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ESP Journalism

ESP Journalism 07/28/2004 09:54 PM
At 8:50 this evening, CJAD, 800 on your AM dial, reported that John Edwards accepted the party nomination and recounted what he said in his speech. Only problem: It's now 9:50 and Edwards has yet to give his speech. Apparently, Canadian Press jumped the gun with the transcript - explicitly embargoed - circulated by the Democratic PR folks, and CJAD ran with it. Not surprisingly, it made the top listing at Google News....

that bad journalism thing

that bad journalism thing 06/15/2004 03:18 PM
i think it's the Tribune's way of saying they think nobody read Choire's NYT piece

Martyrs for the cause of journalism

Martyrs for the cause of journalism 07/26/2004 07:21 AM
They outraged an advertiser, pissed off the publisher or fell afoul of right- or left-wing political correctness. Now these articles killed by major magazines and newspapers have found new life.

When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News

When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
O PIOR do jornalismo americano em 2004

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"Webl0gs in Journalism"

"Webl0gs in Journalism" 01/26/2004 09:50 PM

Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism

Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism 08/14/2004 08:22 AM
Jay has blogged an atypical piece that is typically brilliant. He asks: Did 9/11 change journalism? Should it have? What story do journalists tell themselves about their role in the "war on terrorism"? Are journalists who inform citizens of the most powerful and influentual nation in the world participants in the war on terror, in the worldwide struggle for democracy, freedom and markets, because their country is a participant—the biggest by far—and they inform it? Don't miss the discussion in the comments. I only have a simple-minded answer to the question Jay poses in his nuanced post: 9/11 should have...

New Journalism Panel

New Journalism Panel 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
I something going on that is changing the journalist role? How do we do this better? Dan: On my right, is Jeff Jarvis, but I won't go into that any further. Jay Rosen Teach-ins should teach us things, the most...

Innovations in Journalism

Innovations in Journalism 02/16/2004 01:22 PM
Making the bold leap from merely waiting for Leander Kahney to watch Blogdex as this link rises, I'm actually going...

Off the Grid Journalism

Off the Grid Journalism 03/06/2004 01:52 AM
When a writer dissents from it, or departs from it, the master narrative is a very real thing. Here are two examples: one from politics, one from music.

Participatory journalism

Participatory journalism 08/16/2004 11:52 AM

Participatory (or citizen) journalism is getting a lot of coverage at the moment, thanks in part to Dan Gillmor's new book We the Media. For a great example of participatory journalism in action, check out Wikipedia's outstanding coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics. It's already a serious competitor to the official site in terms of content, and its wiki nature means it will only get better as the games continue. Hat tip: Gadgetopia.

I've been a fan of Wikipedia's current affairs coverage for quite a while. The site is especially useful in catching up with ongoing stories, in particular for detailed profiles of people and groups currently making the news (random example: Muqtada al-Sadr). Despite the site's open nature (or maybe because of it), they generally do an excellent job of keeping to a ne utral point of view.

Citizen journalism is unlikely to ever replace traditional journalism completely, but it can certainly enhance it. Then again, with OhMyNews now one of the most influential media outlets in Korea (see this interview for details) this is one trend that's not going to go away.

Reverse Journalism

Reverse Journalism 03/23/2005 01:22 PM
Yesterday I had a long talk about the search competition between Google and MSN. That competition is interesting, but so was the conversation, and what I can say about it. I was talking to a journo from a big-name mag that you see on every newsstand. He’d just been briefed by one of the search titans and wanted some insight from an independent search expert. The briefing was along the lines of “We’re gonna kill ’em dead because of X, Y, and Z” and he wanted my take on X, Y, and Z. Here’s the problem: X, Y, and Z are real interesting, and in particular it’s interesting that the vendor who’d briefed him thought they were important. But you know, I don’t think I can ethically say who the reporter was and who briefed him and what X, Y, and Z are, even though these are things that the vendor was trying to get published; because I didn’t think to ask the journo. Hmm, looks like I covered this ground once already, in August of 2003.

Bloggers vs. Journalism

Bloggers vs. Journalism 02/01/2005 09:48 PM
Mieto Marinadi talks about how a column by Matt i Wuori in Iltalehti is asking if blogs could be journalism and whether they will overrun the traditional media. I think the fact that the question is being asked now shows clearly how much Finland is not a front-runner in the information society game. In fact, this question is not even asked yet by journalists, but a lawyer.

