journalism 2.0
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The first lecture for the Digital Journalism Workshop at Ithaca CollegeTRANSCRIPT
Journalism 2.0Digital Journalism Workshop
Effective learning
digitaljournalismic.com
read, learn, comment
create your own
delicious.com/vadikunc
good old e-mail
Interesting times
What have you heard about news industry?
TechCrunch.com
Technorati.com
www.poynter.org/medianews (Romenesko)
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/
Current trends
News is becoming a service
What journalists must supply?
News story is never finished (updates)
No media monopoly
Several Web news sources
Every story becomes a Web site Project for Excellence in Journalism
Current trends
Journalists provide “tools” that help users utilize information
List of Web links
Contacts
Maps
Pictures
Project for Excellence in Journalism
Current trends
Experiments and innovations (that is where you come in)
Current trends
Less and less people read newspapers
BUT more and more people consume news
Traditional and new media sources
70 percent of Americans use the Internet for news
Current trends
Percent of Population Ever Going Online
Project for Excellence in Journalism
Going online
Newspapers and information
supply and demand
Internet
consumers empowered
Going online
Most of newspapers’ expenses have nothing to do with news or editorial content
It is MUCH CHEAPER to produce news online
Enormous opportunities for journalists
Means to survive
Jeff Jarvis (www.buzzmachine.co)
customers are in charge
people are getting together online
mass market is dead and replaced by mass of niches
conversation is the key
from scarcity to abundance
networks
Blogs, blogs, blogs
Wiki journalism
Collaboration between journalists and audience
Community involvement
Dialogs and discussions
Getting news ideas
A news story is never finished
Mobile web
Bringing Internet into the real world
3G network (faster)
iPhone, BlackBerry, Google Phone (always with you)
Produce and publish multimedia content anywhere
Consume multimedia content anywhere
QR codes
Bar Codes did not really take off (maybe wrong time)
QR Codes have a great potential
New forms of media
Semantic web
Completely new meaning of the information online
New level of data analysis
New level of news reporting
The Web is PERSONAL
PERSONAL WEB
It is all about YOU
Customizable news
Segmentation of (loyal) audience
My NY Times
iGoogle
Web 3D
Broadband Internet Access and Net-Neutrality
Faster data transmission
Second Life
Google Earth
Web 3D
Image by Jason-Morrison
Social media
“Three in four U.S. online adults now use social tools to connect with each other compared with just 56% in 2007.”
•Forester Research Image by Matt Hamm
Social media
Going global
The Web is global
China
Africa
Asia
Image by fLeMmA
Going global
"The fact that more than three-quarters of the traffic to Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft is now coming from outside of the U.S. is indicative of what a truly global medium the Internet has become."
• Bob Ivins, managing director of comScore Europe
Going global
Fourteen of the top 25 U.S. Web sites enjoy a large international audience
more visitors outside of the U.S.
FUTURE reporting means GLOBAL reporting
But it also means going hyperlocal (huh?)
Hyperlocal reporting
From community to neighborhood
Relevant news
Smaller audience
GEOTAGGING
Mobile GPS
mobile devices (PDAs)
Location, Location, Location
Relevant information and news