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camillabetros started the forum topic clothinglink in the group Media Ethics: 1 week, 6 days ago · View
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jacobcaggiano started the forum topic Amazon & Wikileaks: The role of private companies who host public speech in the group Media Ethics: 1 year, 5 months ago · View
Two Seattle companies, Amazon and Tableau, have now entered the international firestorm surrounding the latest outbreak of classified information from Wikileaks. Amazon stepped into the fray by providing hosting to the Wikileaks site after their original Swedish hosts were bombarded with cyber attacks on the day the classified documents became public. Amazon then pulled the [...]
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rsass joined the group Media Ethics 1 year, 6 months ago · View
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johnhamer posted on the forum topic Ethics of war correspondence and coping with post traumatic stress in the group Media Ethics: 1 year, 7 months ago · View
Great topic and a first-rate interview with Joan Connell. Thanks for posting this, Jacob. And the ASReview has agreed to take the “TAO of Journalism” pledge and display the seal. Very cool!
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jacobcaggiano started the forum topic Ethics of war correspondence and coping with post traumatic stress in the group Media Ethics: 1 year, 7 months ago · View
Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College hosted a guest last week who is playing a very unique and important role in the scheme of journalism and it’s craft. Joan Connell is the associate director of operations at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. In her words, the Dart Center is “a global [...]
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karljnewman joined the group Media Ethics 1 year, 7 months ago · View
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carchipleymukilteobeacon joined the group Media Ethics 1 year, 7 months ago · View
Caitlin & Paul — Glad to have you both as part of our WNC community. Hope to stop in for a visit in Mukilteo one of these days soon. I really enjoyed the WNPA gathering in Wenatchee, and so far no one has complained that I misquoted them — including Paul, that self-described ”old fart dinosaur”!
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jacobcaggiano posted an update in the group New Journalism Matters: 1 year, 7 months ago · View
Some cool mobile apps were built over the course of just two days at the Chicago Hackathon hosted by The Media Consortium.
The winner that took home the grand prize is an app called Riotstartr, which enables users to organize their own events, track attendance via a GPS-enabled mashup, and then report on what happened
Read more about the event here:
http://www.themediaconsortium.org/2010/10/12/7390/
Learn more about the apps here:
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johnhamer posted an update in the group Media Ethics: 1 year, 7 months ago · View
Latest Gallup Poll shows public trust in news media at an all-time low. For details, see:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/143267/Distrust-Media-Edges-Record-High.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=Politics -
brianglanz posted an update in the group Media Ethics: 1 year, 8 months ago · View
CityClub’s Community Matters Campaign includes an invitation to take a Public Trust Poll.
One of the questions is ”Do you trust your news sources to be accurate?”
Take the poll at http://www.seattlecityclub.org/publictrustpoll
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scottforslund joined the group Media Ethics 1 year, 8 months ago · View
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mxparks joined the group Media Ethics 1 year, 8 months ago · View
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brianglanz posted an update in the group New Journalism Matters: 1 year, 8 months ago · View
”We commonly call Twitter a “platform,” the better to emphasize its emptiness, its openness, its agnosticism. More properly, though, Twitter is a medium, with all the McLuhanesque implications that term suggests.”
– Megan Garber of the Nieman Journalism Lab
Garber asks what ”the new Twitter” means for ”new journalism.” Twitter have updated their interface in a major way, making them more than ever a news media platform.
Garber observes: ”The Twitter.com of today, as compared to the Twitter.com of yesterday, is much more about information that’s meaningful and contextual and impactful. Which is to say, it’s much more about journalism.”
See Garber’s article here http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/09/twitter-as-broadcast-what-newtwitter-might-mean-for-networked-journalism/
and a video about the new Twitter, below
My first impressions are good, but I wish the makeover included cool new ways to interact with lists. Scoble agrees. Here’s his initial take.
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joecairo posted on the forum topic Anonymous Comments Online: Boon or Bane? in the group New Journalism Matters: 1 year, 8 months ago · View
I would like to advance the notion of comment sections being a profit center for newspapers. I recently bantied about with a Seattle Times poster who scoffed at my suggestion that comment sections should be subscription only. You should pay to have your say, is my premise. The speech may be free but the platform [...]
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johnhamer posted an update in the group Media Ethics: 1 year, 8 months ago · View
Good piece in Los Angeles Times about the ”Pay to Play” trend on local television news:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-onthemedia-20100915,0,370372.column
How many similar ”pay to play” deals are there in the Seattle-area TV market? On which stations? Are they fully disclosed? If not, why not? Are they necessary? Are they ethical?
Most Americans still get most of their news from television, according to the latest Pew Research Center survey: http://people-press.org/report/652/ Should they know more about who’s paying for what they see on TV? What do YOU think? -
johnhamer posted an update in the group New Journalism Matters: 1 year, 8 months ago · View
Tracy Record of West Seattle Blog wrote a very interesting response to the Mashable piece on the Future of Social Media Journalism (she posted on the Journalism that Matters Google group). Here’s what Tracy wrote:
#1, I’ve long been wishing ”social media” would go away, as a term. (Like
”blogger,” and ”blog”-as-a-verb!) Media *is* social and has always been, whether
the media producers have cared to recognize it or not. Convening conversations,
reflecting them, etc. It’s just that now the playing field is more level between
producers and discussers :)#2. Very important point about grokking conversation. So many people I’ve heard
from or met with who are old-media types who know they have to go new-media get
all freaked out about ”But I don’t know anything about tech, so I guess I should
take a programming class, right?” News flash – it’s not about the tech. There
are smart people out there designing all that, making fabulous tools, wonderful
simple CMS’s like WordPress, etc. I’ve been working online for 16 years and I
still only speak rudimentary HTML. It’s the conversation skills, stupid, to
paraphrase presidential prattling of the past. If you WANT to learn advanced
tech skills, awesome – but worry more about the conversation and the content.P.S. ”Comments are content” – when people talk about ”user” contributions, I
always point to our comments, which particularly in breaking news situations
truly MAKE the story. But too often people trying to figure out community
engagement (which I will have the honor of participating on a panel about, at
Block by Block) focus on ”who can write stories/shoot video/take photos for us
…” Look at your comment system. Look at any obstacles keeping people from
participating – whether it’s a clunky registration system, lax enforcement of
civility rules, or … Clear those obstacles away. You don’t need captcha to
keep spam out – Akismet beats it hands-down in my experience ;)back into the stream,
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joecairo posted on the forum topic Anonymous Comments Online: Boon or Bane? in the group New Journalism Matters: 1 year, 8 months ago · View
“Tracy Record, West Seattle Blog: If they want to, they are certainly welcome to. I absolutely, vehemently, do not believe in requiring it. You are not required to identify yourself when speaking publicly in any venue or forum and I don’t believe you need to be required to do so when speaking online, either”. Well, [...]
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joecairo joined the group New Journalism Matters 1 year, 8 months ago · View
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johnhamer posted an update in the group New Journalism Matters: 1 year, 8 months ago · View
Great piece on Mashable: http://mashable.com/2010/09/13/future-social-media-journalism/
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johnhamer posted an update in the group Outstanding Journalism: 1 year, 8 months ago · View
The Seattle Times’ continuing series on senior adult homes is grim reading, but first-rate:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012856611_seniors12.html - Load More
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