Blog Profile / Reportr.net
| URL : | http://reportr.net/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Industries / Media | |
| Posts on Regator: | 563 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2.1 | |
| Archived Since: | March 20, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The value of global sharing to musicians
Nancy Baym of Microsoft Research kicked off the session on the transnational dimensions of spreadable media at MIT8. She gave an insight into her research on musicians and international audiences. Her research takes on the two dominant discourses about music audiences. Show More Summary
MIT8 panel tackles oversharing and the meaning of privacy
This year’s Media in Transition (MIT8) conference at MIT addresses question of the shifting nature of the public and the private, kicking off with a panel on oversharing. The panel brings together Feona Attwood, Middlesex University (UK), David Rosen, author and Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University, moderated by Nick Montfort. Show More Summary
State of the Media 2013 report finds social media ‘indispensable’
Social media has become “indispensable” for journalists, says the latest State of the Media report. The annual report by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism highlights the importance of social media to news organisations. Show More Summary
BBC College of Journalism introduction to social media
The BBC College of Journalism is a treasure trove of advice, lessons and tips for any budding or experienced journalist. Outside of the UK, it is only available on a subscription basis. The College of Journalism tends to post videos from events on its Youtube channel. Show More Summary
50 essential blogs for journalists
The UK journalism site, journalism.co.uk, has put together a list of 5o blogs on journalism. The list covers “blogging reporters who share their tips and experiences of mobile journalism, blogging journalism educators, and bloggingShow More Summary
xkcd cartoon on the problem with heatmaps
When data analysis and visualisation goes wrong: The problem with heatmaps, captured perfectly by xkcd. (Via Danny Sanchez)
WordPress promotes online portfolios
As a journalism professor, I spend quite a bit of time talking to students about building up their professional presence online. It is important for students to have an online portfolio that showcases their work and will pop up when a prospective employer searches for them online. Show More Summary
Infographic: Top Twitter trends of 2012
This graphic on the top trends on Twitter in 2012 has been in the bookmarks for a few days. Among the key points: Twitter grew to 500 million users – 140 million are active users 150 million Tweets were posted during the London Olympic games Barack Obama’s “4 more years” photo is now the most retweeted in history A quarter of all top trends were hash tags. The others were
Twitter dominates most read of the year
This blog has been somewhat neglected over the past few months. My writing energies have gone into working on my new book, Tell Everyone: How the Stories We Share Shape What We Know and Why It Matters. Tell Everyone shows us how toShow More Summary
Israel and Hamas use Twitter as an instrument of warfare
The fog of war is a phrase commonly used to capture the uncertainty and confusion that surrounds military conflicts. Facts, rumour and speculation swirl in the fog as journalists try to figure out what is going on. But on November 14,...Show More Summary
Neo-journalism conference keynote on Twitter as an ambient news network
My keynote at the Neo-journalism conference in Brussel was called “The Ambient News Network: Twitter and the reconfiguration of journalism.” It looked at how Twitter has developed as a network for real-time news and information, influencing...Show More Summary
How a Swedish talk show used Twitter
At the Neo-Journalism conference in Brussels, Anders Olof Larsson of Uppsala University presented his research into the journalists’ use of Twitter in a talk show context in Sweden. In a brief presentation, he explained how he examined the use of Twitter by a new current events talk show called Hubinette, shown on public service TV in Sweden. Show More Summary
How journalists and the public view participation in the news
Here are the slides from the presentation by Jan-Hinrik Schmidt of the Hans Bedrow Institut at the Neo-journalism conference in Brussels. The research highlights how journalists and the public consider participation. It shows that in many aspects, both share the same views. But there are also some areas of incongruence. Journalists and participatory media from jpub
The co-construction of news through live blogging
At the Neo-journalism conference, Nathalie Pignard-Cheynel of Université Stendhal, Grenoble, presented a study in live coverage conducted with Brigitte Sebbah of the Université de’Metz. The researchers were looking at whether live coverage, or live blogs, can be considered a new form of reporting. Show More Summary
Why citizen reporters do what they do
At the Neo-journalism conference, Manuela Farinosi a post-doc at the Università di Udine presented her research into the motivations behind citizens who gathered and shared news following the 2009 quake in L’Aquila close to Rome. For the study, there were 20 in-depth interviews with the most active citizen contributors. Show More Summary
Judith Donath on signals of reliability on Twitter
In the second keynote of the Neo-Journalism conference, Judith Donath from Harvard examined signals of reliability in networked news. She started off by talking about how online and social media provided detailed information about the recent fires in southern California. Show More Summary
Mark Deuze on rethinking the journalist as a DJ when we are all media
Neo-Journalism conference in Brussels, where academics will debate where journalism is at and where it is going. I am giving a keynote on Thursday 4 October. But the conference kicked off with a keynote by Mark Deuze, Associate Professor at the Indiana University’s Department of Telecommunications. Show More Summary
Canadian Online Publishing Award nomination for Reportr.net
For the third year in a row, Reportr.net has been nominated for Best Blog in the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The blog is a finalist in the blue division, which is the business-to-business, professional association, farm and scholarly category. Show More Summary
Lessons for the new BBC chief George Entwistle from the BBC’s digital past
George Entwistle, the new director general of the BBC, should recall the recent past as he refashions the corporation for what he calls “the digital revolution.” In his quest for an organisation that can create “genuinely new forms of digital content”, he would do well to look back at the pioneering work of the BBC News website. Show More Summary
Doubleday Canada to publish my new book, Tell Everyone
I’m delighted to announce that Doubleday Canada will be publishing my new book, Tell Everyone: How the Stories We Share Shape What We Know and Why It Matters. The book charts how our enhanced capacity to share information via social media is transforming what we know and how we know it. Show More Summary