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Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Weblog
Explorations of personal and community journalism... Traditional, Alternative, Online... The new TAO of newspapers?
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 Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Exploring the newspaper niche & newsTAO"America's newspapers are narrowing their reach and their ambitions and becoming niche reads," says the Project for Excellence in Journalism's study called "The Changing Newsroom: What is Being Gained and What is Being Lost in America's Daily Newspapers."Among the things being lost are many of the newsroom jobs at both papers I've worked for, The Hartford Courant and the Raleigh News & Observer. Here's a fascinating scary site that maps the losses nationwide: Papercuts.PEJ says managers need to "find a way to monetize the rapid growth of Web readership before newsroom staff cuts so weaken newspapers that their competitive advantage disappears." That's hardly "stop the presses" news!As papers narrow their focus to local and community news and try co co-opt local bloggers into supporting local newspaper brands, who watches the wonderful people and big crooks in the worlds of business and politics? Are we moving to an era of very few reporters covering big national stories? Foundation-funded investigative journalists? Trusting all coverage of national and world news to The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall St. Journal, USA Today, TVnews departments, BBC and NPR? (And I don't mean celebrity a la mode stuff, sports and fake reality entertainment news.) Meanwhile, the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication is struggling with its own self-definition. More than 50 professors have joined in the on-line discussion creating 10 times more traffic on the group's e-mail list this month than ever before. The question: Should the division's name be changed to "News Division" or Newspaper/Online News Division" or will that just start a turf battle with the AEJMC divisions formerly concerned with radio, television, magazines and technology? I vote for having a "Journalism" division to deal with the online multimedia common ground and continuing the industry-specific divisions with clarified mission statements.For now, the Newspaper Division's definition at national headquarters says: The Newspaper Division examines key concerns facing journalism
education, the newspaper industry and society; topics include ethics,
new technology, readership, minority recruitment and the media's role
in society. Publishes Newspaper Research Journal and a newsletter. Visit the Newspaper Research Journal Website: http://www.newspaperresearchjournal.org. See Newspaper Research Journal - Research You Can Use. For evidence of the work division members do, here are recent articles from its journal:"Official Sources Dominate Domestic Violence Reporting,"by Cathy Ferrand Bullock
"How Online Journalists Rank Importance of News Skills," by Shahira Fahmy
"Survey Measures Burnout In Newspaper Sports Editors," by Scott Reindary
"Suicide Story Frames Contribute to Stigma," by Valica Boudry
"Tribune-Review Revives Competition in Pittsburgh," by Linda Steiner and Nora Bird
"Comparison of Demographics For Media in 1995, 2006," by Guido H. Stempel III and Thomas Hargrove
"Study Asks If Reporters' Gender or Audience Predict for Paper's Cancer Coverage," by Maria E. Len-Rios, Sun-A Park, Glen T. Cameron, Douglas L. Duke and Matt Kreuter
I'll settle for everyone agreeing that "newspaper" means "all the things newspapers have done, all the things newspaper companies do now, and all the newspaper-like things that other organizations do online." Everything is "online," so slashes and hyphens plus that word are redundant. Traditional media and "alternative media" of all kinds do the same things "online" -- text, audio, pictures, video, interactivity -- it's just the way digital convergence works. That's why I've added "the new TAO" to this blog's subhead. Watch for "newsTAO.com"! 1:34:48 PM  comment [commentCounter (807)] Friday, July 18, 2008
Traditional, Alternative and Online: The TAO of NewsworkThe Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication is contemplating a possible name change and has an excellent discussion going on its e-mail list. Here's my contribution:We talk about Web "pages" where no physical pages are involved and
"freedom of the press" where no pressing goes on. I think "newspaper"
is a fine name to use for any 21st century Web site that features news
and that may or may not print an edition using ink and paper... text,
pictures, video, audio, traditional, alternative or online-only.
(I use "online newspaper" as an inclusive term when referring to CNN's
Web site, NPR, MSNBC, the late Nando.net or the New Haven Independent.
I encourage others to do the same.)
The name "Newspaper Division" -- with a short mission-statement
subtitle -- is my first choice. My second choice would be "News
Division." Third would be (listen to the feathers ruffle) "Journalism
Division." The line beneath that headline on the division Web site
should tell the story.
So what /do/ division members study enough to present in that
subtitle? If there's a division whose member can write a great subhead,
this must be it! Mine may be verbose and too inclusive, but it's a try:
"Focused on the reporting, editing, uses (and gratifications),
business, culture and significance of the traditional, alternative and
online news media."
