Tidning låter fem läsare kommentera nyhetsjournalistiken

News is a Conversation :: spokesmanreview.com: "As part of our effort to increase transparency in journalism, The Spokesman-Review has invited five readers to talk about our news coverage and content on a daily basis: what they like, what they don't like, and what they'd like to see more of. We participate, but the readers lead the conversation here."

Trend 5 inom amerikansk journalistik: Publiken sviker tevenyheterna

Overview: Trends: "The three broadcast network news divisions face their most important moment of transition in decades. A generation of network journalists is retiring. Two of the three anchors are new. One network, CBS, has said it wants to rethink nightly news entirely. "

Trend 4 inom amerikansk journalistik: Tidningsutgivare investerar för litet i nya medier

Overview: Trends: "Despite the new demands, there is more evidence than ever that the mainstream media are investing only cautiously in building new audiences. That is true even online, where audiences are growing. Our data suggest that news organizations have imposed more cutbacks in their Internet operations than in their old media, and where the investment has come is in technology for processing information, not people to gather it."

Trend 3 inom amerikansk journalistik: Journalisterna hitta ett mer öppet arbetssätt

Overview: Trends: "To adapt, journalism may have to move in the direction of making its work more transparent and more expert, and of widening the scope of its searchlight. Journalists aspire in the new landscape to be the one source that can best help citizens discover what to believe and what to disbelieve - a shift from the role of gatekeeper to that of authenticator or referee. To do that, however, it appears news organizations may have to make some significant changes. They may have to document their reporting process more openly so that audiences can decide for themselves whether to trust it. "

Trend 2 inom amerikansk journalistik: Läsarna vill INTE ha partivinklad press

Overview: Trends: "The rise in partisanship of news consumption and the notion that people have retreated to their ideological corners for news has been widely exaggerated. A year ago we mentioned a third, older form of news that seemed to be gaining momentum - the journalism of affirmation. Here the news is gathered with a point of view, whether acknowledged or not, and audiences come to have their preconceptions reinforced. In 2004, that notion gained new force when Pew Research Center survey data revealed that Republicans and conservatives had become more distrustful of the news media over the past four years, while the perceptions of Democrats, moderates and liberals had remained about the same. This led to the popular impression that independent journalism was giving way to a European-style partisan press, in which some Americans consume Red Media and others Blue. The evidence suggests that such perceptions are greatly overstated. The overwhelming majority of Americans say they prefer independent, non-partisan news media. "

Trend 1 inom amerikansk journalistik: Från verifikation av fakta till hävdande

Overview: Trends: "The traditional press model - the journalism of verification - is one in which journalists are concerned first with trying to substantiate facts. It has ceded ground for years on talk shows and cable to a new journalism of assertion, where information is offered with little time and little attempt to independently verify its veracity. Consider the allegations by the 'Swift Boat Veterans for Truth,' and the weeks of reporting required to find that their claims were unsubstantiated. The blogosphere, while adding the richness of citizen voices, expands this culture of assertion exponentially, and brings to it an affirmative philosophy: publish anything, especially points of view, and the reporting and verification will occur afterward in the response of fellow bloggers. The result is sometimes true and sometimes false. Blogs helped unmask errors at CBS, but also spread the unfounded conspiracy theory that the GOP stole the presidential election in Ohio. All this makes it easier for those who would manipulate public opinion - government, interest groups and corporations - to deliver unchecked messages, through independent outlets or their own faux-news Web sites, video and text news releases and paid commentators. "

Bland allt skräp som finns i mängden av alla smala nischer finns också ett och annat riktigt guldkorn

The Long Tail: Is the Long Tail full of crap?: "All this leads to three counterintuitive lessons of the Long Tail.
1. Niche content can be of higher quality than hit content.
2. It doesn't matter how much junk there is around those gems; with good filters, the average level of quality is irrelevant.
3. You can charge more for high-quality niche content because it is so well-suited to its audience. "

Tittar du på annonsen har du betalt för innehållet

Wired News: Salon's Balancing Act: "Since the dawn of the dot-com, news publishers have split into two camps. One group followed the lead of The Wall Street Journal and charged for news, while the other aped broadcast TV by selling ads and giving content away free -- sometimes requiring reader registration, sometimes not.
But there is a third way that combines the two, which has drawn far less attention. Leading the way is none other than tiny, never-say-die Salon, which, although not known for its business acumen -- its stock price is 18 cents a share -- still manages to stay afloat, recently announcing its first profitable quarter ever (well, almost). Salon offers an ad-free environment for subscribers willing to shell out $35 a year, as well as a Site Pass that requires visitors who are allergic to paying for online content to sit through an advertisement before accessing the site."

