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Do-It-Yourself Journalism
Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Ethics & Quality on March 17, 2011
Is the DIY ethic a positive or a negative factor for journalism?
Traditional forms of PR are losing relevance, and only one-third of all PR activities now target classic legacy media. Mastering digitalization and communicating directly with stakeholder groups via the Internet (using social networks, for example) are viewed as the most pressing challenges to PR professionals.
These are the most interesting results of a recent online survey analyzing trends in the Swiss PR branch. It would seem likely that findings would be similar in other German-speaking countries. Recently, several institutions presented the first “Corporate Communication and Public Relations Practice Monitor,” with Francesco Lurati from the University of Lugano as the driving force. Results have been published in English, the unofficial “fifth” Swiss language. Read the rest of this entry »
All the News Fit to Post?
Posted by Kate Nacy in New Media & Web 2.0 on December 9, 2010
Study compares news content on the Web to radio, television and newspapers.
Published in Journalism and Mass Media Quarterly, Scott Maier’s 18-month study builds on the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s News Coverage Index, which examines U.S. media coverage in real-time. Maier takes a look at 3,900 news stories in order to determine how online news coverage differs from that of legacy media, and what this might mean for journalism’s agenda-setting function. “If news stories found online are essentially the same as news presented in newspapers and electronic media, then the transformation represents little more than a move to an all-digital format of news,” Maier writes. “If news coverage is substantially different, then online news represents not only Read the rest of this entry »
Journalists and the Hampster Wheel
Posted by Piero Macri in Ethics & Quality on October 5, 2010
More speed, more news, more traffic. How the click-per-view logic changed journalism.
The cover story of the latest issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, “The Hamster Wheel,” penned by Dean Starkman, analyzes and openly criticizes the dominant model in contemporary journalism. Starkman highlights a sort of perverse mechanism that he calls the Hamster Wheel, which he says tends to shape journalistic work around the principles that rule today’s market of on-line journalism. Read the rest of this entry »
News Across Media Platforms
Posted by Kate Nacy in New Media & Web 2.0 on June 9, 2010
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 »
Endangered Ecosystem
Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Ethics & Quality on April 1, 2010
“Wishful thinking” was mentioned several times during the Medienhaus Vienna conference, where experts from all over the world fervently discussed the future of journalism.
Phil Meyer, the doyen of American journalism research, puts great hope in the public’s willingness to donate and the philanthropical gestures of media financers, as they’ll become key in helping journalism survive when it can no longer be financed by streams of advertising income flowing to publishing houses. Foreseeably, billions of advertising dollars will instead flood to search engines like Google or social networks Read the rest of this entry »
The Blocked Transfer of Knowledge
Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Ethics & Quality on December 1, 2008
Communications researchers and journalists could stand to learn a great deal from one another, yet in Germany and the U.S. an invisible wall seems to separate the two fields.
Imagine your physician tells you, “What medical scientists research at universities is irrelevant to my work as a physician. Therefore, I don’t read medical journals.” Would you continue to trust this doctor?
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