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Wikileaks impact on Journalism – Frontline Club
Frontline Club discussion on the impact Wikileaks has had on the way journalism is done in 2011.
glenn
Future of Content and Journalism – Web 2.0 Summit 2009
Just came across a couple of great videos on the future of content and journalism from the Web 2.0 Summit 2009. The first is titled The Future of Content, and can be viewed below:
The second is titled Whither Journalism, and is shown below:
Over a year old now. I think the debate has evolved a bit since these panels, but still quite relevant.
glenn
News Media, Innovation and Technology – 2010 in review/Trends for 2011 (links)
This post is a compilation of various links around News Media, Advertising, and Technology that were of interest to me as I reviewed the year past, and look forward to 2011. Sorry if the links seem a bit arbitrary – many were “filling in the gaps” of my current view of the world. Hopefully you find something of interest, if only the taxonomy 
.
A – News Media
A1 – News Sites
News for Digital Journalists – Knight Digital Media Center
News Leadership 3.0 blog – Knight Digital Media Center
Online Journalism Review blog – Knight Digital Media Center
A2 – News Voices
Emily Bell blog; Emily Bell – Twitter
NewspaperTurnaround.Com; Matt Derienzo – Twitter
A3 – 2010 Year in Review/Predictions for 2011
Publishing industry year in review 2010 – eMedia Vitals, December 2010
Series: Predictions for Journalism 2011 – Nieman J-Lab, December 2010
10 Predictions for the News Media in 2011 – Vadim Lavrusik, December 2010
Video: top trends in journalism in 2011 – Adam Westbrook, January 2011
Maybe not much will change at all: 2011 journalism predictions from Malik, Gillmor, Golis, Grimm, more – Nieman J-Lab, December 2010
Jonathan Stray: In 2011, news orgs will finally start to move past the borders of their own content – Jonathan Stray, December 2010
A4 - News Media Strategy/Business Models
Changing Interactions with News Media – NY Times’ Alexis Lloyd – Glenn Assheton-Smith, August 2010
What A Difference A Year Makes – John Paton, December 2010
John Paton’s Dec. 2 Presentation at INMA Transformation of News Summit in Cambridge, Mass. – December 2010
For Newspapers, the Future Is Now: Digital Must Be First – Matthew Ingram, December 2010
Newspaper Execs: Still Denying, Still Crying and Still Lying to Themselves – Judy Sims, November 2010
Smart Stuff – Mark Potts, December 2010
Why TBD is Important – Mark Potts, August 2010
Are Newspapers Sticking to a Premium Strategy Amid Digital Disruption? – Rick Edmonds, July 2010
Dave Winer: There’s no good place for a new Maginot Line for the news – Dave Winer, December 2010
Discussion: Whither Journalism? – Web 2.0 Summit 2009, October 2009
A5 – Community Development/Audience Engagement
C3 presentation for the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association – Steve Buttry, October 2010
10 Tips For Aspiring Community Managers – Adam Lavrusik, September 2010
Social Media is not Community – Rachel Happe, July 2008
Community management The ‘essential’ capability of successful Enterprise 2.0 efforts – D Hinchcliffe, Sept 2009
40 Great Resources for Developing a Community Management Strategy – Vanessa Memies, November 2009
A6 - Citizen/Community Journalism
TBD.com Takes a Community-Driven Approach to Newsgathering – Vadim Lavrusik, August 2010
“A completely new model for us”: The Guardian gives outsiders the power to publish for the first time – Nieman J-Lab, September 2010
The missing link in journalism curricula: Community engagement – Vadim Lavrusik, May 2010
The Register Citizen Newsroom Cafe
The Register Citizen Community Media Lab
The Register Citizen Community Journalism School
25 Cool Things About The Register Citizen Newsroom Cafe
A7 – Content Strategy
Content Strategy and Publishing – My introduction to – Glenn Assheton-Smith, October 2010
Discussion: The Future of Content – Web 2.0 Summit 2009, October 2009
