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Am I a science journalist? | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
I know I fall somewhere on that spectrum. Am I a journalist? Honestly, I care less about the answer than I once did. I am not being blase – I care very deeply about journalism, but there are few things more boring than journalists arguing over what counts as journalism. We live in a world full of stories, about amazing people doing amazing things and terrible people doing terrible things. I will use every medium I can to tell those stories. I will try to tell them accurately so people aren’t misled. I will try to tell them well so people will listen. If people want to argue about what to call that, that’s fine for them.
blogging  journalism  writing 
june 2011 by vielmetti
Rising water, falling journalism | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Failure of the fourth estate. Newspapers and websites all over the country have reported on the flooding and fire at Fort Calhoun, but most articles simply paraphrase and regurgitate information from the NRC and OPPD press releases, which aggregators and bloggers then, in turn, simply cut and paste. Even the Omaha World-Herald didn't send local reporters to cover the story; instead, the newspaper published an article on the recent fire written by Associated Press reporters -- based in Atlanta and Washington.
journalism  nuclear  reporting 
june 2011 by vielmetti
Muckraking: A Disappearing Form Of Journalism? - SVW
As the journalist profession continues to suffer in the train wreck of the media industry, the amount of muckraking appears to be diminishing as quickly as the number of journalists.
journalism  muckraking 
march 2011 by vielmetti
From Judith Miller to Julian Assange » Pressthink
Everything a journalist learns that he cannot tell the public alienates him from the public.
history  journalism  media  wikileaks  alienation 
march 2011 by vielmetti
Mother Jones web traffic up 400+ percent, partly thanks to explainers » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
But Mother Jones also attributes the traffic explosion to a new kind of news content: its series of explainers detailing and unpacking the complexities of the situations in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, and Wisconsin. We wrote about MoJo’s Egypt explainer in January, pointing out the feature’s particular ability to accommodate disparate levels of reader background knowledge; that format, Adam Weinstein, a MoJo copy editor and blogger, told me, has become the standard one for the mag’s explainers. “It was a great resource for the reader, but it also helped us to focus our coverage,” Weinstein notes. “When something momentous happens, it can be hard for a small staff to focus their energies, I think. And this was an ideal way to do that.”
explainer  analysis  journalism 
march 2011 by vielmetti
Journalists angry over the commission of journalism - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Declaring the statements of an American political leader to be a lie is one of the most rigidly enforced taboos in American journalism.  That this hallmark of real journalism is strictly prohibited -- "It's not our role," explained the Meet the Press host -- tells one all there is to know about the function which most establishment journalists fulfill.
balance  egypt  ethics  journalism 
february 2011 by vielmetti
robcurley.com
My name is Rob Curley. I'm an Internet nerd from Kansas who is in love with local news and the evolution of traditional media.
rob-curley  journalism 
january 2011 by vielmetti
Butzel Long | Lawyers & Professionals | Robin Luce Herrmann
Ms. Herrmann concentrates her practice in the areas of media law, particularly defamation and access issues; civil rights; and commercial litigation, including RICO.  She has also been a contributing author to the Supplements to Rights and Liabilities of Publishers, Broadcasters, and Reporters, (Shepard’s/McGraw Hill), and has been active in the ABA’s Media Law Committee.  Ms. Hermann also served on the board of the Michigan Freedom of Information Committee and serves on the Michigan Bar Journal’s Advisory Board. For the past several years Ms. Herrmann has been an adjunct professor at Oakland University teaching “The Law of The Press” to journalism majors.
foia  michigan  journalism  media-law  the-law-of-the-press 
january 2011 by vielmetti
Unsung hero | Politics | The Guardian
On the stand, Walker described the expense system he oversaw and why the public had no right to see what was going on in his little fiefdom. He gave some excellent quotes as he was questioned by the lawyers:

"MPs should be allowed to carry on their duties free from interference ..."

"Public confidence is not the overriding concern per se ..."

