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Technology and Trendsin Digital Journalism

Monday, October 31, 2011

There are 653,324 ideas• We can experiment with networked

reporting, new editorial structures, storytelling tools, data base journalism and more.


Why Experiment?

• Rule of the Internet: Cheaper and easier to try than to debate about trying.

• Stems from “Agile and Iterative” Fail early, fail often - try again.


Two Radical Concepts


Technology Companies are Media Companies

• And they know it.........

First Concept


Mega-GiantsNew Startups“Social Media”


• Problem: They don’t all know it......

Media Companies

MUST BECOME

Technology Companies



Media companies

The future of media

consumption

Path to obscurity


Hope is not a strategy


Second Concept

It’s still journalism even if we don’t

recognize it.



Broadcast Media companies

The future of media consumptionWe might not

recognize this spaceEVOLUTION


“A Horseless Carriage”


Mistake

•1890 horse breeders thought they were in the horse business.


Mistake• 2011 Broadcasters think their in the broadcast

business

• Newspaper reporters think they are in the newspaper business

• Radio reporters think they are in the radio business


• You are in the information business.


Are you comfortable with concepts I and II

• Media companies should become technology companies

• It might not look like a “broadcast news organization” but it will contain the process/goal.


Two Radical Techniques


Technique One• Thinking through the process of broadcast

journalism and a willingness to Fail

Goal• Collect information

• Filter information

• Distribute information

• Inform communities

• The fourth estate

• Speak truth to power

Process

Caveat: Information is accurate/ethically reported, etc

We have a rough notion of what makes journalism an important kind of media


Collaboration• Content is King and is the most important.

• Collaboration is Queen and is the most powerful


Here Comes Everybody• Figuring out success on the web is like

predicting the weather. It’s not an exact science - but we are getting better all the time.

• Journalism will only succeed on the shoulders of its failures. (May a thousand flowers bloom).

• The law of numbers says we will figure this out.


The Web Isn’t Going Away

• Story time....... How does a four-year-old interact with the world?


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Contact Me Anytime

• David Cohn

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• http://blog.digidave.org


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