The Sun clearly excelling in its framing of Gadaffi’s death…
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Twitter: breaking news before there is anything to officially break
Bill Simmons:
Twitter, which exacerbates the demands of immediacy, blurs the line between reporting and postulating, and forces writers to chase too many bum steers. With every media company unabashedly playing the "We Had It First!" game, reporters' salary and credibility hinges directly on how many stories they break. That entices reporters to become enslaved to certain sources (almost always agents or general managers), push transparent agendas (almost always from those same agents or GMs) and "break" news before there's anything to officially break. It also swings the source/reporter dynamic heavily toward the source. Take care of me and I will take care of you.
From great article on the accidental Tweet
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Murdoch: Would Serve Powerful If Bloggers, Bloviators Replace Journalists
Rupert Murdoch on justifying journalism:
Now, it would certainly serve the interests of the powerful if professional journalists were muted – or replaced as navigators in our society by bloggers and bloviators. Bloggers can have a social role – but that role is very different to that of the professional seeking to uncover facts, however uncomfortable.
I guess he does not consider his own journalists to be "professional" then, since they prop up his own political and business interests on a regular basis…
Unions deserve to be covered by specialists
Christine Buckley:
But the signs are that this could change as the country begins to absorb the toughest public spending cuts since the 1930s and the trade union movement, with its seven million members, becomes one of the main forums through which people can protest. What a pity, then, that virtually no national media organisation has any specialist correspondents covering the unions.
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But the bigger point about the demise of industrial reporters is the growing erosion of specialisms as media organisations cut jobs. Reporters are increasingly forced to regurgitate wire copy or quickly file stories with little or no knowledge of the subjects.
Couldn't agree more.
University of Colorado may shut down journalism school to create a more tech-oriented degree program
Stefanie Chernow writing at the Editors Weblog:
Digital trends in the media are affecting every aspect of the journalism field, including education. The University of Colorado at Boulder is pondering closing its journalism department in favor of a new degree program that would combine journalism and computer science skills. According to Editor & Publisher, the new academic unit could compound on existing strengths in journalism, yet adding computer science course will "prepare students for an ever-changing communications and media marketplace."
Another example of other disciplines taking over journalism education.
Still baffles me how the industry struggles to differentiate between online / multimedia journalism and web development / production… the two are not and never will be the same thing.
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