"Transparency will damage democracy."
government  journalism  media  uk  foia  follow-the-money 
december 2010 by vielmetti
So long, ReportingOn | Invisible Inkling
Actually, keep this in mind: Unless what you’re building meets a very journalism-specific need, you’re probably grinding your gears to build something “for journalists” when they just need a great communication tool, independent of any particular niche or category of users.
apps  apps-we-dont-need  journalism 
december 2010 by vielmetti
Thorstein Veblen, Prescient on Today's Media - Boing Boing
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiments of his readers and then tell them what they like to believe. By this means he maintains or increases the circulation. His second duty is to see that nothing is said in the news items or editorials which may discountenance any claims or announcements made by his advertisers, discredit their standing or good faith, or expose any weakness or deception in any business venture that is or may become a valuable advertiser. By this means he increases the advertising value of his circulation. The net result is that both the news columns and the editorial columns are commonly meretricious in a high degree.
via:gnat  veblen  media  advertising  editorial  journalism 
december 2010 by vielmetti
FOI FYI » Blog Archive » FOI Friday: A records request reveals thousands of stored body scanner images
Hit the gym b4 the airport RT : Friday: A records request reveals 1000s of stored body scanner images
#FOIA  FOIA  #journalism  journalism  #jour  jour  from twitter_favs
august 2010 by vielmetti
FOI FYI » Blog Archive » FOI Links: The struggles of Wikileaks and Dept. of Defense openness
RT : links of the day - The struggles of and Dept. of Defense openness
#Wikileaks  #FOIA  #journalism  Wikileaks  FOIA  journalism  from twitter
july 2010 by vielmetti
Request #3: Using A Website To Write a FOIA Request « FOIA Geek
: Requesting intelligence bulletins from the National Drug Intelligence Center
#FOIA  #journalism  #ire  #drugwar  #media  FOIA  journalism  ire  drugwar  media  from twitter_favs
june 2010 by vielmetti
John Nack on Adobe: Adobe is "sabotaging" HTML5??
I'm angry and depressed about the total ignorance/laziness of online "journalists" and the sheer credulity of their readers. For God's sake, guys, do the most rudimentary due diligence before you start defaming people who've devoted their entire careers to the advancement of standards. Have enough respect for your profession to take the impact of your words seriously.
we-need-a-better-press-corps  adobe  html5  journalism 
february 2010 by vielmetti
Society of Professional Journalists: SDX Awards
The awards recognize the best in professional journalism in categories covering print, radio, television, newsletters, art/graphics, online and research. The contest is open to any U.S. media outlet. Entries must have been published or broadcast during the 2009 calendar year. Winners will be announced in spring 2010 and honored during the 2010 SPJ Convention & National Journalism Conference, October 3-5 in Las Vegas.
spj  journalism  award  sdx 
february 2010 by vielmetti
Naomi Wolf: Defense Department Turns Down My FOIA Request for Mohamed Al Hanashi's Autopsy Report
I am turning over my FOIA request to another reporter and laying down the task. Heartier souls than I can go here. But I invite lawyers familiar with the FOIA process to comment -- and I invite other journalists, and the citizens who depend upon their access to documents that may be embarrassing or even more problematic for a sitting administration -- to consider: are these the narratives whereby a true democracy -- rather than a secretive, unaccountable, heavy-handed State of another kind -- chillingly redefines the act of journalism?
foia  dod  journalism  always-appeal-a-foia-denial 
february 2010 by vielmetti
Correction - NashuaTelegraph.com
A story on Page 1 of Tuesday’s Telegraph quoted a White House official explaining that a Q-and-A session with dozens of teenagers in Nashua High School North on Monday was “off the record.” However, the explanation about the talk being “off the record” was, it turns out, also “off the record” and should not have been quoted.
we-need-a-better-white-house-press-corps  journalism  corrections 
february 2010 by vielmetti
On Language - Crash Blossoms - NYTimes.com
For years, there was no good name for these double-take headlines. Last August, however, one emerged in the Testy Copy Editors online discussion forum. Mike O’Connell, an American editor based in Sapporo, Japan, spotted the headline “Violinist Linked to JAL Crash Blossoms” and wondered, “What’s a crash blossom?” (The article, from the newspaper Japan Today, described the successful musical career of Diana Yukawa, whose father died in a 1985 Japan Airlines plane crash.) Another participant in the forum, Dan Bloom, suggested that “crash blossoms” could be used as a label for such infelicitous headlines that encourage alternate readings, and news of the neologism quickly spread.
journalism  crash-blossoms  wordie  infelicitous-headlines 
february 2010 by vielmetti
Center for Independent Media: Four lessons from a nonprofit that raised $11.5 million in four short years » Nieman Journalism Lab
RT Thinking about launching a startup news site? Lessons from a nonprofit that raised $11.5 million in 4 years

