February 2012
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Help us build the ONA12 conference
We want your help planning sessions for the Online News Association 2012 conference in San Francisco, Sept. 20-22. ONA conferences bring the world’s leading professionals in the digital media community together to learn about the latest trends in journalism and technology. This year, you have two ways to contribute your ideas and expertise at ONA12. You can submit a session idea or apply...
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Doris Truong, Tumbling: AAJA Media Advisory on... →
Responding to coverage of Jeremy Lin, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) has put together a guide for media. Please click through to see the full list of guidelines and danger zones from AAJA.
doristruong:
Posting this from AAJA.org:
AAJA Media Advisory on Jeremy Lin News Coverage
Feb. 22, 2012
As NBA player Jeremy Lin’s prowess on the court continues to attract...
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“I think news organizations have to get really, really serious about creating a...”
– Khoi Vinh, a New York-based graphic designer answers the question: How should media publishers deal with the fact that readers are increasingly getting news, links, and more from a range of sources filtered through social networks? Is anyone doing it particularly well?
(via soupsoup)
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phoebe connelly: Innovative social tools for... →
Click through to Phoebe’s blog to find a ton of resources and links for covering elections. They come from her ONAvation webinar which aired Poynter News University February 23.
phoebedoris:
Today I’m doing a presentation at Poynter on innovative social tools for covering elections. There’s still time to sign up (please do!) and it will be archived in case you want to save it for a rainy...
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Social Shares: Who’s downloading your data?;...
The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are the top five posts from last week.
America Offline: Reuters interactive shows which parts of the United States have limited broadband and are facing Post Office closures.
Twitter admits to downloading phone contacts from users and storing...
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Kickstumbler: Discover Kickstarter projects you'd... →
The folks behind Hype Machine, a website which aggregates MP3s posted on websites and blogs, have created a new way to discover projects on Kickstarter. Kickstarter is the world’s largest platform for funding projects, with a lot of great projects looking for funding. Kickstumbler helps you to find new projects that you might be interested in that you might not have found.
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Embattled News Industry May Offer Options for... →
“There are new opportunities in journalism for people with M.B.A.’s in areas such as navigating content pay walls, digital strategy, and community engagement, say media professionals.”
Do you work at a news organization that is looking to hire people with business expertise? In what capacity?
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It's Not Just Google: Everyone Tracks Everyone on... →
“[H}earing that a tech company covertly sidestepped another’s privacy policy scares us, because these policies are theoretically there to protect our data. Taking a closer look at any of these policies will reveal that they don’t particularly care about our privacy.”
Read the full article on the Atlantic.
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“Good reporting happens more regularly and more quickly when information is...”
– Laura Amico, co-founder and editor of Homicide Watch DC. Read more about why organizing beats is just as important as large investigations.
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“Our traditional journalism models and our journalistic efforts are inefficient...”
– John Patton, CEO of Digital First Media, in a speech to the Canadian Journalism Foundation. He advocates for news organizations to rethink their approach to their business models and provides advice for moving forward.
Read the notes for his speech on his blog: Old Dogs New Tricks and Crappy...
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The FJP: Tumblr Inches Into Media →
futurejournalismproject:
Tumbling about Tumblr…
From Digiday
Like fellow platforms Google, Facebook and Twitter, Tumblr rejects the label media company. But unlike them, it’s not as shy about getting into the creation business.
Earlier this month, the hot blogging platform-cum-social network made an interesting…
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“Journalism is always the art of the incomplete.”
– Anthony Shadid.
Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize winning foreign correspondent, passed away Thursday at 43. In his honor, take a moment to read this excellent Q and A that he did with Mother Jones in January about “sneaking into Syria, being kidnapped in Libya, and the high cost of getting the story...
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“If you really want to be good, here are some things you should do.
Work with...”
– category: unknown: Notes from a Hacker Society talk (via lifeandcode)
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Boys Will Hire Boys: The Media Is Male and Getting... →
“This week, the Women’s Media Center released its annual report on the state of women in the nation’s newsrooms, radio stations, and film sets.
The good news: In 2011, women held 40.5 percent of newsroom jobs, compared to the 36.6 percent they occupied in 2010. (Women’s representation at American newspapers had hovered below the 40 percent mark for more than a decade).
