Steve Outing präsentiert bei einige interessante Ansätze zur Thematik des "People-Journalism" und verschiedener Participatory-Journalism-Modelle:

The online news business has introduced plenty of buzzwords over the last decade. Among the latest crop is "participatory journalism" -- the idea that citizens can be empowered to publish their own "personal journalism," alongside (and complementary to) professional reporters.

The industry has also been dabbling in "blogging" for a while now. Web logs have been around for several years, and now news organizations are taking the trend seriously.

Combine participatory journalism and blogging and what have you got? Why, citizen bloggers, of course -- who could bring big changes to online news.

Hier gibt's den vollständigen Artikel zum Nachlesen: Advancing Citizen Blogs on News Sites.

All about Participatory Journalism - how audiences are changing the future of news and information:

MediaBlog is written and maintained by Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman of Hypergene, a media consulting and design firm. We develop, design and produce communication and commerce projects for clients in business, media and technology. We write and speak on media strategy, development and graphic design.
Sehr zu empfehlen ! :-))
http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php

The (Spokane, Wash.) Spokesman-Review hat ein neues Blog in seine HP integriert.

New media managing editor Ken Sands says, "We're pretty excited about our newest blog, what we're calling "Journey to Vatican III." The author is Rebecca Nappi, a columnist and associate editor who recently completed a master's degree in pastoral ministry at Gonzaga University. She says her blog "gives you breaking news and trend alerts in the Roman Catholic Church that signal major reforms to come in the next few years. These reforms would likely happen if, and when, the pope who succeeds John Paul II calls a Vatican III.

Die Zeitung hat jetzt 11 aktive Blogs integriert:
• Spin Control: Political beat writer Jim Camden offers news and notes on the upcoming elections.
• All Cougs, All The Time: Follow Wazzu football as we head into the 2003 season.
• Eye on Olympia: Legislative writer Richard Roesler keeps his eye on the Washington state Legislature.
• Getting There: Transportation writer Amy Cannata offers Inland Northwest commuters tips on getting from here to there.
• Health Beat: Medical writer Carla K. Johnson gives you timely news on staying well and tips gathered from the latest medical research.
• Movies & More: Book and movie critic Dan Webster discusses news, notes and everything about books, movies and everything.
• Roadside Chatter: Coverage and discussion of auto racing on local and national circuits.
• Sound Wave: Get the buzz on upcoming concerts, keep up with a frenzy of underground rumblings, and rip through local and national album and show reviews.
• Wheel Life: Julianne Crane exchanges information about the ever-growing recreational vehicle lifestyle.
• Und: Conflict in Iraq.
• And Journey to Vatican III.

[Via: CyberJournalist.net - Ken Sands: More blogs than fingers. ]

Interessante Überlegungen gefunden bei Cyberjournalist.net:

Weblogs are an excellent tool for independent publishers to reach large audiences, but few Weblogs regularly break new information online. Gordon Joseloff, a former CBS News and UPI correspondent, started a local news site about Westport, Conn., in March that takes the form of a Weblog, <% link to=.
Mit Hilfe von Weblogs könnten beispielsweise Regional- oder Lokalzeitungen "Publishing Communities" aufbauen. Gordon Joseloff formuliert einige seiner Ideen bei CyberJournalist.net:
WestportNow.com fills the void and has quickly become the online source for news of Westport for those in town and around the world. The site has broken a number of local stories later picked up by national news media, including The New York Times, and even caused the Times to run several corrections in stories about Westport. The most notable story first reported by WestportNow.com and later picked up by local media (and then the New York Times, which led even to some foreign pickups -- a German radio station called me for an interview) involved a controversy over naming a local bridge after a late Westporter (Ruth Steinkraus Cohen) who was an ardent supporter of the United Nations.
Hier bei CyberJournalist.net weiterlesen.

Interessante Untersuchung der Medill School of Journalism: "Looking Local: Do Newspaper Web Sites Provide Community Information"?

We found in our research that most sites that provided local information were scattered, and many were not very complete," said Maria Neels (MSJ03). Her class's report, "Looking Local: Do Newspaper Web Sites Provide Community Information" found that newspaper search tools most often return results only from the newspapers article archive. "We were especially taken aback by the fact that most newspaper sites did not make local non-news information easy to access."

Assistant professor of new media Janice Castro said that newspapers are seeing increased competition from search engines such as Yahoo! or Google. "If readers turn to search engines to provide information about their local communities, this will undercut the newspaper business model," said Castro, who was the class' project director.