A8 - Content Networks
Glam Media Set to Overtake AOL: Verticals vs Portals – ReadWriteWeb, November 2010
AOL to Acquire TechCrunch: Padding Content for Media Network – September 2010
A9 - Social Media in News/Journalism
The Future of Social Media in Journalism – Vadim Lavrusik, September 2010
News Orgs Take Social Media Seriously by Hiring Editors to Oversee Efforts – Poynter Institute, January 2010
How News Organizations Are Generating Revenue From Social Media – Vadim Lavrusik, November 2010
A10 - Social News
The future of news reading: a social reading experience – News 3.0, December 2010
The Social Guardian points to the future of real-time news sharing – The Next Web, December 2010
The New York Times Truly Takes up Social Media 267.0 – November 2010
A11 - News Streams/Syndication
How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream – Vadim Lavrusik, August 2010
I Want This New Facebook Filter Feature – Marshall Kirkpatrick, December 2010
What will 2011 bring for journalism? Clay Shirky predicts widespread disruptions for syndication – Clay Shirky, December 2010
Scott Karp: Clay Shirky’s right that syndication’s getting disrupted — but not in the ways he thinks it is – Scott Karp, December 2010
Top 10 RSS and Syndication Technologies of 2010 – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
A12 – Hyperlocal
Newspaper Launches Hyper-Local Location-Based Service – Jason Falls, December 2010
A13 - Mobile News
Smartphone growth, Murdoch’s Daily, and journalism for the poor: Predictions for mobile news in 2011 – Nieman J-Lab, December 2010
How Mobile Technology is Affecting Local News Coverage – Mashable, May 2010
Smartphone Users Prefer Mobile for Breaking News [STATS] – Mashable, December 2010
A14 - Video Journalism/Storytelling
Meet the online video heroes of 2010 – Adam Westbrook, December 2010
A15 - News Readers
HuffPost NewsGlide: Version 2.0 of Our iPad App – Paul Berry, December 2010
iPad news apps may diminish newspaper print subscriptions in 2011 – Reynolds Journalism Institute, December 2010
With a New Version, FLUD Hopes to Take on Pulse And Flipboard as Your iPad News Reader – TechCrunch, December 2010
A16 - Provenance
The importance of provenance – Jeff Jarvis, June 2010
Google News and Source Citation – Nathan Yergler, December 2010
Provenance on the Web going Mainstream – Think Links, November 2010
AP Begins Crediting Bloggers as News Sources – The Next Web, September 2010
A17 - Authenticity/Transparency
Wikileaks: Power shifts from secrecy to transparency – Jeff Jarvis, December 2010
How Wikileaks has woken up journalism – Emily Bell, December 2010
Goodbye mainstream media. It’s been fun. – Adam Westbrook, December 2010
Jay Rosen on Jay Rosen on Wikileaks The watchdog press died; we have this instead. – Jay Rosen, December 2 2010
How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition – Glenn Greenwald, October 2010
The myth of the opinionless man* – Jeff Jarvis, July 2010
He Said, She Said Journalism Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User – Jay Rosen, April 2009
A18 - Innovation in News Media
Liquid Newsroom – Steffan Konrath, News 3.0
Meet the ideaLab – John Paton, July 2010
The 100 Percent Solution: For Innovation in News – Jay Rosen, October 2010
A19 – Entrepreneurial Journalism
Entrepreneurial Journalism curriculum at CUNY – Jeff Jarvis, November 2010
CUNY’s Entrepreneurial Journalism program – Jeff Jarvis, December 2010
A20 - Other
8 Must-Have Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalist – Vadim Lavrusik, December 2009
So You Want to Be A Journalist? – Vadim Lavrusik, December 2010
Guardian Changing Media Summit 2011
B – Advertising & Marketing
B1 – Top Sites
Screenwerk – Greg Sterling’s blog
Advertising & Marketing – Mashable
B2 – 2010 in review/Predictions for 2011
Top 10 Digital Advertising Innovations of 2010 – Mashable, December 2010
6 Predictions for Digital Advertising in 2011 – Mashable, December 2010
