Journalism links
- The future of news and why “digital first” matters
Covering the news used to be fairly simple, but things are a lot more complicated now: News has become an ongoing process rather than a finished product, and it’s composed of many different pieces, including blogs and video and Twitter and so on.
- 10 ways to make the most of your journalism course « Adam Westbrook :: online video & entrepreneurial journalism
There are now nearly 100 journalism courses in the UK. Most of these students use social media, are multimedia savvy and have got work experience under their belts. If you’re going to stand out from the crowd you’ve got to bring your A-game to the table.
- How Journalists Are Using Facebook to Share the News
Facebook is a treasure trove for journalists — with the ability to message almost anyone and search for people based on location, college, employer and interests, it’s a great platform for finding sources.
- Facebook & Social Journalism
Facebook's growing role in news and social journalism. A look at how journalist's are utilizing the platform for storytelling, by Facebook's Vadim Lavrusik.
- Facebook's Growing Role in Social Journalism
Twitter has been the go-to platform for real-time reporting and reaching out to sources, but with Facebook continuing to scale and in some ways become more public, it offers journalists an arsenal of content types beyond 140 characters and an alternative destination to connect with new sources of information.
- 10 Rules for Increasing Community Engagement
Here are 10 tips for increasing user engagement that work for news community web sites, but can apply to all types of online user-engagement communities.
- Strategizing Web Content - Writing for the Web
When it comes to designing a website, content is often overlooked, but why? Users come for the content. Not giving them what they want with poorly written content will frustrate users.
- Web Writing: Simplicity is Key
Writing for a website is a very different skill from writing for radio and television - it's even different from writing for a newspaper. Tips from the BBC College of Journalism
- Social Networks Play a Major Part in How We Get News
Based on a sample of 2,259 adults, this study reveals that 75% of the people who find news online get it forwarded through email or posts on social networking sites.
- 5 Tips for Aspiring Digital Copywriters
So you’ve come to the conclusion that digital copywriting is the career for you, but where do you go from there?
- What does a mobile journalist need?
4 lists of things a mobile journalist needs: hardware, software, systems, and mindset.
- Understanding Citizen Journalism Properly: Separating Amateur Journalists From Professionals
Citizen journalism is a type of journalism practiced by everyday people. Citizens, some without proper journalism training, are using this modern technology to publish their journalistic work.
- What effect has the internet had on journalism?
The web is a valuable tool, but old-fashioned press practices can still be best.
- Wikinews: Wikinews needs you!
We want you to write articles for Wikinews on topics that you find interesting, you feel aren't getting adequate coverage or are important to you. We also want you to edit and expand the other articles you see here.
- 5 Essential Tools for the Mobile Journalist
Today, front-page news can stream from any individual with a cell phone camera and a Twitter account, major news outlets, such as CNN, have crowdsourced parts of their newsroom to locally-savvy citizen journalists, often armed with little more than a camcorder.
In addition to the standard smartphone equipment, such as a camera and social networking applications, we’ve compiled a list of five additional tools that can help a single journalist rival a fully-functional news team. With these tools, a mobile journalist can record data, edit clips, and broadcast polished stories as events unfold.
- 12 Essential News Media Tumblrs You Should Follow
With Tumblr growing rapidly, it’s attracted a number of media organizations both local and national that are looking to engage their audience in a new way and perhaps attract new readers. But it’s not just about promoting their own content.
- Out of This World Ideas for Showcasing Student Work
- The Future of Social Media in Journalism
Social tools are inspiring readers to become citizen journalists by enabling them to easily publish and share information on a greater scale. The future journalist will be more embedded with the community than ever.
- How to be a data journalist
Data journalism trainer and writer Paul Bradshaw explains how to get started in data journalism, from getting to the data to visualising it.
- 7 Ways Journalists Can Use Foursquare
Tech-savvy journalists usually go where the crowds are, and as Foursquare climbs toward critical mass, with over one million users, 40 million checkins, and counting, it’s also becoming a hot new tool for the digital journalist.
- Reporters Sans Frontières
Reporters Without Borders defends journalists persecuted for doing their job, fights laws that undermine press freedom, gives financial aid to journalists in difficulty & works to improve the safety of journalists, especially those reporting in war zones.
- Creating the Future of Media: 4 Driving Forces, 4 Strategic Issues, 4 Essential Capabilities
It is our role and responsibility to create the future of media, rather than to let it happen to us. To do that, we need to examine the most central driving forces, strategic issues and capabilities in the evolving media landscape.
