The Nevada Sagebrush Web site has newly added forums that aren’t very active while the comments are very active. I see two variables that might explain this (well really three). One is time, I’m just impatient and forums need more time to explode. Two is promotion. We post starter content on them and try to ...
Doc Searls (via Rosen) says it’s not about Web 1.0 or 2.0 — it’s about the static Web v. the live Web. We’ve been struggling with this for awhile. Journalism sites know they need to move from static to live. But the heart of journalism for so long — writing/creating/editing/producing — has been designed to ...
[updated Sept 26] We’re hoping to visit friends at IDEO in the next few weeks to talk about “how might we” reconceptualize journalism. So to follow up on Michael’s list below: 1. Journalism needs to find its rhythm In its heyday, journalism fit over breakfast, on the trolley to work, on the ride home from ...
Here are my questions: Is the division between mass media and niche media a useful dichotomy? Is national v. local media? Or geographic communities vs. communities of interest? Or are there alternative models for analyzing the evolution of our media/journalism systems? On one hand, Amy Gahran questions why the Knight Foundation focuses on geographically defined ...
In approaching the budget crisis faced by the Nevada System of Higher Education, staffers at my paper were thinking of ways to get user feedback. Initially we wanted to do a video/podcast asking people “How would you fix the budget?” This seems like a useless question as most students don’t have the necessary information to ...
I was talking to a sociologist friend of mine about journalism. We thought of a way to modify Jay Rosen’s basketball game anology. Rosen’s example of journalism says that issues and stories are often like a basketball game with multiple people watching from multiple perspectives. The journalist goes around and sits with people, to view ...
So this took me eight books, 20 pages, nine months and hundreds of e-mails, but I think I just figured out the most simplistic and practical and unacademic way to synthesize a small portion of social-networked news. They’ve figured out “oh, forums, those are cool” but not how to use them. It’s in a dialogue ...
A recent academic study of journalists who write about health-related information found the following, according to the Maneater, the student newspaper at the University of Missouri-Columbia: According to the study by Amanda Hinnant and María Len-Ríos, professors in the School of Journalism, many readers do not comprehend what they read and very few health journalists ...