5 Predictions for the Public Relations Industry in 2011 – Mashable, December 2010
B3 – Advertising
How to do better than Groupon in building local advertising market share – Robert Niles, OJR, December 2010
Ignoring The Content Network? Think Again To Vastly Improve Conversions – Search Engine Land, March 2009
4 Tips for Developing Content Network Campaigns – Target Marketing, February 2010
Why the Fashion Industry Is Betting Big on Branded Online Content – Mashable, December 2010
B4 - Mobile Advertising
Top 5 Mobile Advertising Trends To Watch – Mashable, August 2010
5 Ways HTML5 Is Changing Mobile Advertising – Mashable, September 2010
Mobile Ads News and Trends Android Requests Up, iAd on the Rise, RIM Joins the Game – ReadWriteMobile, September 2010
B5 – Social Media Marketing
Ogilvy PR 360 Digital Influence Blog
The Daily Influence – Ogilvy PR
How Big Brands use Social Media Marketing – GasPedal – Glenn Assheton-Smith, January 2010
GasPedal – Word of Mouth Marketing; GasPedal on Vimeo; GasPedal presentations
4 Social Media Marketing Predictions for 2011 – Mashable, December 2010
B6 – SME Marketing
HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Facebook Insights for Small Business – Mashable, December 2010
5 Predictions for Small Business in 2011 – Mashable, December 2010
35 Essential Social Media & Tech Resources for Small Businesses – Mashable, November 2010
How SMBs Can Start Using Facebook Places Now – Mashable, September 2010
Beyond Foursquare: 5 Location-Based Apps for Your Small Business – Mashable, August 2010
How Small Businesses Will Use Social Media in the Future – Mashable, August 2010
SMB 2011 Resolutions: Fine-tune That Social Media Strategy – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
C - Business Models and Innovation
Leveraging Network Effects – Sean Parker from Web 2.0 Summit 2009 – Glenn Assheton-Smith, January 2011
Creating value – Umair Haque is my new hero – Glenn Assheton-Smith, December 2010
Creating Platforms for Social Innovation – Grant Young from Zumio – Glenn Assheton-Smith, December 2010
Business Model Innovation – Alexander Osterwalder – Glenn Assheton-Smith, July 2010
Architect Frank Gehry inspires Management Theory – the intersection of Business and Design – Glenn Assheton-Smith, August 2010
Bill Moggridge on Design and Business Innovation – Glenn Assheton-Smith, August 2010
D - Commerce
The Rise of Social Commerce – Brian Solis, September 2010
The Rise Of Social Commerce – Charlene Li, September 2010
Speed Summary | Wired Feb 2011 Cover Story on Social Commerce – Social Commerce Today, January 2011
Social Commerce Top 10 for 2010; Outlook for 2011 – Practical eCommerce, December 2010
Facebook Launches Big New Social Commerce Service for Local Businesses – Social Commerce Today, Novermber 2010
Facebook Deals Guide [Download] – For Brands & Retailers – Social Commerce Today, November 2010
Top Trends of 2010: Social Shopping – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
Roundup of Social Commerce Predictions for 2011 Phase 3 (Sophistication) – Social Commerce Today, January 2011
Social Commerce – leveraging the Social Graph to facilitate commercial transactions (links) – Glenn Assheton-Smith, January 2010
Oodle’s Craig Donato on the emerging Social Marketplaces category – Glenn Assheton-Smith, January 2010
E - Technology
E1 – 2010 in review – top trends/products
Top Trends of 2010 Internet TV – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
Top Trends of 2010: App Stores – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
Top Trends of 2010: The Rise of Tumblr, Posterous & Light Blogging – ReadWriteWeb, November 2010
Top Trends of 2010: HTML5 – ReadWriteWeb, November 2010
Top Trends of 2010: Social Shopping – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
E2 – 2011 Trends/Predictions
Mary Meeker, “Internet Trends” – Web 2.0 Summit 2010, November 2010
JWTIntelligence – 10 Trends for 2011 in 2 minutes – JWT Intelligence, November 2010
100 things to watch in 2011 – JWT Intelligence, December 2010
