Maggio 2012
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Data journalism in Italy: how did 1,000 prisoners... →
Journalist Jacopo Ottaviani has been investigating deaths of Italian prisoners, from January 2002 to May 2012. What do his results tell us about the Italian justice system?
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How Tumblr Squashed the Trolls -Tech executive... →
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Knight News Challenge: Announcing the next Knight... →
newschallenge:
Photo Credit: Flickr user Koen Vereeken
The Knight News Challenge is being offered three times this year, in short, focused rounds to better mirror the pace of innovation. Winners of Round 1, which focused on networks, will be announced June 18. Here, Journalism and Media Innovation…
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“Actually, aggregation has a long, proud and ethical history in journalism. If...”
– Steve Buttry: Aggregation guidelines: Link, attribute, add value
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Ten Trends to Watch in Journalism - trends that... →
Newsrooms are increasingly outsourced. “Well-paid journalists in old media are frequently exchanged for free-lancers or external content companies with lower costs,” he says. “How this effects editorial integrity and the quality of journalism, we don’t really know yet. As editors, you have much less control over content produced by outside partners.”
Two-speed journalism is now a reality.
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Local newspapers' crisis: cutbacks are bad for... →
He took the trouble to update his chapter - so what follows includes new work - but I have inserted a little more of his original research study because it was so interesting…
Yesterday, millions of people cast their vote in the local elections. Some will have seen it as an opportunity to pass their verdict on the coalition government, others to choose the councillor who will best serve...
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Is journalism in crisis? - With the decline of... →
It’s a cry you hear often from journalists in the West, and it’s easy to see why.
A 2010 study in the UK estimated that between 15,000 to 20,000 journalist had lost their jobs since 2001, and the cuts have continued over the last two years.
In the UK, the cuts have not just been at newspapers as the BBC has been forced to cut thousands of staff, many of them in its news...
Aprile 2012
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“The future of digital advertising:
GigaOM: “Gawker hasn’t really experimented...”
– Tech bubbles, ad revenue and Twitter — five questions with Nick Denton
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Step by step: how to start in a data journalist... →
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Eric Hobsbawm · Memoir: After the Cold War: Tony... →
My relations with Tony Judt date back a long time but they were curiously contradictory. We were friends, though not intimate ones, and while both of us were politically committed historians, and both preferred wearing informal gear as historians rather than regimental uniform, we marched to different drummers. Nevertheless our intellectual interests had something in common. Both of us knew that...
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The third industrial revolution →
The digitisation of manufacturing will transform the way goods are made—and change the politics of jobs too
THE first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done laboriously by hand in hundreds of weavers’ cottages were brought together in a single cotton mill, and the factory was born. The second...
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5 Steps to a More Balanced Media Diet →
futurejournalismproject:
Every month, GOOD invites its readers to a 30-day challenge and offers up a tip or assignment each day. This month, it’s all about spring cleaning…your life. Today’s post, cleaning up your information diet.
1. Clean up RSS feeds and bookmarks. My Google Reader was the first to get a makeover. I cut out subscriptions that weren’t adding value to my life. TMZ got the...
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Wikipedia: Goodbye Google Maps, Hello Open Street... →
futurejournalismproject:
Wikipedia joins a growing list of high profile organizations leaving Google Maps and moving to the open source Open Street Maps. The move comes after Google announced in March that they would begin charging Web sites that receive more than 25,000 requests per month for use of their maps.
Via Wikipedia:
Previous versions of our application used Google Maps for the...
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Mixing journalism with engagement - why it's worth... →
Community Insights - The Power of Personal Engagement on Prezi
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Arianna: Come vengono fottuti i freelance in... →
ariannaciccone:
Leggo su segnalazione di Luca Conti questo post dal titolo ‘Come vengono fottuti i giornalisti freelance in Italia #1’.
Si denuncia il comportamento della rivista Maxim che ha commissionato un reportage su L’Aquila il 26 maggio 2011, reportage pubblicato e mai pagato.
Voglio…
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Marzo 2012
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To Print or not to Print →
visualoop:
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Life and Code: The Kind of Programming Journalism... →
lifeandcode:
Computer programing is a vast domain, stretching from embedded systems that end up being the brain of your refrigerator to vastly sophisticated algorithms that let Wall Street traders defraud the public detect and capitalize on trends.