Solving this problem was the second part of the class capstone. The students created @Home Chicago," a Web site they hope newspapers use as a model for how to produce news and information down to the neighborhood level. Choosing Chicago neighborhood Wicker Park as their example, the site provides event listings, news, and an extensive business and service directory. "We were trying to provide a site that created a stronger sense of community in a neighborhood and that was a place where people could rely on and find the information they needed for a specific area," Neels said.

Hier gibt's die Studie als pdf: Looking Local: Do Newspaper Web Sites Provide Community Information?

Die Studenten sind aber nicht bei der Theorie und bei der Studie geblieben. Sie haben auch einen konkreten Vorschlag ausgearbeitet und eine Muster-Seite ins Netz gestellt: @Home Chicago.

[Via Poynter.org]

Wie verändert das Internet die Art und Weise, wie man an News kommt? Interessante überlegungen von Mark Trahant, editor of the editorial page, beim Seattle Post Intelligencer:

But if the country were truly wireless, reporters on the scene -- joined by a new breed of instant commentators, called bloggers -- could be detailing events almost as they happen. And if we're holding a small computer (or even a cell phone), we will have the information quickly. If the reporter on the scene is using a cell phone with video, we might even become more of a witness because we could have a C-SPAN for specific things that interest a person, group or company.

The best thing about this is that the news gets personal. We might be near a time when individual reporters are hired to cover a story that interests a narrow community -- one event or court case at a time. This is news that matters to a smaller audience, even one person. It could include court cases, zoning actions or anything that involves a contest with some sort of resolution. It could even be a child's sporting event or school play "covered" by another family member.

This process shouldn't end news as we know it. The general report still might come later -- when it becomes of interest to a larger pool of readers or viewers.

Mark Trahant: Technology changes how we get news (Quelle: Seattle Post Intelligencer)

Print-Texte werden gern unverändert ins Internet gestellt. Die Vorzüge des Onlinemediums bleiben dabei aber ungenutzt. Wer es richtig machen will, muss wissen, worin sich Zeitungs- und Webtext unterscheiden.

Ein interessanter Artikel bei http://www.onlinejournalismus.de:

Das wichtigste Ergebnis: Die Nutzer beklagten die kleine Sichtfläche am Bildschirm und vor allem das Fehlen der Hyperlinks. Im Kommunikationskontext "Computer", wo normaler Weise eine engmaschige Vernetzung üblich ist, stand die elektronische Kopie ohne einen einzigen Hyperlink völlig isoliert im Raum. Fazit: "Der deutliche Wunsch nach mehr Interaktivität zeigt, dass reine PDF-Lösungen kaum auf Akzeptanz stoßen dürften."

Von originärem Online-Journalismus kann erst dann gesprochen werden, wenn die publizierten Inhalte in anderen Mediengattungen nicht reproduziert werden können. Multimedia-Komponenten sind deshalb ein wichtiger Faktor, wenn es darum geht, Printtexte mediengerecht fürs Web aufzubereiten. Wichtig ist hier das Stichwort "technische Zielgruppenorientierung". Das heißt: Multimedia-Publikation setzt die Kenntnis der technischen Ausstattung auf Seiten der Nutzer voraus.

Hier weiterlesen: SCHLAGZEILE, TEASER, HYPERLINK - Texten fürs Web I und Teil II.

Interessant in diesem Zusammenhang die ebenfalls im Artikel erwähnte Studie der Universität Trier: Projekt e-Paper - die Zukunft der Zeitung.

Thomas Mrazek schreibt bei onlinejournalismus.de über Journalisten und Weblogs.

Mit Online-Tagebüchern pflegen Journalisten Kontakt zu Publikum und Kollegen. Geld verdienen lässt sich damit zwar kaum, doch man kann sich einen Namen machen....
...ob das nun wirklich die "Haupt-Ziele" bloggender Journalisten sind, wage ich zu bezweifeln,....aber das ist ja auch nur der Lead des Artikels ;-)

Vollständiger Artikel: I bLog, You bLog, We bLog? Web Log!.

Bei der New York Times stellt man heute die Frage: Is a blog still a blog if someone else edits it?

Dabei geht es um eine Diskussion, die bereits in zahlreichen Blogs geführt wurde: Journalisten und Weblogs (siehe auch: Cyberjournalist.net, im Bloghaus, Eck.Punkte.log, ....... oder aber auch in der Netzzeitung, um nur einige zu nennen.

Lurking uncertainty about what standards should be applied to Web logs written by journalists bubbled to the surface last week after The Bee's ombudsman made public a recent decision by editors to screen Web log entries of Daniel Weintraub, one of the newspaper's leading columnists, before they are posted on The Bee's Web site.

