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The Politics of Global Warming
"The first week of the international global warming conference in Copenhagen produced more posturing than progress. In one substantive move, the European Union pledged $3 billion in aid starting next year to poorer countries dealing with climate change. President Obama will visit the conference later this week. However, the conference's fate may be determined by China's position.
A new report released last week found that an overall global warming trend is continuing and another study suggested that the steps needed to slow, or reverse, it will cost trillions of dollars.
Separately, three lawmakers in this country unveiled new climate change legislation in an effort to break a Congressional roadblock."
NYRblog - The News Crisis: What Google Can Do - The New York Review of Books
"By 2015, he speculated, there will exist compact hand devices able to send users news that’s so finely tailored to their individual tastes and interests that they will be willing to pay for it."
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More and more journalists are becoming entrepreneurs.
YouTube - Sports Illustrated - Tablet Demo 1.5
"This collaboration between The Wonderfactory and Time, Inc. is an excellent example of how tablets will enable the creation of innovative, addictive experiences by publishers, media companies, and advertisers."
About Us | The Texas Tribune
"We’ll tee them up. Because the Trib’s focus is exclusively public policy, politics, and government, there’s nothing to distract us from the task at hand. Because we’re non-profit, we don’t have to sacrifice our mission at the altar of commercial considerations. Because we’re nonpartisan, we’ll give you the straight skinny—the facts—without an agenda or bias. Because we work for you, the people of Texas, not shareholders or other corporate overlords, we’ll never get our priorities out of whack.
Beyond that, what will differentiate us from other media is our voice (strong, clear, authorial, magazine-like in our love of a good narrative), our innovative use of technology (how we present our reporting will be as much a measure of our success as what that reporting uncovers), our ambition (couldn’t be higher), and our willingness to try new and risky things—even we ultimately fall flat. These days, many media organizations don’t have the luxury of giving their reporters permission to fail, because the cost of failure is too high to bear in difficult economic times. We have no such apprehensions. To the contrary, we’re operating with a “fail fast” mindset that allows our reporters and editors to think big, to think creatively and differently. If it doesn’t work out, no problem—move on to the next attempt to be great, to be the best."
Putting the Public in Public Media
"NPR's Social Media Guidelines for Reporters
This list, released last week, includes concerns about expressing political views online and how reporters should present themselves on Twitter and Facebook. It's a great starting point for other organizations concerned about similar issues. Carvin says that while NPR reporters are using online tools more and more, it still can be a challenge.
"The one thing I never do is show up and insist that they use a particular tool simply because lots of other people are using it," he says. "People are often resistant to learning new tools simply because they don't seem relevant to them, so you need to figure out with them what may or may not be relevant.""
10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media
"With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on Facebook (Facebook) or Twitter (Twitter), which many college students already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.
And though many professors are still experimenting and learning how these tools can be used, below are the 10 ways journalism schools are currently teaching students to use social media. Please share in the comments others that you have found to be important and effective as well."
MediaShift Idea Lab | PBS
Great blog for journalists/journalism teachers to keep up with J 2.0
News & Record Editor: Social Web is a 'Cocktail Party' That's Improved the Paper
BECOME PART OF THE SOCIAL WEB. Newspaper executives should take it as a personal and professional challenge to participate in social media: Share photos and video online. Follow industry experts on Twitter. Create a Facebook or LinkedIn profile. This is extremely valuable market research. Learn all you can.
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BECOME PART OF THE SOCIAL WEB. Newspaper executives should take it as a personal and professional challenge to participate in social media: Share photos and video online. Follow industry experts on Twitter. Create a Facebook or LinkedIn profile. This is extremely valuable market research. Learn all you can.
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bighow guides: the online journalism handbook why journalists must blog
There is no other way to go about it, so here goes: as a journalist, you must blog to see how humbling, educating and eventually beneficial this is going to be for your career considering the always-on, online, always-updated nature of modern news business. The first thing when you will write for a blog is how ordinary you are because you will have for company thousands, if not million sof other writers writing about the same topic as you, but with different views. Mostly, at first, you will find how lame, same and banal your writing is. It is no different from all those other articles out there. Once you get over the shock of it, your re-learning starts.
Bighow: handbook to online journalism
The handbook covers the basics of online reporting, writing for the web and social web, citizen journalism, professional blogging, how to use Facebook and Twitter, how to deal with censorship, list of citizen journalism websites worldwide, list of free tools for journalism and much more...
Interview with Clay Shirky, Part II : CJR
So I think that’s going to happen here. The average quality of something written is going to fall to the floor because of the volume of written material. But the competition will mean that the premium for having something especially interesting is going t
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What I do think is potentially quite interesting is all of the work on filtering that says a big part of the value of information is actually downstream from its production. I would like to be reading or talking about what my friends are reading or talking about, or my colleagues are reading or talking about, or my competitors are reading or talking about. And this rise of social filtering—there’s an interesting phenomenon in the university world, where the number of papers jointly published by two or more researchers working in different institutions is on the rise. And it’s on the rise because it’s very… sitting at your desk, it’s almost easier to figure out, “Who else [in the world] is working on what I’m working on?” than to figure out, “What are my colleagues down the hall working on that isn’t like what I’m working on?” And that idea of information weakening the walls of the institution seems to me to be really beneficial for cross-disciplinary work. I mean, I think the fact that many of the people doing behavioral economics are psychologists is indicative of the kind of cross-disciplinary work we can potentially hope for in the future. So, I think that one of the ways to get around this filter failure problem is—you know, I refuse to use the term ‘information overload’ for obvious reasons—is to start deploying these social filters that assume that at least part of why I want to read or look at something is to be able to have valuable thoughts or conversations in tandem with other people.
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So if journalism is going from being a profession to an acitivity, then it all goes on a spectrum. There will be professional journalists, there will be journalists who practice journalism all day long for their jobs. And there’s going to be people like Chirapongse, for whom a single act of journalism may just define how they participate. But at that moment it’s pretty critical. So, I think news organizations are going to have a much harder time making a distinction between what it is they do.
HOW TO: Track Gaza Using Social Media
As the conflict continues in Gaza, where do you turn for up to the minute information? If you’re like us, you want a mix of information from traditional media outlets and social media sites alike. You probably already know about Twitter Search, but are yo
60 New York Times profiles on Twitter | PRBLOGGER.COM
Following on from the post I published in November on UK journalists using Twitter, I thought it would be interesting to do something similar for the US media. My instincts told me that if one American media outlet was embracing Twitter more than most it
Berkman Publication Series - Media Re:public - Home
The transformation of the media world is well underway, facilitated by the spread of digital tools. A myriad of innovative new media organizations have sprung up to take advantage of the opportunities that stem from low-cost distribution networks. Meanwhi
RSS + social media = “Passive-Aggressive Newsgathering” (A model for the 21st century newsroom part 2 addendum) | Online Journalism Blog
Just when I thought I’d put the 21st century newsroom to bed, along comes a further brainwave about conceptualising newsgathering in an online environment (the area I covered in part 2: Distributed Journalism). It seems to me that the first stage for any
Commentary: How social media shared pain and rage of Mumbai - CNN.com
The morning after, a friend and fellow blogger in the United States asked me how I was coping with it all. Her question was whether I found myself working it through intellectually or emotionally. My answer was that there was anger. Lots of it. And I was
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