The editorial integrity of journalism is "threatened" by traditional and citizen journalists using the Internet to "distort" information, Reuters' global editor of multimedia for news Chris Cramer said last night.
In an address at Nottingham Trent University, Cramer emphasized that news organizations must work to separate themselves from the nascent 'electronic mob rule' of online journalists who seek to strengthen their own messages.
In a Q&A with the Online Journalism Review, USC Annenberg professor Marc Cooper reviews his experience with Off The Bus so far. One of the main lessons “is that both sides of the debate over old and new media have been right, and you have to find the right hybrid.”
For cyberjournalist.net, citizen journalism and user-generated content dominated online news in 2007, as most of its top 10 stories for the year involved an element of CitJ.
A few weeks ago,
El Pais underwent a redesign to emphasize its renewed global reach and connect with a younger readership. In this email Q&A, editor-in-chief
Javier Moreno explains everything about the paper's relaunch.
In a recent
Business Week video interview with senior editor
Diane Brady,
Andrew Keen, founder of
Audiocafe.com and author of the new book
The Cult of the Amateur, expounded on his beliefs that user-generated content and Web 2.0 are bringing down culture and professional media.
In this section,
John Zogby, CEO of
Zogby International, and
Jeff Jarvis, new media proponent and founder of
Buzzmachine, comment on the results of the Newsroom Barometer. Both found that editors’ optimism and open-mindedness to new media was a clear indication that newspapers were embracing the digital revolution, yet Jarvis fears that may not be enough…
The Associated Press announced it has partnered with citizen journalism site NowPublic.com, in order to improve regional news coverage and use citizen contributions, when these may capture critical information and images about breaking news.
In the run-up to the US mid-term elections, many news organizations have been using interactives in their website coverage, and often taking advantage of Flash technology to do it. Are these graphics effective? Are they worth all the trouble? Digital media experts
Alberto Cairo,
Mindy McAdams and
Laura Ruel give their assessment, and offer tips for future news website content producers.
Posted by John Burke on November 22, 2005 at 2:51 PM
Journalism is under fire. It has lost the public's trust. It is marred by scandal. It is looked at by those who "own" it as an aside to a profit machine, not a community service.
Although all this looks bad, we still depend on journalism as one of the guiding forces in democracy. So who's going to fix it?
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