I'm sorry that I won't be in Chicago to talk about this in person. We
also might note parallel organizations: Our interest in business
aspects of the formerly pulp-based newspaper industry parallels that of
http://www.inma.org -- which now says its "N" stands for "Newsmedia";
our interest in the practice of news and information gathering, editing
and presentation links us with SPJ, ASNE and ACES. And so on.
I'm also rushing out to trademark the title "Traditional, Alternative and Online: The TAO of Newswork."
8:09:14 AM comment [commentCounter (806)] Thursday, July 3, 2008
Journalism education group honors Tennessee & Elon profs. The AEJMC Newspaper Division's spring and summer newsletters are now online, including plenty of news:National faculty awards for professors Dorothy Bowles at UT Knoxville and Janna Quitney Anderson at Elon University (see page 3 of that PDF newsletter)A
call for discussion of changing the Newspaper Division's name to
reflect changes in members' research and in the converged news industry
itself. (As I mentioned on the division home page, what was once the
International Newspaper Marketing Association, now uses the word
"Newsmedia" in its name, but other groups like the Newspaper
Association of America and American Society of Newspaper Editors still
emphasize their roots. The American Press Institute is still around, too, along with its Newspaper Next project.)Listings of conference paper presentations and forums at the annual AEJMC Convention, which will be in Chicago next month.AEJMC
is the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass
Communication, which consists of 17 divisions, 10 special interest
groups and 2 commissions, all providing newsletters, research
competitions and convention programming. 12:37:25 PM comment [commentCounter (805)] Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Copy editors, AP blog links, old-new media, Sarcasm and Red WineNo time today for careful commentary or even an attempt to craft transitions between news items while suffering the flaky outages of my municipal wifi system... but just enough time for some aggregation and juxtaposition from The New York Times. Insert your own art or irony. In a Changing World of News, an Elegy for Copy Editors http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/opinion/16mon4.html "As newspapers lose money and readers, they have been shedding great swaths of expensive expertise. They have been forced to shrink or eliminate the multiply redundant levels of editing that distinguish their kind of journalism from what you find on TV, radio and much of the Web. Copy editors are being bought out or forced out; they are dying and not being replaced. "Webby doesn't necessarily mean sloppy, of course, and online news operations will shine with all the brilliance that the journalists who create them can bring. But in that world of the perpetual present tense -- post it now, fix it later, update constantly -- old-time, persnickety editing may be a luxury in which only a few large news operations will indulge. It will be an artisanal product, like monastery honey and wooden yachts." The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogshttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html Jeff Jarvis response:http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/16/ap-hole-dig/Dave Winer & discussion:http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/16/apObjectsToQuotingandlinki.htmlhttp://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/17/apPaytoquoteDay2.htmlSlate's Editor Will Head a New Unit at the Washington Post Co.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/business/media/05post.html The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/research/03sarc.html New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aginghttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/health/research/04aging.html 9:44:08 AM comment [commentCounter (804)] Tuesday, June 17, 2008
A missing link in the history of linkage"This will be the radiated library and the televised book."-- Paul Otlet, quoted in an excerpt from the documentary film, "The Man Who Wanted to Classify the World." From today's New York Times: The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web,The Web Time Forgot"In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for
a global network of computers (or 'electric telescopes,' as he called
them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of
interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how
people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share
files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the
whole thing a 'reseau,' which might be translated as 'network' [~] or
arguably, 'web.'"Back in the mid-1980s I read Howard Rheingold's Tools for Thought, and learned about Vannevar Bush's "memex" ideas for automating cross-reference links, and how Bush's "How We May Think" (1945) influenced a young radar operator, Doug Engelbart (who later gave us the mouse and the first great demo of the future of work on screen), and Ted Nelson (who gave us the word "hypertext"). I got excited about hypertext programs with names like "Guide," "Hypercard," "HyperTIES," "ZOG" and "BlackMagic" a few years before an English programmer in Switzerland opened a new research universe with his practical Internet version of linkage, HTML, HTTP and the Web.Otlet, though, was off the radar. It's amazing to think that mostly monoglot Americans may have missed a page in the history of information technology -- one not written in English, or on this continent. As Times reporter Alex Wright puts it, complete with pronunciation guide, "Historians typically trace the origins of the World Wide Web through