Times aren’t perfect: CIM went through a round of layoffs at the end of 2008, and editors were warned this month that there would be additional cutbacks on the horizon. Bennahum points out that despite the cutbacks he’s been able to keep all his sites up and running. The Independent sites in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico have two to five reporters and editors each. In Washington, the team included eight reporters and editors until I left (my old job is still open).
journalism  nonprofit  from twitter_favs
february 2010 by vielmetti
Build a better journalism career by shifting your focus from writing stories to creating assets
I knew there was a reason to work on wiki
via:taryn  journalism 
february 2010 by vielmetti
MediaShift Idea Lab . Saving Journalism, One Idea at a Time | PBS
We've become accustomed to a media world dominated by monopolies and oligopolies. So we -- and especially the paid journalists who remain in the craft -- tend to imagine that just a few big institutions will rise from the sad rubble of the journalism business.

That's not where it's going, at least not anytime soon. We're heading into an incredibly messy but also wonderful period of innovation and experimentation that combines technology and people and pushes great and outlandish ideas into the real world. The result will a huge number of failures but also a large number of successes.
advertising  business  journalism  future  newspapers  gillmor  media 
july 2009 by vielmetti
Facts dog Cleveland newspaper defender - The Future of Journalism - Open Salon
This blog is going to ask for your indulgence. It is frankly obsessed with the 15-minute video at Cleveland.com that both Katharine and I wrote about yesterday. We're thinking of changing the name of this blog to the How Crazy Was That Cleveland Plain Dealer Video? Blog.

It's just such a stunning example of newspaper-industry hubris and cluelessness. True confession: I'm writing about it for the second time, and I still haven't made it past the 10-minute mark, where Cleveland Plain Dealer "reader representative" Ted Diadiun refers to bloggers as "a bunch of pipsqueaks."
cleveland  cleveland-plain-dealer  blogging  journalism  diadiun  ted  we-need-a-better-press-corps  a-bunch-of-pipsqueaks  diadiun_ted 
july 2009 by vielmetti
Rupert Murdoch reporters in the UK illegally hacked thousands of peoples' data - Boing Boing
British journalists working for Murdoch papers have been on a crime spree, hiring private eyes to illegally hack into the voicemail and data of thousands of people, including " tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills"; Murdoch has paid out over £1M so far to hush it up. The head of the Conservative party's communications is a former Murdoch exec who from the time that much of this crime was committed by his staffers.
journalism  ethics  murdoch  rupert  rupe  hush-money  dont-get-me-started-about-ethics 
july 2009 by vielmetti
Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable.
politics  internet  journalism  newspaper  hyper-fricking-local  the-late-age-of-print 
july 2009 by vielmetti
The Death of Print | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
Relying on an advertiser-supported business model is archaic, not to mention dangerous. If it is to survive, the print industry needs to revisit the era when they answered to the reader. When they fought to bring down crooked politicians instead of fighting to clutch onto advertisers. As we can all see now, the advertisers were never loyal companions anyway.
journalism  advertising  print  the-late-age-of-print  newspapers  adbusters 
july 2009 by vielmetti
From Skepticism to Citizen Journalism via a Tea Party « Emerging Technologies Librarian
I learned to mistrust the US popular press several years ago. A friend of mine is positioned high enough in the military to have a sense of the big picture and low enough to have a sense of what is going on in the lives of the “grunts”. It is an interesting point of view, and I have found little tidbits that cropped up in conversation to sometimes be wildly different from what was reported by our media. I learned to use the online resources and search engines available to access news media reports from around the world, and have also found that the richest information often comes not from the big name feeds but from the small town local press where the events unfolded. It is a natural extension of this to take a serious look at citizen journalism, the shift toward reporting major events and news from the viewpoint of the common person.
a2b3  journalism  small-town  local  citizenjournalism  hyper-fricking-local 
july 2009 by vielmetti
Palin attorney warns press on 'defamatory material' - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com
“Just as power abhors a vacuum, modern journalism apparently abhors any type of due diligence and fact checking before scurrilous allegations are repeated as fact,” the Anchorage attorney wrote.
journalism  fact-checking  the-burden-of-diligence  scurrilous-allegations  we-need-a-better-press-corps 
july 2009 by vielmetti
Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com
Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable.
politics  internet  media  journalism  newspapers  print  the-late-age-of-print 
july 2009 by vielmetti
freefromeditors: Crain's Bill Shea has pointed give-and-take with another journalist
Found this column by Crain's blogger Bill Shea on some Michigan Citizen charges against the Detroit Free Press and its coverage of soon-to-be former Detroit Councilperson Monica Conyers.

