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Guardians of Truth
Posted by Kate Nacy in New Media, Political Journalism on August 23, 2010
The Guardian creates governmental truth-tracking tool.
Emerging as leaders in “data journalism” and celebrated for launching a sharp bunch of free, simplified analysis tools, The Guardian releases its latest creation: The Pledge Tracker. As Britain’s new coalition government (a Conservative/Liberal Democrat mashup) came to office, a great number of promises were made to the public. Four hundred and thirty-three promises, in fact. The Guardian’s pledge tracker, a sortable database of the coalition’s pledges, monitors the promises according to their fulfillment statuses (i.e. “Kept,” “Not Kept,” “In Trouble,” “Wait and See”). Pledges can be sorted by metrics such as party, topic and difficulty level. Simon Jeffrey, The Guardian’s story producer, Read the rest of this entry »
The Ghosts of Users Past
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
The cyberworld, it seems, is condemned to the same ineludible limitations. Facebook users are dying. So are Twitterers, MySpacers, Flickrers and Tumblrers. But as social media users eventually pass on to the great unknown, what are companies to do with carefully crafted online personas and profiles? Facebook, as explained in a recent NYT article written by Jenna Wortham, occasionally suggests users “reconnect” with deceased friends and relatives who’ve created accounts. This is, for lack of gentler terms, totally creeping people out.
Yet with users over 65 converting to Facebook at a greater pace than any other age group, the issue of cyber life-after-death will surely become more pressing. According to the NYT article, Facebook’s original strategy was to simply delete profiles of anyone Read the rest of this entry »
The Deal with the Daily Mail
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics, New Media on July 21, 2010
The Daily Mail’s website is a humongous success. And it’s free.
Let’s skip the pros and cons of the somewhat tired ‘to paywall or not to paywall’ argument for a moment and focus on a website which is quite virtually rolling in the dough: MailOnline, Web version of the UK’s Daily Mail. According to Peter Preston of The Guardian, 1.9 million folks are still buying copies of the printed version, while online growth increased from basically nill four years ago to 40,500,00 unique visitors per month (up 72 percent year by year). Pretty impressive.
Yet a quick visit to the site’s homepage will assault the eyes with celebrity images (LiLo in prison garb, Kate Winslet in Rome, someone called Katie Price who appears to have had a plastic surgery misfire). Addressing critics who don’t believe MailOnline to be a true news site, Preston says, Read the rest of this entry »
Neuroscience and Infotainment
Posted by Kate Nacy in New Media, Science Journalism on June 18, 2010
How neurological elements of arousal play into news
According to Jack Fuller, author of What is Happening to News? The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism, we can count indefinitely on fear and sex to attract the eye.
While professionally trained journalists are taught to steer clear of leaning heavily on the appeals of raw emotion in reporting, audiences still seem to fall for them. Stories steeped in lust and gore and swine/bird/marmot flu are the champions of media attention. Apparently, we’re suckers for a good old fashioned emotional bombshell. And there’s a neurological explanation.
An emotionally aroused brain is drawn to things that are emotionally charged, and the environment of perpetual information we all exist in leaves us consistently aroused. Read the rest of this entry »
Green is the New Blue
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics, New Media on June 11, 2010
The Los Angeles Times now embeds e-commerce links within online articles in hopes of revenue boosts.
The new e-commerce links for sites like Amazon.com appear within the text of LAT articles but in green, rather than the old standby blue. According to StinkyJournalism.org, the green links are only published in health, image, food, travel, books, entertainment and sports articles, in addition to photo galleries and select blogs. Each story with an embedded link is to be accompanied by a disclaimer statement. Read the rest of this entry »
News Across Media Platforms
We know the differences between YouTube and the Financial Times are voluminous.
And yes, we’ve also learned that people are doing more with YouTube than searching for videos of spastic housecats swinging from ceiling fans. But what’s behind these differences between social media and the traditional press? And what exchanges take place among various news mediums, old and new? In a recent study, “How Blogs and Social Media Agents Relate and Differ from the Traditional Press,” the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism gathered a year of data on the top news stories discussed and linked to Read the rest of this entry »
The Poynter 200
Poynter chronicles the moments that transformed journalism.
Drawing from researched compiled for their New Media Timeline – a timeline of developments in journalism and new media dating from 1969 to 2010 – Poynter devised this nifty infographic to catalogue 200 moments signifying change in journalism from the years 2000 – 2009. For starters, the acquisition of the Time Warner media empire by startup America Online is mentioned as the kickoff for 2000.
See Poynter for more on the 200.
Will Google Save Journalism?
Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in New Media on June 2, 2010
Die Furche, May 27, 2010
Newsjunkies surfing the blogospere are occasionally surprised by the amount of attention certain blog postings achieve.
For example, a recent article published by American journalist James Fallows in The Atlantic Monthly was circulated with vigor by media experts concerned with the future of journalism. The article’s popularity may have spawned from the fact that it runs counter to common predictions on the subject. Concerning U.S. journalism, for many years one tragedy followed another. Thousands of journalists lost their jobs, and today many newsrooms are mere torsos of their former selves. Read the rest of this entry »
Killer Technology: Is TV next on the black list?
Posted by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova in Media Economics, New Media on May 26, 2010
Before the newspaper industry actually makes it to the media graveyard, experts predict another medium (television) may face the Reaper as well.
In his blog “Reflections of a Newsosaur,” Alan Mutter, a media and technology analyst, asserts that the Internet may pose a significant threat to television. High-speed Internet and the new IPTV will soon strangle traditional television as consumers realize they can watch anything hosted on the Internet directly on home televisions. While this not-yet-so-popular invention is an evident benefit to consumers, managers of local TV stations should be concerned about losing already scarce audiences and the ad revenues that accompany ratings. Mutter warns that if the problem is not addressed now, in five years television will face a crisis similar to one that newspapers encountered five years ago.
Read more at Newsosaur.
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Bad Marks for Citizen Journalists
Posted by Susanne Fengler in New Media, Quality Management on July 15, 2010
Concerning interactivity, “old” forms of media function better than their reputations suggest, while new media like blogs and social networks have a lot of catching up to do in the quality department. This consensus came as the result of several international studies presented in Singapore at the world congress of the International Communication Association (ICA). Read the rest of this entry »
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