CyberWriter (Alles fliesst und nichts bleibt (Heraklit von Ephesos)) : Rubrik:Web2.0

"Its the Journalism, Stupid Not the Newspapers"

Cyberwriter — 2009-03-18T20:25:00Z

Via Pjnet.org auf einen äusserst interessanten Artikel von Clay Shirky gestossen:

Society doesnt need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. Thats been a fine accident to have, but when that accident stops, as it is stopping before our eyes, were going to need lots of other ways to strengthen journalism instead.

When we shift our attention from save newspapers to save society, the imperative changes from preserve the current institutions to do whatever works. And what works today isnt the same as what used to work.

Und weiter:

Any experiment designed to provide new models for journalism is going to be an improvement over hiding from the real, especially in a year when, for many papers, the unthinkable future is already in the past.

For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases. Many of these models will rely on amateurs as researchers and writers. Many of these models will rely on sponsorship or grants or endowments instead of revenues. Many of these models will rely on excitable 14 year olds distributing the results. Many of these models will fail. No one experiment is going to replace what we are now losing with the demise of news on paper, but over time, the collection of new experiments that do work might give us the reporting we need.

Dem ist definitiv nichts hinzuzufügen ... Amen!

Vollständiger Artikel: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

Die New York Times forscht an der Zukunft der Zeitung: "Paper is dying, but...

Cyberwriter — 2009-03-13T12:23:00Z

"Paper is dying, but its just a device" sagt Nick Bilton, an editor in the New York Times research and development lab.

Und weiter:

But don't all of those technology changes mean that newspapers will die?

Bilton thinks not, pointing out that in 1876 news accounts of the telephone predicted that concert halls and churches would be empty because of the new device, and a year later, predicted that the phonograph would kill the telephone and concerts, because people could choose when to listen.

"Newspapers and news organizations are not going anywhere," Bilton said. Except onto your phone, e-book reader, laptop and maybe even your shower wall.

Via: cyberjournalist.net resp. Wired Blog Epicenter: Times Techie Envisions the Future of News

What's that Twitter???

Cyberwriter — 2009-03-06T13:55:00Z

How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web - But failed

Cyberwriter — 2009-02-27T13:43:00Z

Interessanter Artikel von Jack Shafer auf Slate: How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web - But failed:

A moment of sympathy, please, for newspapers, whose readers and advertisers have been fleeing at a frightening rate. It would be easy to accuse editors and publishers of being clueless about the coming Internet disruption and to insist that the industry's proper reward for decades of haughty attitude, bad planning, and incompetence is bankruptcy.

und weiter ....

From the beginning, newspapers sought to invent the Web in their own image by repurposing the copy, values, and temperament found in their ink-and-paper editions. Despite being early arrivals, despite having spent millions on manpower and hardware, despite all the animations, links, videos, databases, and other software tricks found on their sites, every newspaper Web site is instantly identifiable as a newspaper Web site. By succeeding, they failed to invent the Web.

Via: Cyberjournalist.net

Fishwrap und so weiter ....

Cyberwriter — 2008-12-16T17:54:00Z

"The newspaper business works much like an old-style manufacturing business where stories go from reporters to assigning editors to copy editors to layout editors with the final destination being the next days newspaper. A lot of thought and knowledge goes into the newspaper creation process, but it ends up getting thrown out, just like the daily paper.

Another area that newspapers spend a lot of time on is deciding whats important and whats not. At a major newspaper, this is more than 40-person hours a day of the most senior editors. This is conveyed in the newspaper by what page a story appears on, the position on the page and the size of the headline. Again, most of this information is lost by the time the story reaches online.

Of all the companies in the media business, newspapers have the strongest assets for capturing knowledge about current events. The type, quality and volume of original content they create is incredibly expensive to do. They just need to decide to move from the fishwrap business to the knowledge business."

Online Journalismus: Work in Progress

Cyberwriter — 2008-12-16T17:11:00Z

onlinejournalism is not just writing a webpage or filming a video;
it is commenting on a blog, or bookmarking a webpage.
That there are no walls in cyberspace, only links;
and that journalism lies in every act that you commit online.
You just need to make it visible.

Via: onlinejournalism blog

Der Click-Generator

Cyberwriter — 2008-12-16T10:48:00Z

Via: Zum runden Leder

NY-Times guckt über den Tellerrand ;-)

Cyberwriter — 2008-12-05T13:32:00Z

This new feature on NYTimes.com offers related links from other news sources and blogs around the Web. ...