a lineage of Anglo-American inventors like Vannevar Bush, Doug
Engelbart and Ted Nelson. But more than half a century before Tim
Berners-Lee released the first Web browser in 1991, Otlet (pronounced
ot-LAY) described a networked world where "anyone in his armchair would
be able to contemplate the whole of creation."Like Bush, Otlet described analog devices linking chunks of information, but it sounds like "networking" was even more central to Otlet's thought than Bush's automated personal memory bank, the memex. I'm going to read more about this gentleman, starting with this essay, which also talks about issues in the work of biography itself, by W. Boyd Rayward, whose 197-page
book about Otlet is also online at http://hdl.handle.net/1854/3989Hmm. I wonder if Rheingold or Nelson or Berners-Lee has written about Otlet... or if I would have heard about him already if I'd gone after that M.L.S. degree instead of "settling" for an M.A.L.S. and a Ph.D.? Well, at least I've heard of him in time to work him into my syllabus for the Media History course I'll be teaching in the fall... and I can use this blog page to point out to students that there's never one "textbook" with all the answers. 12:49:06 PM comment [commentCounter (803)] Monday, June 16, 2008
Citizen journalism meets cartography -- a map reporter is bornWhose job is it to fix the world? While plotting routes to our new Radford University School of Communication home at 702-704 Fairfax St. with Google Maps, I've noticed a common local mapping error that tells visitors to turn down either of two wrong streets to get to us.Google shows Fairfax as a through street from one side of campus to the other; it isn't. The center third has been blocked for years with a clock tower and pedestrian area. It also shows "Adams Street" as a through street intersecting Fairfax, but that's not true either. Most of Adams is now a pedestrian mall, although some buildings still carry addresses like "307 Adams St.," the Criminal Justice department. View Larger MapWhat's a poor navigator to do? Well, I've just noticed that if you follow links from Google Maps to the Navteq company, you can become a "Navteq Map Reporter" and offer corrections in its worldwide mapping database. I wonder how many Radford visitors have been frustrated by maps that don't keep pace with campus construction at Radford University, where two major cross-streets no longer cross in the center of campus...Perhaps someone has submitted official documents on the university's behalf, but I decided that one more voice can't hurt. I just offered this note to Navteq, along with a copy of the university's already out-of-date map.Radford University several years ago absorbed most of Adams Street, blocking it with new construction, more of which is in progress. Adams is no longer a through-street from Tyler to East Main. Jefferson Street is now the campus border, and the intersection of Tyler and Jefferson allows turns in all directions. Adams Street buildings still exist (e.g. 307 Adams St.), but the street is now a pedestrian mall from Waldron to Hurlburt Halls on the attached map, and a new art center is being built between East Main and Hurlburt. The center of Fairfax Street is also blocked between Dalton and Heth Halls, so it is no longer a through street from East Main to Jefferson. According to Navteq, I am now a "Map Reporter," and have been sent the following response to my change:NAVTEQ releases navigation data up to four times a year to a wide range
of navigation system manufacturers and vendors. Because of the time
required to process the data, there is a lag between making an addition
to the database and seeing that change reflected in a navigation
system. Updated maps are offered for sale by your system manufacturer.
We make every effort to ensure that our map data is fresh, accurate,
and up-to-date by employing full-time staff in more than 130 offices
around the world. We appreciate conscientious drivers such as yourself
who take the time to tell us that we might need to make a change. 9:51:04 AM comment [commentCounter (802)] Wednesday, June 11, 2008
NewsJunk offers one-stop shopping for politics addictsDave Winer and Nicco Mele have a new project: NewsJunk, for political news junkies. It's a continually updated political news blog, but fast and brief -- about 100 items in the past 24 hours, none more than four lines long, linked to full stories on news sites and blogs. A 6 ways to follow NewsJunk link -- it was "5 ways" last week -- offers versions for Web browsers, RSS readers, Twitter (as a feed called NewsJunkies), a mobile version for iPhone, Blackberry and more."I have never been so informed about political news as I am now that I am involved in NewsJunk," says Winer. While the main page is strictly last-in/first-out order, there's also a Top-25 page. Where is the best of this junk coming from? Yesterday's top-25 items were from these sites: Wonkette, Talking Points Memo, National Public Radio, Newsweek, Politico(2), The Hill, CBS News, Weekly Standard, CNN, Salon(2), MSNBC(3), ABC, Gallup, AP(2), The New York Times, Marc Ambinder, Craig Crawford, Patrick Ruffini, Reuters and Time. Actually, Wonkette's item is a link to Metro UK newspaper, http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=168752When I decided to list the sources for the other bloggers, I found all of NewsJunk's links of the form http://x.newsjunk.com/JS were offline. They worked yesterday. Either Dave is installing new software this morning or "the force" is telling me to do something else. 8:53:05 AM comment [commentCounter (801)]
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