What happened in the world of online journalism in 2007? CyberJournalist.net released its top 10 stories of the year. The news and resource site founded in 2000 in the US has focused on how the internet, convergence and new technologies are changing the media. It said that the trend of citizen journalism and user-generatied content stories overwhelmingly dominating the top 10 was not surprising.
Top 10 Stories of CyberJournalist.net in 2007
(1) New York Times launches user-generated features
The New York Times has launched its first regular user-generated content features. In March, The Times launched a Share and View Photo Gallery on its Collectible Cars site that allows members to post photos and personal stories of their collectible cars and rate and post comments to other members’ collectible car submissions. The Times announced that couples who submit announcements to the Weddings/Celebrations pages of The New York Times will be able to submit their own How We Met homemade videos to NYTimes.com/weddings.
(2) 2007 Online Journalism Awards
– Finalists New York, (September 11, 2007) – Finalists for the 8th annual Online Journalism Awards, honoring excellence in digital journalism, have been announced by the Online News Association and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A total of 70 finalists ranging from small independent sites to some of the biggest brands in online news were selected from more than 700 entries. The finalists were chosen by a team of distinguished journalists during a two-day event on the USC campus September 7 and 8. Winners in each of the 20 categories will be announced at the OJA Banquet during the 8th annual conference of the Online News Association (ONA), October 18 at the Sheraton Centre, Toronto. “The range of finalists this year demonstrates the remarkable diversity in online journalism and the ever-growing number of sites producing first-rate content,” said ONA President Kinsey Wilson. “From established brands, to small community start-ups, we’re seeing great work at every level.”
(3) Citizen Journalism: From Pamphlet to Blog
Cambridge Community Television hosted a 3-month documentary production course that resulted in this short documentary on Citizen Journalism. The 15-minute documentary Citizen Journalism: From Pamphlet to Blog is a guide to US citizen journalism through the ages - from Thomas Paine in the 18th century to the more modern hows and whys of being an anti-establishment news hound. The film features interviews with talking heads from the blogging world - including Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices - discussing, among other things, how newspapers have gone through major cost-cutting exercises as their revenues are leeched by sites like Craigslist.
(4) CNN to launch user-generated video show on-air
CNN will launch a new program built on user-generated video on Headline News on May 19. The BBC is among the other networks with similar programs. PRESS RELEASE — News To Me, the first cable news program comprised of user-generated video, will debut on Headline News on Saturday, May 19, at 12:30 p.m., it was announced today by Ken Jautz, executive vice president, CNN Worldwide. The program, hosted by award-winning actor/producer Eric Lanford, will showcase the most compelling videos, pictures and stories traversing the Internet. The program will air on Headline News each Saturday and Sunday at 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. (all times Eastern)…
(5) AP partners with citizen journalism site
The Associated Press has partnered with a citizen journalism site, NowPublic.com, to integrate user-generated content into the wires. AP bureaus will work with NowPublic communities in selected locations on ways to enhance regional news coverage, and national AP news desks also may tap the network in breaking news situations where citizen contributors may capture critical information and images. PRESS RELEASE AP and NowPublic.com announce a collaboration The Associated Press and NowPublic.com announced Friday that they have agreed to an innovative initiative designed to bring citizen content into AP newsgathering, and to explore ways to involve NowPublic’s on-the-ground network of news contributors in AP's breaking news coverage. NowPublic.com, based in Vancouver, is the world’s largest participatory news network with more than 60,000 contributors from 140 countries. The AP is the world’s largest newsgathering organization with a staff of more than 4,000 employees located in more than 240 bureaus in 97 countries.
(6) Guardian to become 24/7 Web-firtst newspaper
Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, told the staff of his newspaper that now “all journalists work for the digital platform” and that they should regard “its demands as preeminent," according to Jeff Jarvis. Jarvis passes on, via Juan Antonio Giner, the Guardian's draft principles of working 24/7: DRAFT PRINCIPLES OF 24/7 WORKING The Guardian is increasingly becoming a global news provider with an international audience and reputation. Web users expect to read about news as it happens. If we don’t update our site continuously readers will go elsewhere...
(7) Eyewitness video of Virginia Tech shootings
CNN.com's I-Report posted video sent in of the shootings at Virginia Tech that killed at least 30 people. The site also posted user photos from the scene. Roanoke.com also posted video from Virginia Tech's campus, collected by Martin Arvebro and Carl Nordin, two Swedish students who were visiting Virginia Tech's campus. The site also has a guestbook for the victims.
(8) Sneak peaks at USAToday.com design
Here are previews of the radical new design USAToday.com is going to unveil this weekend. The new home page: Note the heavy emphasis on user comments, voting on stories and blogs. Users will have profiles that'll be highlighted in the top right; a readers comment will be featured in the masthead. Users can recommend stories Digg-style, and then sort the top headlines by what users vote on. On Deadline blog: USA Today is going to feature its successful On Deadline breaking news blog right on the home page. Feeds: The site incorporates feeds from other news sites -- including competitors -- right on its section pages. Sites like Yahoo have done this for a while, but it's rarer for news sites to do so with direct competitors. Personal Pages: The site will give users their own personal pages, where they can list interests, add their USATODAY.com buddies and display their activity on the site, such as comments they've posted and photos they've uploaded. Tags: Keywords in stories will be linked to topics pages with more stories on the subject.
(9) Sulzberger: “I don’t care if we’re printing Times in 5 years”
"I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either," New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger said at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, last week. Some more interesting quotes/paraphrases from Sulzberger at Davos: Sulzberger says the New York Times is on a journey that will conclude the day the company decides to stop printing the paper. That will mark the end of the transition. It's a long journey, and there will be bumps on the road, says the man at the driving wheel, but he doesn't see a black void ahead. The New York Times recently merged its print and online news desks. Did it go smoothly, or were there ruffled feathers? Which team is leading the way today? "You know what a newspaper's news desk is like? It's like the emergency room at a hospital, or an office in the military. Both organizations are very goal-oriented, and both are very hard to change," Sulzberger says. Once change begins, it happens quickly, so the transition was difficult, he says. "But once the journalists grasped the concept, they flipped and embraced it, and supported the move." That included veteran managers, too.
(10) Washington Post issues blog guidelines "A group led by Outlook Editor John Pomfret and involving editors and reporters from the newsroom and wpni has drafted guidelines for blogging on washingtonpost.com," says an internal memo obtained by FishbowlDC: This memo describes guidelines for our newsroom for creating, maintaining (and ending) blogs. Blogs, like all content on washingtonpost.com, are published under the supervision of editors at wpni. This primer aims to help reporters and editors at the newspaper decide when, how and whether to launch a blog. All blogs should draw on our principles for Washington Post journalism on the web, including meeting our standards of accuracy and fairness and rules for expressing personal opinions.
What works?
• A news column/opinion blog with two or a single contributor. Examples: Raw Fisher, White House Watch.
• A breaking news or event-driven blog that can accept many contributors but should generally be supervised by one editor. Example: The Trail.
• A blog oriented around a relatively defined issue with two or a single contributor. Example: soccerinsider.
• Blogs with voice, a consistently strong (even provocative) writing tone. Example: Achenblog.
• Blogs with active editors. Guidance is important and all blogs need editing and benefit from the back-and-forth between the author and an editor.
What doesn’t work?
• Group blogs that lack focus.
• Blogs that lack voice.
• Blogs that are not updated (several times a week AT LEAST).
• Grab-bag blogs that are a dumping ground for notes that will not mak
Sunday, January 6, 2008
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