March 2011
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ohnewsroom:
Editor, his checking email: “Oh, the spam has started … nevermind, this is just a press release.”
You learn to auto-delete email without reading them. True story.
nessusa18 asked: I love your blog :)
3 Tumblr accounts you should follow (if you...
Future Journalism Project, The Washington Post’s @innovations, and Poynter (which I’m set to write for).
I’m taking you up on your offer, Julie. It would be a privilege :)
The 6 Verbs For The Next 20 Years Of The Connected... →
Screening — Kelly notes that whereas there used to be just the television screen and then the computer screen, now screens are everywhere. And increasingly, everything will be a screen — all surface. There will be a “one screen for all,” Kelly says.
Interacting — Right now, interaction is limited mainly to our fingertips, Kelly says. But the iPad is changing that — it’s about using more of your...
#7437
ohnewsroom:
Business Editor, referring to dueling officials: “When assholes collide, newspapers win.”
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“‘It could be that I’m overly paranoid about this, but I have a...”
– Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, In Libyan Capital, Reporters Encounter The Surreal
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Social media use jumps but TV remains top in... →
Martyn Williams, IDG News:
Millions of Japanese flocked to Internet and social media websites following this month’s earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis, but television retained its place as the primary source of information for most people, according to two surveys released on Tuesday.
The data highlights the growing importance of Internet-based information sources in...
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“‘Generally I’ve found that if you get complained at by both sides...”
– Meghan Hartsell, Is it impossible to avoid bias in journalism? [via Editors Weblog]
How 6 newsrooms are using mapping tools to explain... →
poynterinstitute:
The Washington Post innovations team shows how papers from Des Moines to Spokane are presenting the data.
Related: Explainer maps locate, contextualize and localize news from Libya, Japan
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“‘That’s the press baby, the press.’ Once it was the press and...”
– Federica Cherubini, Editors Weblog
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“I think it’s very important to say that my article was written back in the...”
– Malcolm Gladwell tells Fareed Zakaria on CNN that he remains a social media skeptic.
[Full transcript here]
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“Like a web search engine, journalism is about getting people the accurate...”
– Jonathan Stray » The editorial search engine (via greglinch)
Create a small research team in the newsroom. Have them regularly talk to the design/graphics crew.
You know what I’m suggesting.
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Loaded words, euphemisms, and news copy →
Merrill Perlman, Columbia Journalism Review:
It’s not just “dictator” that tells a reader that “we don’t like them.” Other loaded words include “regime,” “iron rule,” “autocratic,” “repressive,” etc. Even “junta” has the smell of the banana republic about it. (So far, few have referred to the military’s temporary governance of Egypt as a “junta,” even though Webster’s New World College...
“Instead of aggregating news headlines, [The Study is] going to aggregate...”
– Richard Just, The New Republic, Introducing ‘The Study’.
Just describes TNR’s hesitation about typical aggregation strategies but the necessity of implementing the practice in general. We think their idea is great and look forward to following as they proceed.
(via futurejournalismproject)
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When innovation is old-fashioned →
washingtonpostinnovations:
Nobody tweeted or blogged or e-mailed. They didn’t telephone either. Bereft of electricity, gasoline and gas, this tsunami-traumatized town did things the really old-fashioned way — with pen and paper.
Unable to operate its 20th-century printing press — never mind its computers, Web site or 3G mobile phones — the town’s only newspaper, the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun,...
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“By not playing the traditional game of journalistic disconnectedness, the...”
– Zeynep Tufekci, assistant professor of sociology at University of Maryland, on how Twitter engages us more directly in war coverage than traditional broadcast media. Do you agree, and if it does — do you think this is always a good thing?
Via Twitter Brings Home The Reality Of War - WSJ (H/T...
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A life less Ordinario →
After spending several years in prison in a foreign land for drug smuggling, you are led to a judge who tells you that you are about to be put to death in the next hour.
“Alternating, incomplete accounts do not create balance. At best, they allow...”
– “New York Times follow-up on Cleveland, Texas, rape story corrects, repeats original mistakes,” Poynter.org (via poynterinstitute)
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Brian Boyer and the rise of 'hacker-journalists' →
Bret J. Schulte, Columbia Journalism Review:
Boyer’s team has built online programs to help families find the headstones of loved ones after cemetery caretakers double-sold plots, as well as an application to help parents compare schools. During a Tribune investigation into the problems created by a state policy of housing non-senior felons in nursing homes, Boyer saw reporters struggling to...
“You may hear me, with humor in my voice, talking about getting “props” from my...”
– Roy Peter Clark responds to Roger Ebert in “Am I too old to LOL? Are you?” (via poynterinstitute)
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tartantambourine asked: A friend asks:
How many cats are too many?
or
How many cats is too many?
On the issue of most importance here, my friends and I agree that the correct answer is three cats. But. on the verb choice, some of us strongly favor "are," some argue for "is" and some think the smartest solution is to re-write the sentence and...
How many cats are too many?
or
How many cats is too many?
On the issue of most importance here, my friends and I agree that the correct answer is three cats. But. on the verb choice, some of us strongly favor "are," some argue for "is" and some think the smartest solution is to re-write the sentence and...
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After 1.189 million dislikes, Rebecca Black's... →
Jolie O’Dell, Mashable:
The video was removed from YouTube by the original publisher (Black’s record label, Ark Music Factory) as of 4 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
The single is still available for sale on iTunes, but all you’ll find among the 11,500 YouTube search results for “Rebecca Black Friday” are parody videos, remixes and commentary. In fact, the entire account that originally...
“Just think back to all the school children who got their knuckles rapped for...”
– The Bureau Chiefs, Grammar’s Dirty Little Secret
