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Journalism can’t be a one-way street anymore
I don’t know who made up the rule that news reporters aren’t supposed to respond to public comments about and critiques of their work. Maybe it’s not even a rule. Maybe its one of those arbitrary rules that somebody thought was a good idea once upon a time, though it really had no basis in [...]
Content Creation: Sharing, remixing, blogging, and more | Pew Internet & American Life Project
via pewinternet.org
A new Pew study shows that young people use the heck out of the Internet; they just don’t seem to be using it to blog. They also use the heck out of social networking sites, just not Twitter.
Posted via web from Becker’s Online Journal
Good social networking and Twitter tips from a Columbia J-School professor
If you’re still waffling about whether to use Twitter for personal or professional reasons, check out this post from Sree Sreenivasan, a journalism professor and the dean of student affairs at the Columbia Journalism School.
It includes links to all manner of Twitter introductions, tutorials and other resources. Some of his links can help you find [...]
Responding to readers by proxy
After reading a story on the Billings Gazette’s Web site about a woman who spent several months living in a sandstone cave above the city, I perused the story’s comments.
This was among them:
My question is, why didn’t the reporter respond himself? If there’s a policy preventing him from doing so, why does the paper [...]
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What makes an online community?
Dan asked a good question this morning. It stemmed from Jodi’s story about the woman who lost her money-filled purse in a Bozeman parking lot and had it returned by a Good Samaritan.
Dan noted that while our Web copy had only one comment, the pared-down AP version on the Billings Gazette’s Web site had [...]
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A cooling off period in Bloomington, Ill.
Okay, this is the wrong way to build a civil community on your newspaper’s Web site. Just before the new year, the staff at the Pentagraph in Bloomington, Ill., decided that the comments on its stories were too uncivil, so the paper took its ball and went home:
Reader comments on Pantagraph.com often are informative, [...]
No excuse not to link to news sources
When people want to know, especially when it comes to breaking news or severe weather, they want the info. They don’t care where they get it from as long as it’s a source they trust.
(via joeruiz.net)
A nice post from Joe Ruiz back in May 2009 about link journalism. He advocates linking directly to the [...]
Twitter’s usefulness explained by David Carr
Columnist David Carr on Twitter:
What could anyone possibly find useful in this cacophony of short-burst communication?
Well, that depends on whom you ask, but more importantly whom you follow. On Twitter, anyone may follow anyone, but there is very little expectation of reciprocity. By carefully curating the people you follow, Twitter becomes an always-on data stream [...]
Info about Twitter for journalists