Posts tagged Poynter
Initial Reactions from #PoynterEthics
We’re hoping Jihii will write a thought provoking analysis of what she heard, saw and talked about at today’s Poynter symposium on journalism ethics in the digital age.
Meantime, she wrote a note to us this afternoon.
We added some starstruck purples and pinks and blueish hues to it because yes, she is this excited about this stuff.
Get Your Journo Ethics On
The Poynter Institute is running a symposium today in New York on journalism ethics in the digital age. The cast of characters they’ve gathered is impressive.
To follow along: #PoynterEthics is the general hashtag and you can watch the livestream (and follow a Storify) at poynter.org.
Jihii is posting at @the_FJP. Roberto doing the same in Spanish at @FJP_LatAm.
TEDx Poynter Livestream
The Poynter Institute is running a TEDx event today with a livestream available online. We missed the morning events but this afternoon’s run as follows:
Session 2: Curation
- 1:05 p.m. “In Praise of the Humble, Misunderstood Hashtag” — Sree Sreenivasan
- 1:30 p.m. “The Challenging Transition from Journalism to Entrepreneurship” — Burt Herman
- 1:55 p.m. “Real-time Curation in Storytelling” — Michelle Royal
Session 3: Engagement
- 2:30 p.m. “@TampaBayTraffic: Connecting a Community Around a Shared Complaint” — Meredyth Censullo
- 2:55 p.m. “Do I Really Need to Learn How to Program?” — Lisa Williams
- 3:20 p.m. “Addicted to the Like: Ratings and Readership are the Old Metrics” — Elissa Nauful
The livestream is here. If following on Twitter, use the #tedxpoynter hash tag.
What’s the Future of Journalism Education?
Related to our last post, I’m sharing this message from Poynter:
Roger Ailes, the Fox News chairman and CEO, in a speech at the University of North Carolina recently, told journalism students they should change their major. “If you’re going into journalism if you care, then you’re going into the wrong profession … I usually ask (journalists) if they want to change the world in the way it wants to be changed,” Ailes said.
Tom Huang, Poynter adjunct faculty member, has a slightly different take: “Actually, you should go into journalism if you want to save the world. My point is that you don’t get to choose the time that you’re called upon to be brave and do your best work. Don’t forget: A time of crisis and change is a time of incredible opportunity,” he wrote for Poynter.org.
What’s your take on this? Whether you are a student, educator or professional, we would like to know what you think about the value of a journalism degree. Poynter’s Howard Finberg, who has been thinking about the future of journalism and journalism education for years, will be giving a talk at the European Journalism Centre on the future of journalism education, and he hopes you’ll fill out a very short [four to five questions only] survey. He’ll share what he learns at AEJMC this summer as well.
FJP: NewsU will give you a 35 percent discount code to any of their Webinars or Webinar Replays for doing so. Feel free to share your thoughts with us too! (@the_fjp)
Super Pacs and Politics, the Spending is Ferocious…
A music video to explain super PAC ads via Propublica.
More: Poynter has the behind-the-scenes on the video. For a more serious explanation of super PACs (though this one is just perfect), we tumbled about it a few weeks ago.
Romenesko Leaves Poynter
Maybe we should just resign ourselves that today is a day of resignation. We’ve talked Steve Jobs, we’ve talked Slate layoffs but now’s the time to talk Jim Romenesko.
For years now he’s curated the news about the news at his eponymous blog at Poynter.org. Literally, the man is a machine. And his curation Fu has been going on for far longer than the rest of us have curated our particular interests.
Via the New York Times:
Mr. Romenesko was a pioneer of a form of online journalism that is now commonplace. Sites like Gawker and Dealbreaker would become popular years later using similar models.
He identified the hunger for niche news, and connected his readers through an online community in which they could debate and comment on the story of the day. And if they had an internal memo they wanted to leak him, all the better. He would post it and guarantee anonymity. His last name became a verb that editors hoped they would never find themselves on the other end of — as in, “You just got Romenesko’d.” That typically meant one of their memos had leaked on his site.
From time to time, this space will serve to mock and highlight the ridiculousness that are lifestyles pieces. After a while, you’ll see that newspapers are just telling us what we already know.
Is the Internet generation making disposable data obsolete?
According to Jeff Sonderdam, social layers are the future of social media information. That is, there are more ways for people to use the social media already in place for even more meta purposes such as visualizing your career with Connection Timeline using your LinkedIn profile, Tweetmeme to view trending pages and videos and The Tweeted Times to construct a personalized news product based on the links between you and your friends.
H/T: Poynter
What I Learned at Curation School
Julie Moos filled in for Jim Romenesko at Poynter.org and writes what she’s learned about content curation.
Her takeaway includes ideas any Tumblr should know:
- The balance between the obligatory and the original is critical.
- What you exclude is as important as what you include.
- Speed kills, but slowness is a painful death of its own.
Click through to read her explanations of each.
Correction: Moos alerts us through the Twitter that Steve Myers did most of the filling in during Romenesko’s vacation.
Journalists learn what works (& doesn’t work) on Tumblr
Today we’re going meta with a Tumblr love fest: The Copy Editor writes for Poynter Institute and interviews me, SoupSoup, Producer Matthew, Josh Sternberg and Mark Dodge Medlin:
As more journalists use Tumblr, they’re starting to see how it can help them engage with users and reach new audiences. For insights, I interviewed journalists via email about what’s working (and not working), and highlighted some of their key takeaways.
Thanks for pulling that together.
The year in media as seen through the top 10 Romenesko posts
Via ianhillmedia:
From Poynter.org: As 2010 begins to wind down, we’re looking back at the top 10 Romenesko posts to see what happened this year in media.
Like chocolate and peanut butter, data and journalism naturally go together.
Paul Bradshaw writes at Poynter:
Statistics and numbers in general are nothing new to journalists. When I talk about data I mean information that can be processed by computers.
This is a crucial distinction: It is one thing for a journalist to look at a balance sheet on paper; it is quite another to be able to dig through those figures on a spreadsheet, or to write a programming script to analyse that data, and match it to other sources of information. Computers can also more easily analyse new types of data, such as live data, large amounts of text, user behaviour patterns, and network connections.
And that is potentially transformational. Adding computer processing power to our journalistic arsenal allows us to do more, faster, more accurately, and with others. All of which opens up new opportunities and new dangers. Things are going to change.
Image: Numbers by Luis Argerich via Flickr/Creative Commons.
Sex Sells, So Too Conflict Journalism
“Rachel Maddow’s contention that conflict, not calm reflection, attracts audiences drew little disagreement from a Harvard panel she spoke to Sunday…
“…She said the nuts and bolts journalism of truth telling and reporting facts in context doesn’t work commercially. What does, she said, are comments that can be portrayed as a “clash” or a “smackdown.” She said that her ratings spike when she trashes conservative journalists.
“She called this nothing new. “Exclamation points sell” and always have.”
— Bill Kirtz, Poynter.org
