Category: Future of News
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Don’t Keep Readers Out, Make Them Want to Come in
According to a Guardian executive, thanks in part to the growth of the Facebook app, social sharing is now close to generating as much traffic to the paper’s website as search does — a fairly incredible statistic, considering that social produced just 2 percent of the traffic to the site as recently as six months ago. The Washington Post has seen…
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Science Communication Session Live from SXSW 2012
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AAJA posts guidelines after Jeremy Lin becomes a meme
From Asian American Journalists Association As NBA player Jeremy Lin’s prowess on the court continues to attract international attention and grab headlines, the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) would like to remind media outlets about relevance and context regarding coverage of race. In the past weeks, as more news outlets report on Lin, his game…
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There’s No One-Size-Fits-All Social Media Policy In Journalism – 10,000 Words
Social media policies need to be crafted on a per-beat-basis, not a whole-newsroom basis. The people in the news desks need to be trained on how to make the most efficient use of tools like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and more. Sky News’s policy is reactionary and based in a fear of the continued erosion of…
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Verifying Online Information: The Old Slave Speaks
Journalism.org‘s Tom Rosenstiel wrote about how the letter from a slave to his former master, that was publicized in Letters of Note recently was verified by various bloggers and online sites. The writing is very good, and the letter writer’s tone is worth reading. Because the letter involved a former slave and master, questions about authenticity…
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Spending on All Kinds of Media Up Despite RIAA and MIPA Claims
The story here is that downloading via Megaupload and sites like that doesn’t seem to hurt the revenues or decrease consumer spending on media from books to movies, and more. Check the diagram linked at end of the story.
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Video Explanation of “Open”
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