Då var det ännu vinter och solen flödade

Då var det ännu vinter och solen flödade,
originally uploaded by Nils Öhman.

Den här bilden har inte mer att göra med webbmedia än att den visar hur man gratis publicerar bilder.

Revolution för tevemediet

Television Reloaded - Next Frontiers - MSNBC.com: "It's a transformation as significant as when we went from black-and-white to color?and it's already underway. The promise is that you'll be able to watch anything you want, anywhere?on a huge high-def screen or on your phone."

Bloggar har inte konkurrerat ut traditionella medier

Blogs haven't displaced media, study finds | CNET News.com: "Blogs may be a powerful new force in U.S. politics, but they have not displaced traditional media in terms of information and influence, a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project revealed Monday. "

Google patenterar metod att sortera nyheter efter kvalitet

Google seeks all the news that's fit to search | CNET News.com: "'While each of the hits in (a list of search results) may relate to (a) desired topic, the news sources associated with these hits, however, may not be of uniform quality,' Google said in the filing. 'Therefore, there exists a need for systems and methods for improving the ranking of news articles based on the quality of the news source with which the articles are associated.'
The company goes on to describe how content published by news outlets such as CNN and BBC, or companies that are 'widely regarded as high quality sources of accuracy of reporting, professionalism in writing,' may be of greater interest to its customers, and therefore should top news search results. "

Ruper Murdoch ber branschen lyssna på läsarna

News Corporation: "What I worry about much more is our ability to make the necessary cultural changes to meet the new demands. As I said earlier, what is required is a complete transformation of the way we think about our product. Unfortunately, however, I believe too many of us editors and reporters are out of touch with our readers. Too often, the question we ask is ?Do we have the story? rather than ?Does anyone want the story?? "

Portaler med nyheter är amerikanska ungdomars främsta nyhetskälla

Carnegie Reporter, Vol. 3, No. 2 | Abandoning the News: "With over half of Internet users now connecting via high-speed broadband services, daily use of the Internet among all groups is likely to climb, because broadband access, the way an increasing number of households go online, makes daily usage more likely. Already, Internet portals?widely used, general interest web sites such as Yahoo.com and MSN.com that include news streams all day, every day?have emerged in the survey as the most frequently cited daily news source, with 44 percent of the group using portals at least once a day for news. Measured by daily use, local TV comes in second at 37 percent, followed by network or cable TV web sites at 19 percent, newspapers at 19 percent, cable networks at 18 percent and national broadcast networks at 16 percent. "

Läsarna vill ha nyhetsjournalistiken - men inte på papper

Wired News: The New Old Journalism: "People haven't been abandoning newspapers (and magazines). They have been abandoning the print medium.
And that's why I think that NYU should continue to teach the basics but also experiment with novel ways to approach reporting and writing. There will always be a market for young reporters who know how to gather facts and write them up in a clear, convincing manner. For that, you can't do much better than showing students in our introductory classes how to craft a killer lede, a well-honed nut graf and an airtight structure.
But that doesn't mean we shouldn't harness the power of the digital medium. I assigned blogs to my graduate students this past semester so they could cover a business beat. Other professors have also jumped fingers-first into digital journalism, most notably Jay Rosen, founder of the media blog PressThink. "

"Det raka nätskrivandet är mer ärligt än papperstidningens ovanifrånperspektiv"

The Submarine: "In other words, the readers are leaving, and they're not coming back.

Why? I think the main reason is that the writing online is more honest. Imagine how incongruous the New York Times article about suits would sound if you read it in a blog:
The urge to look corporate-- sleek, commanding, prudent, yet with just a touch of hubris on your well-cut sleeve-- is an unexpected development in a time of business disgrace.
The problem with this article is not just that it originated in a PR firm. The whole tone is bogus. This is the tone of someone writing down to their audience.

Whatever its flaws, the writing you find online is authentic. It's not mystery meat cooked up out of scraps of pitch letters and press releases, and pressed into molds of zippy journalese. It's people writing what they think.

I didn't realize, till there was an alternative, just how artificial most of the writing in the mainstream media was. I'm not saying I used to believe what I read in Time and Newsweek. Since high school, at least, I've thought of magazines like that more as guides to what ordinary people were being told to think than as sources of information. But I didn't realize till the last few years that writing for publication didn't have to mean writing that way. I didn't realize you could write as candidly and informally as you would if you were writing to a friend."