Bennington-links
QUESTIONS: Where do you get your news? Podcasts?
ETHICS: Ethics advice for journalists: http://www.ethicsadvicelineforjournalists.org/
CHINA CENSORSHIP: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5218083
http://www.alternet.org/rights/32242/ Some examples of unique story telling from Niko Chauls:
Airport screener interactive
http://msnbc.com/modules/airport_security/Screener/
THE FUTURE – an early 2005 vision . . .
THOMPSON MG PROFILE: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=277 SLOAN PROFILE: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=47
n EPIC: Two interns at the Poynter Institute using a Macintosh and Final Cut Pro and one perspective on the future of newspapers: n http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=85631 n Other collaborator: Robin Sloan, now at Al Gore’s CURRENT.TV
n . . . but, Gore can’t get Current carried by major cable carriers: http://journalism-issues.blogspot.com/2005/10/media-future-al-gore-on-tv-and-threat.html We are learning some fascinating lessons about the way decisions are made in the television industry, and it may well be that the public would be well served by some changes in law and policy to stimulate more diversity of viewpoints and a higher regard for the public interest.
n Jeff Gralnick on growth of Internet: PICK UP FROM ARCHIVE DRIVE 43:52 -- Jeff Gralnick – 1997-2005 through 48:28 -- ABCNews.COM 1997 Sept. Diana 5M pageviews 61,000 people tried to watch funeral stream Sept. 2005 NBC – 750M pages in Sept. plus 250M pages in slide shows
THE FUTURE IS CLOSER – Developments in 2006:
Lots more local news sites:
· Placeblogger.com goes live -- with 700 sites and counting Lisa Williams, MGP2006 alum and owner of H2Otown, the community blog for Watertown, Mass., has flipped on the switch at her new initiative -- "Placeblogger." She calls it "the Journalism & Lived Experience of Real Places on the Web." So far she has found over 700 local community blogs in the United States alone. The website includes an "add placeblog" function. It's at http://www.placeblogger.com
· Ken Doctor links to some of the best sites.
· Nation’s No. 2 newspaper chain buys competing blog site -- FresnoFamous
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=305
THE MORPHING OF JOURNALISM:
· Congresspedia – The “wiki” approach to watchdogging government
(Sunlight Labs/Foundation)
· ChicagoCrime.org and Adrian Holovati -- rearranging data. · Jeff Jarvis starts DayLife.com – news from blog sites worldwide · Ethan Zuckerman and GlobalVoicesOnline.org · Jay Rosen starts NewAssignment.net / (seven-minute interview)
(download ahead of time)
· The Knight Bros. 21st Century News Challenge / The idea -- The “VillageSoupCommons” (AUDIO-2.5 mins) -- Newstrust.Net and Fabrice Florin; he explans
William Powers on how news organizations are beginning to segment their delivery platforms: http://nationaljournal.com/powers.htm
OTHER TECH-INSPIRED INNOVATION – Social networking and machine intelligence http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm http://www.feedster.com http://www.technorati.com http://www.truthlaidbear.com http://del.icio.us/ http://del.icio.us/tag/localnewsapalooza?setcount=100 http://www.flickr.com/ and of course: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/ who’s using
SOME OF THE POSSIBLE NEW-GEN PLAYERS:
Mark Jurkowitz, Boston Phoenix on the 10 movers and shakers of the future. http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/multi-page/documents/05025917.asp
NEW ENTRANTS – Social Networking – you know these! Are they in any way journalism?
FaceBook.com -- MySpace.COM – Rupert Murdoch http://www.myspace.com refuses an ad for network neutrality LinkedIn – business network/jobs http://www.linkedin.com WAMC student town meeting: Thursday, 90.3 1 p.m. Albany HS's Student Town Meeting will air this Thursday, February 23rd at 1 p.m. The topic: Are young people using the Internet to create a "brave new cyber-world" of social relationships? http://www.wamcstudenttownmeetings.org/programs.htm Can journalism survive in a 24/7 world? The social world of students
NEW ENTRANTS -- LOCAL
n How are new entrants adding news and information Local news communities: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_343.shtml Barriers now low; used to be high
H2OTOWN: CHRISTOPHER LYDON’S OPEN SOURCE SITE: http://www.radioopensource.org Lydon: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=172 Williams: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=270 http://www.h2otown.info
PLAY THE H2O QUICKTIME: http://raq.fig.com/~lisatmh/photos/video/h2otown/h2otown.ram
PLAY OPEN SOURCE INTERVIEW WITH LISA WILLIAMS: c:\giraffe\profiles\lisa_williams_open_source_050808.mp3 Play first one minute through six minutes. Pickup at 11:45 and 22:30 (scarcity); 25:58 for http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com skip to 27:20 transition in news coverage
BaristaNet Liz on revenue model at 28:30; Williams on business: 29:52 after I die. Dan Levine 31:20 on business model. 34:06 want to do same thing; 35:05 next train Dearborn, Michigan; Bluffton Today; 42:51 unknown town; 48:33 offline effects.