The story is one thing, but the comments back and forth between Bill and the subject of his story is also good reading.
shea  bill  conyers  monica  journalism  newspaper  comments  this-is-what-newspaper-comments-are-for 
july 2009 by vielmetti
Washington Post sells access, $25,000+ - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, non-confrontational access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."
politics  economics  journalism  newspapers  we-need-a-better-press-corps  wapo 
july 2009 by vielmetti
Save journalism? Beats us, panel says - Patrick Gavin - POLITICO.com
“At any given moment, there is a panel taking place somewhere in the world discussing the future of journalism,” Aspen Institute president and longtime journalist Walter Isaacson said at the end of Tuesday night’s panel discussion titled, “What’s the News Worth to You?”
journalism  future  but-what-about-the-past-of-journalism 
july 2009 by vielmetti
20 Visualizations to Understand Crime | FlowingData
While a lot of this crime data is kept confidential to respect people's privacy, there's still plenty of publicly available records. Here we take a look at twenty visualization examples that explore this data.
crime  datamining  visualization  journalism  infographics 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Mediactive » What Pays for Newspaper Journalism? Not the “Cover Price”
Cowell doesn’t mention that the advertising is the most important part of the financial equation in paying for journalism, not the cover price. It has been so for as long as he’s been a journalist. The word “Advertise” appears three times on this Web page (and “Advertisements” once), but not in Cowell’s column.
newspaper  journalism  advertising  money-its-a-gas 
june 2009 by vielmetti
A Newsroom Organization - The Next Newsroom Project
would rather the journalists who work for me walk the dog and talk to their neighbors or hit their neighborhood coffee house, or head straight to court/city hall to see what's happening rather than come in and cruise the wires and local newspapers.
The great thing is technology allows us to have a virtual meeting online. Arm journalists with laptops, webcams and phones and call the editorial meeting wherever and whenever they are. Too long have journalists been removed from the people they serve. (If not in reality, at least in the minds and attitudes of our community members.)
media  journalism  newspapers 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Reuters Editors » Blog Archive » Rethinking rights, accreditation, and journalism itself in the age of Twitter | Blogs |
But the point, I hope, is clear.
The old means of control don’t work.
The old categories don’t work.
The old ways of thinking won’t work.
We all need to come to terms with that.

Fundamentally, the old media won’t control news dissemination in the future. And organisations can’t control access using old forms of accreditation any more.
twitter  future  journalism  reuters  olympics  news 
june 2009 by vielmetti
The Local vs. Localism: Hyperlocal Media Wars | Notorious R.O.B. - Conversations on Marketing, Technology, Real Estate
Localism ain’t it, unless it undergoes a total transformation of focus away from trying to sell real estate. The Local ain’t it, unless it too undergoes a transformation and embraces the community on which it is reporting — and in fact, actually does some, you know, reporting. The answer may be in social media, like MaplewoodOnline and Baristanet, as more and more journalists leave the newspaper business (by choice or not) and end up having to learn whole new skills in web-based, local, community-powered media.
localism  hyperlocal  hyper-fricking-local  news  journalism  community  media 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Newspapers started small, cheap and with different standards | Howard Owens
For more than a decade, we expected to build online news organizations that could support a super structure of the modern newspaper newsroom -- with the all the reporters and editors and big story packages (look at all the emphasis we put on big Flash multimedia productions) and that we could keep doing journalism just the way we always did it.

