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J200: Journalism and Mass Media Week 2

Welcome….

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Objectives for the week

Wednesday – 3 Sept. Questions about online tools? Must use SFSU e-mail address End-of-class question(s):

Today’s date: 3 Sept. 2003 Your name Your question(s) ABOUT TODAY’S ABOUT TODAY’S

LECTURE OR SOMETHING IN THE LECTURE OR SOMETHING IN THE READINGS READINGS

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Free desk & chairFree desk & chair

- Must be picked up tomorrow (Thursday) btwn noon and 1 p.m.

- Pick up at 1483 Sutter btwn Franklin and Gough

- First come, first serve

- Call me at 415-775-2530 or 505-577-6482 if you want it.

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The Jayson Blair CaseThe Jayson Blair Case

Who was Jayson Blair, the man? How long did he work at the

NYTimes? What triggered the NYT

investigation into Blair’s work? How did The Times conduct its

investigation of Blair?

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Had he worked at any other newspapers?

What did he do that the NYT found to be so onerous?

What is a dateline and what is the NYT policy on how they should be used?

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Why is the Jayson Blair case important and to whom is it important?

How would you – as the editor -- have handled the situation? What if you were the publisher?

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What was the final outcome for NYTimes management?

Did the NYT’s handle the situation appropriately

Infosphere title

Infosphere: How the Digital Age influences journalism

J. T. Johnson

Professor of Journalism

San Francisco State Universityt o m @ j t j o h n s o n . c o m©J.T.Johnson 1999-2003

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Objectives:

Intro. new model - at least for journalism - to give some conceptual shape to the changes wrought by Digital Revolution

Suggest 2 or 3 major facets of that change Need much critique from you or…

“Just how crazy is this guy anyway?”

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The New Infosphere extends the Old

Most canons of journalism stand fast (Though there are some new issues for ethics and law)

The challenge today is not the old, but the addition of the new

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Journalists, et al., in Infosphere

Changing Infosphere:

MetabolismEnergy

Species in Biosphere:

DataIn Analysis Info

Out

Latent

In OutEnergy

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Basic Information Theory =Process of Journalism

Data In

InfoOut

InterviewsText docsClipsPicturesInfographics

AnalysisThis is a headline DATELINE -- And the traditional text story starts here and goes on and on and on.

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Communications Revolution?

1st Era =

2nd Era = Symbols Print Paper Ink Writing

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“100% de la Población SufreProblemas de Salud Mental”

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Challenge of Digital Revolution

100% de la Poblacion SufreProblemas de Salud Mental

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Communications Revolution?

1st Era =

2nd Era = Symbols Print Paper Ink Writing

3rd Era = 101010101101010101000100101

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I-o-P vs.. Digital Environment

Traditional Data In Interviews Text docs Clips Pictures Infographics

100% of story

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I-o-P vs. Digital Environment

Digital DATA IN Interviews Text docs Scholarly articles Archival content Pictures Infographics Sound/Video Dynamic maps Database publshg

Ink-on-paper = <50% of storyDigital data = >50% of story

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Changing Infosphere

As storage medium changes from I-o-P to 1's and 0's…

...we need functional technology between the data/info and our brain.

Requires new awareness/skills for RRAW-P (Research, Reporting, Analysis, Writing- Packaging model)

Adopt new literacy to survive as old-style hunters-and-gathers and new era interpreters and explainers.

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Classic Jour. Info Environment

I-o-P storage, analysis and communication

Linear intake of data as TEXT Primitive analytic tools Only literary skills needed and highly

regarded 100% of our work qualitative -- text

or static images

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I-o-P storage, analysis and communication

Linear intake of data as TEXT Primitive analytic tools Only literary skills needed and highly regarded 100% of our work was qualitative: text or

static images

Journalism: The second refuge of the

mathematically phobic!

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I-o-P storage, analysis and communication Linear intake of data as TEXT Primitive analytic tools Only literary skills needed and highly

regarded 100% of our work qualitative -- text or

static images Throw away total work product every 24

hours

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Major Changes for Industry/Academy

Data/information in digital form: requires new tools, skills, delivery methods

Network TV news dead; Newspapers are comatose

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Major Changes for Industry

Become data/information driven in decision-making

Get out of the newsPAPER or broadcasting business; get into NEWS biz

Deliver content however consumers want it whenever and wherever they want it

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Data Warehouse

AudioReporter’s DAT“Amateur”News Agencies

Online

Video

Reporter’s DAT“Amateur”News Agencies

Data Warehouse

Database Publishing - Data In

Print Text Images Infographics

Dynamic dbDynamic mapsStreaming A/V

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Database Publishing-Info Out

Data Warehouse

Audio

PDA

Video

Data Warehouse

Print

TBA

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Major Changes for Media Industry

Become data/information driven in decision-making

Get out of the newsPAPER or broadcasting business; get into NEWS biz

Deliver content however consumers want it

Develop team approach in newsroom and across company

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Move away from assembly line cost analysis to “frontloading” of production process

Embrace “all the time” education

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Understand/leverage quadra-helix of news, transactions, community and individual

Stop throwing away work product. Reuse/repackage/reposition content

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Major Changes for Media Production

“Data In” is qualitative AND quantitative

“Info Out” must be qualitative and quantitative

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Major Changes for Infosphere Newsroom Journalists must be able to work like

good social scientists and good poets

Literally put information specialists (aka: librarians) in center of space and process

Implement team -- conceptual or skills -- approach

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Changes for communication scholarship Perception, observation and

manipulation of 1s and 0s equivalent to atomic theory or quantum mechanics

Meaning, usage and context open to new forms of analysis

Theories of communications can become experiments can become “technology”

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...1s and 0s, we can ...1s and 0s, we can track them through track them through infor-mation infor-mation systems like systems like minerals in a minerals in a watershedwatershed

Atoms to bits and bytes

As symbols flow from I-o-P characters to... 11001010

10100101 01010010 01001101 01001010 10100101 00100011 01010110

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Dynamic Infosphere models: hydrology

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Dynamic Infosphere Models: Epidemiology

Figure 4. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome cases in the Four Corners region, by probable exposure site location, 1993–1995 (n = 53 cases and 52 exposure sites).

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Dynamic Infosphere Models: Crime Analysis

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Dynamic Infosphere models: Chemical Eng.

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Significance for Journalism

Best and brightest NOT going into traditional media

Write for multi-media. Will come to think as much

about "metadata" as potential headlines;

editors=database mgrs

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Significance for Journalism

Learn to think in multiple dimensions: depth of sourcing, raw data, dynamic "data"

Need greater analytic skills, e.g. quantification, mapping

Greater degrees of specialization in newsroom (GA reporter may be a dying intellectual breed in 5-10 years. Declining status?)

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End-of-class question(s):

Today’s date: 3 Sept. 2003 Your name Your question(s) ABOUT ABOUT

TODAY’S LECTURE OR TODAY’S LECTURE OR SOMETHING IN THE READINGSSOMETHING IN THE READINGS

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