Pre-convening news and reference links
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Here below are links to topics which may inform discussion at NewsTools2008. You can add a link by clicking on the EDITtab above, typing in the link and then clicking on the “Save page” tab at the bottom. Also, see this page of reference linksprepared for Journalism That Matters: The DC Sessions in August, 2008.
NEWS
*04-05-08 / Reports from the Duke Univ./Next Newsroom summit: BLOG REPORTS/ (MGP) / (PHOTOS)/ WEBSITE
*04-04-08 / VIDEO: Randy Covington of IFRA Newsplex — “Why aren’t U.S. newspapers investing in training?”
*04-04-08 / Neil Budde named president at DailyMe.com
*03-00-08 / Coverage of Computational Journalism Symposiumat Georgia Tech on Feb. 22-23. VIDEO AVAILABLE
*02-22-08 / MPR’s Skoler suggests four ways technologists can help journalists
*01-25-08 / Progressive/left seeks to form alternative aggregation news website
*01-25-08 / American Journalism Review backgrounder on philanthropic/foundation funding of journalism
*01-22-08 / “The Wire” producer asks: Is the news worth anything absent the ads?
*01-20-08 / VIDEO: Leonard Witt describes “representative journalism” idea
CLIPPINGS
*04-01-08 / Howell Raines, writing at Conde Naste’s Portfolio,about the possibility of Rupert Murdoch starving or buying The New York Times, or spurring its sale to Google.
*02-11-08 / J.D. Lasica describes NewsTools2008on the PBS Mediashift blog.
IDEAS
*03-31-08 / Paul Grabowicz, writing on the PBS-MediaShift blog,suggests journalism needs to refocus on watchdog journalism if it wants to succeed and attract support from philanthropy and the public.
*03-28-08 / David Cohn: “Rethinking the Inverted Pyramid . . . “NewsTools2008 collaborator David Cohn previews on his blog a map of the new media ecosystem.
*03-28-08 / Columbia Journalism Review postcastin which David Simon, creator of the TV series “The Wire,” discusses what’s wrong with metro journalism.
*03-16-08 / “Rumors Reason,”in the NYTimes, by Farhad Manjoo, a staff writer at Salon.com, on how truth can be trumped by rumor.
*03-16-08 / Kaliya Hamlin posts brieflyabout Kevin Kelly’s essay on why success in the new economy depends on providing things which cannot be copied.
*03-14-08 / The Washington Post adopts a new approachto editing front-section stories to adapt to continuous web publishing. (internal memo via Slate)
*02-14-08 / Chris O’Brien considers Len Witt’s suggestion that future newsrooms need not be physical
*09-30-07 / The California Media Project is working on alternatives for increasing deep, issue-oriented coverage of the nation’s most populous state. Read its initial report,based on July/August 2007 interviews with more than 70 of the state’s media and public-policy leaders. CMP director Louis Freedberg is participating in NewsTools2008.
BACKGROUND
* 01-14-08 / A review of Facebook/ Tom Hodgkinson writing at The Guardian online:
**”Now, by comparision with Facebook, newspapers, for example, begin to look hopelessly outdated as a business model. A newspaper sells advertising space to businesses looking to sell stuff to their readers. But the system is far less sophisticated than Facebook for two reasons. One is that newspapers have to put up with the irksome expense of paying journalists to provide the content. Facebook gets its content for free. The other is that Facebook can target advertising with far greater precision than a newspaper. Admit on Facebook that your favourite film is This Is Spinal Tap, and when a Spinal Tap-esque movie comes out, you can be sure that they’ll be sending ads your way.”
PREVIOUS JTM EVENT READING LISTS AND REPORTS
# The reading list from Washington
# The reading list from Memphis
# JTM-DC session reports
# General resources: Media Giraffe Project
PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS IN SELECTED JTM/MGP EVENTS
# JTM-DC, Aug. 2007 participants
# JTM-Memphis, Jan. 2007 roster
# Participants in MGP2006, Amherst
# JTM-St. Louis – April 2006