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"Online Journalism Awards"

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

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.

"Online Journalism Review"

"Online Journalism Review" 09/16/2004 03:30 AM

Hyperlocal Online Journalism Can Work

Hyperlocal Online Journalism Can Work 08/22/2004 05:46 PM
Students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism have been conducting a terrific experiment in what some are calling "hyperlocal citizens; media." As I reported in my book, they set up a site called "goskokie" ("news for the people, by the people") to cover the Chicago suburb of Skokie. Working with local people, they've created something valuable. Now they've written a paper with recommendations (1.5MB PDF) on how it can be done. There's lots of solid advice here. One gripe. I can't find the paper on the Web in HTML. It's really unfortunate to make people download a clumsy PDF to read something that would have worked better -- with links, etc. -- in HTML. (Via Steve Rubel)

Wonkette and the Ethics of Online
Journalism

Wonkette and the Ethics of Online
Journalism 04/19/2004 03:12 PM

International Symposium on Online
Journalism Home

International Symposium on Online
Journalism Home 05/26/2004 08:51 AM
Simpsio sobre Jornalismo Online .. aqui

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Boston.com wins Online Journalism Award

Boston.com wins Online Journalism Award 11/17/2003 02:05 AM
Boston Globe Nov 17 2003 1:00AM ET

The Online Journalism Review wonders if
bl0ggers can win the war with comment
spammers

The Online Journalism Review wonders if
bl0ggers can win the war with comment
spammers 09/15/2004 03:40 PM
OJR article: Bloggers Declare War on Comment Spam, but Can They Win? .. Mark

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OJR article: Teaching Online Journalism:
How to Build the First College-Level
Course

OJR article: Teaching Online Journalism:
How to Build the First College-Level
Course 04/13/2004 04:55 AM
Teaching Online Journalism: How to Build the First College-Level Course .. OJR's deeper than usual look at teaching online journalism

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Obama's been lauded

Obama's been lauded 07/28/2004 08:11 PM
The first black president of the United States.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Lauded For Web
Efforts

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Lauded For Web
Efforts 04/15/2004 08:56 AM

The Once Lauded Afternic Shuts Doors

The Once Lauded Afternic Shuts Doors 10/08/2002 07:09 AM
Register.com paid $48 million USD for Afternic (a domain name reseller) but with a depressed domain reseller market, it has shut the doors.

Blogs lauded in 'freedom awards'

Blogs lauded in 'freedom awards' 06/17/2005 04:25 PM
BBC Jun 17 2005 8:11PM GMT

Apple's Lauded OS X Showing Bad Spots

Apple's Lauded OS X Showing Bad Spots 09/08/2004 04:38 PM

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Apple fixes 15 flaws in Mac OS X Apple Computer released an update to its Mac OS X operating system on Tuesday to fix 15 security issues in the software. Many of the problems are flaws in the operating system’s underlying open-source software, including a critical flaw in the Kerberos authentication system—software that can act as a gatekeeper for computer networks. The patch is available for Mac OS X 10.3.5 and Mac OS X 10.3.4,…

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

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...

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.

Hurricane Journalism

Hurricane Journalism 09/10/2004 12:43 PM
"Conditions are deteriorating, Dwight!" Herald writer's comprehensive guide to Hurricane Journalism. Very important reading for storm-chasing reporters, especially now, as Ivan the Terrible sets its eye on Jamaica, Cuba, and Florida. Found via CapitalWeather. Also check out CaribPundit for Ivan updates and reminiscences of island hurricanes. (Ivan the Terrible? Eye? Get it? Eh? Eh? Yeah, I didn't think it was funny on Fox News either.)

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...

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...

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...

"Webl0gs in Journalism"

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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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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.

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]

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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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.

What Time is it in Political Journalism?

What Time is it in Political Journalism? 03/06/2004 01:52 AM
Adam Gopnik argued ten years ago that the press did not know who it was within politics, or what it stood for. There was a vacuum in journalism where political argument and imagination should be. Now there are signs that this absence of thought is ending. The view from nowhere is being challenged.

'Bloggers' are rewriting journalism

'Bloggers' are rewriting journalism 12/30/2003 03:51 AM
USA Today Dec 30 2003 2:34AM ET

The Most Powerful Man in Technology
Journalism

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

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.)

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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