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Category Archives: New Journalism
@48hrmag: Innovation in Print!
I’m don’t subscribe to themediaisdying, anymore, because it isn’t. It’s changing. But the innovation needed to buoy it isn’t coming from print. For the most part. However, an exception to that sweeping generalization, I offer for your consideration 48 HR Magazine, a sort of collaborative, 48-hour-film festival for a print magazine. Each issue is conceived, [...]
LinkTV Gets Creative with Global Devo
Finally, someone is bringing together open-source web platforms, social-issue media, and $20,000 in prize money.
Check out the LinkTV ViewChange Film Contest, which aims to support videos that raise awareness and inspire action in the effort to eliminate global poverty.
Even Danny Glover is on board (literally, as a member of LinkTV’s board of directors).
Spot.Us goes ad-sponsored. Kind of.
We’ve already gone on record as thinking Spot.Us, the crowdfunding startup that helps freelance, investigative reporters raise money for stories they’d like to work on, then helps them get the stories distributed to press outlets (usually using a creative commons license). Did you see the article on the bay bridge that was A1 on McSweeney’s [...]
Quote of the Day: Magazines Live!
This is just a really well stated, thought out point, from the editor of Vanity Fair, about the value of magazine publishing, and why they will always be good at doing what they do best.
“The reading business is not the same as the search-and-find business, and if you’re in the print version of the latter, [...]
And the Award goes to… everybody with a camera and access
Interesting piece here about the prestigious journalism Polk Award going to an anonymous person who captured a startling video of a student’s death in Iran. I remember how Time magazine’s person of the year last year or year before was “You” with a mirror like effect on the cover, (clever.).. and now awarding boards are [...]
You are not alone
This MOS video from Urgensia fam, Siddharth, on Indians’ pov on piracy is interesting from the standpoint that it confirms that consumers have a very universal view on media piracy. There’s a nice accompanying article/interview as well. What’s also of note, is how piracy helped fuel an IT economy and development in Banglore. I just [...]
Help Me Investigate crowdsources sources
We’ve already talked a lot about Spot.us‘ crowdfunded investigative reports. I recently got hipped to UK startup, Help Me Investigate. HMI, instead, helps journalists find sources/interns to build their stories. , Which is also a neat model. Their founder, Paul Bradshaw, explains it like this:
The key idea behind the site is that it breaks down [...]
The Future of the Newsroom
The Columbia School of Journalism has reported that the California Watch, a nonprofit Investigative Journalism outlet, after losing the lease on their bay area newsroom, decided to fan their reporters out into the wifi-enabled coffeeshops of the state. And, as news outlets become more like aggregators and less like institutional organizations, this is going to [...]
SPJ to Journalists in Haiti “It’s not about you”
The below press release from the Society of Professional Journalists is not just a good message to reporters covering the disaster in Haiti, but a good message to reporters in general. Despite all messages you’ve absorbed about building your professional brand and injecting your personality as you build your freelance portfolio, for the sake of [...]
Grassroots Media Report from Haiti
We have to do our due diligence and get in touch with this org, Cine Institute, if/when things calm down there. Moving coverage, challenging images. Our hearts go out to Haiti. Thank you to basho for submitting this link.
We Slept On Fair Use Day
Well, to be fair, we were busy updating our website, but yes, yesterday was Fair Use Day. It’s less a celebration of Fair Use and more an awareness-building about the limits of Fair Use and how to leverage the rules. NewTeeVee has an awesome list of Fair Use resources for all you budding pundits and [...]
Radiohead Journalism
Spot.us has made a lot of noise in media reports about the state of the media, of late. And if you’re not familiar, it’s a non-profit organization which helps freelance journalists crowd-fund stories and then publishes them under Creative Commons licenses. It’s an interesting model, and certainly something which all future journalists should be considering [...]
2010's Rubick's Cube… New Journalism
We really like what Leonard (Len) Witt is doing in the space of “sustainable journalism” as the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University (phew!), he’s chief blogger at pjnet.org. His interviews with academics and influencers in the space are off the cuff and worth checking out if you’re interested in [...]
Gawker Hates On Lazy Journalists' Use Of Twitter
Among those called out, USA today’s Barbara De Solis gets it the worst.
“[Her] questions have become so predictable that one aggrieved tipster finds them thoroughly “annoying.. Of her last 6 tweets, 5 are open questions to help her research.”
It would appear she’s totally on deadline for a piece on unwelcome sexual advances in hotels…”
SLAM!
The Worlds New Journalists, Straight From The Slums
I’ve been an admirer of Video Volunteers for awhile now, having learned about their global-empowerment-through-media-production initiatives while still at Current. I’ve got to say, though, their new initiative VCU.br, feels pretty next level. In addition to teaching young, aspiring media professionals the basics of digital production and new media storytelling, they’re also teaching them HOW [...]
BBC College of Journalism Goes Public
For the past three years, BBC has offered its employees an online video database of masterclasses in journalism by some of the UK’s most renowned journalists. The archive, which includes thousands of hours of video, teaches basic journalistic skills as well as ethics and values.
The Guardian has more on the story here. I was hoping [...]
If you don't know how to program your own website, you are fucking up the money
I recently caught Mashable’s list of 8 Must-Have Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalists which listed requisite skills I think most in the world of new media storytelling are pretty aware they need – business savvy, multimedia storytelling, blogging skills etc…. All pretty obvious, but number 2 on the list caught my eye as something most wouldn’t [...]
Washington Post dropping coals (not gems) on the "Digital Nomad"
It’s really early on in our blog’s lifespan to be talking sh*t about large publications, especially established ones like the Wash Post… It’s hard not to comment though on this original video they created to accompany a lackluster article on the “Digital Nomad”.
Initially, we were just going to post the article, and comment on how [...]
Link: MediaFail – Digg, for mediawatchers who want to get depressed