- How the 2010 election will be won by blogs and tweets
- 7 Ways News Media are Becoming More Collaborative
News organizations are partnering to produce the news, while journalists are working with the audience to bring them content that they demand.
- 10 News Media Content Trends to Watch in 2010
News in 2010 will blur the lines between audience and creator more than ever in an era of social media. This article looks at several trends in content distribution and presentation that we will likely see more of in 2010.
- Mag+, a concept video on the future of digital magazines
Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy and enjoyable to read. Can we marry what’s best about magazines with the always connected, portable tablet e-readers sure to arrive in 2010?
- Reporting poverty: an online resource for journalism educators and students
A website from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation bringing together a range of resources to help journalism tutors, trainers and students to understand the issues and sensitivities involved in reporting poverty in the UK, with practical guidance and examples.
- BBC College of Journalism
The BBC's dedicated centre of excellence for training in journalism, production, leadership and technology covers craft skills, ethics & values, with hundreds of video and audio examples.
- 8 Must-Have Traits of Tomorrow's Journalist
2010 will likely be a time of transition as today’s journalists catch up to learn the multimedia, programming, social media, and business skills they’ll need to tell their stories online.
- The Shutdown of UWIRE and the Implications for College Media
"UWIRE, a popular service that aggregated articles from student newspapers across the country, promoting student journalism both within higher education and to the outside world, has disappeared." What are the implications for college media?
- New content-sharing site for student journalists
An Ohio University college-journalism content-sharing cooperative hopes a new wire-service-style Web site can help fill a hole in the student press.
- The Content Strategist as Digital Curator
As businesses become ever more comfortable using the web to bring their product and audience closer, the techniques and principles of museum curatorship can inform how we create online experiences - particularly when we approach content.
- What is Good Content? A Working Definition and Some General Principles
Good content is a necessary foundation for most successful blogs. High quality content makes it easier for someone to recommend it to friends or other potential readers.
- Twitter - is it a help or a hindrance to journalism?
Can Twitter help curate journalism as well as feeding it?
- After Fort Hood, another example of how "citizen journalists" can’t handle the truth
Has social media and citizen journalism turned us all into inhumane egotists rather than journalists?
- UK journalists on Twitter
Here's a resource you might find handy. A simple list of journalists who Tweet. Browse it, dip in, follow a few, find out how the pros are doing it.
- Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Easy Steps
Digital storytelling is a craft that uses the tools of digital technology to tell stories about our lives.Digital stories come in all sizes and shapes, from a simple video blog that recounts an interesting episode to a more sophisticated treatment that follows a narrative arc and relies primarily on images and found materials.
- Twitter Guide Book by Mashable
Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if you want to know all about building a community on Twitter, or using Twitter for business? How can you find advanced tools for using Twitter on your phone or your desktop? Find out here.
- About Web Journalism
About.com's comprehensive section about journalism contains links to articles about web journalism. What is it, how can you use it to find sources for stories then distribute the results, and what are the best tools to use?
- How Local Politicians are Using Social Media
It used to be that most of us couldnt point out our local representative, councilman, alderman, or public advocate if we tripped over him or her, but thats starting to change, thanks to social media helping us raise our civic literacy levels and altering the way politics are done.
- Jan Moir, Trafigura and the power of online social networks
The public online response to the Trafigura super-injunction and then Jan Moir's article on Stephen Gately highlighted the power of networks such as Twitter to exert pressure on news organisations, the law and advertisers.
- Mashable: The Social Media Guide
Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what's new on the web and offering social media resources and guides.
- Journalism UK
- Writelink
- Broadcast Journalism Training Council
- NCTJ
- National Union of Journalists
- Reuters
- Journalism for journalists
- Internet Manifesto
How journalism works today. Seventeen declarations.
- The Journalist's Guide to Facebook
Journalists and the institutions they write for are finding Facebook to be an important resource in conducting the reporting that they do. Reporters and media companies are using Facebook to engage with their audience, connect with sources and build their brands.
- 10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media
With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula.
- How to Write an Article in 20 Minutes
Taking up blogging got me to start thinking seriously about writing quickly, and you may be facing a blogging time-crunch as well. So here are my 8 tips for writing an article in 20 minutes or less.
- Writing for the Social Media Everyman | Copyblogger
Social media users care less about mainstream news and hard-hitting journalism and prefer content from disparate, sometimes unverified, and sometimes extreme sources that generally appeal to their baser instincts or guilty pleasures.
- Guardian Unlimited special reports: Gay Rights
- The Newspaper Society: regional & local press
- The Media Center
- journalism.co.uk RSS
- National Union of Journalists : Code of Conduct
- Bad Language / How to be a freelance journalist
- Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design