Tag: New Roles for Journalists
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The daily roundup: a second dose of link journalism from bloggers | BeatBlogging.Org
And it’s a very simple post that any journalist can do. It doesn’t take much time, can drive serious traffic and provides additional content and insight for readers. With sites/tools like Publish2, link journalism has become incredibly easy. Most journalists and bloggers eventually call it a day (except, it seems, for a few tech bloggers).…
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Obsolete jobs: Wire editor, features editor | yelvington.com
On the Internet, we have no need of wire editors; if we wish to have wire content on our websites, we can plug in AP Hosted News, or run a full feed of AP Online or some similar product from another service. But with everything on the Internet just a click away, the value of…
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The 2009 Conference on the Future of Chicago Media
Coming in June. Don’t Miss these Panels. More info coming soon. The 2009 Conference on the Future of Chicago Media. http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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If You Don’t Like the News …Dave Winer’s two cents
If you don’t like the news… (Scripting News). I would also say to the assembled educators — you owe it to the next generations, who you serve, to prepare them for the world they will live in as adults, not the world we grew up in. Teach all of them the basics of journalism, no…
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Why teach journalism if newspapers are dying? a Since You Asked column by Cary Tennis | Salon Life
So I do not think it is such a terrible thing that your journalism students are entering an uncertain world. It’s the kind of world that is ripe for enterprising journalists. It is the kind of world that needs to be reported on and explained. Leave it to your students to create new modes for…
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Science Commons Wants Data to Be Free – O’Reilly Radar
Science Commons is a very powerful concept. Journalists might report about it, and it would surely benefit journalists and the public they serve. When I was in grad school, they told us that each of our painstakingly written and researched, peer-reviewed paper would be read by an average of 4 people, reviewers excluded. For important…
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Ten things every journalist should know in 2009 | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog
Ten things every journalist should know in 2009 via Ten things every journalist should know in 2009 | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog.
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Mindy McAdams talks about Journalist as Curator
Mindy McAdams has a great post about “curation” as a journalistic function. One of the important new roles for journalists seems to be curator. Here is here list of what Mindy says curators do: 1. Selection of the best representatives: 2. Culling 3. Provide context 4. Arrangement of individual objects: 5. Organization of the whole…
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