Twitter And Trafigura: Word From The Blogosphere October 14, 2009
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It hints at a relationship between old and new media that can be one of powerful symbiosis rather than diametric opposition. [The Media Blog]
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The blogosphere and Twitterati come out of this quite well. Guido Fawkes on Channel 4 News. [Order Order]
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A disparate, disaggregated group of individuals were able to work out the basics of what happened, and use Twitter to make the gagging order meaningless. That was mass, connected journalism at its finest. [Adam Tinworth]
All-Time Great Newspaper Correction October 13, 2009
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This blog’s new favourite other blog is having a busy week. Probably Bad News (strap line: ‘News Fails, because journalism isn’t dying fast enough’) is the perfect antidote to all this do-gooding, civil liberty-protecting stuff elsewhere on the web.
Probably Bad News concerns itself only with (trivial) media gaffes such as a classic Santa/Satan mix-up, a fantastic bit of government logic, and an unfortunate advertising clash on a Paralympic Games photo gallery.
For a favourite, we go back a few weeks to the type of correction you rarely see in UK papers any more:
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- One Of The Best Photo Captions Ever
- Polanski, AP and An Epic Fail
The Week’s Most Read Posts (5 – 11 Oct 2009) October 12, 2009
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Not sure if I’m an aggregator, kleptomaniac or plagiarist but here goes. What follows are several very interesting quotes lifted from an Associated Press wire story hosted on Google. [jonbernstein.wordpress.com]
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Who makes you sit up and take notice? Who makes you laugh? Who tells you things you didn’t know? Who joins in the conversation? [jonbernstein.wordpress.com]
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‘Bum Sex Scandal’ wins headline of the year. [jonbernstein.wordpress.com]
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I’ve written before about the power of newspaper headlines and the internet’s inability, so far, to emulate that sense of potency and urgency. [jonbernstein.wordpress.com]
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And the answer very much depends whether you are talking print or online – the disparity is huge. [jonbernstein.wordpress.com]
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To this non-user, at least, Kindle feels like internet-lite. [jonbernstein.wordpress.com]
RT: 15 News Men And Women To Follow On Twitter October 12, 2009
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Some good, some bad, mostly indifferent. As media land descends on Twitter how do you work out who are the ones worth following?
Here are some questions to ask: are they giving you a glimpse inside? Are they sharing nuggets of insight and analysis? Are they part of the conversation? Are they making you laugh? And, are they doing more than pointing an RSS feed at it?
Yes to two or more of these and you are probably on to a winner.
On Journalism.co.uk today, I’ve recommended 15 men and women from the news mainstream worth following for many of the reasons above. It’s an entirely subjective list, of course, and it is, I hope, incomplete.
Anyway, you can read much more on each over at the other place but here, in brief is the list:
-National newspaper-
1. Benedict Brogan
aka: @@benedictbrogan
who: chief political correspondent, Daily Telegraph
2. Ruth Gledhill
aka: @ruthiegledhill
who: religion correspondent, The Times
3. Bryony Gordon
aka:@bryony-gordon
who: features writer, Daily Telegraph
4. Kevin Maguire
aka: @kevin_maguire
who: associate editor (politics), Daily Mirror
5. Alan Rusbridger
aka: @arusbridger
who: editor, The Guardian
-Regional newspaper-
6. Alison Gow
aka: @alisongow
who: executive editor, Liverpool Echo
7. Victoria Raimes
aka: @victoriaraimes
who: news reporter, Edinburgh Evening News
8. Marc Reeves
aka: @marcreeves
who: editor, The Birmingham Post
9. Jo Wadsworth
aka: @jowadsworth
who: reporter, Brighton Argus
10. Paul Waugh
aka: @paulwaugh
who: deputy political editor, London Evening Standard
-Television-
11. Krishnan Guru-Murthy
aka: @krishgm
who: presenter, Channel 4 News
12. Tim Marshall
aka: @ITwitius
who: foreign affairs editor, Sky News
13. Cathy Newman
aka: @cathynewman
who: political correspondent, Channel 4 News
14. Alex Thomson
aka: @alextomo
who: chief correspondent, Channel 4 News
-Radio-
15. Nicky Campbell
aka: @nickyaacampbell
who: presenter, BBC Radio Five Live
You’re bound to disagree with some of my suggestions, and highlight some missing gems. Please share – below or @jon_bernstein.
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links for 2009-10-09 October 9, 2009
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Presents newspaper publishers with a second chance to get in the digital game. [Bnet]
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“YouTube appears to be mastering the art of turning video piracy into revenue for itself and its partners.” [Bnet]
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Some lessons from the front line. [Martin Belam]
As Print Dwindles, can Amazon Re-Kindle? October 8, 2009
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Last week it was Apple’s iPhone, this week it is Amazon’s Kindle. Different mobile device, same question.
As The Independent puts it hopefully in today’s business section: “Kindle to save papers?”
You see, Amazon’s e-reader is coming to the UK. Company founder Jeff Bezos posted the much-anticipated announcement on his site earlier this week.