You see, PressThink says the conversation on this subject is already over.

But in order to overrun media, there has to be first a Finnish blog that has something to say in a way that is interesting and new. I much enjoy the writings of Sedis, for example, and I am expecting much from Haltia (and some other political bloggers), now that the Helsinki City Council is starting its work. The new Finland for Thought (in English) keeps also asking important questions, and Kari Haakana is probably the foremost journalistic blogger in Finland. At the moment, Sami Köykkä of Pinseri and Alex Nieminen of sukellus.fi are arguably the most influential bloggers in Finland[1].

But this is not enough. I don't know whether it's even a good start. Most of the "internet discussion" in Finland is done in the scary, yet boring discussion boards of magazines, such as Iltalehti, Iltasanomat, Vauva-lehti, etc, and it is pretty much failing to impact anything. There is little danger to any sort of professional journalism from these discussion boards, who mostly just consist of rehashing the same arguments all over again. The USENET has been in existence for twenty years, and every time I go there, I see the same discussions but with different people. Or sometimes with the same people. It makes you wonder whether these discussion boards ever contributed something to anything, other than in the sense of community creation.

To me, blogs are different from the discussion boards because they are individualistic. A news group is usually referred to by its name, say "the people in sfnet.keskustelu.ihmissuhteet say that...". Similarly in a bulletin board: "Hey, I found this from Vauva-lehti..." On the discussion board, you lose yourself and become a part of a bigger crowd, all shouting at the same time. But a blog is attached to a real person (except for some weir dos who can't seem to be able to decide whether they exist or not). Therefore, whatever a blog says carries more gravity than a random rambling on a news board. It is essentially your own personal publication, and the comments are only a side story - much like "from the readers" -sections on newspapers. Therefore, bloggers are not a community, any more than newspapers are. Some bloggers form communities, yes, but blogs are far too good a ground for egocentrism for communities to become prevalent.

The reason that I find blogs interesting is that they might be the avenue to a real way for individuals (particularly non-journalists and non-politicians) to influence local and national decision-making; the real "information society" that the

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funding journalism

funding journalism 10/29/2003 12:31 PM
Blogger Joshua Micah Marshall solicits funding so he can cover the Howard Dean campaign in New Hampshire. Readers respond with nearly $5,000 in 24 hours. See? You CAN buy that kind of coverage.

Fairness in journalism

Fairness in journalism 06/05/2005 11:47 PM

There's an interview with author Michael Pollan (he wrote the highly regarded The Botany of Desire, which I have yet to read) on AlterNet. The teaser indicates the piece is all about food and the environment, but most of it ends up being about journalism, including this good bit:

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not. Fairness forces you -- even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done -- to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

Many blog evangelists point to the success of blogs, many of which are about as far from objective as you can get, as evidence that objectivity isn't required in telling a story, sharing a viewpoint, or in the search for truth. But it's important to keep Pollan's thoughts about fairness in mind before we throw the fairness baby out with the objectivity bath-water. So be subjective, but be fair also...you'll find you may get more mileage out of your arguments that way.

Backchannel Journalism

Backchannel Journalism 05/22/2004 12:30 PM
Journalists have their sources, but usually have to find new sources for new stories that don't reveal themselves while on the investigative trail. One tool they use is Profnet, an expert system for journalists. I have been on the expert...

Stand Alone journalism

Stand Alone journalism 06/25/2004 01:34 PM

Standing room

Like some other well-known bloggers before her, Chris Nolan is working on turning her blog into more of a revenue-generati ng business. I like Chris's stuff, even as I sometimes disagree with it, because it's sharp and unpredictable and rooted in her years of experience as a reporter, and so I wish her well in her efforts to sell ads and subscriptions.

Lord knows it's not an easy road. Reading Chris's manifesto for "Stand-Alone Journalism" -- she argues that's a better label for what she does than "blogging" -- brought me back to some distant memories from the dawn of the Web. After learning HTML and participating in the San Franciso Free Press experiment, I thought to myself, hey, there's nothing to stop me from starting my own publication on the Web!

