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29 Aug 09

25 things journalists can do to future-proof their careers | Blog | Econsultancy

20 Jun 09

The Washington Post, Dan Froomkin and the establishment media - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

"To be a real establishment journalist (objective), you're not allowed to say when one side is lying -- even when they are."

And we wonder why news organizations are dying.

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Mainstream-media political journalism is in danger of becoming increasingly irrelevant, but not because of the Internet, or even Comedy Central. The threat comes from inside. It comes from journalists being afraid to do what journalists were put on this green earth to do. . .
"If mainstream-media political journalists don’t start calling bullshit more often, then we do risk losing our primacy — if not to the comedians then to the bloggers.

"I still believe that no one is fundamentally more capable of first-rate bullshit-calling than a well-informed beat reporter - whatever their beat. We just need to get the editors, or the corporate culture, or the self-censorship – or whatever it is – out of the way" -- Dan Froomkin, fired yesterday by The Washington Post.
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- To be a real establishment journalist (objective), you're not allowed to say when one side is lying -- even when they are. All you're allowed to do is repeat what both sides say and leave it at that (Colbert: "The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home"). Froomkin -- unlike David Gregory -- believes that reporters should actually point out when the Government is lying. That's what he did. That's why, to The Post, he wasn't a real reporter but, rather, an "ideologue." That's the sickness of American journalism in a nutshell.

21 Apr 09

Why journalists should learn to code (and why some shouldn't bother) :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews

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Because many coders and developers aren't exactly rushing out to learn about inverted pyramids and cutlines, this gives the coding journalist an advantage.
Being both a journalist and a programmer/coder requires use of both sides of the brain. The left brain, which relies on logic and analysis, is more apt for synthesizing computer processes; the right brain relies more on intuition and creative thought, essential skills for a successful journalist. Because journalists are more likely to be right-brain thinkers, asking a writer to code is basically asking someone to rethink the way they think

14 Mar 09

In Hard Times, Freelancers Turn to the Web - NYTimes.com

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Freelancers in a wide range of fields can use sites like those operated by Elance, oDesk and Guru to advertise their work and bid on jobs; employers can use the sites to assemble a contract work force.
Her rates — for copywriting, marketing and résumés — have climbed to $100 an hour after starting at $50, she said, and she has steady clients, both corporate and individual, in places like Australia, Ireland and Kuwait.
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- Rachel Pennig, manager of customer support for PBwiki in San Mateo, Calif., which creates collaborative wikis for clients, said she found at least half of her 12-member team on oDesk.
- The sites all operate on the same principle as eBay, enabling workers to build their reputations. All the sites issue 1099 tax forms and other documentation, saving trouble for employers. The sites survive on fees, charging employers or taking a commission from freelancers' pay, often 5 to 10 percent.

10 Mar 09

10 Journalists you should follow on Twitter :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews

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19 Feb 09

Skills training is not enough for the digital journalist

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J-school journalists skills web2.0

skills, though, aren't the answer. As one news executive said, "We need to take staff to Web 2.0 and beyond – to make learning more nimble and flexible."
Training that is based solely on techonology would be like teaching a police trainee how to shoot a gun, but not explaining the rules of engagement.
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- it's not the skills that you get that will save your job, or repurpose you for the future, it's whether you can learn how to think like a journalist in the Web 2.0
- Yes, we want our students to have Web skills (in part because we suspect that's going to help them a lot in job interviews) but the thinking is really the key part. The best way to develop the thinking is - yes, play with all of these different tools and develop some basic level of familiarity with them, then think critically about how you can use these tools to better realize core journalism values e.g. accuracy, watchdog, etc.
- multimedia literacy and a basic understanding of what it meant to work in a Web environment was what people needed – before they could go about learning the hardware.
- Silos, departmental rivalries, and departments that don't communicate with each other cannot exist if multimedia initiatives are to succeed.
- Web journalism means a journalism of conversation.
- The idea is to take the best parts of the civic journalism and public journalism movements and sync these up with the possibilities of the Web. Through networked journalism, Beckett urges legacy journalists to think of themselves as participating in somewhat of a pro-am kind of relationship, where mainstream journalists share the process of production with everyday citizens.

26 Jan 09

Should journalists vote? Yes, no, sometimes - Politico.com Print View

And we wondered how Bush won two elections! Now we know. It was all those purer than pure journalists who thought they shouldn't vote because it might compromise their objectivity. How stupid is that!

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remain agnostic about elections, even in private
I feel strongly enough about it that I’ve only voted in one election in my life
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- In an online chat on washingtonpost.com in 2004, Downie explained: “I decided to stop voting when I became the ultimate gatekeeper for what is published in the newspaper. I wanted to keep a completely open mind about everything we covered and not make a decision, even in my own mind or the privacy of the voting booth, about who should be president or mayor, for example.”
- it’s a great dodge
- I can always say: I don’t vote — and you can look it up.
- I am neither foolish enough nor idealistic enough to believe any reporter can strip away all personal feelings and partisan inclinations.
- many others at Politico think I am silly
- what the hell were they thinking?
- The question at hand — should political journalists vote? — is a subset of the most endless and least satisfying debate in the whole profession: Is true objectivity ever possible?
- It is admirable that Mike and Jim cleave to a scientific ideal of journalistic detachment, the way a surgeon cannot tolerate even the slightest bacteria on his instruments. Their piety on this subject is especially notable in an era when traditional lines governing journalism (or even who counts as a journalist in the first place) have blurred, and many new arrivals to the business don’t care at all about old notions of neutrality and fair-minded presentation.
  
  But Jim is right that I find his obsession a bit silly — and a bit self-deluded.
- coming to a conclusion about whom I support and expressing that in the voting booth does not compromise me as a journalist.
- My belief is that being a journalist for an ideologically neutral publication like Politico, or the Washington Post, where I used to work, does not mean having no opinions. It means exercising self-discipline in the public expression of those opinions so as not to give sources and readers cause to question someone’s commitment to fairness.
- Whether true objectivity is attainable is a subject for philosophers. But even young children understand the concept of fairness and know intuitively what’s fair and what’s not.
- A journalist can cast votes and have opinions, even strong ones, and still be fair. We do it by letting people have their say, by not putting our thumb on the scale with loaded language, and by having the modesty as reporters to admit that information is always fragmentary and it is our role to tell stories but not to pretend that we are society’s High Court of Truth.

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