1 / 15

Online journalism: an introduction Or… How the internet changed everything

Ian Reeves. Online journalism: an introduction Or… How the internet changed everything. Journalism 2054. Key Launches. 1989: World Wide Web created 1994: Amazon.com launches, a shop based on personalised recommendations 1994 : Daily Telegraph web site, UK’s first national newspaper online

nathan
Download Presentation

Online journalism: an introduction Or… How the internet changed everything

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Ian Reeves Online journalism:an introductionOr…How the internet changed everything

  2. Journalism 2054

  3. Key Launches • 1989: World Wide Web created • 1994: Amazon.com launches, a shop based on personalised recommendations • 1994: Daily Telegraph web site, UK’s first national newspaper online • 1997: Launch of BBC News Online • 1998: Google, a search engine that treats links as recommendations, launches • 1999: Tivo unshackles TV from the constraints of time

  4. Key Launches • 1999: Blogger, a personal publishing tool, launches • 2000: OhMyNews launches, first mass Citizen Journalism site • 2001: Wikipedia launches • 2002: Friendster launches, first social networking site • 2004: Flickr launches, for sharing images • 2005: Youtube launches, for sharing videos • 2006: Facebook launches • 2007: Twitter launches, heralding the ‘real time’ internet

  5. Key News Events • 1997: Death of Diana – mass email tributes sent to BBC site • 1998: Drudge Report and Monica Lewinski • 2001: World Trade Center attacks – demand causes internet crashes for news orgs • 2003: Invasion of Iraq – The Baghdad Blogger • 2004: Rathergate – Bloggers as watchdogs of mainstream media • 2004: Asian tsunami – footage from holiday videos • 2005: London tube and bus bombs – Mobile Phone Content goes mainstream • 2007: Dave Winer’s bet comes good – blogs begin to outrank mainstream media • 2008: Twitter starts breaking stories – Mumbai massacres

  6. Where does all that leave journalism? The dinosaur view: Robert Fisk: “to hell with the web, it’s got no responsibility” The apocalyptic view: • http://www.robinsloan.com/epic See also: “I have seen the future. And we’re not in it.”

  7. Where does all that leave journalism? • “This is the start of the medium’s new golden age. Enjoy it while it lasts.” Kurt Anderson, New York magazine, Feb 07

  8. Stages of the web • Web 1.0: the net as library Roughly 1989-2001. Static pages with hyperlinks. Dial-up connections. Personal web sites. Geocities. Framesets. Proprietary. • Web 2.0: the net as conference Roughly 2001 – 2009. Dynamic pages that users can change. Broadband connections. Blogs. User involvement. Youtube. Content sharing. RSS feeds. Open source. Unstructured.

  9. Stages of the web • Web 3.0: the net as butler 2010 - . The semantic web. Contextual search. Learning from user’s choices. Mobile devices. Personalised experiences. Structured content. Web sites become web services. APIs.

  10. New journalism skills • New storytelling techniques • Non-linear narratives • More than just the inverted pyramid • New editing styles • Involving the audience in research • Working with ‘unofficial media’ • ‘Crowdsourcing’ news • Using databases • Mashups

  11. Creative storytelling techniques • Borrowing from Hollywood: Cody’s Rescue • Hamming it up: the singing reporter

  12. Multimedia examples • http://gaza-sderot.arte.tv/en/#/time/95 • http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/photography/2008/life/ • http://specials.washingtonpost.com/timespace/inauguration/ • http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/ • http://www.latimes.com/news/local/photography/la-111807_gang-main2-fl,0,3893242.flash • http://photos.denverpost.com/photoprojects/specialprojects/ianfisher/ • http://theunobserved.com/

  13. Skills to learn • Video, audio and text • Understanding basic programming concepts • Multimedia authoring – Flash and Silverlight • Social tools – networking and bookmarking • Wikis • Database journalism • Tagging and ‘folksonomy’ • Distributed journalism • Online investigative techniques • Structured information – computerised storytelling

  14. Assorted free online tools • Tumblr: • Reddit: • Photopeach: • ZeeMaps: • Diigo : • Vimeo: • Dipity: • Audioboo: • Yahoo pipes: • Friendfeed : • Scribd: • Cowbird: • Qik: • Tableau Public • Tiki-Toki • Thinglink • Followerwonk • Zemanta: • Delicious: • Silobreaker: • Wordpress: • Drupal: • Flickr: • Many Eyes: • Digg: • StumbleUpon: • GoogleMaps: • Newsvine: • GoogleDocs: • CoverItLive: • PollDaddy: • Storify: • Topsy

  15. Techie TLA bingo Hypertext markup language • HTML • URL • FTP • CMS • API • SEO • HTTP • XML Universal Resource Locator File Transfer Protocol Content Management System Application Programming Interface Search Engine Optimisation Hypertext Transfer Protocol Extensible markup language

More Related