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The FJP: AP Says News Aggregator Infringes... →
futurejournalismproject:
As many traditional businesses have done before it, Associated Press digs in to protect its core business from disruption in a digital age:
The Associated Press on Tuesday took aim at Meltwater, a company that offers a paid clipping service to clients including the U.S. Department of Homeland…
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International Journalism Festival: Introducing the... →
We’re proud to be partnering with the International Journalism Festival. ONA + International Journalism Festival = awesome things to come.
journalismfestival:
Hello and welcome to the Tumblr blog of the International Journalism Festival!
In preparation for our next festival, which will take place between April 25 and 29 in Perugia, Italy, we thought we’d join the blogoverse by embracing...
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“Tip one: keep your resume updated, even if you’re happy in your current job.”
– Benet Wilson has advice for journalists who have been laid off. She’s got three more great tips in this week’s featured member profile.
Learn more about the benefits of becoming an ONA member and sign up to become a member on journalists.org.
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Support Your Media →
Today is Support Your Media Day!
Do you love independent media? Support Your Media Day is bringing over 20 members of The Media Consortium, a national network of independent media, together to raise money in friendly competition at a time when most non-profit media experience a significant drop off in donations.Participants include Truthout.org, Free Speech TV, RH Reality Check, and Mother...
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“Courage to pursue and tell the truth. That requires being accurate and fair and...”
– Martin Baron Urges Crowd To Practice “Fearless Journalism,” To Tell “The Plain Truth” and to Hold All Institutions Accountable to Public Scrutiny « New England First Amendment Center
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Social Shares: A move to make the Supreme Court...
The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are the top five posts from last week.
Salon sees a huge boost in traffic while publishing less.
Lauren Wolf notes that no one is telling male reporters to stay home.
The New York Times reports that street photographers are facing challenges...
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How NPR drove traffic to a local station by... →
“NPR’s Facebook page and its 2.3 million-like audience is made up of users from thousands of cities across the world. We wondered: What if we focused on just one city?”
Read the full story on Nieman Lab.
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Ahead of Anniversary, Bahrain Denies Visas to... →
futurejournalismproject:
Reporters Without Borders reports that Bahrain has denied entrance visas to foreign journalists such as the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof ahead of the February 14 anniversary of protests in the Gulf kingdom.
The country’s Information Affairs Agency claims this is because of the “high volume of requests” coming in.
Reporters Without Borders also notes that several...
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How the internet is changing us: CDF report looks... →
The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School has studied how the use (or non-use) of online technology affects actions and opinions in the U.S. Recently CDF published a special report noting 10 key themes that have emerged from this body of research.
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Big Media Executives Take To FCC To Fight... →
“Executives from News Corporation, NBCUniversal, the Walt Disney Company and the National Association of Broadcasters met with officials at the FCC on Monday to express their displeasure at proposed public interest rules, according to FCC filings obtained by TVNewser.
The rules in question would force TV networks to share details online about political advertising, including the rates that...
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“In December and January, Salon published 33 percent fewer posts than it had in...”
– How did Salon get such a boost in traffic while publishing less? By posting original content.
Read more: What Charlie Sheen taught Salon about being original » Nieman Journalism Lab
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“Journalists need to understand data if they’re going to succeed in their field....”
– Kelly Fincham paraphrases Julian Todd, chief data scientist at ScraperWiki, who helps journalists understand data.
Read more: Journalists connect the dots between data & reporting at Columbia J-school hackathon | Poynter.
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“Nobody is telling male reporters to stay home despite the fact that they have...”
– Lauren Wolfe, journalist and director of Women Under Siege, in my interview with her (which can and should be read in full here). (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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In Piracy Debate, Deciding if the Sky Is Falling -... →
“‘The fundamental issue is whether or not the sky is falling and the entertainment industry is being decimated by technology,’ said James Burger, a lawyer who specializes in intellectual property and entertainment content licensing.”
An article on the New York TImes puts forth the numbers the entertainment industry says it has lost in revenue due to piracy and the...
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Social Shares: The young reporter's burdens, a...
The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are the top five posts from last week.
Does the Privacy Protection Act protect journalists using cloud storage?
MSNBC’s Meg Robertson shows her mobile reporting kit.
A breakdown of the questions asked during President Obama’s first...
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daniel sinker: The Knight-Mozilla Partnership... →
sinker:
Change is awesome—it’s a necessary component to anything remaining vital and a required ingredient to facilitate organic growth. And so it’s with real excitement that today I’m announcing changes to the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership.
Before we get to the changes, some quick…