networks and online journalism

Online Journalism#cityOJ

Paul Bradshaw OnlineJournalismBlog.com, Twitter.com/paulbradshaw

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Martin Belam (http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2009/08/news_paywalls_and_scarcity.php)

Why are you here?

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http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-long-can-print-newspapers-last.html


http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-workers-employed-in-newspaper-publishing-2009-12


source: Ofcom (http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/cm/icmr08/converge.pdf) and http://liesdamnedliesstatistics.com/2011/09/if-you-condensed-3-4-billion-internet-hours-into-one.html)


http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/cm/icmr08/converge.pdf

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/cm/icmr08/converge.pdf

http://liesdamnedliesstatistics.com/2011/09/if-you-condensed-3-4-billion-internet-hours-into-one.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics%20(Lies,%20damned%20lies%20and%20statistics)




Internet ad growth 2000-2008 source: IAB


"Magazine publisher Future is to cut around 100 jobs based in the UK and worldwide – in a move favouring digital over print."

http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2011/07/19/voluntary-redundancies-as-future-publishing-focuses-on-digital/


Source: Magazines & Their Websites, CJR study (2010)


"This job is just as likely to attract people who’ve set up community websites or blogs and have a passion for their locality."

Sarah Hartley - http://sarahhartley.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/beatblogging-–-what-is-it/


"I want to see social media become a part of the fabric of the day-to-day work."

Julian March, Sky News - http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=179903


"I'm afraid you're not doing your job if you can't do those things. It's not discretionary."

Peter Horrocks, Director, BBC Global News - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/feb/10/bbc-news-social-media


Being a good writer is no longer enough.


(corporate machinery)


(your new networks)


"A URL is an obvious asset. The site you build at your URL should become your greatest business asset, but you'll need to build many smaller assets within that site first.

Go to interviews with more than a clippings file.


"An active reader community is an asset. That takes time to develop."

Robert Niles - http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/robert/201001/1816/


What this module is about:

Journalism across all media orgs: broadcast, print, magazine and online-onlyA developing medium: learning how to keep up Building assets: networks and URLs


What this module is not about:

Teaching web design: useful but not essentialLearning by rote: technology will change - so must youSitting behind a computer all day: get mobile, report the unreported


It’s not about the mark.

Assignment: Group blog Covering an under-reported networkJournalism as spotlight, forum, watermarkScoops, networks, asset URLCommunity, multimedia, dataNewsgathering, Production, Strategy


Live - in 4 weeks

Judged by a panel of industry experts in 3 monthsEditorial rolesBest journalism showcased on central site(I’ll tweet it too!)


See Moodle.

Briefs, guidance documents, readings, links, FAQ


(break)


1: Networks

JOM800 Online Journalism


This week in 3 bullets:

• Networks are the key structure journalists need to operate across online

• Mutual benefit should be the guide• Make product out of process


You do not control the platform

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Finding contactsBeing findable by contactsDistributionBuilding trust and relationships

4 reasons why networks are vital


Case studies

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A networked journalist

Print: Paul Lewis, The Guardian


Magazines: Farmer’s Weekly

"Within 20 minutes Farmers Weekly journalist Isobel David was on the forum to confirm the story and provide more information plus links to the MAFF web site. Over the weekend the journalist posted whatever information she had on the site and collected reader feedback."

http://www.freelanceunbound.com/2009/11/19/how-the-web-has-changed-the-journalist%E2%80%99s-working-day/


Broadcast: Robert Peston

"Comments left by readers contain useful insights - and they help me understand what really matters to people. That is not to say that I give them only what they want ... Sharing information - some of it hugely important, some of it less so - with a big and interested audience delivers [ownership] and creates that committed community."

http://www.cybersoc.com/2009/09/bbcs-robert-peston-the-blog-is-at-the-core-of-everything-i-do.html


Online: BirminghamRiots2011

On Monday evening the site published an image of a rioter kicking a policeman – said to have been taken in Birmingham that night. Within an hour it had already been correctly identified as being taken in London in March. The next day, however, the same image was incorrectly captioned on the front page of the Birmingham Mail and the centre spread of The Guardian, along with many other newspapers.

http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2011/08/10/how-a-musician-and-a-sikh-tv-channel-dominated-coverage-of-the-birmingham-riots/


"Authority, trust and persuasiveness play an important role ... Connections are another important factor, along with timing and a dash of pure luck."

http://www.visualizing.org/stories/visualizing-bin-laden


How to create a decentralised news

operation..


The internet hates a middleman.


(before)


(after)


5 things to do on Twitter1.Sign up to Twitter and follow anyone you know,

plus 10 people from your field (use Twellow, Tweepsearch, wefollow) or area (use Twitterlocal or Twitter Grader)

2.Tweet what you’re working on (just try it)3.Tweet a useful link4.Tweet an @ message to someone you don’t

know5.Try using Pingvine or Twitterfeed to send a

Delicious RSS feed to your Twitter account (so anything you bookmark will be tweeted)


What is journalism now for?

Things change.


"A network is quite incapable of recognizing things that are not nodes. If something is available in the network, it is perceived as part of reality, but if it is not available it might as well not exist."

Nodocentrism

Ulises Mejias: ‘The Limits of Social Networks for organising the social’


Making the hidden findableA voice to the voicelessConnecting communitiesVerifying and debunking

The role of a journalist in a networked age


Guest Q&A: Neal Mann,

@fieldproducerA networked journalist


Choosing a network - & listening to it.Setting up Twitter, Delicious, RSSPopulating themLinking them using RSS

This week's lab.


Bradshaw* & Rohumaa: Online Journalism HandbookDelicious.com/paulb/cityOJ01OnlineJournalismClasses.Tumblr.com (password ‘student’)Benkler: The Power of Networks

Further reading.

*I have a financial interest (but only for biscuit money)


networks and online journalism

Education

ofcom http

sky news http

robert niles http

sarah hartley http

martin belam http

bbc global news http

asset url community

community websites