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Key research and commentary
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This is useful for finding strong examples of convergent journalism.
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The Nieman Reports are good for analysis. The Nieman foundation is one of the heavies iof journalism organizations.
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This is one of the must see sites regarding convergence.
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A primer on news feeds and RSS (essentially a print subscription that is delivered to your computer, like a podcast).
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And why, you ask yourself, are they doing this?
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Everyone will be a journalist for 15 minutes.
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The Nieman Reports are produced by the prestigious Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Applicants compete for the few slots available.
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online publishing site
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The next trail mark is the actual project page in action. An example of how news organizations are responding to the pressures of convergence.
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Refresh this page to see the latest
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NPR is taking full advantage (or trying to) of the social networking aspects and interactivity of the web. Will focus groups be a thing of the past?
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This is the home page of the previous site: another news site re: media biz today.
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One blogger's take on the fallacious idea that journalists can't do everything.
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This article argues that newspaper readership is actual growing.
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Newspaper bigwigs are optimistic/pessimistic about the future.
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Here's a different sort of inability to adjust to the future of journalism.
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AJR argues for having trained bloggers ready at the newspaper website when breaking news happens.
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YouTube and MySpace - part of a Communist conspiracy?
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An interesting way of telling stories using maps.
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This offers a tour of the new CNN site, which shows the direction and explains some of the rationale for what they're doing.
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The question, I think, is will video-encouraged traffic pay off for the newspaper? How much web-site traffic would be needed in order to offset the loss of paper readers?
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Here's a hard copy newspaper that has tried - and failed - at a web-savvy redesign.
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Here are the reader critiques of the new design.
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This column includes more of a description of what the Independant did along with its editor's justification of the changes. Notice how they are targeting people who don't read newspapers.
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The response about usefulness is the critical point in this whole exchange, I believe. It's something that even web journalists have to keep in mind.
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Can online-only content make it? Rufus Griscom, of Nerve Media, is making money, even while Salon.com is losing a million a year.
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If only this were true - that the internet spells the end for political spin.
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This is worth consideration as we move into the totally converged age.
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The Washington Post's panoramic photos demonstrate the power of photography on the internet - when done right - to communicate.
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The first use of the internet to cover breaking news took place in 1998. This article includes archives of the original coverage.
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Another example of how even radio is changing. Of course, if it appears on an internet site - even NPR's - is it radio anymore?
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Here's the AJR article referred to in the previous trailmarker. It mentions several other attempts at hyperlocal journalism.
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does iPhone spell the death of newspapers? That's what this critic says.
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More evidence that total convergence (i.e. everyone a generalist, no one a specialist) may not work.
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Grant money to help develop legal resources for citizen journalists.
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Is convergence training the future of j education? Check out the links to related articles at the bottom.
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The Washington Post plans to regularly visit the Red Arrow diner in Manchester, N.H. during the primary season.
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citizen journalism or news without editors?
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"Media companies have high hopes that hyperlocal news online will bolster their newspapers’ futures. But early returns suggest the financial outlook for such ventures is not bright."
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One reporter's narrative about the timeline of new media (10 page article) that contains many links.
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There's a Facebook group for journalists. The group's founder talks about what the experience has been like. (Includes reference to the 90-9-1 rule of online discussion/participation.)
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Another citizen j site is discussed.
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Will the benefits of crowd sourcing outweigh the problems?
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"Jay Rosen's thoughts on NowPublic" - a new media heavyweight critiques NowPublic, the citizen journalism site that recently got a $10.6 million infusion of cash.
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Explains what's behind newser.com (which uses an algorithim to select the biggest stories of the day).
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One exampe of how mainstream blogs have become and of how journalists and news sites are using blogs.
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One newspaper is turning to its audience in order to determine how to remodel itself.
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The Mercury News' explananation of their redesign project.
Why are we doing this?
When it comes to starting the reinvention of the Mercury News, the “X-Files” may have said it best: “The truth is out there.”
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Newspaper Next is the initiative of the American Press Institute to remodel the newspaper.
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More evidence of the traditionalist culture that still exists in the newspaper industry - something that new media journalists will have to break through.
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What papers have to do to make the transition - a corolary to the previous site.
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This site will introduce you to search engines - way more than just Google.