Alexandra Stark, Swiss journalist and Head of Studies at MAZ – the Swiss School of Journalism, argues that it’s time for journalists to take action on business models for supporting journalism. Stark proposes a broadened set of skills and a new structure to enable greater involvement from journalists, while also fostering further teaching of such skills. Via rNEWS12 
This book is intended to be a useful resource for anyone who thinks that they might be interested in becoming a data journalist, or dabbling in data journalism. ... Lots of people have contributed to writing it, and through our editorial we have tried to let their different voices and views shine through. We hope that it reads like a rich and informative conversation about what data journalism is, why it is important, and how to do it. ... Lamentably the act of reading this book will not supply you with a comprehensive repertoire of all if the knowledge and skills you need to become a data journalist. This would require a vast library manned by hundreds of experts able to help answer questions on hundreds of topics. Luckily this library exists and it is called the internet. Instead, we hope this book will give you a sense of how to get started and where to look if you want to go further. Examples and tutorials serve to be illustrative rather than exhaustive. ... We count ourselves very lucky to have had so much time, energy, and patience from all of our contributors and have tried our best to use this wisely. We hope that - in addition to being a useful reference source - the book does something to document the passion and enthusiasm, the vision and energy of a nascent movement. The book attempts to give a sense of what happens behind the scenes, the stories behind the stories. ... The Data Journalism Handbook is a work in progress. If you think there is anything which needs to be amended or is conspicuously absent, then please flag it for inclusion in the next version. It is also freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, and we strongly encourage you to share it with anyone that you think might be interested in reading it. ... Jonathan Gray (@jwyg) 
Storify is one of the most exciting journalism tools of the year. The mission of the platform is to make social media the story ― not just the distribution tool, explained Xavier Damman, co-founder of the site.
“Storytelling has to be reinvented for this new social media age,” said Damman, speaking last week at the ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit in New York. Damman and co-founder and CEO Burt Herman created the tool with the mindset of facilitating collaborative storytelling, in which people of many skills work together on separate pieces to create a story. Via Gregg Morris 
Nick Diakopolous, in a new report from CUNY, argues that journalism is a lot like computer science, since both are fundamentally concerned with information. Via rNEWS12 
Is your content relevant, engaging, high quality, valuable, actionable? How will it differentiate your brand, increase brand equity?
Facebook just announced a new feature called interest lists that collect posts from people and pages related to a certain topic into a separate, specialized news feed. If Facebook’s interest lists sound pretty much like Twitter lists, they are. Facebook is using the same idea — a user can create lists of friends, pages and subscriptions on their own, or follow lists others have curated already. This has implications for journalists in both newsgathering and distribution. http://newsroom.fb.com/Announcements/Introducing-Interest-Lists-109.aspx
Via Anca Toader 
In der neuen VOCER/ Zeit Online-Reihe mit Videointerviews aus den Journalismuslaboren der Zukunft erklärt Internetexperte Jeff Jarvis, warum Privatsphäre und Öffentlichkeit keine Gegensätze sind und Demokratie "Kakophonie der Stimmen" bedeutet.
Tracking the tech that makes government better and empowers citizens. ... From healthcare to finance to emergency response, data holds immense potential to help citizens and government. Putting data to work for the public good, however, will require data journalists to apply the powerful emerging tools in the newsroom stack to the explosion of information from government, business and their fellow citizens. The promise of data journalism has been a strong theme throughout the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting’s (NICAR) 2012 conference. ... It was in that context that I presented upon “Open Data Journalism” this morning, which, to paraphrase Jonathan Stray, I’d define as obtaining, reporting upon, curating and publishing open data in the public interest. My slides, which broadly describe what I’m seeing in the world of open government today, are embedded below. ... 
This interview with Liliana Bounegru, project coordinator of Data Driven Journalism at the European Journalism Centre, offers more insight into why the importance of data journalism continues to grow in the age of big data.
