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Journalism has always been about reporting facts and assertions and making sense of world affairs. No news there. But as we move further into the 21st century, we will have to increasingly rely on "data" to feed our stories, to the point that "data-driven reporting" becomes second nature to journalists.
via Journalism Needs Data in 21st Century.

09.16.09 | Editorial & Programming, Emerging Media, Industry Shift

  • Microformats, hNews, the AP and the Animals
  • The Nichepaper Manifesto
  • The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real
  • What Would Fair Use Look Like in an Online Era?
  • Patchwork Nation: Frameworks for Reporting
via Ryan Sholin, Crucial reading on the evolution of news, as it stands today – Invisible Inkling.

09.01.09 | Editorial & Programming, Emerging Media, Industry Shift

The solution to complex infographic ideas? These guys have chops that give Edward Tufte and The New York Times infographics squad a run for their money. But what a letdown. Where’s the beef? The data?
via Craig Bromberg Do ya dig the New Mediators?.

08.13.09 | Agencies, Content Specialists, Emerging Media

Innovations In News, a new blog from the Washington Post Company (WaPo and Slate).

Innovations In News blog launch

06.16.09 | Emerging Media, Industry Shift, Resources

Dancing Ink Productions (DIP) is a full-service creative company that develops business strategy, immersive narrative and mixed-media, mixed-reality content, games, conferences and other events for a new global culture and economy in the Imagination Age. via About : Dancing Ink Productions.

06.09.09 | Agencies, Custom & Branded Content, Emerging Media

Kenneth Lerer delivered the following speech at the Columbia Journalism School Annual New Media Lecture Series on Thursday, April 23, 2009. via Predicate, LLC : Notes on Content.

05.29.09 | Emerging Media

 
Google Earth is the new Rand McNally, Wikipedia is the new Brittanica, Google itself is the new competitor to many reference works, YouTube is becoming a vehicle for just-in-time learning, and World of Warcraft is the new immersive fantasy novel. What job do publishers do? And how can new media help us do it better? via Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web - O'Reilly Radar.

05.02.09 | Editorial & Programming, Emerging Media

 
Romenesko fans: Would you be willing to pay for Romenesko's service? Perhaps. It beats scouring the blogs and other sources he aggregates. This isn't paying for content—it's still free. But it would be paying for Jim's expertise. His curatorial abilities. That's a news service with value: it's all about the packaging.

via Recovering Journalist: It's Not the News. It's the Packaging

04.26.09 | Editorial & Programming, Emerging Media

 
News is more than what happens."

via True/Slant

04.15.09 | Emerging Media, Industry Shift

04.09.09 | Business Strategy, Emerging Media

04.03.09 | Emerging Media, Industry Shift

04.02.09 | Emerging Media, Video

Emerging Media

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