best ways to personalize news content for its users. The product currently makes use of two main types of customization, Rohe notes: the explicit and the implicit. Explicit personalization is the kind Google News emphasized in last year's redesign, the kind that asks users to tell Google their interests so their news results can be appropriately tailored. But you don't always know what you like. So, starting this April, signed-in Google News users in the U.S. began seeing stories in their "News for You" feeds that were based not on their stated preferences, but on their behavior: their news-related web historie

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.

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.

In this article, we will cover the personalized content approach and in particular reddit. We will describe the technical details and compare existing personalized content solutions.

FirstPerson is MSNBC's citizen Journalism outlet. 

First Person MSNBC is an open forum for anyone to post their stories. You don't have to be a professional writer, you can post whatever you want. Every week their topics change for what they would want to be posted but you can post whatever you would like.

A couple of outreach efforts by ProPublica this week caught my eye as examples of how the Web can make journalism more open and effective - and reminders that both journalists and the public need much more of this. The first was a post on the ProPublica website Monday offering a "step by step guide" and searchable database for anyone tracing the influence of a nonprofit organization called ALEC that has proven highly effective in developing "model bills" for state legislatures. The second was a conference call Tuesday that drew about 140 people to hear about using ProPublica-built data and a news application for reporting on education access issues in local schools and districts. ProPublica published a national story based on the data, examining the relationship of poverty to educational access, along with a Facebook-integrated app for looking up and comparing schools and districts.

A short video that describes how citizen and traditional journalism can work together.

This video is helpful because it explains the difference between traditional journalism and citizen journalism. It talks about the rising growth and popularity of citizen journalism. Showing how everyday people are becoming journalists and writing newsworthy stories.

The Courier-News' Citizen Journalism venture

GETPUBLISHED by mycentraljersey is an open forum for non professional writers to submit anything they'd like to share. They have guidelines, but you can submit anything you write.

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.

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.

The Tiziano Project provides community members in conflict, post-conflict, and underreported regions with the equipment, training and affiliations necessary to report their stories and improve their lives. We knew early on that we wanted to focus as much on the journalism component as the tools and have since developed an online Classroom filled with openly available training curricula and lesson plans to help easily infuse journalism into any project.

The Tiziano Project provides community members in conflict, post-conflict, and underreported regions with the equipment, training and affiliations necessary to report their stories and improve their lives.

this relates to Giving a voice to the voiceless because it allows the average citizen to document what they see... they are the ultimate textbook.

A look at how Americans get their news in the digital era.

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.'

This article addresses the audience element of journalism.  Facebook and other social media sites help journalists connect and reach their audiences a lot easier.

In online polling about story selection, editors at the Wisconsin State Journal learn that 'the readers who vote consistently do choose weighty stories.'

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

The migration of audiences toward digital news advanced to a new level in 2011 and early 2012, the era of mobile and multidigital devices.  More than three-quarters of U.S. adults own laptop or desktop computers, a number that has been stable for some years.1 Now, in addition, 44% of adults own a smartphone, and the number of tablet owners grew by about 50% since the summer of 2011, to 18% of Americans over age 18.

Imagine being able to get live news updates from one of the top cable news network on your PC, iPhone or iPad in beautiful HD quality. That day is coming soon, as earlier this week, CNN demoed its new TV Everywhere video offerings to an audience at SXSW. During the conference, CNN Digital General Manager KC Estenson showed off high-quality video and multiplatform capabilities that will enable viewers to watch customized video streams wherever they are and on whichever devices they choose. The only catch? To do so you have to be a pay TV subscriber with CNN as part of your video package.

"The Future of News" is a groundbreaking 10-part series for public television where the best minds in traditional and new media meet to discuss the role of a free press in an ever-changing digital democracy. Watch video clips from the series and get links to discussion topics.

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.

only 9 percent of U.S. adults get their news from Facebook and Twitter, although of that group, Facebook is used most frequently as a source of news. That's according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism's State of the News Media 2012 report.

In 2011, the digital revolution entered a new era. The age of mobile, in which people are connected to the web wherever they are, arrived in earnest. More than four in ten American adults now own a smartphone. One in five owns a tablet. New cars are manufactured with internet built in. With more mobility comes deeper immersion into social networking. For news, the new era brings mixed blessings. New research released in this report finds that mobile devices are adding to people's news consumption, strengthening the lure of traditional news brands and providing a boost to long-form journalism. Eight in ten who get news on smartphones or tablets, for instance, get news on conventional computers as well. People are taking advantage, in other words, of having easier access to news throughout the day - in their pocket, on their desks and in their laps. At the same time, a more fundamental challenge that we identified in this report last year has intensified - the extent to which technology intermediaries now control the future of news.