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Journalism, Meet Twitter (two paradoxes)
via @yannleroux > Whatever it is, incremental journalism is something we’ll have to contend with, because ultimately it shapes and drives the news itself. Sources or subjects must respond faster and faster to reports; conversations will spawn around the counter-responses, and so on. This new platform is going to play a part in creating our world, as much as we twitter about it.
How Google Wave could transform journalism
For the last two months, while we've been testing the Google Wave developer preview, we have been talking amongst ourselves about how this thing could change (or add to) what we do. So, here's a list of a few wild ideas we had for using Wave.
Let’s Talk : Journalism and Social Media (Nieman Reports)
Social media can bring greater depth and breadth to journalists’ work. What’s curious, however, is how seldom the word “journalism” seems to surface in the numerous forums about digital media. (via @eni_kao)
Journalism has improved in the internet age, say media professionals (via @eni_kao)
European Digital Journalism Survey 2009 reveals that journalists still trust quality of their products, but don't get enough further training by their publishers for the changing media situation
What should journalism schools be teaching their students?
you also have to suspect most of these students are working toward a journalism degree because they want to be journalists. The question they’ll face upon graduation is what kinds of journalism jobs will exist?
Whatever those jobs are, journalism students will be better equipped to qualify for them if they have learned the following as part of their education:
Twitter : political whistleblower
This article by Polis Summer School student Ida Ebbensgaard asks to what extent citizens are being politically empowered by having access to Twitter. She points out that there are severe limits to Twitter’s political power, but she identifies its critical role as a kind of whistleblower to mainstream media.
Twitter - angst over 'is it journalism'
In "The Trouble with Twitter," her angst-filled essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Melissa Hart perfectly illustrates the debate, the angst -- and, frankly, the disconnect of not understanding that everything need not be a "story."
Until we get past this little hangup, I'm afraid that journalism/journalists just risk being deemed even more anachronistic and, ultimately, irrelevant.
Journalists take to the Twitterverse (The Australian)
IT'S Tuesday and I'm at a forum on the topic "Twitter's Impact on Media and Journalism", busily taking down the speeches in shorthand. As I do, the business-suited woman sitting on my left is tweeting about me on her laptop.
Iconic Video from Tehran Protests Demands New Skills of Journalists
In the world of journalism, the video and its global journey underscore a new reality of news gathering that mixes the roles of journalists and the people they serve more dramatically than ever before.
Adding value in the new news ecosystem
I’ve also been arguing that for journalists, saying what you don’t know is becoming as important as saying what you know. That is all the more critical as misinformation and rumor can spread at the speed of information online. So I imagine a news organiza
Rules of Engagement for Journalists on Twitter
Twitter's role in the Iranian election aftermath leaves no doubt about its power as a global, real time, citizen-journalism style news wire service, along with a tool for facilitating dissent, while countering the view of Twitter as simply a zone for egot
How Twitter impacts media and journalism: Five Fundamental Factors
see Five Fundamental Factors on how Twitter impacts media and journalism: 1. Twitter’s role in breaking news / 2. The accuracy and verification of news on Twitter / 3. The pressure for faster news and media / 4. Editorial policies and reputation for accur
Why we link: Five reasons your news organization should tie the Web together
1. Because we owe it to our readers to give them as much information as we have at our fingertips. 2. Because linking to sources and resources is the key gesture to being a citizen of the Web and not just a product on the Web. 3. Because it’s the best way
How Journalists Balance Work, Personal Lives on Twitter
Twitter is both a venue for discussion about the future of journalism and a feature of the discussion. Some see it as a symptom of the demise of the fourth estate, others see it as part of the plan for professional journalism's salvation in an age of rapi
How Social Media is Radically Changing the Newsroom
Did Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey or even Mark Zuckerberg ever portend that their means of connecting among social circles would be the news du jour in many newsrooms across the country? Social networking sites are some of the newest tools for rep
The continuing need for professional journalism (Shel Holtz)
I’ve been picking up a lot of increased chatter echoing the notion that the crowd—bloggers, Twitterers, and so forth—are poised to render the professional journalism unnecessary. These screeds generally decry journalism’s shortcomings and argue that the e
Twitter Culture Wars at The Times: "We Need a Zone of Trust"
“Inside the newsroom we’re learning lessons about what’s appropriate and inappropriate,” Times televsion reporter Brian Stelter told The Observer in an interview. He tweeted only once during the Monday session. “I think what we should be talking about and
Twitter & New York Times Reporters Ethnography
While social media holds much potential for the media industry, many issues could arise through its use by journalists. Transparency can allow reporters to become more connected to their readers, but it can also lead them to expose biases they may have, c
The impact of newspaper closures on independent local journalism and access to local information
Local newspapers hold a privileged position. As the guardians of democracy and access to local information, but also as established competition to potential new initiatives, new ways of approaching democracy in local communities. If their demise is to be
Why Twitter is not the right vehicle within which to do journalism
Lesson No. 1 is this: Trying to cover an event live on Twitter—especially if you are a participant, as I was—doesn’t allow time to check facts or seek out an alternative point of view or think for more than a few seconds about what to say. There’s not eno
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