So I did. In January 1995 I took a week's vacation time from my job at the SF Examiner and published a site. I focused on what was then quaintly known as "multimedia"; I called it Kludge, as a nod to its essential clumsiness and improvised nature, and I posted an issue. This was years before personal content management software, needless to say; it's all just cruddy hand-coded HTML and crude self-designed graphics. But the articles weren't so bad (hey, here's an interview with Marc Canter! Here's a satirical take on the CD-ROM explosion/implosion!).

What I quickly realized was that, as much fun as writing, editing and designing all that material was -- bringing me back as it did to my teenage roots in mimeograph publishing -- it was just the beginning of getting a Web site going. If I was serious about making it something more than a labor of love -- if I wasn't going to do all that work on my vacation days -- I'd need to figure out how to get people to visit the site, and how to sell ads, and so forth. My best efforts involved dumping a pile of flyers in the lobby of a multimedia conference at Moscone Center. (While I was doing that, a couple of guys named Jerry Yang and Dave Filo stood at a booth under a big Yahoo banner, giving away T-shirts.)

After briefly toying with the notion of applying to AOL's Greenhouse program for funding, I thought, nah. When David Talbot started talking about a new publication he wanted to create, I helped persuade him that he should do it on the Web instead of in print. Salon turned out to be a great place for me to write and edit and build Web sites without having to wear all the hats myself (though there have certainly been times during the last decade when my pate has felt a little crowded).

Today, would-be "Stand-Alone Journalists" can rely on much better software tools to create and publish their work. They can plug into far better organized online networks to spread the word of their activities. And they can even turn to simple plug-in approaches to advertising, like AdWords or BlogAds, to try to bring in some cash. But being a "Stand-Alone Journalist" still requires a combination of journalistic and entrepreneurial traits that's rare. Being a good journalist requires the ability to not mind pissing people off sometimes (Nolan, whose career has had its share of controversy, is no shirker in this regard); being a good entrepreneur demands the ability to charm people as often as possible. Both pursuits, of course, demand persistence, patience, and, in the face of indifference, a stubborn belief in the value of one's undertaking.

When I read Nolan's proposed label for the solo-blogger-journalist, the first thing that popped into my mind was the famous quote from Ibsen's Dr. Stockman in "Enemy of the People": "The strongest man in the world is the one who stands most alone." Standing alone has many wonderful advantages -- it's a stirring posture. But remember what happens to old Dr. Stockman: He is right to blow the whistle about the polluting of his town's waters, but he's dreadfully naive about the world around him, he's ultimately ineffective, and he fails to accomplish much besides his own martyrdom.

So I'm not sure the "Stand-Alone Journalist" label is one that will stick. The linked nature of the Web is ultimately even more important than the independence of the blogger. Standing alone is useless without being connected.

[Scott Rosenberg]

Lazy Journalism

Lazy Journalism 12/17/2003 08:29 AM
Richard Forno has done a good job of extolling the virtues of security in Mac OS X. This comes after PC Magazine columnist Lance Ulanoff reported a vulnerability in Mac OS X and went on to write a long and inflammatory tirade about how Mac OS X is no more secure than the Windows OS, and anyone who disagreed was a Mac zealot. Printing stuff like this is guaranteed to cause a stir in the Mac community, and as sure as eggs are eggs, the Slashdot crowd responded in true acerbic fashion. What really bugs me is the lazy journalists who print this stuff. Time after time you get a 'technology' journalist who finds material a bit thin on the ground (or are too lazy to write anything newsworthy) and have a go at Apple and/or the Apple community by writing an overly aggressive or inflammatory article. Why? The primary concern, I guess, being to draw in huge traffic from the offended Apple community websites and somehow earn respect of the Windows crowd by bashing one of their rivals. Jack Schofield from Guardian Online is a prime example. I've no doubt he's a respected 'technology' journalist for a number of years, but his anti-Apple posts on onlineblog (a weblog run by the Guardian Online team) only serve to expose his laziness and spoil an otherwise good read.

a primer on how not to do journalism

a primer on how not to do journalism 05/31/2004 02:30 AM
scathing self-rebuke .. Editor & Publisher .. this E&P piece .. credibility

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Sun lauded for online journalism

Sun lauded for online journalism 03/22/2005 05:01 PM
Sbsun.com - Tue Mar 22, 10:30 am GMT

Internet, Journalism and Ethics

Internet, Journalism and Ethics 08/11/2004 05:08 PM

Mark Glaser (Online Journalism Review): . On the Wild, Woolly Internet, Old Ethics Rules Do Apply

On Protecting Journalism And Democracy

On Protecting Journalism And Democracy 03/14/2005 05:50 PM

By Donna Wentworth, Corante

Offshoring Hits Journalism

Offshoring Hits Journalism 08/10/2004 10:24 AM

Washington Post: Reuters to Move Editorial Jobs From U.S. and Europe to India. Financial news service Reuters Group PLC said yesterday it will eliminate up to 20 editorial positions in the United States and Europe and hire up to 60 replacements in India in a move aimed at cutting costs.

