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Silverman’s Counter-Plagiarism Handbook
Craig Silverman, writing at the Columbia Journalism Review, provided us this week with a post full of practical tips on how to avoid and detect plagiarism.
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Survey shows nearly one-third of journalists don’t use social media or read blogs
- More than 30 per cent of journalists do not use social networking sites.
- 52 per cent of journalists don’t use Twitter.
- One-third of journalists do not read blogs.
- More than half don’t watch videos online.
- 75 percent of journalists do not listen to podcasts.
Yet 91 percent “agree that new media and communications tools and technologies are enhancing journalism to some extent.”
via blogs.zdnet.com
Some rather crazy numbers from the Second Annual Middleberg/SNCR Survey of Media in the Wired World, as reported by Tom Forenski.
Note: This is the third survey I’ve come across in as many days that I need to sit down and read. My PDF pile grows tall.
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Pew releases its ‘Millenials’ report
Pew Research released its report on the “Millenial” generation today. I’ve downloaded it (you can too) and I look forward to reading it and commenting on it tonight.
Good Web heads today
Our Web headlines looked pretty good today. Good keywords in all the headlines:
- High fives and smiles at Moonlight Basin Special Olympics
- MSU posts record spring enrollment
- Muslims in America seek understanding
- Bozeman commissioners back less strict sign code
- Yellowstone Club forms new foundation
- Woman arrested after allegedly assaulting Wal-Mart employee
- Bozeman man convicted of bar beating pleads guilty to drug charges
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Maybe others should copy early LAT deadlines
As revolutionary as forethought might be in some newsrooms, the smart front pages produced at the LAT since the tighter deadlines were implemented suggest that early closes could lead to more of the deep, interpretive coverage that newspapers are uniquely equipped to deliver.
By playing to print’s singular capability to illuminate complex and subtle subjects, publishers can strengthen the competitive stance of the products that generate the vast majority of their revenues.
And that would be a good thing, too, because print cannot possibly match the speed, drama and timeliness that CNN or Twitter can bring to any breaking story.
Unfortunately for newspapers, too many editors and reporters feel their front pages have to match the evening news, instead of setting the agenda for the day on which they appear.
This anachronistic thinking leads to stale and unimaginative front pages that tend to reinforce the growing public perception that newspapers are stale and unimaginative products.
This is a simple change that could make for some big results in improving the quality of newspaper front pages. However, you’d have to overcome a heck of a lot of inertia in newsrooms that are used to the later deadlines.
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More gremlins
Here we go again:
Similar to the last time I mentioned this issue:
Or, god help us, the time before that
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Would we let errors like this slip into the print version?
What Makes A Good Video Story
We are always looking for opportunities to add multimedia features to our stories, and the most popular kind of feature we can add is video.
Eventually, it would be great if the reporters would pitch video ideas on their own initiative. To this end, here’s a link to a post on Net Worked, What Makes A Good Video Story. Rebecca Aguilar sits down with several seasoned video journalism veterans and gets the titular scoop. Worth a read.
Posts from my main blog- The alpha and the omega March 12, 2010
- The Web strategy hamster wheel March 10, 2010
- The perils of centralization March 8, 2010
- Info about Twitter for journalists March 3, 2010
- New Web Site March 3, 2010
Info about Twitter for journalists
An absolute bevy of information for journalistic uses of Twitter from Mr. Steve Buttry. Read it, and read the article he links to by Julie Posetti; it’s an analysis of Twitter use by Australian journalists.