3. New skills
➡ Blog ➡ Edit web pages
➡ Shoot photos ➡ Moderate web chat
➡ Edit photos ➡ Send out breaking news alerts
➡ Capture audio ➡ Post stories online
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4. New skills
➡ Blog ➡ Edit web pages
➡ Shoot photos ➡ Moderate web chat
➡ Edit photos ➡ Send out breaking news alerts
➡ Capture audio ➡ Post stories online
➡ Edit audio ➡ Build photo galleries
➡ Shoot video ➡ Build audio slideshows
➡ Edit video ➡ Lay out web pages
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5. New skills
➡ Blog ➡ Edit web pages
➡ Shoot photos ➡ Moderate web chat
➡ Edit photos ➡ Send out breaking news alerts
➡ Capture audio ➡ Post stories online
➡ Edit audio ➡ Build photo galleries
➡ Shoot video ➡ Build audio slideshows
➡ Edit video ➡ Lay out web pages
➡ Send out SMS news alerts ➡ Manage reader-submitted stories
➡ Choose lede story for web site ➡ Edit reader-submitted blog posts
➡ Help develop Google map ➡ Help develop user interface for
➡ Acquire, clean up database database
➡ Solicit reader photos, help upload
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10. New Information Ecosystem
Participatory and
✦
user generated media
Networked
✦
conversations
produce a flood
of new information
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11. New Information Ecosystem
Participatory and
✦
user generated media
Networked
✦
conversations
produce a flood
of new information
It’s a mobile,
✦
global world
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17. Participatory Media
Media is Everywhere
✦
1-10-100 Rule*
✦
1 Creator
✦
10 Synthesizers
✦
100 Consumers
✦
Fluid changes in media
✦
participation from Creator
to Synthesizer to Consumer
* via Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo
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19. Core resources
If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great
value comes from leaving core resources in a
commons, where they're free for people to build
upon as they see fit.
- Lawrence Lessig
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21. Social Capital
“The advantage created by a person’s location
✦
in a structure of relationships”
Becoming the “trusted center” and/or
✦
becoming allied to the “trusted center”
through digital communication
Leveraging networks to build the brand
✦
Trust guides - the importance of transparency
✦
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24. Editor Navigator
Reach beyond any single medium
Beyond standard fare of staff, news services
Facilitate an interactive information exchange
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26. Questions in the era of overload
- Matt Thompson
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27. Questions in the era of overload
- Matt Thompson
1. Are we making our community feel better-
informed or merely distracted?
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28. Questions in the era of overload
- Matt Thompson
1. Are we making our community feel better-
informed or merely distracted?
2. Will our coverage find its audience where and
when they’re ready for it?
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29. Questions in the era of overload
- Matt Thompson
1. Are we making our community feel better-
informed or merely distracted?
2. Will our coverage find its audience where and
when they’re ready for it?
3. Are we synthesizing information, or merely
aggregating it?
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30. Questions in the era of overload
- Matt Thompson
1. Are we making our community feel better-
informed or merely distracted?
2. Will our coverage find its audience where and
when they’re ready for it?
3. Are we synthesizing information, or merely
aggregating it?
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32. Supply and Demand
News articles don’t cut it online. Newsrooms alone
can’t produce enough information for the audience.
- Rob Barrett, LATimes.com
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47. The hunter-gatherer model of journalism is no
longer sufficient. Citizens can do their own
hunting and gathering on the Internet. What
they need is somebody to add value to that
information by processing it – digesting it,
organizing it, making it usable.
- Phil Meyer
Author, The Vanishing Newspaper
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51. Making Marketable Journalism
1. Make smart content choices based on markets
2. Treat markets as conversations
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52. Making Marketable Journalism
1. Make smart content choices based on markets
2. Treat markets as conversations
3. Publish, then filter
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53. Making Marketable Journalism
1. Make smart content choices based on markets
2. Treat markets as conversations
3. Publish, then filter
4. Provide a layer of journalism on top
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54. Making Marketable Journalism
1. Make smart content choices based on markets
2. Treat markets as conversations
3. Publish, then filter
4. Provide a layer of journalism on top
5. Add value
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