Tag: future of news
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KIK and new tools, in general
(via The Mobile World) If I was teaching this semester, I’d have students do a project using KIK. If you are currently a teacher, you need to be thinking about how the generation coming up behind your current students is going to communicate. If no one reads/uses/views your news, is it even news?
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Future of Newsrooms Interest in and support for the cooperative has been strong, they say — and last week at an event celebrating the initiative, Marty Baron himself came to speak following a screening of the film Spotlight. (via The N.C. Newsroom Cooperative wants to give independent journalists a home base » Nieman Journalism Lab)
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The large-scale use of vertical video shot via smartphones has become more ubiquitous over the past year and, as a broadcaster, we need to be prepared to run with it even when it doesn’t sit naturally on our TV screens. (via BBC Blogs – College of Journalism – #Paris: UGC expertise can no longer be…
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Rather than eschewing aggregation, the Times seems to be moving to ensure that it can keep pace with fast-moving competitors, without sacrificing the paper’s commitment to high-quality journalism and accuracy. (via The New York Times builds out digital rewrite team | POLITICO) Okay, this means NYTimes has a team of reporters who follow and track…
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(via » How Americans Use Twitter for News) A very interesting look at Twitter use and Twitter as a news vehicle. The fact that lots of people use Twitter, but only once in awhile, confirms what I’d tell my journalism students – that Twitter is more valuable as a newsfeed than as a place to…
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When I started using the Internet in the 80s it was all text. Then, along came the Web in 1993 and we got images. Oh boy! Today, as Mary Meeker, a partner at venture firm KIeiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), reported in her annual Internet trends report, 64 percent of all consumer Internet traffic…
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This generation tends not to consume news in discrete sessions or by going directly to news providers. Instead, news and information are woven into an often continuous but mindful way that Millennials connect to the world generally, which mixes news with social connection, problem solving, social action, and entertainment. (via How Millennials Get News) The…
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Times advertisers are to begin paying the same rate for display advertising in the title’s tablet edition as they do in print. The agreement, reached with a number of key ad agencies, is being seen by insiders as a major breakthrough in terms of making money from digital journalism. Website advertising is typically offered at…
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Twitter Publicly Launches Curator, Its Real-Time Search And Filtering Tool For Media Outlets
Twitter Publicly Launches Curator, Its Real-Time Search And Filtering Tool For Media Outlets Twitter this morning is launching Curator, its new product that lets media organizations, publishers, and broadcasters identify, filter and display tweets and.. This is a good idea and for small online news sites like AustinTalks or ChicagoTalks, it adds the ability to crowdsource…
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Putting Botnets in the News Literally
Harnessing spare computer cycles isn’t new. Trying to use robots to harvest and produce news isn’t new. The start-up Shakr Media intends to “…automatically produce video versions of that company’s bloggers text, in near real time.” Shakr says it will come up with an app so that end users to create multi-media shows out of…
Barbara K Iverson 