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Revamping the Story Flow for Journalists
Every time I sit down to write an in-depth story for MediaShift, I start getting that same sinking feeling: I'm missing something. Did someone else already write this story? Did I talk to all the right people? Did those people tell me everything I should know? Are my assumptions and story angle sound? Did I get all sides of...
more »Open Source Reporting
How Would You Build a Newsroom From Scratch?
A lot of the brightest minds in journalism have been thinking for some time about how the newsroom of the future might operate as we move from legacy print and broadcast operations into a more converged, Internet-centric world. I've taken a couple stabs myself at how a "New Newsroom" might operate, both in a guest post on PressThink in...
more »Open Source Reporting
Imagining a Future Tense for Newspapers
It's easy to criticize the humble newspaper as being outmoded, out of style and out of business options. What's far more difficult is to imagine how newspapers can take their goodness -- the award-winning investigative reports, the service journalism, the knowledge of the community -- and combine that with new technology and the Internet to reach and interact with an enlightened, empowered audience.
more »Your Take Roundup
Swamis Predict More Media Shifting in '07
Ever since I spent my winter break at college writing for the school newspaper -- and writing a bunch of year-in-review pieces -- I've had a bad taste in my mouth about year-end roundups and year-forward predictions. I think it's a good idea to get some perspective on the year, and consider where we're going, but often these features end up being a bit, well, predictable.
more »Your Take
What is your most audacious prediction for the media in 2007?
As the new year dawns the time is nigh for year-end roundups, looks back and overall journalistic holiday laziness. One of the great traditions in journalism is a list of predictions for what will come in the year ahead -- and never following up to find out which predictions actually came true. Rather than make my own predictions, and because Time magazine has deemed "you" as the Person of the Year, I've decided to turn this prognostication duty over to you, dear MediaShift readers. So what's your most audacious prediction for the year in media ahead of us? Will GoogTube figure out how to make money? Will Rocketboom launch a lawsuit against Amanda Congdon at ABC? Will Nick Denton tie his pay to Valleywag traffic numbers? Will TechCrunch's Michael Arrington be humble? Share your craziest predictions for 2007 in the comments, explain why it will happen, and I'll list the best ones in the next Your Take Roundup in the new year.
more »Futurama
Big Media's 'OurTube' to Dominate Online Video Realm
NEW YORK, November 31, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- The heads of the four major U.S. televion networks today announced the long-awaited unveiling of "OurTube," a new online video-sharing service where people will be able to legally upload and share any video approved by the media companies for sharing. The service has been in development for more than two years, and promises to take video-sharing to the next level.
more »Virtual Worlds
Wired, CNET, Reuters Agog Over Second Life
A friend of mine who works in PR in San Francisco came up to me at a party last week, and was wide-eyed at what's been going on lately at the virtual world Second Life.
more »Futurama
English Today, Mandarin by 2020?
Because the Internet and computers were home-grown in America, it's no surprise that the Internet naming convention (.com, .net, .org) and computer keyboards and software interfaces are based on the English language. That has helped to push English into the dominant second language worldwide for people doing business across borders.
more »Digging Deeper
Stanford Fellow Imagines Every Cell Phone as Citizen Media Outlet
Perhaps some day in the not so distant future, every person on the planet who has a cell phone camera will be able to snap a photo of a newsworthy event happening in front of them and easily send it to a web clearinghouse of such news images. That's the dream of Erik Sundelof (pictured at left), a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, a program that aims to develop technology to advance humanitarian goals in underserved communities.
more »RSS
RSS Week::How to Make RSS = Really Satisfying Syndication
We live in a time of information overload. News and opinion swirls around us online, burying us in an avalanche of foreign newspaper sites, viral video, political blogs, school email newsletters, showbiz podcasts and on and on. Just when you think you've seen it all, another hundred new sites spring up and become must-read material. That's where the promise...
more »Futurama
Futurama::San Francisco Earthquake Coverage, Circa 2016
The year is 2016. President Jeb Bush is running for a third term as U.S. president. There has been major upheaval in the entertainment world, and the Long Tail has come to pass, with each of us gaining global access to all the music, movies and news and information we could ever want. After a January morning spent swimming...
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