February 2012
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Facebook Opens Timeline To All Biz Pages,... →
Starting Wednesday, brands with Facebook pages can now create Timeline. While this opens opportunities for new visual displays, it also removes the ability for brands to create a landing page on their Facebook page.
Josh Constine writes, “Overall, Timeline should inspire users to spend more time browsing Pages and reading their feed stories. However, it removes the ability to set an app as...
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"Pinning" and intellectual property: Could using... →
“A woman named Kristen decided to look into the legality of Pinterest. After all, she’s a lawyer with a passion for photography. What she found scared her so much, she shut down her Pinterest boards entirely.”
Read more on Business Insider.
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Want an Open Internet? There's a Blueprint for... →
futurejournalismproject:
Yesterday Jihii wrote about an effort originating in the Reddit community to crowdsource a privacy bill to protect people’s online rights.
Perhaps, then, a trend, because yesterday also saw the launch The Internet Blueprint, an effort by Public Knowledge, a Washington DC-based digital advocacy group, that crowdsources technology bills that members of Congress can then...
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“I think the American media have contributed to the obnoxious and polarized...”
– Dick Meyer, Executive Producer of BBC News, America on how our current political environment has impacted how we fund, report and analyze the effectiveness of news. Read his full response in this week’s member profile.
What do you think?
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Social Shares: Lessons from Sundance; covering...
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.
Photographer Andrew McConnell chronicles who handles our tech products — and the data on them — after we’re through with them.
Laura Amico, co-founder and editor of Homicide Watch DC, on why...
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“If I could entrust you with one piece of advice during your time at what I...”
– Juana Summers, National Political Reporter for Politico and ONA Board Member, wrote a letter to journalism students at her alma mater Mizzou with great advice for young journalists. Read the full letter: ONA Mizzou: Letters Home - Juana Summers
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“I can think of no better strategy than to learn programming. This is a skill...”
– http://bit.ly/yt7wGo (via lifeandcode)
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Knight News Challenge: Knight News Challenge on... →
The Knight News Challenge opens today. All you have to do for a shot at some of that $5 million is answer seven questions, with 450 words. You should do this.
newschallenge:
Today, and for the following 19 days, the Knight News Challenge is open for business. The theme of the challenge is Networks.
The most common question I’ve been asked since we announced the challenge is exactly what we...
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Tools, Slides and Links from NICAR12 // Ricochet... →
One of the most popular posts on Chrys Wu’s blog Ricochet last year was the collection of dataviz tools, slides and links from the NICAR conference. The NICAR conference brings together those interested in and creating computer-assisted reporting.
By popular demand, she’s pulled together another list this year with a ton of tools, presentations and links from the conference.
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NPR releases new ethics handbook →
From the introduction:
“Journalism is a daily process of painting an ever truer picture of the world. Every step of this process - from reporting to editing to presenting information - may either strengthen or erode the public’s trust in us. We work hard to be worthy of that trust and to protect it.”
See the full handbook on NPR.
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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 Feb. 23 ONAvations webinar in partnership with Poynter News University.
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...
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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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