While we bemoaned shovelware (taking the same exact print story and repurposing it for the Web), we took little time to really examine what might might be different about online publishing that should change the way news is gathered and presented.
newspapers  history  journalism  future  the-past-didnt-go-anywhere 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Doug Feaver - Listening to the Dot-Comments - washingtonpost.com
I am writing in defense of the anonymous, unmoderated, often appallingly inaccurate, sometimes profane, frequently off point and occasionally racist reader comments that washingtonpost.com allows to be published at the end of articles and blogs.
journalism  newspaper  troll  comments 
june 2009 by vielmetti
How Mathew Ingram Manages a News Site That Gets 5,000 Comments a Day
"I've also seen a noticeable change in tone in comments and other interactive forums, like Coveritlive.com. As soon as someone from the paper steps in and makes a comment, the whole tone changes. If you just give people a blank wall and a spray paint can, you get a predictable outcome. But as soon as anyone says we should stick to the topic or knock off the personal attacks, it has a noticeable effect.
newspaper  comments  howto  moderation  journalism 
june 2009 by vielmetti
First Draft: Nobody Knows What To Do
ps. I got kind of annoyed at the end of the thing, because I keep going to these things expecting them to be the Throw The Thieving Bastards in Prison Panel, the You Killed Newspapers On Purpose You Fuckers Symposium, a shame-the-greedy-corporate-assholes party that never really materializes. I think maybe I'm gonna have to host that panel some day, preferably out back of a tavern, with some feathers and a nice hot barrel of tar.
media  chicago  journalism 
june 2009 by vielmetti
firstamendmentcenter.org: Press Freedom of Information - topic
These issues raise thorny problems for public-access advocates who say that at least some public officials are using electronic communication to evade the strictures of open-meetings laws. “It is a growing problem, and it is a problem which many states and municipalities are only beginning to think about in any systemic way,” says Charles N. Davis, executive director of the Freedom of Information Center at the University of Missouri.

“There are many instances out there where public officials are using personal e-mail for public business, mixing and mingling their e-mails with private and public business and using three-way and four-way e-mail conversations to hold quasi-public meetings,” Davis said.
journalism  open-meetings-act  email 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Gawker - Dave Eggers Reassures Us That Print Lives, Via Email - Dave Eggers
We believe that if you use the hell out of the medium, if you give investigative journalism space, if you give photojournalists space, if you give graphic artists and cartoonists space— if you really truly give readers an experience that can't be duplicated on the web— then they will spend $1 for a copy. And that $1 per copy, plus the revenue from some (but not all that many) ads, will keep the enterprise afloat.
books  writing  journalism  newspapers  mcsweeneys  eggers  dave  a-buck-an-issue 
june 2009 by vielmetti
FOIA information -- chicagotribune.com
good howto to manage FOIA requests in Illinois; many suggestions are relevant anywhere, though some of the details of the FOIA law vary from state to state
howto  chicago  journalism  tools  foia  government 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Social media success doesn’t start with ROI
“What’s the ROI of your receptionist? What’s the ROI of your parking? What’s the ROI of the paint on the walls? What’s the ROI of the landscapers,” said Scott as he continued on his ‘I hate the ROI-obsessed business culture’ rant. “The idea that everything has to come back to a measurable ROI is ludicrous. ”
socialmedia  research  journalism  roi  le-roi-cest-moi  metrics 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Paper Tiger No More: Guest thoughts from SI's Richard Deitsch on Wednesday's AnnArbor.com forum
If I’m Champion, Dearing, Kraner or any of the suits speaking at these forums, I’m getting on the phone tomorrow with Gary Graca, the paper’s top editor and a sharp kid, and figuring out a creative way where both entities can benefit from each other financially and editorially.
annarbor  journalism  annarborcom 
june 2009 by vielmetti
What to expect from the new TucsonCitizen.com
design and business model notes for the new citizen-powered Gannett property in Tucson AZ
journalism  tucscon  arizona  via:joegermuska 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Metro Times - News+Views: Why Di?
News hits spent last week over at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice taking in the trial of Diane Bukowski, a freelance reporter for the Michigan Citizen arrested last November after she allegedly crossed a police line to take photos of a double-fatal motorcycle accident.
michigan-citizen  bukowski  diane  journalism  justice  michigan  detroit  wayne-county 
may 2009 by vielmetti
U-M names Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Fellows program has named eight international journalists for 2008-2009 in addition to the 12 national journalists selected in April.

