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Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2008

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2008

The future of newspapers | Who killed the newspaper? | Economist.com

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

The future of newspapers | Who killed the newspaper? | Economist.com

Images in NEWS

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

NPPA Calls Newsweek’s Martha Stewart Cover “A Major Ethical Breach”
L.A. Times Photographer Fired Over Altered Image
PhotoEthics (sree.net)
Greg’s Digital Retouching Portfolio
Shooting Up On A-1
NYC24: When Photos Lie
Photo Tampering Throughout History by Hani Farid

GUEST SPEAKER: Ramesh Raskar (MIT & MERL)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

“Less is More: Coded Computational Photography”
Speaker: Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Time: 2p - 3p
LOCATION: TBD (Somewhere in TSRB or in CoCB 102)
Relevant URL: http://raskar.info
Computational Photography is an emerging multi-disciplinary field that is at
the intersection of optics, signal processing, computer graphics+vision,
electronics, art, and online sharing in social networks. The field […]

GUEST SPEAKER: Rasmus Lerdorf (YAHOO!)

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Rasmus Lerdorf (YAHOO!) was kind enough to come to class and give a guest lecture on class on
A quick introduction to PHP and how it can be used to collect, analyze and distribute information.
His slides for this talk are at http://talks.php.net/show/ygatech5
He covered many things including pointers to

http://developer.yahoo.com/
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
http://www.pidgets.com/

Advanced News Summarization

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Recommender Systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommendation_system)
Firefly (http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1999/08/21243)
Grouplens (http://www.grouplens.org/)
NewsInEssence (http://lada.si.umich.edu:8080/clair/nie1/nie.cgi)

Principles of Journalism (from journalism.org)

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Principles 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, 2008

News 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 […]

Multimedia Reporting Examples

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Here are some examples of multimedia reports that we’ll look at and discuss in class today.

Defining the Barrier: An example of maps + video feature / narrative
The Gulf Coast in Katrina’s Wake: Maps and panoramas, spatial understanding and immediacy
War in Lebanon: timed b&w photo essay, voice overs, ambient sound, and interspersed text
Heavy Beginnings: interactive photos […]

Introduction / Overview

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Tue 01/08/2008: Introduction and Overview

Overview of Journalism and Computational Disciplines
Critique of Example Interactive News Packages
ASSIGNMENT #1 Out

Ideas for First Assignment