Dead trees = journalism

Dead trees = journalism 04/19/2004 01:46 PM

Congrats to Richard!  Until your words go onto dead trees - you are not a journalist.  But now you are!

I guess this makes me a journalist.

Today I got my first article in print. My interview with Marc Canter made it into Computerworld New Zealand (pg 16, April 19 edition - right over the page from Jon Udell). It was one of my goals at the start of this year to get my writing published in the print world, so I'm chuffed to have achieved it! I'll upload a scanned version of the article tomorrow, because it isn't on the Computerworld NZ website at this point in time.

For those of you who may have arrived at my personal website via Computerworld, you may be interested in reading the extended version of the Marc Canter interview. Or perhaps pay his company website Broadband Mechanics a visit (newly re-designed, with my interview linked on the homepage too. Excellent!). Or you could stick around, make yourself at home, put your feet up and browse through my archive of weblog writings - by date or by topic.

What the heck is Blogging?

Some of you may be wondering what all this "blogging" business is about. The best way I can explain it is invite you to participate in the personal publishing revolution. Firstly, to read and subscribe to weblogs - try out Bloglines as an easy-to-use "newsreader". You can start by subscribing to this weblog ;-) Click here to subscribe to Read/Write Web in Bloglines. Or, see that orange button with RSS on it - to your left? RSS means "Really Simple Syndication". Right-click that and copy it directly into Bloglines.

The second part of the blogging equation is the writing and publishing. There are a variety of tools out there, including Radio Userland, Movable Type and TypePad. I currently use Radio Userland to publish this weblog and Movable Type for my linklog (daily list of links).

So am I really a Journalist?

Not really, but my interview with Marc Canter was an example of journalism. The reason I bring this topic up is that there's been a lot of talk lately about whether blogging is journalism. Jay Rosen wrote an excellent essay on this a couple of days ago. His conclusion was that "Blogging is not automatically journalism." There's a lot more to the debate than just this statement, but it's all philosophical. Read Jay's post and all the great comments others made on his weblog, if you want the full picture.

For what it's worth, I think journalism is a craft that must be learnt and practised constantly - much like being a Web Designer or Producer is a craft. I can occasionally practise the craft of journalism, and perhaps I'm even good enough to "turn pro". But the reality is I'm an amateur Journo (sometimes) and a professional Web Craftsman (all the time).

Tom Coates wrote an essay last year called (Weblogs and) The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything... that outlines how weblogs make it easy for "amateurs" to publish. Nowadays anyone can create original content and distribute it to the world. If it gets picked up by a professional publishing outfit, all the better for both writer and readers. It's a win-win two-way web world!

[Read/Write Web]

Journalism and revealing sources

Journalism and revealing sources 03/14/2005 05:04 PM
There's been a lot of hoohah around the blogosphere recently about the whole Apple suing "weblogs" deal, and I wanted to get my point of view out in the open, given that I've been found occasionally practicing journalism without a...

American Journalism Review

American Journalism Review 05/31/2004 03:28 PM
The Expanding Blogosphere .. article this month .. Rachel Smolkin

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Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Webl0g

Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Webl0g 03/26/2005 05:36 AM
Newspaper chains acquire local headline feed provider

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Participatory Journalism and Education

Participatory Journalism and Education 08/03/2004 09:13 AM
I'm in Toronto for today's Exploring Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism conference, speaking about the tools of tomorrow's grassroots journalism and how folks in the business can get started. I'm glad to see that quite a few educators are part of this gathering. Their presence makes sense, given that tomorrow is the start of the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. My guess is that the students are, in many cases, way ahead of the teachers when it comes to understanding the tools and how to use them. (Cross-posted to We the Media.)

