Most newsrooms have utterly narcissistic Twitter accounts. The worst offenders (which unfortunately is the majority) use services like Twitterfeed to automatically tweet links to the newspaper’s own content. Here’s our RSS feed on Twitter! Don’t get enough of our content on our site or through RSS? Now get it on Twitter, too!
Some newsrooms are slightly [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jay Rosen’
Newsrooms Can Grow Twitter Followers By Using Twitter For Link Journalism
October 30th, 2008 |
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Will Algorithms Make Human Editors Obsolete? Not If Journalists Collaborate
October 9th, 2008 |
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Will algorithms replace human editors on the web? It’s a bogeyman question on one level, but ask any news site about the percentage of traffic they get from search engines — and what the trend looks like — and you’ll realize that algorithms are increasingly deciding what we pay attention to, what is important, what [...]
The New AP
October 8th, 2008 |
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Matt Thompson and Jeff Jarvis have been doing some important thinking on how news coverage needs to change in the Internet Age. They argue that a flow of shallow, time-dependent stories no longer works as a foundation for helping readers understand the world.
Thompson started a blog devoted to exploring an alternative. He writes in the [...]
Spinewatch: Can Link Journalism Change How the Media Covers the Presidential Election Campaign?
September 15th, 2008 |
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Jay Rosen of PressThink has started a meme called “spinewatch,” which he’s pursuing on Twitter with the #spinewatch tag and on the Publish2 Spinewatch Newsgroup that he created, where he offers this description:
Spinewatch is a newsgroup and link bank for campaign 2008 stories of a certain narrowly-defined type. Here, we keep track of reporting from [...]
How Newsrooms Throw Away Value By Not Linking To Sources On The Web
August 8th, 2008 |
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A lot of research can go into a piece of reporting, and in print the value of that research can only be passed on through brief quotes or references. But on the web, no longer limited by finite column inches, newsrooms can create huge value for readers by providing links to the source material that [...]
Connecting The Dots Of The Web Revolution
June 18th, 2008 |
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For several days my brain has been connecting the blogstorm over AP trying to dictate how much of their content can be quoted on the web with the “quote” that Nick Carr lifted from one of my blog posts in his Atlantic article — I finally figured out why. The problem with the AP isn’t [...]