online journalism week 1: "why?"
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Opening lecture in Paul Bradshaw's online journalism class, Feb 2007. Paul is inviting comments and improvements at onlinejournalismblog.comTRANSCRIPT
Online Journalism week 1
Paul BradshawOnline Journalism Blog
Why?
Do something now
• Set up a blog using blogger or wordpress• Write your first post: Why online
journalism skills are essential in the news industry
• Write like an opinion column – be entertaining, provocative, and informed
• First draft – so just blitz it out and don’t worry about quality (yet)
•20 minutes!
Now, my turn.
Northcliffe
“Fully integrated multi-media newsrooms will soon
be in operation across its titles, with all of its 1,500
journalists writing for both print and online”
Trinity Mirror
“Every morning the journalists
check YouTube and MySpace for our local area"
“web-savvy, who know what RSS is, who can
edit video”
“video journalism courses and multimedia workshops,
attended by over 70 journalists in the North
West before being rolled out across the division”
Blog.
What?
Weblog.
“Pre-surfed web”
Expert analysis
Synthesis
Opinion
When?
1997 (ish)
Why?
Reputation
Contacts
Knowledge
Skill
Who?
Salam Pax
Daily Kos
250,000
Per day
Trent Lott
Rathergate
Guido Fawkes
How?
Regularly
Link
Community
Trackback
Tags
RSS
Make your own newspaper
Go to:• www.Wikio.com - And subscribe to the RSS feed from
http://onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com/feed/ Try also:• www.google.co.uk/ig • www.Bloglines.com • http://search.blogger.com/ - subscribe to RSS feed of
search• www.Technorati.com • Del.icio.us
Now do it properly
• Edit your post: Why online journalism skills are essential in the news industry
• Research the subject matter• Rewrite your post so that it is informed
and backed up with facts and quotes• Worry about quality – structure, grammar,
spelling, links. Work the intro and the ending.
Directed study (5 hours)
• Keep editing for quality and authority• Build your personal news service and RSS
feeds• Read blogs• Read the reading• Write some more posts