LIST OF LOCAL BLOG SITES http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_343.shtml
LINKS TO LAWRENCE.COM: http://www.lawrence.com/ http://www.ljworld.com/ http://www2.ljworld.com/news/high_school_sports/ http://www.lawrence.com/restaurants/search/ http://www.lawrence.com/news/music/ http://www.lawrence.com/videos/indie/ multimedia: http://www.lawrence.com/news/2005/oct/17/interview_victor_continental/ play video: http://www.lawrence.com/videos/2005/oct/19/7108/
CONNECTICUT NEWS JUNKIE: http://ctnewsjunkie.com/
RAWSTORY.COM: http://www.rawstory.com
Columbia Journalism Review panel on changing media landscape: LINK on hard drive to mp3 Nov. 5, 2005 Web location: http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/events/hearst/ Panelists: Len Apcar, editor in chief, NYTimes.com; Craig Newmark, founder, craigslist; Andrea Panciera, editor, ProJo.com; Jeff Gralnick, NBC News special consultant; and James Taranto. The discussion was moderated by Professor Sree Sreenivasan, dean of students.
25:09-30:16 – Newmark – actually does fulltime customer service he mentions WikiPedia – SITE ---- Center for Investigative Reporting / Center for Public Integrity Disinformation campaigns
39:24 – Panciera – changing landscape is multidimensional – ProJo.COM 43:52 -- Jeff Gralnick – 1997-2005 -- ABCNews.COM 1997 Sept. Diana 5M pageviews 61,000 people tried to watch funeral stream Sept. 2005 NBC – 750M pages in Sept. plus 250M pages in slide shows
NEW ENTRANTS – Political/policy, just a few examples
Political blog aggregators and voices n PROGRESSIVE: http://www.moveon.org TrueMajorityaction.org http://www.truemajorityaction.org/fun/ CONSERVATIVE: http://www.townhall.com n LIBERAL: http://www.buzzflash.com, http://www.truthout.com CONSERVATIVE: http://www.drudgereport.com , http://www.instapundit.com
Media reform: http://www.freepress.net (Northampton) LIBERAL: http://www.fair.org CONSERVATIVE: http://www.aim.org
POSSIBLE BUSINESS MODELS – Ad support?
n Personalized content – not possible before the net Bill Densmore’s My Yahoo page -- http://my.yahoo.com/ Bill Densmore’s Google News page -- http://news.google.com/
n The blog network – not possible before the net http://www.pajamasmedia.com/ http://www.leftyblogs.com/
n Member-generated content – not possible before the net NewAssignment.net http://www.newassignment.net Newsvine.com http://www.newsvine.com Top10sites.com http://www.toptensites.com Gather.COM – http://www.gather.com (Minnesota Public Radio) WikiNews --- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page (wikiasari search) dKosopedia -- http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Main_Page SourceWatch -- http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch:About Craigs List -- http://www.craigslist.com/ About.COM – NYTimes owns – http://www.about.com
Volunteer-powered / political
n Collaborative networks (volunteers) / bypassing MSM http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=116 OPEN SOURCE: http://civicspacelabs.org/home/about Dean/Rosen/LotusNotes
Foundation/member supported -- the cobbled-together bypass network
n Democracy Now! – Pacifica Foundation http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=212 Today’s show: http://www.democracynow.org/streampage.pl
ISSUE – IS IT TRUSTWORTHY?
When the gates are open, who can you trust?
Throughout the 20th century, the ability to “publish” – to reach a mass market with a unified message – was limited by physical resources – the cost of printing presses and delivery infrastructure . . . or limited broadcast bandwidth – and by time . . . U.S. mail delivery time or daily delivery or a particular time for a newscast.
With the Internet, these restrictions of time and resources are largely gone. And the result is that anybody can be a publisher or “broadcaster”. This produces new challenges:
WIKIPEDIA
· WikiPedia – a remarkable resource – but can it be trusted? http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/print_profile.php?id=206
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_351.shtml
Jimmy Wales interview jump page: http://newshare.typepad.com/mediagiraffe/2005/12/audio_wikipedia.html
ANONYMOUS SOURCING
A good example of the problem of verification on the net. This is an issue that has to come to head in some way.
At 09:36 AM 2/13/2006 -0500, you wrote:
Bill, This was passed on to me today... any truth to this stuff?
In a message dated 12/30/2005 8:16:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Thoennes4 writes:
Thought you might be interested in this forgotten bit of
information..........
It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration.
There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning!
He was being drilled by a senator; "Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?"
Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir."
The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't that just a little excessive?"
"No, sir," continued Ollie.
"No? And why not?" the senator asked.
"Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir."
"Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned. "By a terrorist, sir" Ollie ans! wered.
"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"
"His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied.
At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued. Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked.
"Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie answered.
"And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.
"Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."
The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.
By the way, that senator was Al Gore!
Also:
Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called "political prisoners."
However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands, The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released.
Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified. It was censored in the US from all later reports.
If you agree that the American public should be made aware of this fact,pass this on.
This has not been broken since 9/11/01, please keep it going...