Besonders interessant in diesem Zusammenhang eine Aussage von Paul Grabowicz, professor at the University of California at Berkeley graduate school of journalism:

Paul Grabowicz, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley graduate school of journalism, taught a class on Web logs last fall and said that while some question whether an edited Web log strays from the true nature of blogging, many of the traditional aspects of journalism and the new publishing medium are not incompatible.

"I think you can do a blog and retain journalistic standards without bleeding the life out of it and without sacrificing what is important about journalism," Professor Grabowicz said.

Jonathan Dube (managing producer bei MSNBC.com and Publisher of www.cyberjournalist.net) is organizing a discussion with journalists about blogging best practices for a conference of the Online News Association in Chicago next month. Professor Grabowicz says discussion is healthy but a rush to impose universal rules is not.

"What's most important to me is this is forcing us into a long overdue discussion about what journalism really is and what we're trying to accomplish with it," he said. "The worst thing is for somebody to come up with a standard that everyone is supposed to adhere to."

Hier gibt's den vollständigen Artikel zum Nachlesen bei der New York Times: The Role of the Delete Key in Blog

[Nachtrag 30.9.2003: Aufgrund der zahlreichen Reaktionen hat Tony Marcano, der Sacramento Bee- Ombudsmann, seine Kolumne dem Thema gewidmet:

Take this hypothetical situation: A newspaper allows one of its reporters to post an unedited blog on its Web site. The reporter posts comments that are blatantly offensive (racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, homophobic, take your pick).

Would the fact that those comments are posted on a newspaper's Web site amount to a tacit endorsement of those views? Certainly the newspaper would be legally liable for them, regardless of any disclaimer.

One argument is that the newspaper should trust its reporters to keep the blog discourse reasonable. But who gets to define reasonable? The blogger? Maybe, but then the paper risks disseminating information on the Web that it would never allow in print. The newspaper? Maybe, but if it deems the discourse unreasonable, the censorship issue rises again.

This may be a simple issue with a simple solution in the blogosphere, but newspapers are not in the same universe.

Dem steht folgende Aussage von Daniel Weintraub gegenüber:
Here's Weintraub's take on that: "Newspaper traditionalists need to realize that the online product is not simply an electronic version of the printed newspaper. It is an entirely different medium, more akin to radio and television than it is to print. Commentators on radio and TV are not edited. They say what they want, and if they overstep the bounds of decency or good taste, they face the consequences. A radio station that disciplines or fires a talk show host who screws up doesn't lose its credibility. It might even gain some.

"There is no reason that bloggers affiliated with newspapers could not follow a similar model," Weintraub continued, "as long as the Web site informs readers of the distinction. A Weblog is not the same as a printed column. It is a collection of quick, off-the-cuff reactions to breaking events, with an attitude. Those reactions can change over time as more facts are known. Some of those opinions are over the top. The readers know that. It's the nature of the beast. It's what they like."
Hier Nachlesen: The Ombudsman: Flogging by blogging: Sorry, editing isn't censorship -- By Tony Marcano -- Bee Ombudsman.

Thierry Chervel im Perlentaucher:

Bei aller Weltzuständigkeit haben sich die deutschen Zeitungen vom Internet übertölpeln lassen. In den drei Phasen, in die sich die Geschichte des World Wide Web seit 1994 einteilen lässt, haben die deutschen Zeitungen drei Fehler gemacht. Am Anfang blieb man skeptisch, hatte Angst um seine Inhalte und handelte lieber gar nicht - das Internet war noch sehr fremd. In der Phase des Booms ließen sich dann auch die deutschen Zeitungen anstecken. Sie machten jetzt ganz schnell, ließen sich von dubiosen Agenturen beraten und Internetadressen bauen und fühlten sich als Avantgarde der New Economy. In der dritten Phase wurden sie panisch und zogen sich wieder zurück.

Zögern - Hysterie - Panik. Es gab bei den deutschen Zeitungen noch nie einen souveränen Umgang mit der neuen Technologie, während sich die genuinen Angebote des Internets ganz organisch immer weiter entwickeln und eine Macht entfalten, die von den Zeitungen bis heute nicht begriffen wurde. Dass in Thomas Steinfelds Reflexionen zum Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit das Wort "Internet" noch nicht einmal auftaucht, ist ein weiteres Indiz für eine bedenkliche Arglosigkeit in diesen Dingen.

Hier beim Perlentaucher weiterlesen.

[Via Supatyp]