95+ Predictions for the Web in 2011 – January 2011
2011 Predictions: Richard MacManus – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
2011 Predictions: Mike Melanson – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
2011 Predictions: Klint Finley – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
E3 - Multimedia
The Mobile Photo Sharing Boom Is Here – Mashable, December 2010
E4 - Social Media
Social Media Trends for 2011 – iMedia Connection, January 2011
5 Ways Cities Are Using Social Media to Reverse Economic Downturn – Mashable, December 2010
For Restaurants, Social Media Is About More Than Just Marketing – Mashable, December 2010
E5 – Social Networks
6 Predictions for Social Networks in 2011 – Mashable, December 2010
E6 - Geolocation/LBSs
Most Promising Company For 2011: SimpleGeo – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley: Location Will Connect Us – Om Malik, December 2010
E7 - Local Search
Google Unveils Hotpot, a Recommendation Engine for Places - Jolie O’Dell, November 2010
E8 - Real-time Web
Top 10 Real-Time Web Products of 2010 – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
E9 - Mobile
5 Predictions for Mobile in 2011 – Mashable, December 2010
Top 10 Mobile Products of 2010 – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
What Were the Top Mobile Trends of 2010? – BIA Kelsey, December 2010
Mobile Year in Review 2010 – Mobile Future video, December 2010
2011 will be the year Android explodes – CNN, December 2010
Mobile TV Coming to 20 U.S. Markets by 2011 – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
E10 - Game Mechanics
5 Predictions for Game Mechanics in 2011 – Mashable, December 2010
HOW TO: Use Game Mechanics to Power Your Business – Mashable, July 2010
Top 5 Ways to Make Your Site More Fun – Mashable, April 2010
E11 - Relevance & Recommendation
Genieo: A Recommendation Engine that Learns From Your Browsing Habits – ReadWriteWeb, September 2010
E12 - Semantic Web
Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2010 – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
Web Linking Gets Deeper with New Standard for Link Relations – ReadWriteWeb, October 2010
LookBackMaps – Building a Location-Based Time Machine – ReadWriteWeb, November 2010
SPARQLZ Shines as a Vision for Linked Data Made Easy – ReadWriteWeb, August 2010
Mapping People to Products: Hunch & GetGlue – ReadWriteWeb, August 2010
BBC World Cup Website Showcases Semantic Technologies – ReadWriteWeb, July 2010
E13 - Internet of Things
Top 10 Internet of Things Developments of 2010 – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
Beyond Social: Read/Write in The Era of Internet of Things – ReadWriteWeb, July 2010
E14 - Big Data
Technology forecast – Making sense of Big Data – PriceWaterhouseCoopers, June 2010
Foursquare Searching for Data Scientist – A Sign of Things to Come? – ReadWriteWeb, December 2010
Which companies have the best data science teams?
E15 – Web Development/Design
The Top 8 Web Development Highlights of 2010 – Mashable, December 2010
10 Predictions for Web Development in 2011 – Mashable, December 2010
4 Predictions for Web Design in 2011 – Mashable, December 2010
How the iPad Is Influencing Web Apps – Mashable, December 2010
5 Design Trends That Small Businesses Can Use in 2011 – Mashable, November 2010
Top Trends of 2010: HTML5 – ReadWriteWeb, November 2010
HTML5 for Web App Development – from Google I/O 2010 – Glenn Assheton-Smith, December 2010
Why Designers and Developers Should Care About Internet Explorer 9 – Mashable, September 2010
E16 - Facebook
Facebook Accounts for 25% of All U.S. Pageviews – Mashable, November 2010
Facebook Profile Pages Becoming Irrelevant – ReadWriteWeb, August 2010
WikiLeaks, Mainstream Media, and the future of Journalism
I haven’t had a chance to blog about Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks phenomenon, but reading up on the state of journalism at the end of 2010, it’s a hard topic to avoid.