While on leave from regular duties, Knight-Wallace Fellows pursue custom-designed sabbatical studies and attend special, twice-weekly seminars at Wallace House, a gift from CBS newsman Mike Wallace and his wife Mary.
journalism  fellowship  wallace  mike  wallace  mary  knight-wallace  mills  joanna 
january 2009 by vielmetti
Exclusive: Why Reuters Left Second Life, And How Linden Lab Can Fix It
I can add details: For a year and a half, I reported under the byline "Eric Reuters" in Second Life, before settling in at my new home here at SAI.

So what happened? Is Second Life dying? No, but the buzz is gone. For all the sound and fury over recent price hikes and layoffs at Linden Lab, Second Life has a community of fanatically loyal users. Since Linden Lab derives its revenue from user fees, not advertisements, Second Life is much more likely to survive the Web 2.0 shakeout than most other startups.
reuters  krangel  eric  secondlife  lindenlabs  virtualworlds  journalism 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Crain's Blogs: Mary Kramer - Crain's Detroit Business
Yes, I know. Times change. And already, I read 3 papers online: The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times.
But I still like print. There is one thing that you can't get from reading a publication online -- even our own Crain's. It's serendipity.
journalism  serendipity  hint:you-are-doing-it-wrong 
december 2008 by vielmetti
squareONE explorations » Blog Archive » OBSERVING THE OBSERVER - NOT!
Community newspapers can really raise a high velocity and high volume ruckus. The key point here is that–what I’ll term–the community consciousness model is itself the product of local journalists really having a stake in the community, of their direct engagement, and subjectivity rather than objectivity. This is contrasted with The Plain Dealer’s stake being quite different, more professional, more detached, and resulting in ‘just another story’ at a scale oriented toward a wide readership as opposed to a local, (or micro,) readership.
community  journalism  ruckus  havoc  activism  community-consciousness  cleveland 
december 2008 by vielmetti
The New News
Two new local internet news sites – the Ypsilanti Citizen and the Ann Arbor Chronicle – are proving that you don't have to order paper by the ton and ink by the barrel to give a community its news. The Chronicle and the Citizen, free of that cumbersome paper and ink, represent a nimble new breed of journalism that's fresh, timely and intensely local.
michigan  annarbor  ypsilanti  local  news  journalism 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Gerald Ford Library in Ann Arbor Hosts National Press Club Forum on Journalism's Future
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club, the world's leading professional organization for journalists, is teaming up with the Gerald Ford Library to look at where the news business is going and how to protect its core values.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO)

The Dec. 3 event, The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of Journalism, will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the library, 1000 Beal Ave. in Ann Arbor. It is free and open to the public.

Speaking on the panel will be:

Jonathan Wolman, editor and publisher of the Detroit News;

Omari Gardner, news editor/digital media at the Detroit Free Press;

