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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Richard Sambrook: Transparency is the new objectivity, and the Internet is not your enemy
I came across this post by Mercedes Bunz in the Guardian about a talk given by Richard Sambrook at the Oxford Social Media Convention. Sambrook is the head of the BBC Global News Division. On the importance of objectivity and transparency: Objectivity, he then pointed out, had always been an idea important for the news. [...]
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Washington Post columnist on why reporters should use Twitter
Rob Pegoraro from the Washington Post brings us this post on why Twitter can be a good thing for reporters. A couple of highlights, first, on the benefit readers get from a reporter’s Twitter feed: To me, it’s first about making the conversation with readers more efficient. If one reader asks you a question about [...]
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Video: Achieving a Web-first newsroom workflow
This video from CoPress.org is worth a watch. It emphasizes that the Web should be the center of a newsroom’s workflow; the Web should be a priority. This will require a pretty big shift in reporters’ and editors’ mind sets, though. The Web-centric newsroom from CoPress on Vimeo. Please discuss in the comments.
Welcome
Welcome to the blog, tentatively called Web Works. Here I’ll be writing about my work at the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, where the newsroom will be marching (and sometimes, no doubt, stumbling) into the digital future of journalism. Everybody is, of course, welcome to read and comment (please, often, copiously), but this blog will be targeted [...]
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