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Swan Songs for the Three Tycoons
Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Media Economics on August 4, 2011
It was like watching the movie from the day before yesterday.
Suddenly, all the three of them were back: Leo Kirch, Silvio Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch, the tycoons who influentially roughed up the media business in Europe during the 80s and 90s. We’ve seen obituaries for the first, whose empire had already decayed years ago. As of late, the other two have appeared in headlines due to qualm-less abuses of power, resulting in scandalous news coverage and most probably more than a few sleepless nights upon facing such magnificent losses of power.
The moment these two scoundrels will need to resign draws nearer, and it’s likely their empires will somehow dissipate. Even if Berlusconi’s preference would be to continue his centerstage post at future bunga-bunga parties until the ripe age of 100 in Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook “Likes” Journalists
Posted by Kate Nacy in New Media & Web 2.0 on April 11, 2011
Facebook expands its relationship with the news media.
In an effort to boost the use of Facebook in newsrooms, Journalists on Facebook was unveiled last Thursday, launched as a resource to connect journalists with one another and with the social network’s modest audience of +500 million. In a “note,” Facebook’s Director of Media Partnerships Justin Osofsky discusses the motivation behind the new page, explaining that it was designed to provide journalists with “best practices” for integrating Facebook products, as well as to help them utilize Facebook in locating sources, interacting with readers and advancing stories. Read the rest of this entry »
Everyone Breath
Posted by Kate Nacy in Ethics & Quality on January 14, 2011
American cable television, with the exception of the Weather Channel, is stressful.
Venturing into U.S. cable news on a regular basis requires a certain level of mental preparation, at the very least a moderate yoga regime and a happy place. There’s a great deal of scoffing and shrieking, on occasion a blood vessel threatens to burst. It is, at times, not unlike watching a verbose precursor to a “meet me by the dumpsters” brawl.
When Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head last Saturday in an Arizona shopping center, journalists far and wide linked the incident to America’s “toxic” political rhetoric. Sarah Palin’s tendency to employ gun imagery drew particular attention, largely in reference to a map placing crosshairs over Read the rest of this entry »
Granny 2.0
Posted by Kate Nacy in New Media & Web 2.0 on January 2, 2011
Pew research shows growing number of seniors dive into social networking.
She bakes a mean gingerbread and started a fibromyalgia support group on Facebook: She is Granny 2.0. Seniors are typically paper-readers and six o’clock news-watchers. They’re large consumers of media. Now, however, they’re ambling into the fun-filled world of virtual friending, poking and farming. They’re ripping it up on social networking sites. Grandkids of the world, take heed.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project recently found that individuals 74 and older represent the most Read the rest of this entry »
The Ghosts of Users Past
Posted by Kate Nacy in Ethics & Quality, New Media & Web 2.0 on July 25, 2010
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 New Journalism? Investigative and Digital
Posted by Natascha Fioretti in New Media & Web 2.0 on May 18, 2010
Paul Steiger, Wall Street Journal icon and now editor-in-chief of Pulitzer-winning news site ProPublica, discusses the changing face of journalism.
Paul Steiger has dedicated much of his life to print journalism. The sixty-eight-year-old journalist worked as managing editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1991 to 2007, a period during which the business-oriented daily was awarded 16 Pulitzer prizes. Today, he’s editor-in-chief of ProPublica, a New York based investigative reporting nonprofit operating on an annual budget of $10 million.
ProPublica produces journalistic content in true American style: comprehensive, meticulous, transparent and with the public’s interest at the forefront. Yet not on paper as tradition would have it, but rather on the Web. More precisely, on www.propublica.org, where investigative reports are published and shared with not only readers, but with other media outlets which may access them for free. Read the rest of this entry »
Denmark and New Media
Posted by Tina Bettels in New Media & Web 2.0 on April 28, 2010
Interview with Bruno Ingemann, consultant and lecturer at the Danish School of Journalism.
How do you think journalism will change in the next 10 years?
There will definitely be more interaction with the public – we’re only beginning. Journalists have to learn how to interact with the public, not only to get more information but also to improve journalistic quality. They could, for example, ask the public to help investigate. This is already done in England where Paul Bradshaw launched the project “Help Me Investigate.” The key point here is that journalists are still in control of what content they want published. Furthermore, journalists should learn how to use social media like Facebook and Twitter for journalistic processes.
Before your career as a consultant, you were working as a managing editor for the Danish media house Nordjyske Medier, which was one of the first media houses in Europe to introduce convergence in their newsroom. Does it still serve as a role model for other media houses? Read the rest of this entry »
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