A collection of opinions shared by the editors of mainstream news outlets who gave evidence on how the digital world is impacting on newsrooms to the Leveson inquiry...
The best content curation tools http://t.co/0HPrB5I4 Please retweet:) #contentcuration...
Most experts never talk about it. It moves faster than the search engines but includes them. It exists beyond 'closed social' Social Media environments like Facebook, but includes them as well.
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By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, just four months after Steve Jobs first announced his "magical and revolutionary" new machines in San Francisco, traditional publishers had been overtaken by a collective delusion. They believed that mobile computers with large, colorful screens, such as the iPad, iPhone, and similar devices using Google's Android software, would allow them to unwind their unhappy histories with the Internet. ... For publishers whose businesses evolved during the long day of print newspapers and magazines, the expansion of the Internet was tremendously disorienting. The Internet taught readers they might read stories whenever they liked without charge, and it offered companies more efficient ways to advertise. Both parties spent less.Tablets and smart phones seemed to promise a return to simpler days. Digital replicas of print newspapers and magazines (which could be read inside Web browsers or proprietary software like Adobe PDF readers) had never been popular with readers; but publishers reasoned that replicas were unpleasant to read on desktop computers and laptops. Surrounded by an overwhelming amount of digital content, many people are looking for something that can fill the role of a digital newspaper -- filtering and highlighting interesting content. ... What did the printed newspaper provide in its heyday as the information-delivery system of choice? A collection of news and other interesting content, selected by knowledgeable editors from a wide range of sources, presented in an easy-to-scan format. ... Now, the supply of information we have available to us is almost never-ending — but we still need an easy and efficient way to filter it, and find what is interesting and relevant, and share it with others. ... http://gigaom.com/2011/04/25/the-future-of-media-storify-and-the-curatorial-instinct/ ... The field is filled with contenders who believe they can solve that problem, including News.me and Flipboard and Zite, and one of the newest is a San Francisco-based startup called Prismatic. ... http://gigaom.com/2011/04/20/news-me-and-trove-bring-us-closer-to-the-daily-me/ ... ... Like a newspaper, but in real time and social ... One of the interesting things about Prismatic is that Cross doesn’t have a background in media — his specialty is data analysis and machine learning. Before he started Prismatic, he was the head of research at Flightcaster, a Y Combinator-funded startup that used multiple data sources to estimate real-time flight information. After it was acquired, Cross decided that he wanted to work on a much larger problem, and the nature of information consumption seemed like it fit the bill.
On the heels of its seventh anniversary and its first Pulitzer Prize, Huffington Post is breaking into the digital magazine business. On April 24, Huffington Post will debut the weekly Huffington, the Huffington Post Magazine for the iPad. Along with Huffington herself, HuffPo executive editor Tim O’Brien will lead the effort. --- “I’m excited about having a vehicle that we can take our work every week, the additional reporting and the blogs, and put it in a distinct setting, because there is so much going on the site already,” Huffington tells FOLIO:. ... Like its website counterpart, the magazine will integrate user comments into every article. Also similar to the website, comments will be moderated by both humans and algorithms, “This was part of our DNA from day one. We wanted to eliminate the worst habits of the Internet: trolls, ad hominem attacks. At the beginning, we moderated through all human pre-moderation. Last month, we had seven million comments, so to have only people moderate would have been prohibitive financially. About 30 humans supplement the technology,” says Huffington. ... Huffington’s content will pay tribute to commenters through an in-book section called “Quoted,” featuring the “shrewdest or interesting comments from the site,” says Josh Klenert, who leads the magazine design team. ... Promotion for the app will coincide with its launch, and already several advertisers are on board with full-page ads for Huffington. Reports have indicated the app will be free, but as of last week, a specific model—paid or free—had not yet been determined, says O’Brien. He also declined to share advertising partners. However, regardless of pricing, Huffington is slated to appear on Apple’s Newsstand. Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Google Currents on the App Store. Download Google Currents and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Google Currents represented the company’s entry into social magazine apps, the beautified and oft-misunderstood consolidator of RSS data into a premium reading experience. Unlike its competitors Flipboard, Zite and Pulse, Currents was not open to international users. ... Though it debuted for iOS and Android, its true lineage was on Android, being one of the first truly gorgeous tablet apps for Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s a truly curated experience, too, with publishers such as The Guardian and 500px, which brings it more along the lines of Flipboard’s Cover Stories than a standard RSS reader. ... Version 1.1 provides local content, too, and publisher-controlled translation provided by Google Translate. This way you can read Switzerland’s Neue Zürcher Zeitung without leaving the app. The service syncronizes across Google accounts so what you’re reading on your Android phone is made immediately available on the iPad and vice versa. Since Pulse added this feature in a recent update it has become one of my most appreciated additions, as sync helps you avoid redundancy and bloat. ... One of my favourite additions to Currents is the 500px library, displaying gorgeous images from across the varied community. The app is easily one of Android’s most beautiful, and is right at home on Ice Cream Sandwich. If you have been looking for a good Flipboard alternative on Android, or are just looking for something new on iOS, I’d encourage you to try Currents. Learn more about Google Currents, and download Android or iOS version. 
Digital journalism experts advise on monitoring and verifying content, and handling corrections (How to: verify content from social media http://t.co/8b8ckRDM via @journalismnews...)...
Robin Good: Zeeik is a new web-based video curation site with a unique slant and some very innovative ideas.
Crowd-sourcing journalism site lands $500,000 in seed funding to gamify news gathering
Read more at http://vator.tv/news/2012-03-08-newsit-folds-gamification-into-citizen-journalism#2AKHaAkcpSzyLSbc.99 Via Dave Courvoisier, Martin Sturmer 
Excerpted from the article by Harvard Gazette:
"We live in a world of too much information and not enough knowledge. No one feels the strain of that digital-age truism more than journalists, who are asked to ferret out and process information with ever-increasing speed — and often at the expense of providing solid context for the news of the day.
“It becomes very difficult for journalists, journalism professors, and students to go through and find the key items that would help them. We’re trying to be a useful filter and curator.”...."
Check out official website http://journalistsresource.org
Photo by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
Among my favorite tools on the iPad? News apps. Recently, things got even better when some of the most popular news applications—Flipboard, Pulse, and Zite—released iPhone versions, and Google debuted its entry into the field: Google Currents. All attempt to replicate the look and feel of a magazine; swiping through screens to advance content does recall the satisfying turn of an actual page. You can also Tweet, email, or post a story to social sites using these free apps. Google Currents ... Zite ... Each of these news aggregation apps has pluses and minuses; individual needs play a role in determining which is best for you. Ask yourself: Author Information 
IJNet.org is the premier global website for journalists and media managers to learn about training and networking opportunities. The site and its weekly e-mail bulletin reports on the latest innovations, resources and awards. 
Maddie Grant on the five models of content curation defined by Rohit Bhargava.
Andrew Miller 2/24/12 Ok, I'll be honest. I get very nervous when I hear education reformists and politicians tout how "incredible" the flipped classroom model, or how it will "solve" many of the problems of education. It doesn't solve anything. It is a great first step in reframing the role of the teacher in the classroom. It fosters the "guide on the side" mentality and role, rather than that of the "sage of the stage." It helps move a classroom culture towards student construction of knowledge rather than the teacher having to tell the knowledge to students. Even Salman Khan says that the teacher is now "liberated to communicate with [their students]." ... It also creates the opportunity for differentiated roles to meet the needs of students through a variety of instructional activities. But again, just because I "free" someone, doesn't mean that he/she will know what to do next, nor how to do it effectively. This is where the work must occur as the conversation of the flipped classroom moves forward and becomes more mainstream in public and private education. We must first focus on creating the engagement and then look at structures, like the flipped classroom, that can support. So educators, here are some things to think about and consider if you are thinking about or already using the flipped classroom model. |
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