Posted on June 10th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
How does one of the most powerful news organizations on the planet use social media? According to Nightly News Web producer Cynthia Joyce, NBC has four primary goals: 1. To source material 2. To find sources 3. To share more of a story 4. To enhance existing products Joyce used the Haiti earthquake as an [...]
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Posted on May 6th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
CNN.com recently reported that its content partner, Facebook, has hired Vadim Lavrusik, formerly a community manager at Mashable, to advocate use of the social network as a reporting and promotional tool. Lavrusik will be responsible for maintaining the new Journalists on Facebook page. The new page acts as a sort of “How To” guide for [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2011 by Deborah Potter
You’ve written a story for the Web or a post for a blog and you need to add an image or a related video. If you didn’t take a photo or shoot footage yourself, what are your options? The Internet is a treasure trove of multimedia but it’s important to make sure that what you [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
Each year, the Project for Excellence in Journalism produces a report on “The Year in News.” Can you guess what the Top 3 stories were for all media this year? Breaking it down to network evening, network morning and cable news, we find that cable spent a major chunk of it’s time (15.3%) on the [...]
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Posted on January 13th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
According to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, “the Internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news.” OK, so that’s not really a surprise, but what is interesting is another of the survey’s findings. In 2010, for the first time, the Internet has [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2010 by Deborah Potter
One thing you have to love about people in TV news is their ability to make fun of themselves. Now that Twitter, Facebook and lots of other social media have become fixtures in so many newsrooms, it was only a matter of time before somebody decided to share all the in-house jokes. Thanks to KDFW, [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Rob Curley is an innovative journalist. The man who put the Lawrence Journal World in the spotlight and was an early champion of multimedia reporting, is now breaking new ground again at the Las Vegas Sun. Curley says he’s trying to build a newspaper website that builds on the “5 Ps” — the things he says drive Internet [...]
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Posted on August 22nd, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Whether you’re a TV reporter or producer, it’s quite likely that you will also be working for your station’s website, but just what duties are most common? New research from Michael Cremedas and Suzanne Lysak of Syracuse University provides important insight. According to the study, knowing how to write “print style” or “Web-friendly” stories is a [...]
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Posted on August 16th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Chris Gegg is the news director at WMTV in Madison, Wisconsin. Following the release of the 2010 Pew Center report on mobile access for Americans, Gegg pulled out what he sees as some of the most interesting data. According to the report: among all cell phone owners: • 54% have used their mobile device to [...]
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Posted on August 12th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about hyper-local journalism, niche journalism and something called a content farm. From what I can tell, different content farms take different approaches to generating content, but some, like Demand Media, use computers to gather information already posted online and then put that data through algorithms to produce a new, [...]
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