Category Archives: What is News

The future of news in 4 dimensions: Charting new kinds of news orgs » Nieman Journalism Lab

The future of news in 4 dimensions: Charting new kinds of news orgs » Nieman Journalism Lab. This is cool – a diagram

PressThink: National Explainer: A Job for Journalists on the Demand Side of News

PressThink: National Explainer: A Job for Journalists on the Demand Side of News. Explainers: a form of news we need now. Going in to the program, I didn’t understand the mortgage mess one bit: subprime loans were ruining Wall Street firms? And I care because they are old, respected firms? That’s what I knew. “What’s

The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get at Newsless.org

The three parts are explained via good health reform reporting examples. They are: WHAT WE MISS (1): The longstanding facts, (2): How journalists know what they know, and (3): The things we don’t know As long as the news is structured solely around what just happened, journalists are going to be fighting a rough battle.

CMW report on citizen news

- The New news.

Leap of Faith : CJR wants to reassert news establishment as authority in society. Too Late.

News organizations must start treating audience cultivation with a sense of urgency. Not merely as a matter of business—though that’s certainly part of the equation—but also as a matter of democratic duty. via Leap of Faith : CJR. We are nearing a point—if, indeed, we’re not already there—in which knowledge itself is becoming appropriated by

Social Networks Spread Defiance Online – NYTimes.com

On Twitter, reports and links to photos from a peaceful mass march through Tehran on Monday, along with accounts of street fighting and casualties around the country, have become the most popular topic on the service worldwide, according to Twitter’s published statistics. A couple of Twitter feeds have become virtual media offices for the supporters

Lab Book Club: How responsive to economic stimuli are journalists? » Nieman Journalism Lab

Lab Book Club: How responsive to economic stimuli are journalists? » Nieman Journalism Lab. Here’s a review and all the information on J. Hamilton’s “All the News That’s Fit to Sell” book