Mehr: http://www.nytimes.com/marketing/timesextra/

Apropos Web 2.0 - Twitter und so ;-)

Cyberwriter — 2008-11-14T16:16:00Z

YouTubes Journalisten-Wettbewerb: Project: Report

Cyberwriter — 2008-10-10T15:19:00Z

YouTube hat vor rund 10 Tagen ein neues Projekt lanciert: Es nennt sich Project: Report

In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, YouTube presents Project: Report, a journalism contest (made possible by Sony VAIO & Intel) intended for non-professional, aspiring journalists to tell stories that might not otherwise be told.
In each of the three rounds, reporters will be given an assignment to complete. Winners of each round will receive technology prizes from Sony VAIO & Intel, and the grand prize winner will be granted a $10,000 journalism fellowship with the Pulitzer Center to report on a story abroad.

Hier das Video dazu:

Videos bei der Wahington Post

Cyberwriter — 2008-10-03T13:25:00Z

Via: beet-TV: Washington Post Serves Record 1.4 Million Video Streams in August.....Dana Milbank is a Video Star!

Apropos User-Generated-Content ... Kein Produkt - Viel mehr ein Prozess

Cyberwriter — 2008-10-03T12:26:00Z

"The newspaper and news industry discussions about what they call user-generated video miss the point. Seriously. All these news orgs fell all over themselves trying to hop on the online video bandwagon as fast as they could. Some of them thought UGC needed to be part of the mix, and some did not, but in either case, the rush to video had much to do with the explosion of YouTube. The explosion of YouTube was only partly about video.

The other parts: community, sharing, communication, identity, self-expression.

Everybody in journalism needs to understand this. This is a huge piece thats missing from the puzzle of how to save journalism."

Das ist genau der Punkt: Bein User-Generated-Content geht es wenig um den eigentlichen Content,...es geht viel mehr um das "Drumrum":

The reason why user-generated content matters is less the content and more the activity about it. The traditional media tend to view user content as a product, whereas it should be looking at it as a process.

Via: Teaching Online Journalism

Journalismus 2.0 - Welche Skills sind heute gefragt?

Cyberwriter — 2008-10-01T21:02:00Z

Was muss ein Journalist heute beherrschen um im Internet-Umfeld bestehen zu können? Was wünschen sich die Profis?
Absolventen von Journalistenschulen und/oder Unis benötigen "Basic Skiills", Offenheit und Flexibilität für ihr berufliche Zukunft im Journalismus.

Gute Ansätze liefern hier einige Leute von der Front,... also keine Schreibtischtäter - sondern Praktiker/Macher. Gefragt sind Journalisten, die das Internet begriffen haben und die damit einhergehenden Veränderungen der Rezeptionsgewohnheiten, .... u.s.w. ;-)

Schliesslich bleibt bei den heutigen knappen Budgets nun wirklich keine Zeit mehr für Cyber-Entwicklungshilfe ,... obwohl sie doch immer wieder so verdammt nötig wäre, die Entwicklungshilfe ... ähem ...neue Medienkompetenz - ganz besonders für Journis ...

Jim Brady, executive editor of WashingtonPost.com

Peter Horrocks, head of the BBCs multimedia newsroom

Geneva Overholser, director of the School of Journalism at the University of Southern Californias Annenberg School for Communication

Rosental Alves, director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas in Austin

Robert Scoble Robert Scoble, prominent blogger with his blog Scobleizer, on what he expects from journalism graduates.

Via: Mediashift - Journalism Grads Need Basic Skills Plus Openness, Flexibility

Und ausserdem noch ...

An anthropological introduction to YouTube ;-))

Cyberwriter — 2008-10-01T20:59:00Z

Via chiperoni.org resp. adventures in teaching and learning

Achillesferse der Zeitungen: Copy & Paste

Cyberwriter — 2008-09-01T07:24:00Z

"Its improbable that a journalist with little to no prior knowledge of a subject he or she is writing about, will be the most qualified person to deliver a report by relaying information from unseen, unexamined and unheard sources.

And while there is something to be said for this process serving the free press astoundingly well during the printing press era, it would be down right arrogant to assume future reporting will remain credible without attributing a link for every piece of information."

Tom Cheredar, newassignment.net, 'Achilles' Heel' of Newspapers - Copy & Paste