I’m going to assume that readers of this post are familiar with the WikiLeaks story. If not, I recommend watching the following Chris Anderson interview with Julian Assange at a TED talk in July 2010:
… as well as the following interview with Julian Assange by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now from October 26th, shortly after WikiLeaks’ release of the Iraq War Logs: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on Iraq War Logs, “Tabloid Journalism” and Why WikiLeaks Is “Under Siege”. The first part of the interview can be viewed below:
For an update on Assange’s current situation in Great Britain, the following is an excellent interview of Assange by Robert Frost of Al Jazeera from December 22 2010:
WikiLeaks, Mainstream Media, and the future of Journalism
Rather, I want to specifically explore mainstream media coverage of WikiLeaks, and what it means for the future of Journalism.
Let’s start with Adam Westbrook‘s blog post from December 14 2010 titled Goodbye mainstream media. It’s been fun. Westbrook begins his post:
The past two weeks has seen the first, sustained, clash between two ages: a new era of complete online freedom and transparency (and all that this entails, good and bad); versus the old world of secrecy, authority and control. And it’s been paralleled in a clash between a new way of doing journalism and the way the traditional, mainstream media does it.
… I have now come to the conclusion that the future of journalism will not come in any shape or form from the current established media – at least in its present form. … the future of journalism does not lie with the mainstream media.
Westbrook authored this post 2 days after he appeared on Al Jazeera with Robert Fisk – a bit of a journalistic hero of mine – on a panel discussing how WikiLeaks is challenging, and changing, the craft of journalism. The video can be viewed below:
I started with Westbrook because his voice is from a younger generation of journalists that looks to the Internet to provide a visibility and transparency that (I believe) was absent from previous forms of media and journalism. Westbrook makes the case that WikiLeaks represents a new form of journalism made possible by the Internet age, and the “complete and utter transparency” that is made possible by the Internet. He contrasts this with an older, more secretive era of both diplomacy and journalism.
Jeff Jarvis has also commented frequently of late on a new “era of transparency”, and supports WikiLeaks efforts in this regard in his blog post from December 4 2010: Wikileaks: Power shifts from secrecy to transparency.
Jay Rosen provides a very interesting angle on the WikiLeaks phenomena in the video below:
Rosen’s line of thought is not so much whether WikiLeaks is a journalistic force for good or evil (so to speak). Rather, he asks the important question of why WikiLeaks as an organization arose as a trusted source for whistleblowers in the first place? Quoting Rosen:
One of the reasons (why whistleblowers trust WikiLeaks with their information) is that the legitimacy of the press itself is in doubt in the minds of the leakers. And there’s good reason for that. Because while we have what proports to be a watchdog press, we also have … the clear record of the watchdog presses’ failure … to provide a check on power …
So I think it’s a mistake to try and reckon with WikiLeaks and what it’s about, without including in the frame the spectacular failures of the watchdog press over the past 10, 20, 30 years, but especially recently.
And so without this legitimacy crisis in mainstream American journalism, the leakers may not be so included to trust an upstart like Julian Assange and … WikiLeaks.
When the United States is able to go to war behind a phony case. When something like that happens, and the Congress is fooled, and a fake case is presented to the United Nations. And a war follows, and hundreds of thousands of people die, and the stated rationale turns out to be false. The legitimacy crisis extends from the Bush government itself to the American state as a whole, and the American press, and the international system. Because all of them failed at one of the most important things that a government by consent can do – which is reason-giving.
That’s powerful stuff.
