26 feb 09 online journalism crowdsourcing wikis story ideas
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Crowdsourcing, Wikis and Generating Ideas
University of North TexasDepartment of JournalismOnline Journalism 3340
Feb. 26, 2009
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Today’s Lineup
Website of the Day Reporting Web Stories &
Crowdsouring Wikis
Your assignment, Tuesday, March 3 Go to
http://www.slideshare.net/westervillelibrary/wikis-101-presentation
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=62126
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Where Do You Begin?
Who is your audience?
Print/Broadcast audience differs from web audience
Local, Regional, National … Global
‘Insatiable desire for information’
What can I add to create a rich, informative online experience?
“...we needed ….to make a special editorial emphasis that goes beyond what the print journal does or what the newswires do. It is a different audience. It is a complementary audience, but it is not the same as print, and we try to meet those information needs.”
- Rich Jaroslovsky, Man. Ed.,
WSJ.com
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Where Do You Begin?Traditional Sources Sources/individuals Newspapers
Local and community Television News Wire Services Observation
Covering a meeting, events Press conferences Documents
Police reports, court filings, press releases
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Where Do You Begin?Today: It’s a Two-Way Street
Feedback pages Readers suggestions to editors, specific reporters
Message boards (NOLA.com)
Readers post comments everyone can read
Chat Rooms A dialogue among readers
Online polls (cnn.com, foxnews.com, Boston Globe)
Instant non-scientific reaction to stories, subjects
E-mail Reporters/Editors contact info published
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Where Do You Begin? New Reservoirs of Ideas
Groups (Yahoo!,
Google, others)
Formerly ‘Usenet’ – broad range of subjects
Blogs (USAToday, NYPost,
Millions of them
Search engines Find sources, studies, special interests
MySpace, Facebook, YouTube!
Personal webpages … from human interest to the absurd
Tech Sites CNet, Mobile News, TechWeb
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Trash Into Treasure
It’s boring Who cares? It’s obscure It’s pointless It’s ridiculous It’s a cliche
Interviewee boring
The story has already been done
Nobody wants to read this
Nobody will understand it
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CrowdSourcing – “We Media” Coined by Jeff Howe, 2006, Wired News article In his words: “crowdsourcing represents the act of a company
or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call.
“This can take the form of peer-production (when the job is performed collaboratively), but is also often undertaken by sole individuals. The crucial prerequisite is the use of the open call format and the large network of potential laborers.”
http://www.bnet.com/2422-13950_23-248641.html
Source: Journalism 2.0 – How to Survive and Thrive – Chapter 4: ‘New Reporting Methods”
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Crowdsourcing cont. Ability to gather vast amount of
information from a large group “Harnessing the power of community on
a continuing basis to improve the information base”
Beyond a grassroots concept, but as much a journalism tool as a corporate tool
Wikipedia, iStockPhoto, YouTube.com
Source: Journalism 2.0 – How to Survive and Thrive – Chapter 4: ‘New Reporting Methods”
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CrowdSourcing
Why? Gathering information quickly from
multiple Engaging method to involve
readers/viewers/customers Educating a community of users who
have access to a greater variety information to make more informed decisionsSource: Journalism 2.0 – How to Survive and Thrive – Chapter 4: ‘New Reporting
Methods”
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Crowdsourcing cont. It’s for real
Gannett Corporation – “Information Centers”
Prioritize local news over national news; Publish more user-generated content;
become 24-7 news operations, in which the newspapers do less and the websites do much more;
Use crowdsourcing methods to put readers to work as watchdogs, whistle-blowers and researchers in large, investigative features.
Source: Journalism 2.0 – How to Survive and Thrive – Chapter 4: ‘New Reporting Methods”
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Real Examples Cincinnati Enquirer – Voter Issues – Nov
2006 A Gannett newspapers Newspaper invited readers to submit
information about voter irregularities Newspaper posted them on a Google Map
BlackAmericaWeb.com – 2008 Election Partnership with NAACP National Voter Fund Voters call in to report problems Interactive map showing call volumes Tom Joyner Morning Show driving listeners to
submit comments to the website or a phone line
Source: Journalism 2.0 – How to Survive and Thrive – Chapter 4: ‘New Reporting Methods”
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Real Examples The Spokesman-Review
Create reader networks E-mail databases sorted by beat:
Education, Police, Specific cities Correspond with sources Seek/verify information Gather reader opinion
Why? Ken Sands – created the ‘networks’ Interaction occurs before publication – during
information gathering process Proactively contacting people you get a wider
reaction than waiting for them to call you
Source: Journalism 2.0 – How to Survive and Thrive – Chapter 4: ‘New Reporting Methods”
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Wikis
The Basics: A Web-based application that allows
people to add, remove, edit and change content through a browser.
The ease of interaction makes wikis an effective tool for collaboration. Wikis can be considered a content management system.
http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/videos/overview/overview.jsp
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Creating a ‘Budget Line’
‘Selling your story’ Capturing the ‘so what’/’who
cares’ Very short, clear and accurate Helps editors understand what
stories are available from all reporters
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