Chapter One Flashcards
What is Data Journalism?
Bringing information and data “to life” with interactivity. (The website with the horse race data)
What is Guardian’s Riots Interactive?
Twitter corrects itself very quickly.
What is Creative Disruption?
Caused by the Internet where some companies adapt and others don’t.
Adaptions to the internet include:
- Legacy becoming multimedia
- Regional dailies become weeklies
- Hyper-Localism
- Longer in legacy, shorter in new media
- Online only models
News Outlets need to know:
- Understanding and seeking out change
- Learning about computers/programming
- Being flexible about work
- Understanding the “business” of journalism
- Becoming better with numbers (mounds of data)
- Continuing to be good “storytellers”
Google is a perfect example?
Adapting
Journalistic principles in digital age:
- Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth
- It’s first loyalty is to citizens
- It’s essence is a discipline of verification (fact check)
- Its practitioners must maintain independence from sources
- It must serve and independent monitor of power
- It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise
- It must strive to make significant events interesting and relevant
- It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional
- Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience
New Media Journalism 5 Core beliefs:
- Journalism matters
- Good journalism has always been subsidized
- Internet wrecks advertising subsidy
- Restructuring is a forced move
- There are many opportunities for doing good work in new ways
The good in new media?
Online publications are cheaper and faster to produce and more efficient news delivery.
The bad in new media?
Cost-savings haven’t been transferred into more reporters. Sloppy journalism of reprinting untrue information. Rapid rate of publication encourages journalists to take “short cuts”
Mobile reporting toolkit includes:
smartphone, batteries, SIM cards, personal wifi, multi-skilled reporter)
Google Android’s OS
Is Linux based with two major users of Samsung and HTC. It is cheaper to develop with 1.8 million apps.
Apple iOS
only Apple products, more costly to produce apps with 1.5 apps currently
Social Journalism
hybrid of professional journalism, contributor, and reader content involves a conversation with professionals and the audience
Content Curation
sorting, categorizing, and present info from a wide range of sources that is easy for the audience to understand.
