Brett Favre is back.
Don’t worry though, this time he’s bringing his gunslinging mentality to journalism. He just can’t stay away. Here’s video of Favre making his college football broadcasting debut:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UrJamSz34Q
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Has Facebook officially taken over our lives?
Posted by: patcarroll | October 4, 2011 | No Comment |Is it on the rise or the decline?
Is the decline of investigative journalism hurting Americas’ democracy? According to The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the increase of fluff stories in the news are hurting our democracy. Michael Copps is one of five commissioners for the FCC. Cronkite News reports that Copps said that reporting has been sacrificed as news organizations struggle to to deliver greater returns to shareholders.
As the the article from Cronkite News says, there has been a shortage of local stories of government corruption going unreported. Big corporations are not being challenged.
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Cronkite News
Cronkite NewsWatch and News Service (CNS) at Arizona State University (ASU) provide full, multimedia coverage, including video reports and a daily newscast, of state news, government, politics and weather. Look to Cronkite News for breaking and in-depth coverage of critical public policy issues such as immigration/SB1070/employer sanctions, action by state agencies and the governor”s office, wildlife, the environment/climate change and Latino/Hispanic issues.
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To counter the point made by Michael Copps, The London Evening Standard reports that in order to have an investigative journalism story matter, it must be published by a traditional media publication and not self-published. Therefore, investigative journalism is very much alive in the internet era of news.
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Investigative journalism is still thriving in the internet era
Journalists, so surveys regularly reveal, are not trusted by the majority of the people they affect to serve. In the public estimation of our worth, we rank alongside politicians and estate agents. It always seems to have been the case, from the dawn of newspapers onwards.
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The video below shows a few citizens in Texas challenging Chevy to recall their Cobalts due to a power steering failure. They took Chevy on and fought for their safety. They challenge Copp’s point.
Does technology cause news to spread TOO fast?
Posted by: mashkenaz | October 3, 2011 | No Comment |
Image by Getty Images via @daylife
With social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, news and gossip can spread like wildfire. Sometimes, it moves a little TOO fast.
Word of mouth has been one of the most popular forms of passing news along since language arrived with homo sapiens. People would gather to learn the news of the day/week/month/year. Without the written word, however, the news was slow-moving. It could take years for one country to learn of happenings in another.
As technology changed, so did the ways in which news traveled. Stone tablets where words were etched turned to paper where words were printed. Words that were printed gave way to television and radio. And now, we have the Internet. Within seconds, news can travel across the entire world. But what happens when that news is spread a little too fast?
British tabloid newspaper, The Daily Mail has answered that question for us; mud all over their face.
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Tags: Amanda Knox, crime, Marissa Ashkenaz, technology, Twitter, Velocity
Tags: Amanda Knox, crime, Marissa Ashkenaz, technology, Twitter, Velocity
Social media and the velocity of news. And France.
Posted by: sarahe | October 3, 2011 | No Comment |Anderson Cooper has a nightly show on CNN called “Anderson Cooper 360°” where he reports on national and international news events. The show airs at 8 PM nightly on CNN. Cooper is known for reporting on-location from areas where there is breaking news. While he has correspondents film and compile news packages for his broadcast, Cooper still has the willingness to go out into the field.But what makes Anderson Cooper a star?
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Anderson Cooper First Big Anchor On The Ground In Haiti
Anderson Cooper is the first major news anchor on the ground in Haiti. The CNN anchor who made his name covering Hurricane Katrina flew out of New York at 1AM and filed his first report from the earthquake-shaken region Wednesday morning.
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Anderson Cooper Talk Show, ‘Anderson,’ Launches
Anderson Cooper is launching a bold, risky new chapter in his career on Monday, as his daytime talk show finally premieres. “Anderson” has been in the works for a year, but viewers will, at last, get to see whether Cooper can make it in the highly competitive daytime world when his show debuts on Sept.
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Tags: Anderson Cooper, Carrie Delisio, Emmys, media stars, Regis and Kelly
Tags: Anderson Cooper, Carrie Delisio, Emmys, media stars, Regis and Kelly
Athletes and Twitter: Is it worth the risk?
Posted by: patcarroll | September 27, 2011 | No Comment |Trial of the century: How the Lindbergh baby stole all the headlines
Posted by: mashkenaz | September 27, 2011 | No Comment |The kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s baby boy became a media sensation, quite possibly leading to the poorest outcome of all. Read More…
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Tags: celebrity, Charles Lindbergh, crime, Lindbergh, Lindbergh kidnapping, Marissa Ashkenaz, Sensationalism
Tags: celebrity, Charles Lindbergh, crime, Lindbergh, Lindbergh kidnapping, Marissa Ashkenaz, Sensationalism
The wonderful world of travel reporting/blogging
Posted by: sarahe | September 26, 2011 | No Comment |There are a number of different ways to document your travels: travel blogs, travel journals, vlogs and even Twitter.
