Archive for the ‘Multimedia Journalism’ Category
U2′s Bono Sings the Battle Cry for Online News
“You didn’t come all the way out here to watch TV, now didya!?”
Standing in the outfield of a giant baseball stadium under the glow of more than 40 video walls and monitors, the lead singer of the rock group U2 aimed his remote up at the screens and flipped from station to station while tens of thousands of concert-goers screamed and cheered. It was the fall of 1992. CNN had just made history with the first live video coverage of a war, and somewhere in a computer lab at the University of Illinois – in a town that could have comfortably fit its entire population in the sports stadium – researchers were about six months away from launching the first graphical Web browser.
The hundreds of channels on cable TV were about to be dwarfed by millions of Web pages. The mass media that was able to send one message to an entire planet all at the same time and had defined a shared American experience for more than a half century was about to be replaced by communication technology that would blend the telephone with the television and the postal service and the printing press to form a decentralized network of news and information that would allow every – or everyone with a computer and Internet access – to talk to everyone else all at the same time.
The online news audience doesn’t spend an average of 35 minutes every day because they need another glowing box. News organizations that aren’t committed to giving their audience something fundamentally different should quit throwing money at their Web site and start re-investing in legacy media.
They didn’t come all the way out here to watch TV. Stop giving them a news product. Let them visit news experience. They’ll pay for that.
How to Report for New Media
http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=reportingforonlinespring2009-1233605909423729-3&stripped_title=reporting-for-new-media-in-six-easy-steps
Links Referenced in This Lecture:
- Slide 3
- Slide 5
- Sworn Statements by Abu Ghraib Detainees (washingtonpost.com)
- The Fact Checker: Romney and Abortion (washingtonpost.com)
- Slide 7
- Bluffton Today
- Live Online With Bob Kaiser (washingtonpost.com)
- Wiki Scanner (wired.com)
- GasBuddy.com
- #ch-snow (Twitter.com)
- Ushahidi.com
- Veep-O-Matic (washingtonpost.com)
- Consumer Consequences (American Public Media)
- Slide 10
- MarketWatch.com
- War in Iraq (washingtonpost.com)
- Times Topics (NYTimes.com)
- Slide 14
- Breaking News Blog (L.A. Times)
- iReport of Va. Tech Shooting (CNN)
Additional Resources
How to Report a News Story Online (Online Journalism Review)
A Guide to ‘Crowdsourcing’ (Knight Citizen News Network)
Multimedia Storytelling (Knight Digital Media Center)
MP3 Audio of the Lecture
It’s a Battle of Style, Not Media
With the new Pew report out this week, a lot of people are wondering this: Is there “evidence in the survey that what the internet did to newspapers may soon happen to television”?
First, the Internet didn’t do anything to newspapers that the 1970s didn’t do more effectively.
Second, these aren’t the right questions to ask.
‘Think Romanesko When He Was 20′
Collegerag.net is a site launched yesterday by two UNC-Chapel Hill journalism students, Sara Gregory and Andrew Dunn.
