Posts Tagged ‘journalism’
The Future of Journalism
I happened to stumble upon this video in which the director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence, Tom Rosenstiel, in Journalism speaks about the future of journalism. I guess us journos have to have these kinds of speeches said over and over again in order to reassure ourselves that our beloved craft is [...]
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Tags: internet, journalism, new media, Pew Research Center, Siyabonga Africa
More than a matter of medium
In an article touting the coming convergence of TV and web, the WSJ focuses primarily on the slow evolution of technological capabilities, and it is accurate to say that the slow uptake of web enabled TVs is primarily due to unavailability. But, as noted in the previous post, convergence is not JUST a merging of [...]
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Tags: crossmedia, journalism, multimedia, newspapers, television
This from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: “The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows. Just 29% of Americans say that news [...]
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Tags: journalism, trust
What News Organizations Must Do
Dan Gillmor, author of “We The Media” and much-quoted pundit on all things related to the perceived need for professional journalism to reconnect and form collaborative relationships with their communities, pubishes a list of 11 things to do for contemporary news organizations. Rather naively, “making money for shareholders/owners” is not on the list. And, the [...]
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Tags: journalism, Media Organizations, newspapers
After former US President George Bush famously (and proudly) declared never to read newspapers, now it is his colleague in Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, who is calling on his allies to stop reading newspapers (as reported by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad). Interestingly, Berlusconi’s media empire includes ownership of several newspapers.
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Tags: Berlusconi, journalism, newspapers, ownership
