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Journalism

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on November 16, 2009 at 2:43:09 pm
 

+ -- should be assigned reading

(+) -- should be in uinteresting links

(Mark the articles as you see fit.)

Articles/Links related to journalism:

http://codybrown.name/2009/10/25/a-public-can-talk-to-itself-why-the-future-of-news-is-actually-pretty-clear/  + This is a very cool article that I think we should use as one of our reading assignments.  I think this guy is onto something - he's got a very clear grasp of what journalism has done in the past and what he believes it will do in the future.  

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c944smrxC64 + (or show during class?) I watched this video, where they interview this Associated Press executive guy, and kind of giggled.  I can think of a million ways why this guy's approach to the change in traditional media is fundamentally flawed, most of which center around the rise of citizen journalism as opposed to centralized news networks.  the executive guy they're interviewing looks extremely uncomfortable, and he has reason to be - the AP is being rendered obsolete.  I think this guy's focus on technology rather than people is completely off the mark.  Idea: we could maybe have a video or article like this that showcases how painful it is for lots of traditional media people to transition into the new media universe, and have the class come up with things that the people in the video/article are doing right, things they're doing wrong, maybe ask the class if they were running the AP, how they would make the transition...etc.

 

http://www.slate.com/id/2223381/pagenum/all/  (+) This is specifically about music journalism, and it's not entirely related to new media, but it's a quick read that touches on how the way we hear about music, and the way we listen to music in the first place, is changing due to emerging media, and thus, music journalism is being hit hard.

 

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010550.html + A blog entry about our old buddy Clay Shirky and his views on the changing face of journalism.  Not the best-written piece, and certainly not the fastest read, but there are some good bits of info in here. 

 

http://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/2007/05/wsj_a_future_fo.html  Andy Kessler talks about busting pipes.  He's an unwilling participant being dragged kicking and screaming into the new-media age, but this article is an interesting read nonetheless.

 

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/26/whats-black-and-white-and-red-all-over-top-newspaper-circulation-numbers/  (+) This was from an Andrew Keen tweet.

 

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/times-says-it-will-cut-100-newsroom-jobs/ New York times is cutting more jobs.

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200904u/media-insiders Atlantic article about how the Internet has hurt journalism and newspapers.

 

The above article is a really good one, and brings up an important point: journalists serve as watchdogs, most importantly in the realm of local politics.  Local politics is a very boring, convoluted thing - if people aren't paid to do it, and aren't held to a code of ethics when doing it, who will police the legislators?  Here's another article that explores that topic:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/monroe-price/journalism-bailout-bill-t_b_154779.html

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-debate-over-online-ne_b_185309.html Another Huffington Post bit that's kind of long but hits the nail on the head: journalism must evolve or die.  Evolve how?   We don't know yet.  We don't know the implications of not having traditional media around, so we can't say whether it's a good or bad thing that it's dying.  And since internet journalists aren't making any money, we can't say how we're going to make a living in the field.  I  think we should definitely address this in the presentation: journalism is important, the changes in the industry are inevitable, the industry is flying blind but must keep going, we don't have a choice.

 

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/columnists_news/article/COLL09_20091108-214607/304525/ A Richmond Times article about how journalism is suffering along with newspapers, and also how in changing to a more electronic form of news some of apsects of good journalism will be lost. Try to ignore the huge picture of the author's face. I find it very annoying.

 

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_surowiecki_on_the_turning_point_for_social_media.html James Surowiecki: When social media became news

 

http://www.ireport.com/  Here's the site I was telling you all about a couple of weeks ago -- A host site for citizen journalism. Perhaps it would be an interesting assignment to have the class participate by either completing their own iReports, commenting on others, etc.

 

Interesting questions to ponder:

  • How has the decline of newspapers affected journalism?
  • How has citizen journalism changed the news structure?
  • What needs to change about journalism for it to adapt to a more electronic form? - What are existing journalistic channels doing to adapt to the transformation of journalism?
  • In what ways has journalism been a watchdog to politics and high society?

 

Homework:

http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a52/caeliumspecto/?action=view&current=NewsBasicsGraphic.jpg

Here's a graphic I made to explain the basics of news writing. It's a variation on what's called the "inverted pyramid," which is used to illustrate how important details come before less important details.

I suggest we have them turn a scene in a movie--any movie--into a news article between 300-500 words.

-- Laura-Jane

 

Group Members:

Brian Rusnak

Zeena Alkurdi

Laura Mann

Laura-Jane Cunningham

Anika Forsyth-Smith

Alison K

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