And he made a compelling sales pitch for the £175 device:
Kindle uses the same 3G wireless technology as advanced mobile phones, with coverage in over 100 countries worldwide, so you never need to hunt for a WiFi hotspot. Unlike mobile phones, there are no monthly data charges and no yearly contracts.
So far, so portable. But will it work as a news-reader, not just a book-reader?
There are some who think the answer is absolutely yes.
US media analyst Diane Mermigas is one. Writing on the Bnet blog yesterday, she offered five reasons why newspapers must embrace e-readers.
Among her arguments, Mermigas says Kindle and co. provide the perfect vehicle for micro-payments; offer a ready-made social networking platform for interaction and media brand engagement; and allow newspaper owners to ultimately phase out costly print production.
The New York Times, Washington Post and – yes – The Independent have all signed up with Amazon and will be hoping much of this vision proves correct.
But the case is no yet proven.
For a start, e-readers are designed to replicate the book reading experience (ie) you start on page one and continue to end. Newspaper consumption is not a linear experience offline, and certainly not online.
Moreover, the interent satisfies the task-driven consumption of news because of its breadth of sources, free access and ease of search in a way an e-reader will struggle to replicate.
And despite the impressive numbers – 100 countries and an estimated 10 million e-readers (of all flavours) sold by the end of 2010 – they pale when compared to the internet itself.
To this non-user, at least, Kindle feels like internet-lite.
And while there may be an attractive case for newspapers to sign-up are they confident they can take enough readers with them?
Related:
- Apple Apps Emerge As Possible Paid Solution
- Is Amazon About to Sell Adverts In E-Books?
- Why Moleskine Is The Model For Newspaper Survival
Most Retweeted: First 10 Journalism.co.uk Columns October 8, 2009
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How to judge the appeal of your journalism – quality of comments, number of readers?
Now there’s another way – the number of people prepared to retweet it on everyone’s favourite microblogging site, Twitter.
Based on this arbitary method, here, in RT order, are the pieces I’ve written so far for Journalism.co.uk:
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This is arguably the most creative period in news journalism since movable type – new forms, new applications and new execution. Newspapers are embracing video and audio, radio stations do pictures, and TV has gone blogging. [Journalism.co.uk]
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In what may feel like a twist of logic too far, there are a growing number of non-media companies who are adopting the Fourth Estate’s digital business model. [Jourmalism.co.uk]
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Rather than two distinct models, there’s a continuous line that runs from commercial radio, trade publications and freesheets to subscription satellite channels, consumer magazines and national newspapers. [Journalism.co.uk]
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The strength of hyperlocal is also its weakness – disparate projects in far-flung places. But here’s the thing. What works in KW1 – the business model, the editorial proposition – is likely to work just as well in TR19. [Journalism.co.uk]
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Certainly change is disruptive, but old technology rarely disappears completely. Rather it coexists with the new. [Journalism.co.uk]
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The demise of print media leaves a vacuum where once newspapers acted as a bulwark against the excesses of commercial and political classes. In place of accountability you have ‘casual, endemic, civic corruption’. [journalism.co.uk]
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It’s now four years – give or take a few weeks – since broadband Britain reached its tipping point. [Journalism.co.uk]
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Is the news disintermediated? Not yet. Instead we have a symbiotic – if dysfunctional – relationship between the blogosphere and the traditional media. [Journalism.co.uk]
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To be fair to the papers, the job ad on which they were basing their copy lacked clarity. With its calls to ‘embrace’, ‘re-engineer’, ‘extend’ and ‘engage’, the technocratic language is certainly open to some interpretation. [journalism.co.uk]
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Despite Grade’s confidence there are grave doubts that paying per clip is going to work. Here are four reasons to worry: [journalism.co.uk]
For The Power Of Print Hold The Front Page October 7, 2009
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I’ve written before about the power of newspaper headlines and the internet’s inability, so far, to emulate that sense of potency and urgency.
As if to underline the point, someone over at the CreativeCloud blog has compiled a pictorial list of the 15 most iconic newspaper headlines ever.
Now, you can argue whether this largely US-centric list does indeed constitute the most iconic, but all illustrate the ability of print to convey big news.
What’s interesting to note about many of the examples is that – even in the pre-internet age – they were not announcing the news.
Take ‘Mandela Goes Free Today’ or, as pictured, The Daily Telegraph’s ‘War on America’ published on 12 September 2001.
In both cases the newspaper is capturing and/or defining a moment. It’s a role that newspapers still do today, whether it is a public moment or a private moment.
And we’ll miss it when it’s gone.
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- Why Moleskine Is The Model For Newspaper Survival
- News websites 1990s-style
links for 2009-10-06 October 6, 2009
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What's more, 151,555 of the increase (or 78% of the total) is down to just one account – that of @guardiantech (which owes its popularity to its place on the Twitter Suggested User List). [Malcolm Coles]
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Price, power, practicalities, culture and audience. The net's great test when England take on Ukraine [Charlie Beckett]
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In the wake of the Washington Post’s now-infamous incident with issuing restrictive social-media guidelines after Managing Editor Raju Narisetti expressed his not-so-subtle views on war spending and public-official term limits on his Twitter page. [Online Journalism Blog]
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