Archive for January, 2008
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008This is old news but I recently read the survey report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project entitled, “Bloggers: A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers.” The report describes a phone survey of bloggers in the US, which was done in the 2005-2006 time-frame. Here are some take aways that I thought were […]
Interesting News Related Sites
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Interesting news related sites:
http://www.newser.com/
http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/
http://www.allvoices.com/
http://www.everyblock.com/
SAJAforum: MEDIA WATCH: Times of India’s new “Private Treaties” - guest post by Salil Tripathi
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008SAJAforum: MEDIA WATCH: Times of India’s new “Private Treaties” - guest post by Salil Tripathi
Check out this article and the related site.
Journalism + Balance
Friday, January 18th, 2008An excerpt from “Journalism and Truth,” by Tom Goldstein, which I though succinctly describes the issue with trying to be balanced in reporting.
“Most journalists go to extremes to demostrate balance–even if the underlying facts clearly point in one direction. But balancing opposing statements will not necessarily yield truth, which rarely has two sides in the […]
Information Quality and Intentionality
Thursday, January 17th, 2008This is a post I wrote up on my blog a while back which gets at some of the issues we talked about today in class regarding quality and intentionality in media.
Kid Power: Aaron Broder, Kid Reporter, Blitzes CES, Gets the Scoops
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Kid Power: Aaron Broder, Kid Reporter, Blitzes CES, Gets the Scoops.
Also, see http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/press_corps/meet.asp
Colorado Confidential:: ‘Real’ Colorado Journalists Wear Purple
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Colorado Confidential:: ‘Real’ Colorado Journalists Wear Purple
Should Citizen Journalism be “regulated”
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008See the following two Op-Ed pieces in AJC.
Unfettered ‘citizen journalism’ too risky by David Hazinski
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/stories/2007/12/13/citizened1213.html
(Google Cache of this article!)
Citizen journalists: They don’t need to be regulated by Leonard Witt
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2007/12/13/witted_1214.html
(Google Cache of this article)
at PJNet
See POLL regarding this on the T-Square site for this class.
Principles of Journalism (from journalism.org)
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Principles of Journalism
(from http://www.journalism.org/resources/principles)
Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth
Its first loyalty is to citizens
Its essence is a discipline of verification
Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover
It must serve as an independent monitor of power
It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise
It must strive to make the significant interesting […]
News Gathering and Mobile Technologies
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008News Gathering and Mobile Technology
Mobile Computing
People as Sensors: Citizen Journalism, Implications
Critique of Citizen Journalism Sites
Video: How mobiles changed the face of news. BBC
READINGS:
Michael Snyder. Monetizing Citizen Media. Link
Saul […]