The Orange County Register is right now looking to fill 40 open positions.
Yes. Really.
Journalism jobs!
The History of News in Five Minutes
We sat down with NYU Journalism and Mass Communication Prof. Mitchell Stephens to talk about the news — why we share it, how we’ve shared it, and what it is today.
We’ve come full circle, he says, from marketplace conversations being a main news source in agrarian and preliterate societies to today’s personal newsfeeds and amateur-led sharing. We relied on each other to share news before large organizations and reporters packaged it for us, and we are beginning to rely on each other again with the internet. We are freer now to make the news about our lives than ever before and that, he says, is mostly a good thing.
For more information, see his books A History of News and The Rise of the Image the Fall of the Word. We’ll upload more of what he had to say over the next few weeks.
Makes one wonder what the next five minutes will sound like…
After Reddit users stepped up to cover the shooting in Aurora last week, their skill has prompted a discussion about their role in breaking news and more broadly, on citizen journalism.
This is a fair question as Reddit definitely breaks most of the news these days.
via markcoatney:
A really nice podcast from Sarah Marshall at Journalism.co.uk about using Tumblr.
FJP: Mark Coatney started Newsweek on Tumblr and was later hired by Tumblr itself, as their media outreach director.
In this podcast we hear from Coatney and we find out how NME, which launched a Tumblr blog a year ago, and The Times, which a month ago started an “experimental” Tumblr blog to showcase picks from its opinion columnists, are using Tumblr. Tumblr and the two titles share their seven tips for news outlets tempted to try a Tumblr blog.
Bonus: Some of FJP’s past posts about Tumblr.
The Associated Press has updated its social media guidelines with a change which clarifies that its journalists are allowed to tweet breaking news even if a story is not yet on the wire.
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The AP Plans to Use Robotic Cameras for Olympic Coverage
The Associated Press isn’t just sending photographers, photo editors and video journalists to the Olympics. They’re also booting up the robots.
Via the AP:
Remote-controlled robotic cameras at the swimming, weightlifting and diving venues will provide alternative angles, including under water, to supplement AP’s regular photo coverage. In addition to a selection of hand-placed remote cameras at a several other venues, such as those for gymnastics, track and field, AP photographers will use the latest Canon 1DX cameras and take advantage of new workflows and technology to move more photos faster than ever before.
Being the remote operator would be a fun gig. — Michael
This is fine. But, I still firmly believe that robots shouldn’t compete in the Olympics. That would be unfair to the humans.
Infographic: How Social Media is Replacing Traditional Journalism for Breaking News
via Bill Moyers:
As of 2012, online news revenue has surpassed print news revenue, and more people are using social media tools like Facebook and Twitter for news than ever before. This infographic shows that nearly half of all Americans get their news from online sources at least three times a week. Learn more about how social media is supplanting traditional media in today’s smart chart.
H/T: Schools.com
Infographics!
Zite, the personalized magazine app creator that CNN purchased last summer has had a busy couple of days.
Last week they announced the release of an Android version of their app. This week they announce that they’ve created a publisher’s program with eight partners including Fox Sports, The Daily Beast, the Huffington Post and, of course, CNN.
The program integrates the publisher’s content into a dedicated section within the Zite app with the goal of first exposing readers to that content, and then — because the user likes the publishers’ content so much — getting them to download the publishers’ native apps.
Conversion, of course, is a tricky game to play and hard to succeed at but it is an important step for a company that was sent a cease and desist letter by publishers almost immediately after it first launched the product last year.
The model also differs from Next Issue Media’s “Netflix for Magazines” app that we highlighted yesterday, where publishers are bundling their content together under an all you can read buffet for $10 to $15 per month.
Perhaps its in their DNA. Zite considers itself a discovery engine rather than a personalized magazine news aggregator. In announcing the publishing program, they write:
Zite is uniquely positioned to innovate on distribution with publishers because of how Zite works. At our core, we are a discovery engine: a place where users can go to find interesting articles that are personalized to a user’s particular needs/wants. One of the most common compliments we receive from our users is: “Wow, I find stuff on Zite that I couldn’t have found anywhere else.”
Zite’s goal isn’t to be the only place you go to read news. Much like a search engine, we just want to be your starting point. On a person’s iPad, for example, we expect that a user will use Zite and a number of publisher applications that they read cover to cover. Zite gives you a taste, but you need to go the publisher for their full experience.
So, two days, two different models on how publishers are coming together on tablets and mobile devices. We look forward to watching where this leads, and seeing what new innovations others are coming up with.
We’re psyched to be a part of this. Check out the app!
This is probably not the last we’ll hear about this.
NYU releases list of ‘100 Outstanding Journalists’
Tomorrow night NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute will have a party for its 100th birthday — a chummy affair to be sure. But you can already feel the feel-goodness on their website, thanks to a new faculty inked list containing their picks for the best journalists of the last 100 years.
Who’s on it? Plenty of favorites, TV personalities and a few authors. They released a list of 300 nominees, too.
H/T: Poynter
Some pretty great names on here.
Forbes worked with Bitly to suss out where Americans get their news state by state.
Mapped above are the favorites.
Jon Bruner explains how the data was collected here.
H/T: Flowing Data.
Very cool.
