Reconstructing Reporting
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...continued...
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”...continued...
Futurama
How the Local Newsroom of the Future Might Operate
Sometimes as media-watchers, we get caught up in philosophical debates about whether newspapers will survive in future times, whether people will still want to have TV news anchors read them the news, and whether non-commercial NPR will continue to survive and thrive in the age of podcasting. In the...continued...
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...continued...
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...continued...
Virtual Journalism
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. “Now that Reuters has a correspondent actually reporting on stories from Second Life regularly,...continued...
The Global Language
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...continued...
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...continued...
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...continued...