Long before Tumblr and Blogger, people actually hand wrote their travels in journals. One of the earliest examples is from Christopher Columbus notes on Marco Polo. Here is a picture:
via Wikipedia
Travel reporting also has origins from the Song dynasty in China while Greek travel (fiction) literature dates all the way back the second century.
An important figure in travel reporting is Richard Hakluyt. He published “Voyages” in 1589 which was about the discovery of North America.
Travel reporting was quite common throughout the centuries with many keeping travel journals but with the acceleration of technology almost anyone can be a travel reporter. Even I had to create and keep up with a travel blog during my travels during a study abroad program this past summer. The ability to update and post photos from your trip allows your average person to be a journalist.
Gary Arndt is a man who sold his house and everything he else owned to travel the world. He kept a travel blog which is now an extremely popular travel blog at http://everything-everywhere.com/. Utilizing all the tools of the web, Arndt posts photos, writes blog posts, uses links to elaborate on his travels and constantly creates lists while sending out a newsletter that keeps readers updated.
Gary Arndt at a Songkran celebration in Thailand. Image via www.everything-everywhere.com
Gary Arndt is a man who sold his house and everything he else owned to travel the world. He kept a travel blog which is now an extremely popular travel blog at http://everything-everywhere.com/. Utilizing all the tools of the web, Arndt posts photos, writes blog posts, uses links to elaborate on his travels and constantly creates lists while sending out a newsletter that keeps readers updated.
Gary is now a popular travel writer with no professional background and is a member of two different travel journalism organizations. He originally majored in mathematics and political science. This is just to show you that anyone can be a travel reporter/journalist.
After reading up on travel journalism history and the state is in now I have determined that the only thing necessary to become a travel reporter is to travel. So pack up your bags, grab your laptop and get going. Bon voyage!
Twitter: The global renaissance of spoken news
Posted by: Ramy Zabarah | September 26, 2011 | No Comment |Traditional journalism has long surpassed its peak in what’s now considered ‘old media,” but who are the real traditional journalists?
It can be argued that rather than a decline in old media and a birth of new, what’s really occurring in today’s fast-pace, technologically advanced society is a reversion to traditional methods of spoken news. It should be considered — to a certain extent — more of a rebirth of the true roots of journalism as we know it; a renaissance.
A man surfs the internet at a coffee house. 200 years ago, coffee houses were used for spoken news presentations.
Word-of-mouth dominated the news atmosphere in times prior to the 18th and 19th centuries, seen most vividly in the mid- to late 17th century in English and French coffeehouses. Townsfolk would often convene and converse about the latest news from the city. It wasn’t always accurate but at the time it was the most reliable source of news people could get.
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Tags: Coffeehouses, Ramy Zabarah, social media, Spoken news, word-of-mouth
Tags: Coffeehouses, Ramy Zabarah, social media, Spoken news, word-of-mouth
Tablets are the latest craze around the world in 2011. From the iPad, to the Galaxy Tab and now even Amazon wants a crack at it.
Sure these things are cool to play with, but did we really think it would change the face of journalism?
Sports Illustrated last year created what I think is one of the greatest apps ever for the iPad:
This year, even more news apps are being created. CNN recently bought a magazine style app called Zite. Another new app has emerged in recent days called Evri, a topic-based reader app which lets you see more news that interests you, and even tells you what is trending based on Twitter, Facebook, frequency and velocity.
To me, this is no longer a fad. I find myself wanting a tablet and these new apps are not discouraging me. In a few years I wouldnt be surprised if everyone was reading the news off of an iPad.
Movie rental conglomerate Netflix recently announced that the price of renting films on their site would double by September of this year. Well, September came around and Netflix lost 600,000 members in the U.S. alone. Yesterday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sent out an amiable email to all customers announcing the introduction of Quikster, a Netflix company.
Ten years ago, a move like this would have been followed by a swarm of objective feature stories (and even hard news stories) in various publications regarding the impact Netflix has on movie rental consumerism and the approach it’s taking. Although the same might happen today to a lesser extent, we live in a new age; the blogging age.
Immediately following Hastings’ desperate approach to reel back in the few customers who think Quikster is a redeemable token of his gratitude and guilt, the blogosphere flooded with numerous accounts of the situation, ranging from angry posts to objective posts to even some very humorous spin-off posts like this one about a stoner who already has the rights to the Twitter username, Quikster.
Where once there was a single place for writers to objectively recount the events of an industry-changing decision, there now is an outlet of endless proportions where anyone can take the situation and do it with it what he/she pleases.
In a 2004 post in the New York Times, Katie Hafner expressed what she thinks of blogging’s true charm.
“A few blogs have thousands of readers,” Hafner said. “But never have so many people written so much to be read by so few.”
I like to think there’s a lost art in feature writing, but is blogging killing the feature story? Perhaps the future belongs to a new art of journalism which values writing for the sake of writing; just to let it out.
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Tags: Blogging, Feature Story, Feature Writing, Netflix, Ramy Zabarah, The Feature Section
Tags: Blogging, Feature Story, Feature Writing, Netflix, Ramy Zabarah, The Feature Section