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Journalism In Transition. Media Consumption Timeline. Trends: Shift Happens The Market Abhors A Vacuum It’s Not Just Newspapers The Evolution To Real-Time News. 1. Trends: Shift Happens. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
1.Trends: Shift Happens2.The Market Abhors A
Vacuum3.It’s Not Just Newspapers4.The Evolution To Real-
Time News
38%
Pew, Jan 2010
26%
Pew, 2010
9%
Pew, 2006
17%
Pew, 2010
Trends News Consumption
• Mid-1980s : 22%• 1998 : 21%• 2005 : 19%• 2008 : 10.8% (1st 3 qtrs)
1999: Yahoo! buys GeoCities, host to 3.5 million individual Web sites (most abandoned!)
1999: the Poynter Institute starts the “MediaNews” blog
2002: Google buys Blogger; estimate of 500,000 blogs worldwide in total
February 2002: Salon and Fox News add blogs
2003: Iraq war gives rise to war blogger 2009: 6 million blogs on Wordpress.com;
>1B monthly pageviews; Yahoo! shutters GeoCities
Where Are We Today?
WestSeattleBlogProPublicaSpot.usNYT, WSJ, NPR et al on iPhone, iPad,
Android
The Charlotte Observer used a blog format to report on Hurricane Bonnie in August 1998; “Dispatches from the Coast” is the first known use of blog to cover a breaking news story.
Increasingly Disintermediated
Transmission Networks
Transmission Speed
A New Genre
D versus @ versus RTFollow versus Friend (“block”)Favorites Broadcast (one-way) versus
Converse (two-way)Nibble v Full CourseMany v FewTinyUrl et al
Twitter & Iran
Amplified voices of dissentFacilitated misinformation
(intentional and unintentional) Incomplete storyEmotional Triggered MSM response
The mass audience is deadPublishing is free (push-button)The cost of dealing with atoms
goes up as readership goes down
Today’s professional listens as well as talks
This is not a cyclical change
Photos are iStockPhoto or fair use: Crowd, http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/ Megaphone,
http://warkscol.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/superchick_megaphone_logo_hi.jpg
Kent State, photo John Paul Filo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Tank Man, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/
Death of Neda Agha-Solton, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Neda_Agha-Soltan
Kathy E. Gill
– http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill or @kegill– http://wiredpen.com/ and http://slideshare.net/kegill