FT editor Lionel Barber: Why journalism wins my vote October 11, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a comment"…the mainstream press lost touch with its audience at the very moment when technology, via the internet, was dramatically lowering the barriers to entry.[…]
…a shift in the balance of power towards new media, with wholesale repercussions for the practice of journalism.[…]
…whether this same journalistic rigour can survive the current maelstrom.
… the role of the trained journalist as trusted intermediary no longer holds. Some may argue that this privileged status was always precarious, even a fiction. […]
Yet to abandon the quest to write the first draft of history carries risks. There will always be powerful forces seeking to suppress injustice or inconvenient truths. For all their failings, newspapers, especially the well-financed family-owned newspapers, have served as a counterweight. On both sides of the Atlantic, the line between news reporting and comment is becoming increasingly blurred. That is something that should give everyone in the profession pause for thought."
Twitter for reporting – Living in a Media World October 11, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentRalph Hanson offers some examples of reporters using Twitter (for their work, that is):
"twittering is also being used by reporters and news bloggers to post news links. There are political debates taking place by Twitter. Barack Obama's campaign has an official Twitter feed. St. Paul Pioneer Press technology reporter Julio Ojeda Zapata uses Twitter as a reporting tool. And bloggers covering live events (such as the Republican National Convention) use Twitter to make blog posts from their smartphones. In fact, the busiest outside link to my blog in August came from a Tweet posted to Fishbowl DC during the RNC."
What journalism schools should be doing? September 27, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentThe Future of Journalism – What Does it Look Like? USC II – David Cohn (digidave) on what J-schools should be doing:
- How individual journalists can continue to make a living despite the fall of newspapers.
- Re-define acts of journalism: change the culture of journalism to be more participatory.
- Re-define journalism’s mission: bring us back to our roots as professionals who, through services and products, serve a democratic society.
- Invigorate the culture and industry of journalism: bring back the passion. No more clasping our hands over our face like the kid in that Home Alone movie. It’s time to take charge!
More follow-up on the MediaShift blog by NYU journalism student September 27, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a comment“Embedded” Blogger-Journalism Student Confuses the Hell Out of PBS – More follow-up on the MediaShift blog by NYU journalism student: “Remember the NYU professor who banned blogging about class, after one of her students wrote a piece for PBS’s MediaShift blog criticizing the class and the journalism program? Now PBS’s ombudsman (they have one?!) has chimed in negatively about the piece: “I have serious problems with the episode that unfolded recently in which a journalism student at New York University, Alana Taylor, authored a Sept. 5 posting as an ‘embedded’ blogger on MediaShift, writing critically about her class content and professor at NYU without informing either the teacher or her classmates about what she was doing.” Um, he wrote over 2,000 more hand-wringing words on the subject.”