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When did tech journalism become about scooping product specs?
Why has tech reporting become such tedious product journalism? Why are reporters trying to scoop each other on news that is essentially a spec sheet about a mass-produced product?Why are we reading about products as a news story and not in an ad?When I look at the tech press it is heavily focused on product reporting; about gadgets, features in apps or online services, and details about underlying technologies in software, hardware, and the internet.Product launches, especially by industry heavyweights ...Data journalism: where coders and journos meet
How do you make sense of a growing data pile spit out by the internet? The number of journalists who can analyse and write stories based on this data is still relatively small.At a time when large numbers of journalists are being laid off -- because print newspapers are closing or decreasing the number of editors -- data journalism is becoming a great way to get value out of journalistic work.Newspapers are also exploring it, and data journalism could potentially ...Media corrections and our social reputations
The modern news cycle has been diminished to a matter of minutes -- even less on services like Twitter. And it seems to just keep speeding up.As newsrooms become increasingly hard pressed to produce news content quickly -- very quickly -- they find themselves facing an audience that demands near immediate reporting on events and expects that reporting to be factually correct.But journalists make mistakes too and maybe as a profession it has sold itself into the 'we are relevant ...Sky News, trust your journalists with Twitter
Sky News has come under immense criticism after it was reported that it had banned all employees re-tweeting information provided by rival journalists and the general public. In an email issued to all employees on Tuesday, the news organisation stated that in order to maintain its credibility, new social media guidelines had been put into place.In the policy, journalists are no longer permitted to re-tweet stories which originate outside the organisation, nor are they allowed to comment ...Seven top tips for verifying tweets
Twitter is like the coffee machine in the newsroom. Get a shot of caffeine, chat with colleagues, exchange useful information, but also get the latest gossip and rumours. The difference is that you probably won’t publish what you hear at the coffee machine. Twitter works differently: gossip, rumours, and other unverified information are published and sometimes cause a hoax. A tweet about the suspension of the famous CNN talk show host Piers Morgan over the phone hacking scandal is ...The ‘Golden Age’ of tech blogging is over? I don’t think so
Given that the week between Christmas and New Year's Day is usually very slow in the tech blogging world, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Jeremiah Owyang’s linkbait post about the end of the “Golden Age of Tech Blogging” got its fair share of attention when it came out. My old boss Marshall Kirkpatrick and former TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacy already wrote some pretty good rebuttals of Owyang’s ideas, but I want to add a few thoughts to this ...11 of Memeburn’s most popular articles from 2011
As 2011 draws to a close Memeburn looks back at its most popular articles -- the most tweeted, shared and liked by you, our readers. Here is a chance to go back in time and read your favourite articles again.1. The future of WordPress: Q&A with founder Matt MullenwegMemeburn got the chance to chat to one of the web’s most influential people: WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg. The interview asks questions about the future of WordPress, who the real Matt Mullenweg ...Social media and the evolution of the fourth estate
With the spread of internet access, and of social media use,journalists have had to deal with two identity crises related to their role as the "fourth estate".The first identity crisis relates to their own positions of power as the other estates of power (which number far more than three) no longer rely on the media to communicate with citizens, diminishing the power of the media as middleman.Secondly, the 'people formerly known as the audience' have become an important source of ...13 great social data tools for journalists
The nature of communication has fundamentally changed in the age of the network society. We are in contact with people via an email address, Twitter or Facebook name, or LinkedIn handle, even if we never have met them in real life. In the more traditional society of the past century our contacts were limited to people we knew face-to-face from our circle of family, neighbours, colleagues, and friends. Now our contacts are in a huge network of connected nodes.Some ...Why online publishers need to think like magazines. Yes, print magazines
I've had a long career in online media. I don't really know much about the print world, except that you get your hands dirty when you page through newspapers.
The closest I've come to deadwood publishing is running the internet departments of newspapers. It's a strange world to work in. You're an evangelist, a pioneer and something of a disrupter.
That's why I never thought I'd say that online publishers need to start thinking like their print counterparts -- magazines ...
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