Glenn Greenwald on Mainstream Media reporting of WikiLeaks
No journalist, however, has done more to expose the conflicted relationship of mainstream media (in the US) and WikiLeaks that Salon’s Glenn Greenwald – who also gets my vote as the top journalist writing for a US media outlet.
It’s hard to even know where to start to cover the excellent journalism Greenwald has done in holding mainstream media accountable for their inaccurries and mistruths regarding WikiLeaks. Here’s just a sampling of my favorite Greenwald pieces surrounding WikiLeaks:
- Wired’s refusal to release or comment on the Manning chat logs – December 29 2010
- The merger of journalists and government officials – December 28 2010
- What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010 – December 24 2010
- The media’s authoritarianism and WikiLeaks – December 10 2010
- The lawless Wild West attacks WikiLeaks – December 6 2010
- WikiLeaks debate with Steven Aftergood – December 3 2010
- The moral standards of WikiLeaks critics – December 1 2010
- More on the media’s Pentagon-subservient WikiLeaks coverage – October 27 2010
- NYT v. the world: WikiLeaks coverage – October 25 2010
- The Nixonian henchmen of today: at the NYT – October 24 2010
Shameful Assange Media Interview award – CNN’s Atika Shubert
But my vote for most shameful Assange media interview of 2010 goes to CNN’s Atika Shubert who (briefly) interviewed Assange in October 2010. First, the clip:
This interview was conducted right at the time of the WikiLeaks’ release of the Iraq War Logs – an event of enormous import. In this interview, Shubert employs (to my mind) the age-old technique of attempting to discredit the messenger when the message is unpalatable. It’s shameful journalism, and Assange was exactly right to walk away from the interview. I thought he handled the situation with dignity and grace.
In Summary – the birth of a genuinely accountable news media?
I believe WikiLeaks sets a new example and ideal for transparency and accountability in both investigative journalism and world affairs. It’s an organization that could not have been born prior to the current Internet era, and its emergence is being resisted by entities – political and journalistic – that for far too long have not been held accountable to public scrutiny. It’s a very encouraging and hopeful phenomenon IMO.
glenn
Fit to Print – Documenting the decline of the Newspaper Industry
Fascinating. So first I just came across the website Newspaper Death Watch, and I must say I find its perspective fascinating. Secondly, while on the site, I came across an interview with two documentary filmmakers – Adam Chadwick and Bill Loerch – who are producing a documentary called Fit to Print, about the decline of the Newspaper industry in the U.S., I believe with a specific focus on the New York Times. Anyway, here’s the clip:
Interesting times, and yet a time that arouses compassion also.
glenn
Leonard Brody – How Journalism and News Media must change
In a recent post, I highlighted a presentation delivered by Leonard Brody on Change and Entrepreneuralism. Here’s another presentation given by Brody in January 2009 in Qatar on how Journalism and News Media are changing in a 24×7 connected world:
Brody is the co-founder of NowPublic, which was recently acquired by the Clarity Digital Group which owns and operates Examiner.com.
He’s a great speaker I might add.
glenn
User-generated Content (UGC) a core part of BBC’s news-gathering operations
An interesting post by Alfred Hermida – Professor of Journalism at UBC, and former multimedia journalist at the BBC – on how managing User-generated content is now a core part of the BBC’s news gathering operations/workflow. Hermida references a study that was presented by Claire Wardle, Andrew Williams and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff.
Quoting Hermida:
The BBC has a dedicated UGC hub that has grown from three people in 2005 to 23 now, and it is physically located by newsgathering, at the heart of the corporation’s news operations.
The researchers found that the UGC hub trawl through comments and submissions for news content and for eyewitnesses to pass on to radio and TV as potential interviewees.
… The researchers concluded that UGC has become institutionalised at the BBC as a form of newsgathering, consolidating the existing relationship between journalists and the audience.
