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Consider the journalism on Twitter, not whether Twitter is journalism
Twitter is a medium and cannot be considered as a whole, writes Alfred Hermida, who’s worried that we’re about to rehash the old argument about whether a new medium “is journalism.” Rather than arguing about whether Twitter is or isn’t journalism, we should shift the conversation to understanding the journalism taking place on this platform [...]
New e-book offers multimedia journalism tips
Multimedia journalist Adam Westbrook has published his e-book, “6×6: Advice for Multimedia Journalists,” on his blog. I’d advise anyone interested in doing multimedia journalism (specifically video) to go download a copy. It’s free, after all.
Journalism’s woes don’t resonate
A few days ago, Columbia Journalism School released the 96-page “Reconstruction of American Journalism” report, which I’m about halfway done reading. Journalism veteran-turned-consultant Steve Outing noted on his blog that the report doesn’t offer a lot of new information for the people who are already well-versed in the media “crisis.” Instead, Outing says the report [...]
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Dabblers go home; journalists need to be social media leaders
Gina Chen, who I admire for her clear-headed and sensible writing about how journalists can use social media technologies, reminds us today that, for many modern readers, if the news is important enough, it will find them. It’s on journalists and news organizations to make it possible for the news to find its audience, which [...]
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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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