Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life
Painting sound pictures for listeners is a skill that takes practice, much like making real pictures with photojournalism.
Works with NPR: National Public Radio.
Their audience has grown because more and more people are driving and getting caught in traffic. With nothing to do in the car, they tune into NPR.
Use images in radio journalism by painting it in your head. Online, we need pictures that speak for themselves.
Arts, entertainment, and feature stories use video the most. News stories have a way of going on then off the news grid. Arts, entertainment, music stories tend to stick around and receive clicks/hits even weeks after.
“You wanna be good at everything. You wanna cover the story so that everyone comes to you. So the big questions is, what part of the story is our audience coming to view and what parts have they seen from other sources?”
Don’t cover the events, just the implications. – Matt Thompson, NPR
Foursquare is primarily for letting your friends know where you are and figuring out where they are. Its basically a location-based social networking game. Secondarily, it’s for collecting points, prize “badges,” and eventually, coupons, for going about your everyday business.
I have been using foursquare for just over 3 weeks now and it is addicting. Every time I visit a new place, I am eager to check-into the establishment on my mobile phone using the foursquare application. In just 21 days out I have 141 check-ins and 11 badges!
“Wikipedia is a great news source”
TBD is a lot better than Patch.com
“Do what you do best and link to the rest”
I don’t do this for money, I do it for respect in my community.
Classic stories you see in hyper-local journalism, “What is the vacant BlockBuster store going to turn into?”
“RSS, is the only social media I cannot live without” – Mark Potts
Most important tool for journalists in the last 5 years is the smart phone, no questions asked.
We need to be our own filters.
Anderson’s approach towards journalism: “People can tell their own story and be their own witnesses. For instance, know your sources before something happens.”
Important to be sources you are using in context.
Don’t paintball a bunch of twitter updates and call it a news story.
Network to journalism is the role of social media today. Use networks to find sources.
“Can de-mine a field with a Bic pen”
Even if you do not speak the language, find a way.
If your lead does not fit in a Twitter status, it’s too long.
This post from my tech blog called, Online Journalism, talks about the five prediction for journalism in the next 25 years.
We constantly talk about newspapers fading away in our class discussions, but we have a tendency to cast the future as an exaggerated present.
These are some big predictions for journalism. One of the most intriguing to me is #1, newspapers fading away. I agree with the blog statement that newspapers will be around even 25 years from now. Its not a profitable business but there are so many other benefits beyond the revenue from advertising and cover price. People will still enjoying seeing their picture of the front of a newspaper, the second page or even the third page. I’d say it is more exciting than seeing your picture on a website. Everyone is online these days, big deal.
Jon DeNunzio
DeNunzio is the User Engagement editor of the Washington post.
He works on team of about 9 people handling inner activity, handle in an editorial way, user comments, live Q & A’s, polls, user photo galleries)