Marla Drutz, vice president and general manager WDIV-TV in Detroit; and

Vincent Duffy, news director, Michigan Public Radio.
journalism  old-media  new-media  annarbor  michigan  national-press-club 
november 2008 by vielmetti
A Mobile Voice: The Use of Mobile Phones in Citizen Media ...
In this report we explore the dynamics of the role of mobile phones in enhancing access to and creating information and citizen-produced media. We explore trends in the use of mobile telephony with a focus on software and platforms that make content creation and broadcasting easier. We also present an inventory of current and potential uses of
mobile phones to promote citizen media and freedom of information, and present short case studies of examples--all from the MobileActive.org community.
nptech  community  media  news  journalism  mobile  research  survey  embedded-microcorrespondent 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Nieman Watchdog > Showcase > Local papers find their inner watchdogs
So what exactly do I do? I am Paper Girl. I collect very simple and basic public documents from cities, special districts, schools, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (we have San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station here) and nonprofits - stuff like contracts, tax returns, audits, expense reports, financial disclosure forms, inspection reports - and I write a story about what I find five or six days a week.
reporting  paper  local  hyperlocal  watchdog  journalism  via:dangillmor 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web - (37signals)
unchanged for more than ten years; doesn't look like anything else; isn't the homogenized, professionalized, every site looks the same blenderfu that is the rest of the news world.
news  drudge  journalism  design  style 
november 2008 by vielmetti
USATODAY.com - Will Albom's woes taint journalism?
In a column April 3, Albom described two former Michigan State basketball players, both now in the NBA, attending an NCAA Final Four semifinal game on Saturday. The players told Albom they planned to attend, and Albom, filing Friday before the game, wrote as if the players were there, including that they wore Michigan State green. But the players' plans changed and they never attended.
albom  mitch  journalism  subjunctivision 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Deuzeblog: The People Formerly Known as the Employers
So what we see happening in the context of todays new media ecology and the emerging global creative economy is power slowly but surely slipping away from those who we rely on for our entertainment (ex.: the recent writers' and actor's labor disputes in Canada and the US), our advertising (ex.: the widely reported power shift occuring in agencies from creative towards account managers, media planners, and digital consultants), and - perhaps most disturbingly, our news.
business  future  journalism  employment  outsourcing  globalization  we-are-all-carl-bernstein-now 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Spinspotter
Spin doesn't belong in the news. It's like putting motor oil in the mojito. We have tremendous respect for journalists, but who would argue that the media circus isn't out of control? A full 66% of Americans think the press is one-sided. Now there's a website and software tool that exposes news spin and bias, misuse of sources, and suspect factual support. At SpinSpotter, you'll experience the news in a profound new way. Yes, the truth is back in town.
internet  politics  journalism  pr  the-toxic-black-mold-called-public-relations  spin  counterspin 
september 2008 by vielmetti
America's Most Dangerous Librarians
They looked like they had walked off a film set, the two men standing at the door of the Library Connection in Windsor, Connecticut, as they flashed fbi badges and asked to speak to the boss. Director George Christian courteously shepherded them into the office. By the hum of the Xerox machine, one agent explained to Christian that the bureau was demanding "any and all subscriber information, billing information and access logs of any person or entity" that had used computers between 4 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. on February 15, 2005, in any of the 27 libraries whose computer systems were managed by the Library Connection, a nonprofit co-op of library databases. He handed Christian a document called a national security letter (nsl); it said the information was being sought "to protect against international terrorism."
library  libraries  librarians  librarianship  journalism  librarian  patriotact  censorship  fbi  superpatron 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Democracy Now! | Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
ST. PAUL, MN—Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her. Video of her arrest can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were being unlawfuly detained. They are Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Kouddous and Salazar were arrested while they carried out their journalistic duties in covering street demonstrations at the Republican National Convention. Goodman’s crime appears to have been defending her colleagues and the freedom of the press.
security  media  journalism  minnesota  youtube  democracy-now  goodman  amy 
september 2008 by vielmetti
silver in sf: introduction to media studies, fall 2008
i worked hard and creatively on the syllabus. the class is organized around five topics: words, images, sound, consumption, and digital. i got rid of the textbook and went with more online readings than before. with advice from andrew goodwin, i'm assigning my first novel in years: orwell's 1984. i'm also assigning two short papers, two group show-and-tells, and one final paper. and i banned drinking from non-reusable containers in the classroom.
media  syllabus  journalism  via:hrheingold  academic  academia  newmedia  teaching  syllabi  all-media-all-the-time  party-like-its-1984 
august 2008 by vielmetti
DigitalStorytelling | Google Groups
syllabus for a digital journalism class
syllabus  journalism  via:hrheingold 
august 2008 by vielmetti
The Electronic Telegraph
The Evening Telegraph project has been on the go for a number of years. The original idea which was to reprint the 16 June 1904 edition of the Dublin Evening Telegraph had to be abandoned when we discovered the condition of the surviving originals. It was then decided to investigate recreating the paper using computer based typographic and graphic software.
dublin  joyce  james  party-like-its-1904  telegraph  newspaper  journalism 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Cyberstar -- Adrian Holovaty is as red-hot as a techie can get. His EveryBlock.com tells you all about your neighborhood-including who's taking bribes.
nice article about Adrian Holovaty, Django, and hyperlocal journalism
everyblock  chicago  chicago-crime  django  holovaty  adrian  hyperlocal  journalism 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Voice in the Wilderness
Today, Gannon's online county news service, the Rappahannock Voice, which launched in October 2006, gets about 3,500 unique visitors each month – in a county that only has a population of about 7,200. It provides coverage of "issues that are of real concern here," Gannon says, like property taxes, land use and zoning issues. Most of the site's content is Gannon's own, the product of his attending meetings and keeping an eye on the small-town economy, but he also taps community volunteers for commentary and local sports coverage.
community  media  journalism  wordpress  diy  online  newspapers  virginia  rappahannock 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Notice What You Notice
"It's basically an inverted D-major seventh chord, composed of a D, then a high C sharp and ending with a low F sharp," explained Wes Chappell, a Fret Mill clerk and musician who identified Old Gabriel's notes at a reporter's request. "At the very end it slides down to an A-major chord."

