February 2012
57 posts
The alternative to your journalism CV « Adam... →
“Everyone else has a CV, but not everyone has the initiative to see the new publishing opportunities in front of us all, and to start something. Launching an online magazine, for example, and building a small, loyal community around great content. Or running a series of talks or events, or making that documentary.”
Are NPR's new ethics guidelines the way for... →
futurejournalismproject:
shortformblog:
With these words, NPR commits itself as an organization to avoid the worst excesses of “he said, she said” journalism. It says to itself that a report characterized by false balance is a false report. It introduces a new and potentially powerful concept of fairness: being “fair to the truth,” which as we know is not always evenly distributed among the...
9 key elements that can help journalists be better... →
Bill Campbell makes future of journalism his next... →
dbloom:
Interesting piece on the involvement of Silicon Valley legend Bill Campbell in bringing together the joint Stanford-Columbia venture to explore the future of journalism, funded with $30 million from the original Cosmo girl, Helen Gurley Brown.
Watch(via MATTER by Matter — Kickstarter)
“The web is the future of journalism, but let’s be honest: the future isn’t living up to expectations. Newspapers and magazines have cut back on in-depth reporting. Gossip sites have proliferated. The web has become a byword for fast and cheap. Why isn’t it synonymous with fearless, investigative and enthralling writing?
We think it can be.
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Three more examples of video storytelling at its... →
The bond between data and journalism grows... →
From George Takei
70 years ago today, the President signed a decree that sent me and my family to a prison camp. Hear my story, and learn how you can help fulfill our pledge: Never Forget. Never Again.
Hello 2012: 21 great blogs by journalists to kick... →
New on github: tumblr_backup
bbolli:
tumblr_backup is a small program that backs up your Tumblr blog locally. The backup includes all images from image posts. An index links to monthly pages, which contain all the posts from the respective month, plus links to single post pages. There are many options to select the posts to backup.
You can see an example of tumblr_backup’s output on my home page.
CNC shutting down | Bleader (Chicago Reader) →
The Chicago News Cooperative will cease operation February 26, founder James O’Shea told his staff Friday afternoon. CNC, which has contributed four news pages a week of Chicago news to the New York Times and maintained a news-centric website since O’Shea launched it in the fall of 2009, asked the Times for financial support that would allow it to continue, O’Shea said, but the...
10 Great Tumblr Blogs for News Junkies - Social... →
futurejournalismproject:
imwithkanye:
The Economist: Self-ascribed as “the most trusted source of global news analysis,” The Economist has been delivering noteworthy news pieces since 1843. This Tumblr page aggregates thought-provoking quotes, the week’s cartoon, and curated long-form pieces from the Economist website and the magazine.
Short Form Blog: Short Form’s motto is: “Read a little....
Before freelancing: things I did that didn’t work
jessicafurseth:
I got an email recently from a young journalist who wanted advice on freelancing. This made me feel tremendously wise and sage for a moment, and then I remembered I am a rookie too and referred the writer to Catherine Quinn’s excellent book: ‘No Contacts? No Problem’. But the email exchange reminded me there is value in being honest about what something is really like, because...
Pet Peeves: pt. 1
spammymonkey:
I was asked to do an interview by a first year journalism student regarding a student fee mix-up with the school and our program.
As a journalism student myself, and also an “all-around nice person” (yes, I’m really soaking up the glory here), I agreed to it.
Although the questions were fairly amateur (which is fine because it’s a complicated issue), I decided to explain...
Breaking Into the Media Boys Club
smdnyc:
Good has a great article up right now, called “Boys Will Hire Boys: The Media Is Male and Getting Maler”:
It’s easy to hide behind that old journalistic convention of objectivity, but when your “unbiased” hiring strategy results in the systematic underrepresentation of women, something very biased is going on. And the problem compounds itself—male workforces mean male networks and...
“Comment is free, but facts are sacred.”
– CP Scott (via greatgatsby)
jordanginsberg:
MJ: You write in the book about the toll your job has taken on your personal life and your family. Do you have any regrets?
AS: There are a lot of careers you could say that about, but I think especially in journalism trying to balance your personal and professional life is endlessly frustrating. At the end of that war in 2006, I felt the cost of that more than I ever had. My...
Roger Ebert wants to keep U of I's Daily Illini... →
“The Daily Illini, the 141-year-old student newspaper of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has enlisted former Editor-in-Chief and award-winning Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert to help raise funds in a fight for the paper’s survival. …”
Watchdohanews:
One woman’s fight against diabetes by Salima Al Ismaili, Ismaeel Naar and Benazir Al-Munir Karim.
Third-year journalism students at Northwestern University in Qatar have just launched a new website to raise awareness of the country’s obesity and diabetes crises through written reports, videos, photo stories and datagraphics.
Maisoun Maraka, the widowed mother of three and full time...
Twitter Tool Will Help Journalists Break News... →
[brightcove video=”1454454155001” /] A new software tool will help journalists see breaking news tweets as they are happening. The program, called Seriously Rapid Source Review, is still under development — but will act like a sieve that pull tweets from key sources currently sharing reports,…
WatchI interviewed Photojournalist Jerry Nelson last week. For the last four months he has been photographing the Occupy DC protest at McPherson Square (Washington). Here is a clip of him explaining why he chooses to stay in the same conditions as the people he covers.
“The beauty of Twitter is that, like Soylent Green, it’s made of people. The best...”
– This comes from an overview in The Guardian about changes Sky News and the BBC made about how their reporters interact on social media sites.
In short, it’s a regression. Both organizations want their reporters to submit copy to the desk before breaking the core of the story on...
Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink
parislemon:
This morning, I woke up and read Nick Bilton’s weekly New York Times’ column. Nick is a friend and one of the best bloggers/writers/journalists out there. But with today’s column, he was way off base.
Having already said what I wanted to say about the Path situation, I debated if I should weigh in again. Then I read Nick’s column again. There’s a way to say what he wants to say,...
Cheap & useful tools that can help entrepreneurial... →
journalistsatwork:
journalistsatwork:
Tips for young journalists...
Words Journalists Use That People Never Say →
jenclass:
A Minnesota professor uses excerpts from the Minneapolis Star Tribune to highlight common words used in journalism that make no sense when applied in other situations. My favorites include “citizen”, “vehicle”, and “altercation.”
Oakland Voices seeks next class of community... →
JOURNALISTS CHANGING GENRES « Writing Your Way →
Studio 20 @ Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute:... →
studio20nyu:
After graduation this December, the second Studio 20 class has wasted no time getting themselves in with some of the top media companies around. From ProPublica to the New York Times, you may see Studio 20 alums popping up all over the news world. Check out where some of last year’s class have…
Website links journalists to evidence-based health... →
Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself - NYTimes.com →
shaneguiter:
The popular social blogging site Tumblr is hiring writers and editors to cover the world of Tumblr.
Chris Mohney, a senior vice president for content at BlackBook Media, will be the site’s editor in chief. Jessica Bennett, a senior writer and editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, will be the executive editor and, she said, a kind of Tumblr correspondent.
“Basically, if Tumblr...
Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven... →
shaneguiter:
With that in mind, here’s their advice for creating that content. Feel free to retweet it.
• Old news is no news: Twitter emphasizes real-time information, so information rapidly gets stale. Followers quickly get bored of even relatively fresh links seen multiple times.
• Contribute to the story: To keep people interested, add an opinion, a pertinent fact or otherwise add to the...
