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Mar112010

Clay Shirky on the Value of Journalism

AuthorAnita Yu | DateThursday, March 11, 2010 at 1:45PM

Clay Shirky is a writer, teacher, and consultant on the economic and social affects of the internet and related technologies. He is a teacher of new media at NYU, and is the author of several books, including Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0, and Wired.

In this episode of BTNN, author Clay Shirkly recounts the history of the printing press and explains how it affects today's media landscape.

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Wednesday
Mar032010

Eric Alterman on the Impact of the Internet

AuthorAanarav Sareen | DateWednesday, March 3, 2010 at 2:43PM

Erin Alterman is a Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and author of the political blog, Altercation. He is The Liberal Media columnist for The Nation, and a history consultant for HBO films. A noted media and political critic, he is the author of seven books, most recently, Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring Americas Most Important Ideals.

In this episode of BTNN, Eric Alterman discusses how the internet impacts the quality of journalism people read everyday.

 

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Wednesday
Feb242010

Aron Pilhofer on the Future of Journalists

AuthorAanarav Sareen | DateWednesday, February 24, 2010 at 11:13AM

 

Aron Pilhofer is editor of Interactive News Technologies at the New York Times, and is the Times former projects editor on their computer-assisted reporting team, specializing in stories on money in politics and elections. As database editor at the Center for Public Integrity, he tracked political non-profit 527 groups.

In this episode of BTNN, Aron Pilhofer discusses several skills journalists should learn to prepare for the digital future.

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Friday
Feb192010

Newspapers Protest BBC’s Move to the iPhone

AuthorConor Izzett | DateFriday, February 19, 2010 at 10:43AM

The BBC, those friendly British broadcasters, have announced that they’re making moves into the iPhone world, and releasing a news application this April, with sports, and other applications to follow.

Not everyone is happy about it. Namely newspapers.

David Newell of the Newspaper Publishers Association has said that the broadcasting giant’s plans to move into the application business will throw a wrench into this new and bourgeoning market. Here’s Newell in his own words:

“…it is extremely disappointing that the [BBC] plans to launch services that would throw into serious doubt the commercial sector’s ability to make a return on its investment, and therefore its ability to support quality journalism.”

Is it unfair for an established, publicly funded broadcaster to move into commercial rivals’ territory, and do so on what will probably be the rivals’ future platform? 

Um, why?

Via the Register.

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Thursday
Feb182010

Google’s Living Stories Goes Public

AuthorConor Izzett | DateThursday, February 18, 2010 at 1:04PM

Google is going open-source with Living Stories, and releasing the code to the public, so anybody can build a Living Stories operation of their own.

In December of last year, Google News announced their newest experiment, Living Stories. It was an exercise in throwing off the chains of the Inverted Pyramid, a style of reporting that is beholden to the old idea of daily news, and embracing a new style that is more consistent with today’s style of consumption: constant news.

Each story had its own page, with articles added on the subject, and in one location; sort of a home base for a living, evolving storyline, instead of series of scattered articles that has to bring the reader up to speed each time it’s released.

Google partnered with the New York Times and Washington Post to create the first explorations of the idea in a three-month experiment, which Google says has come to a successful end. But, the experiment continues.

Google is currently working on software to make the process easier for news organizations to use.

Check out the initial video announcing Living Stories below. 

Via Google News Blog.

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