This has been kept alive and moving since 9/11. In memory of all those who perished this morning; the passengers and the pilots on the United Air and AA flights, the workers in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and all the innocent bystanders. Our prayers go out to the friends and families of the deceased.
Send this to at least 10 people to show your support.
PLEASE DON'T BREAK IT!!!!!!
ARE THESE ACCOUNTS TRUE? ANSWERS:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/ollienorth-osama.htm
and:
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_article=363&x_context=7
ONE SOLUTION? ----- NEWSTRUST
· http://www.newstrust.net/mission.htm · http://conference.newstrust.net bdg1
ANOTHER – GRADE THE NEWS
· http://www.gradethenews.org -- in trouble
ISSUE – WHO WILL PAY FOR IT?
-- Outing – it’s time to pay up? http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=91256 -- 1:03:01 – Len Apcar – New York Times customers will pay?
“Everybody’s watching.” End 1:06:38
TimesSelect Surpasses 270,000 Subscribers in Less Than Two Months
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051109005479&newsLang=en
-- Clickshare – one account, one ID, purchase anywhere – UMass has stock http://www.bugmenot.com/
-- IDEA: The non-profit newspaper http://journalism-issues.blogspot.com/2005/11/business-model-non-profit-newspaper.html
n What is the effect of all this?
-- A return to pamphleteers (Sims)?
-- On politics – Trippi on 2008 – 19:18 -- status quo 20:23
-- On politics – Dukakis speech at 20:27 – 21:40
-- Feisty dialog or comfortable cocoons? CBS’ Andy Heyward http://mediagiraffe.blogspot.com/2005/11/feisty-dialog-or-comfortable-cocoons.html C:\Documents and Settings\Bill Densmore\Desktop\AUDIO-VIDEO TO WATCH\we_media_we_inc_100505.mp3 starts at 2:40 – 4:06 (speaker: Andrew Heyward, CBS news president – feisty dialog.
Other resources:
McNeil Newshour on citizen journalism: http://journalism-issues.blogspot.com/2005/11/audio-pbs-newshour-story-about-citizen.html
On Nov. 2, 2005, Columbia’s graduate journalism school held a seminar with a panel of new-media leaders:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/media/05/394_MediaLandscape/
Andrea Panciera, who runs the Providence Journal website quoted UMass-Amherst and Collegian alum Teresa Hanafin, now editor of Boston.COM: (from Teresa Hanafin, UMass ‘76/Collegian, via ProJo’s Andrea Panciera: at 2:03:33
Future Shock for Journalists
1. Expect rapid and constant change 2. Stay a student – always keep learning 3. Be open to everything that’s new – not just in journalism 4. Learn how to juggle effectively – multitasking not effective – FOCUS 5. Realize that news is a business and you are part of that, too 6. Explore alternative ways of telling and sharing stories 7. Listen and respond to your audience 8. Find ways to manager the 24/7 world instead of letting it manage you 9. Keep your standards high – easy to slip when deadlined and new 10. Let passion fill you but not burn you out – life’s more than work
Will consumers engage in feisty dialog or retire to cocoons of comfortable opinion as a result of new information technology? That's the question posed by Andrew Hayward, president of CBS News. Hayward was part of an Oct. 5, 2005, panel at the "We Media: Behold the Power of Us," conference at The Associated Press headquarters in New York City. And Hayward says its the central issue journalism must face. The conference was organized by The Media Center, the think-tank arm of the newspaper publisher-sponsored American Press Institute. His comments were made generally. Here is Hayward verbatim, as transcribed from the MP3 download of the the panel he was on: "We're at the very early stages of development in the democracy that could go one of several ways. At its best, the disaggregation of content, the lowering of barriers of entry to news, and information and opinion providers are in fact a very good thing that could recreate the kind of feisty dialog that the Founding Fathers had in mind when they created the town meeting model for our democracy. " . . . [A]t its worst you will have an atomized world in which people only have access to, or only choose access to, the news and opinions that they're interested in, and you'll have a completely splintered society where even though the information is available, for those who are actively willing to seek it, to learn about public affairs, most people will live in a comfortable cocoon of their own self-reinforced opinions and it's going to be even harder to reach consensus on the issues of the day. "And I think we have to grapple with those contradictions and discuss them rather than, recycling what frankly to me were fairly familiar criticisms. It's doesn't mean they are not valid. They're familiar because they've been around for a long time. But i think looking ahead is a lot trickier than looking in the rear-view mirror." SOURCE: MP3 of panel at "We Media": http://www.mediacenter.org/wemedia05/the_program.html http://www.mediacenter.org/wemedia05/audio/we_media_we_inc_100505.mp3 The history of newspapers, 1953-1980: http://www.h-net.org/~business/bhcweb/publications/BEHprint/v024n1/p0022-p0026.pdf From jack Shafer column: http://www.slate.com/id/2134918/
WHAT SHOULD NEWSPAPERS DO? http://newshare.typepad.com/newshare/2006/01/newspapers_must.html
THE HOURGLASS AND THE CYLINDER: http://www.newshare.com/pnpa/speech.html
Jimmy wales profile: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=206
Lessig: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=183