Asked for his artistic interpretation, Chappell offered: "It starts out a little hopeful, then it gets a little dissonant, as if it's reminding you of something — like, to get up and go to work."
writing  journalism  quotes  music  norfolk  railroad  whistle 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Center for Citizen Media: Blog » Blog Archive » ABC Has Major Questions to Answer in Anthrax Story
ABC News’ behavior during and after one of its biggest “scoops” is already an object lesson of what’s wrong with American journalism. The news organization’s has proved unwilling — so far, at any rate — to come clean about how it was manipulated in the 2001 (and later) investigation into the anthrax terrorism investigation.
media  journalism  abc  anthrax  terrorism  party-like-its-2001  lies-damn-lies-and-journalism 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Arbor Update
community news blog/forum run by an autonomous collective; mostly informed and informative dialog of issues of the day around town.
community  community_indicators  annarbor  michigan  journalism  citizen-media  blog  all-politics-is-local 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Video of Jay Rosen talking about "thousands of reporters on one story"
It's a lot easier to have the concept that your readers know more than you do than it is to actually put that into practice. There is no formula for doing it yet, can't point to someone who uses social network reporting to do their beat every day. In most news rooms, reporters are under a great deal of pressure to produce more than ever.
via:hrheingold  citizenjournalism  rosen  jay  sabew  reporting  socialnetworking  crowdsourcing  presentation  journalism  future  news  social  video 
august 2008 by vielmetti
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The imperatives of the link economy
There is a crying need for advertising infrastructure and networks to help the recipients of links monetize them.
blog  links  internet  journalism  making-money  not-making-money  race-to-the-bottom 
july 2008 by vielmetti
In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog
photoshop used in the production of official state news
journalism  photo  photography  iran  propaganda  how-to-lie-with-pictures 
july 2008 by vielmetti
AP writer rips Obama, gives McCain doughnuts (true story)
"Oh yes, with sprinkles."
ap  journalism  media  obama  politics  mccain  donuts  four-word-news  why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps 
june 2008 by vielmetti
The Press and the Public
Approach 4: the public is the press
This approach avoids established news organizations entirely. The public starts a grassroots journalism effort to provide coverage of issues ignored by the press.
journalism  civic-journalism  hyperlocal  via:griff-wigley 
june 2008 by vielmetti
Deus Ex Malcontent: Say What You Will (Requiem for a TV News Career)
Awhile back I was watching a great documentary on the birth of the punk scene, it closed with former Black Flag frontman and current TV host Henry Rollins saying these words:
punk  journalism  we-need-a-better-news-corps  blog  career  casestudy  conflict  television  i-for-one-welcome-our-new-cnn-overlords 
february 2008 by vielmetti
The Coming Ad Revolution - WSJ.com
The new model creates a more trusted environment for reaching high-value, frequent purchasers, whether of airline tickets, electronics, clothes or other items. Where does that leave the less-frequent purchasers? Probably looking to their friends rather th
ads  advertising  agency  behavioral  facebook  futures  journalism  legal  newspaper  privacy  socialnetwork  targeting  tech  toread  trends  wallstreet  wsj 
february 2008 by vielmetti
Digital Media Leader Named Knight Center Director, Kauffman Professor at ASU
Dan Gillmor, an internationally recognized author and leader in new media and citizen-based journalism, will be the founding director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communic
academia  academic  business  dangillmor  education  journalism  technology  arizona  tempe  phoenix 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Newsmap: Google Maps and Yahoo News Mashup
map shows news aggregated by continent and country and state; default front page africa
africa  aggregator  journalism  mashup  geography  geotagging  neogeography  a2b3  via:srharris 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Al Kamen - FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA - washingtonpost.com
absolutely amazing government at its disaster-finest.
journalism  government  politricks  1984  bush  disaster  fema  fraud  sandiegofire  party-like-its-2005 
october 2007 by vielmetti
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