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The (r)Evolution of Media
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Crowdsourcing, citizen journalism, and the lesson of scrapbook news
I want to further explore the idea of scrapbook news as a way of reframing the crowdsourcing/citizen journalism discussion. One reason mainstream news organizations havent embraced the concepts may be that the spirit (if not the letter) of the cit-j discussion tends to focus on the people involved r …
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Why not writing a story is innovation
Discussions about journalism innovation usually focus on technology: Twitter, RSS, Flash, Django, data visualization, and all the other cool stuff thats making online news so rich. But theres an equally important conceptual aspect of journalism innovation. Newsrooms have to rethink the kind of stori …
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First Entry In The I Am The Future Of Journalism Contest: Daniel Bachhuber
The I Am The Future Of Journalism Contest has its first entry, and its awesome. Daniel Bachhuber is a journalism student at the University of Oregon, a photographer, web developer, member of CoPress, and a journalist with a compelling vision of the future: Heres the text of Daniels entry: There are …
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Announcing the I Am The Future Of Journalism Contest
Publish2 is launching a contest for journalists to promote themselves as the future of journalism. We believe journalism has a bright future, and were betting everything on that belief. The winner of the I Am The Future Of Journalism Contest receives a prize that we know is increasingly valuable in …
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Link Journalism Drives Page Views and Engagement
Theres an article page on GoVolXtra, Knoxnews.coms sports vertical site for the Tennessee Vols, that accounted for 6% of ALL Knoxnews and GoVolXtra article page views for the last two weeks, and as much as 14% of all article page views one of the days since it was first published. The page has consi …
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Should Newspaper Companies Get Out Of The Newspaper Business?
Forget the bailout. I have a great new business model for Detroit automakers. Sell Toyotas and Hondas. Detroit already has the dealer networks. Theres great demand for Japanese cars. In fact, Detroit could retool all of their manufacturing plants to make Toyotas and Hondas. That proposal is similar …
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Hulu to Match YouTubes Revenue: Ten Observations For The Future of Media
An analyst at Screen Digest estimates that in 2008 YouTube will generate about $100m in the US, compared to about $70m at Hulu. Next year both sites will generate about $180m in the US. Thats very significant because YouTube had 83m unique viewers in the US in September, while Hulu only had 6m. H …
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The market and the internet dont care if you make money
The title of this post comes straight from the mind-blowing mind of Seth Godin, preaching to the book industry (promoting his book Tribes), but he could just as easily be preaching to anyone in media: [T]he market and the internet dont care if you make money. Thats important to say. You have no righ …
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Link Journalism Innovation: What Were Reading at Reading Eagle
Reading Eagle has brought their journalists out from behind the curtain to share with readers what they are reading on the web often beyond what can be found on Readings own site. Their new link journalism feature is called, appropriately enough, What Were Reading: Each editor has a profile on the …
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Newsrooms Can Grow Twitter Followers By Using Twitter For Link Journalism
Most newsrooms have utterly narcissistic Twitter accounts. The worst offenders (which unfortunately is the majority) use services like Twitterfeed to automatically tweet links to the newspapers own content. Heres our RSS feed on Twitter! Dont get enough of our content on our site or through RSS? Now …
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Guardian Launches Full RSS Feeds, First Media Company Not To Suppress RSS Adoption
On the eve of The Guardians launch of full text RSS feeds, Matt McAlister, Head of Guardian Developer Network, pinged me looking for examples of other mainstream media companies that have full text RSS feeds. Surely this many years into the age of syndication, Guardian couldnt be the first mainstrea …
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Mainstream News Organizations Entering the Webs Link Economy Will Shift the Balance of Power and W …
The New York Times published an article this week about mainstream news organizations embracing link journalism and news aggregation. Gawker and others scoffed that they are late to the game, which they are, but that misses (predictably) the BIG story. If news orgs like the NYT, Washington Post, and …
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Nervous About Link Journalism? Ignore Webs Cesspool And Tap Its Natural Spring
There are several reasons why most mainstream news organizations have been slow to embrace link journalism. First, news orgs typically act as though other news orgs dont exist (blame long-standing notions of owning the news, and more recent unjustified fears of sending readers away). Second, news o …
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Will Algorithms Make Human Editors Obsolete? Not If Journalists Collaborate
Will algorithms replace human editors on the web? Its a bogeyman question on one level, but ask any news site about the percentage of traffic they get from search engines and what the trend looks like and youll realize that algorithms are increasingly deciding what we pay attention to, what is imp …
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Will Algorithms Make Human Editors Obselete? Not If Journalists Collaborate
Will algorithms replace human editors on the web? Its a bogeyman question on one level, but ask any news site about the percentage of traffic they get from search engines and what the trend looks like and youll realize that algorithms are increasingly deciding what we pay attention to, what is imp …
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The New AP
Matt Thompson and Jeff Jarvis have been doing some important thinking on how news coverage needs to change in the Internet Age. They argue that a flow of shallow, time-dependent stories no longer works as a foundation for helping readers understand the world. Thompson started a blog devoted to explo …
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False Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report on CNNs iReport Is a Failure of Open Systems
Someone posted a false report that Steve Jobs had heart attack to CNNs citizen journalism site iReport. The fallout (which could include an SEC investigation) lead to the inevitable question of whether this is a failure of citizen journalism. Its not. Its a failure of open systems. As Sarah Perez po …
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washingtonpost.coms Political Browser Uses the News Judgment of Journalists to Filter the Politica …
washingtonpost.com has launched a new politics page called Political Browser, which features, wait for it links to the most important and interesting political news around the web. Thats right, the Washington Post, one of the paragons of original political reporting, has dedicated a page to help you …
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Link Journalism in Action: Vols Game Coverage Roundup Most Viewed and Commented on GoVolsXtra.com
Yeah, fine, so Drudge gets lots of traffic for links, but were not Drudge, so it wont work for our news site, right? Wrong. Heres a case example from Knoxnews.coms sports site GoVolsXtra.com. This roundup of links to coverage and commentary on the Vols loss to Florida was the MOST VIEWED article tod …
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Why Isnt Facebook Making More Money? (Hint: Advertiser Value and User Value Are Not Aligned)
I happened to visit Facebooks Business Solutions page, and was struck by how, at least on the surface, these advertising formats seem like exactly the kind of innovation that should be helping Facebook achieve Goolge-style revenue which is of course what Facebooks $15 billion valuation assumes will …
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