Introduction to Online Journalism

Introduction to Online Journalism 07/01/2004 05:26 AM
Introduction to Online Journalism
http://www.abacon.com/dewolk/

This site, accompanying the Allyn & Bacon textbook "Introduction to Online Journalism", is designed to enhance the textbook, and in particular, to make it easy for students and teachers to get the most out of each chapter. The original subtitle to the textbook was to have been "How to Use the Power of the Internet for News and Information in the 21st Century." If not for running out of space on the cover, that subtitle would have stood. A full collection of links in the book are here as are extra tips and assignments to help conquer the important mission before us: creating quality journalism in a true multimedia environment on the World Wide Web. This in-depth accompaniment and workbook is expressly to maximize the textbook experience.

mcdonald's and brand journalism

mcdonald's and brand journalism 07/26/2004 07:23 PM
it's interesting that both mcdonald's and coke are rethinking core marketing strategies

reader-supported journalism

reader-supported journalism 07/08/2004 12:29 PM
gen explains how sam whitmore did the right thing

Open source journalism

Open source journalism 04/13/2005 07:29 PM
ZDNet Apr 13 2005 11:12PM GMT

Interactive Tele-Journalism

Interactive Tele-Journalism 07/19/2004 04:40 PM

Direct and Related Links for 'Interactive Tele-Journalism'

Wouldn’t be cool if technology was more interactive with the audience of a journalist’s work? Shawn Van Every, a researcher at New York University, seems to think so. He has taken it upon himself to show each of us how it can be done with a little ingenuity, spare parts and a whole lot of imagination. His work involves a video rig interconnected with Internet chat which enables his audience to make suggestions to him…

The future and past of journalism

The future and past of journalism 06/05/2005 11:34 PM
Scott Rosenberg has written a very nice essay on the future of journalism in the age when anyone can publish. He has caught the moment that we stand in well, with the old media monopolies dying but not dead, and the new media struggling to be born, but not clear what it will be born as. He captures well a phenomenon that experienced in my teens and will never forget, the experience of having someone report on something you know well, and discovering how flawed and human supposedly authoritative institutions like major newspapers are. In my case, I was living in Niger in West Africa, and I once met the Washington Post journalist who was responsible for covering the entire continent of Africa (which is by itself an amazing fact). He spent 5 days in the country and then left, not to return again for a year or so, and on the basis of those 5 days wrote 5 or so articles on events and trends in Niger, each of which contained things stated as facts that I thought were patently false. It was a good learning experience for a future political activist. I suspect that, in spite of the many reasons why the existing institutions and practicioners of journalism should be able to see the writing on the wall, we are entering another period of Schumpeterian Creative Destruction. I also suspect that what arises from the ashes that we will recognize as journalism will arise from the mix of new sources like blogs, group blogs, indymedia, PLOS, Kuroshin, etc. not from the transformation of existing institutions....

Tough Guy Journalism More in Vogue in LA

Tough Guy Journalism More in Vogue in LA 01/07/2004 03:12 PM
Tim Rutten of the LA Times has big problems with the new ombudsman at the New York Times. Rutten's objections put public editor Daniel Okrent on the couch. "Narcissism" is the charge.

The Most Powerful Man in Technology
Journalism

The Most Powerful Man in Technology
Journalism 05/06/2004 09:45 PM

Citizen Journalism: A Newspaper Goes for
It

Citizen Journalism: A Newspaper Goes for
It 12/19/2004 03:18 PM
As Jay Rosen explains in his latest PressThink article, the local paper in Greensboro, N.C., is turning its online self into a community square. Bravo. This is a big deal. And as Ed Cone observes -- Ed is a blogger of note and columnist for the paper -- this isn't exactly rocket science. Anyone can do it. Almost every newspaper should try.

Journalism Net Picks of 2003

Journalism Net Picks of 2003 12/31/2003 12:23 AM
JNet's Top Picks of 2003 : a random selection of some of the best, most topical or just plain fun sites for journalists.

"Online Journalism Awards"

"Online Journalism Awards" 11/19/2003 03:55 AM

Participatory, Partisan Journalism

Participatory, Partisan Journalism 01/16/2004 01:00 PM
BloggerStorm is one of the more interesting developments in participatory journalism in a long time. It's an aggregation of weblogs covering the Iowa presidential caucuses, kind of a human-operated equivalent of Google News capturing a narrow topic.
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