The good news for people who want to learn how to program…
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“Print will survive. Books will survive even longer. It’s print as a marker of...”
– Tim Carmody, in his piece, Wikipedia Didn’t Kill Britannica. Windows Did.
Carmody argues that Britannica began to die long before Wikipedia was around, likely around the time of the advent of Microsoft and Encarta CD-Roms. He’s not too sad about it though, because he likens Britannica to a marker...
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“IN A CULTURE that favors sensation, the fact checker is an anomaly, perhaps even...”
– What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have in Common?
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Tony Judt: A Final Victory by Jennifer Homans |... →
I was married to Tony Judt. I lived with him and our two children as he faced the terror of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. It was a two-year ordeal, from his diagnosis in 2008 to his death in 2010, and during it Tony managed against all human odds to write three books. The last, followingIll Fares the Land and The Memory Chalet, was Thinking the Twentieth Century, based on...
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Nessuna frase è troppo lunga →
Pico Iyer, Los Angeles Times, Stati Uniti
“Le tue frasi sono troppo lunghe”, mi ha detto un’amica che insegna inglese all’università, e ho capito che non intendeva farmi un complimento.
Il copy editor che ha riletto meticolosamente il mio ultimo libro usava trattini gialli intorno alle mie proposizioni multiple per suggerirmi di spezzare le frasi o metterci meno cose dentro. Entrambe le...
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Guardapaulbradshaw:
This says so much about how journalism has changed (via Guardian open journalism: Three Little Pigs advert - video | Media | guardian.co.uk)
Febbraio 2012
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Thinking and working #digitalfirst →
Digital First Thinking and Working
View more PowerPoint from Steve Buttry
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Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest – How Much Time Do We... →
daniel sinker: NICAR 12 Brings the Love--and the... →
sinker:
I spent a rapid-fire 23 hours in St. Louis this weekend at the NICAR 12 conference. For those that don’t know, NICAR stands for “National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting,” and, as the slightly-antiquated name might suggest, was founded long before the commercial internet, back in 1989….
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“I recently worked on a project that involved examining the history of the...”
– Mark Potts - The Chronology of Newspaper-Think
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senzamegafono | giornalismo, nuovi giornalismi e... →
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An Interview with Richard Rodriguez →
winckler:
Richard Rodriguez grew up in California, the son of immigrant Mexican parents. He excelled academically, completed degrees at Stanford University and Columbia University, and was poised to continue in academia when he turned down offers from several prestigious schools, uncomfortable with the possibility that affirmative action gave him an unfair advantage. Rodriguez wrote about his...
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2012 Edelman Trust Barometer Italy Result (pdf) →
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‘I was going to be a copy editor!’ →
After posting the link to “The lowly life of the lonely copy editor,” I received this note from Robin Sterns, a former copy editor who is currently out of journalism:
I’m sure the below (a piece on my recent experience as a “copy editor”) is more than you want to read, but I assure you that the column rings 100% true in my experience.
Anyone with any real knowledge was gone at my paper (the...
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The lonely life of the lowly copy editor →
The newsroom is a highly romanticized work environment. Reporters banging away at their keyboards, BlackBerrys buzzing with insider tips from networks of secret sources. Editors huddled in conference rooms, debating what news is important enough to make the paper. You can see why this setting has been idealized by Hollywood - and, for that matter, by most of the people who work there.
But there...
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E-books Can’t Burn →
Interviewed after winning England’s Costa Prize for Literature in late January, the distinguished novelist Andrew Miller remarked that while he assumed that soon most popular fiction would be read on screen, he believed and hoped that literary fiction would continue to be read on paper. In his Man Booker Prize acceptance speech last October, Julian Barnes made his own plea for the survival of...
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A Year After the Egyptian Revolution, 10% of Its... →
Twitter gives us a new version of ‘the first rough draft of history.’ But tweets are fragile things.
In April, OR Books published Tweets from Tahrir, a book of tweets sent from Ground Zero of the democratic revolution that played out in Egypt last year. The book, its promotions declare, “brings together a selection of key tweets in a compelling, fast-paced narrative, allowing...
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