The transformation of news media will continue to see dramatic changes to traditional newsroom editorial workflows, and it’s interesting to see how organizations like the BBC are implementing change in their operations.
glenn
The Blog is at the core of everything I do – BBC Journalist Robert Peston
Just read a nice piece from Alfred Hermida – Professor of Journalism at UBC, and ex BBC Multimedia Journalist – from August 2009 on How Blogs became part of BBC News.
In his post, he references a presentation by Robert Peston, the BBC’s Business Editor, on the Future of Media and Journalism. It’s an interesting presentation, but here’s my favorite part. Quoting Peston:
For me, the blog is at the core of everything I do, it is the bedrock of my output. The discipline of doing it shapes my thoughts. It disseminates to a wider world the stories and themes that I think matter. But it also spreads the word within the BBC – which is no coincidence, because it started life as an internal email for editors and staff. It gives me unlimited space to publish the kind of detail on an important story that I can’t get into a three minute two-way on Today or a two-minutes-forty-seconds package on the Ten O’Clock News.
It connects me to the audience in a very important way. The comments left by readers contain useful insights – and they help me understand what really matters to people. That is not to say that I give them only what they want. I retain an old-fashioned view that in the end the licence fee pays for my putative skills in making judgements about what matters. Most important of all, the blog allows me and the BBC to own a big story and create a community of interested people around it. Sharing information – some of it hugely important, some of it less so – with a big and interested audience delivers that ownership and creates that committed community.
As a Business Architect for a large Canadian publishing company, I’m not sure the Blog format has quite this prominence for our Journalists and their audiences. But it is most certainly, to my mind, where we must move, and quickly.
A couple more quick snippets from the interview, on the changing world of today’s journalist:
For men – usually men of a certain age – there is no greater pleasure than watching the Dutch football team of the 1970s, total football. The point about that Dutch team, but especially the inspirational captain, Johan Cruyff, is that all of them could more or less play in every position. And my argument is that hacks like me increasingly have to become total journalists.
When I started in journalism, I wrote one or two stories a week on a clunky mechanical typewriter – it was the last century but it really wasn’t that long ago. Now I write up to five or six blogs in a single day, I broadcast on the Today programme, the Ten O’Clock News, as the broadcasting pillars of my output – and up to 20 or so other channels and programmes in a single day.
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Certainly my strong advice to any young person thinking of becoming a journalist is to acquire all the skills, don’t think of themselves as wanting to be broadcast journalists, or radio journalists or print journalists: increasingly it’s all the same thing. What matters is what has always mattered – the facts, the story. The skill for a journalist is unearthing information that matters to people and then communicating it as clearly, accurately – and if possible as entertainingly – as possible.
For additional insight into the emergence of blogging at the BBC, please see:
- Martin Belam’s series on blogging at the BBC, from 2007, and
- Professor Alfred Hermida’s post How blogs became part of BBC News, which provides a link to his related Research article
glenn
Dave Winer heads to NYU – Year Zero for Journalism
There is certainly an enormous amount of energy being applied to “reinventing Journalism” – both the trade and the business – for the digital age.
Case in point, Dave Winer announced on January 14 2010 that he just accepted a Visting Scholar position at NYU, working under Jay Rosen.
Quoting Winer in his blog post from January 14th:
I have the same feeling about journalism today that I had about computer science in the 1970s. … Today, 2010, is Year Zero for journalism the way 1970 was the dawn of modern computer science.
He may be right.
Here’s the same announcement from Jay Rosen.
Of course, this isn’t the first time Rosen and Winer have collaborated. Check out their weekly podcast Rebooting the News.
glenn
Google’s advice to Newspapers – Gina Chen
A nice summary from Gina Chen of Marissa Mayer’s – who is Google’s VP of Search Product and User Experience – testimony to a U.S. Senate Subcomitte on the future of journalism back in May 2009. Here it is: Google’s advice to newspapers.
Nothing earth-shattering here, just another reminder of how profoundly the news media industry must, and will, change in the near future.
glenn
