How we reported #Ferguson using only mobile phones
How we reported #Ferguson using only mobile phones
by Shadi Rahimi
Mobile journalism on the march!
Good news! The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.
–Journalist and activist Barrett Brown in his public statement
The news: In Texas yesterday, Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison and more than $890,000 in restitution for his proximity to sources in the hacker group Anonymous and for linking to leaked Stratfor documents. Often called the “spokesman” for Anonymous against his wishes, Brown has been detained since his arrest in 2012, and since then has taken a plea deal to reduce his sentence from the decades of charges the prosecution was seeking. Journalists and activists alike agree this is just part of the slippery slope as classified government documents are leaked by hackers and journalists do their job investigating said »
Fungible
We only occassionally sit down to really enjoy and savour journalism. More often we use it to procrastinate at work – which the populist in me frankly believes is a much better explanation for the fact that we consume so much crime, celebrity and weird news, viz. because we’re just looking for a distraction, not, as the most commonly proffered explanation would have it, because each and every one of us is retarded.
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Are we trying to get better at something that doesn’t matter anymore? Perhaps we should take the best traditions of journalism and do something entirely new with it. Whatever we are doing now is not working.….
Most innovation in media and most of the revenue and most of the value will come not from the incumbents and not even from news »
Journalism’s biggest competitors are things that don’t even look like journalism
Journalism’s biggest competitors are things that don’t even look like journalism
As journalist/programmer Stijn Debrouwere has argued in a persuasive essay about the challenges facing the news business, journalism isn’t being disrupted just by different forms of journalism — it’s being disrupted by things that don’t even look like journalism
“…focus on storytelling and personality, because those things are irreplaceable, and concentrate on appealing to readers who are passionate about a specific topics.”
Radio station lays off all 47 of its journalists, will play Beyoncé all day everyday instead
Radio station lays off all 47 of its journalists, will play Beyoncé all day everyday instead
The future of journalism is Beyoncé.FJP: All hail Queen Bey.
This is a very sad milestone. Please don’t hate me Beyoncé lovers.
In November 2012 Samsung released the Galaxy Camera, a first attempt to incorporate the Android OS and a cellular antenna into a compact camera. Then Canon introduced the EOS 6D, a full-frame DSLR with Wi-Fi and sharing tools built in. “This connectivity will become the new normal,” says Richard Koci Hernandez, an Emmy-winning multimedia journalist, assistant professor of journalism at UC Berkeley, and mobile-photography maven. “I never bet against technology.”
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A Day in the Life of a Digital Editor, 2013
A Day in the Life of a Digital Editor, 2013
We can have binocular vision. We can understand these numbers. And we can know that the mission of a place like The Atlantic is to bring moral purpose, interesting ideas, great arguments, and excellent reporting to the world and to drive these stories as far as they will go into the public consciousness.
Furthermore, looking at the numbers teaches you about the social reality of the Internet. In a very real sense, unless you look at the numbers, you do not know what (the dynamic sociotechnical space that is) the Internet looks like.
Alexis Madrigal, senior editor at the Atlantic, on the digital transition in journalism, creating a decent content strategy, and the economics of digital journalism.
Always look at the numbers. [emphasis mine.]
In a post on journalists.org, MJ Bear Fellow Hagit Bachrach discusses how the Council on Foreign Relations produces videos like “Mexico’s Drug War” to address complex issues and why she enjoys working with their team.
One of the advantages of producing video at an organization like CFR is that we have that rarest of commodities — time — at our disposal. Unleashed from the 24-hour news cycle pressures and the ever-growing industry focus on metrics, we are uniquely positioned to prioritize substance and quality. The result: producing videos like the first in a new series that provide primers on complex issues of global concern.
Read more: Tackling complex issues, unleashed from the clock – Online News Association
I don’t remember seeing any cats in this video, but this is worth you’re time. It’s a helpful start for understanding the drug »
Small World News is excited to announce that we are designing a yet to be named android app. The app will support citizen journalists and professionals alike in the production of multimedia news packages.
Specifically, this open source app enables existing and aspiring journalists all over the world to produce and publish professional-grade news with their Android phone, as safely and securely as possible. It provides an interactive training guide, walkthroughs, and templates for users to follow as they plan their piece and capture media. The app then helps assemble the content into a finished format, with cuts and basic graphics.
Our long time colleagues at the Guardian Project will be handling the development work for the app. They’re one of the best android development organizations out there and we should know. We’ve been testing out their »
Knight News Challenge: Massive Multimedia Storytelling, the Future of Journalism
Knight News Challenge: Massive Multimedia Storytelling, the Future of Journalism
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Enable anyone to curate video stories in space/time, contextualized through data-journalism and open content to create massive multimedia stories.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Voice of…
Small World News’ Guide to Safely and Securely Producing Media
As the uprising in the Middle East has become an eye opener for all of us, it’s the citizens of these countries who can best tell their story. For us living in the western world, we often take for granted our safety in picking up a camera, filming whatever we want, and sharing it with the world. In these conflict countries, this could be a matter of life and death. With this in mind, I’m happy to have taken part in the development of Small World News’ Guide to Safely and Securely Producing Media. This guide helps provide a background into producing media effectively and safely. The guide is designed with these revolutionaries in mind and easily assessable on a cell phone, e-book reader, or computer. Currently the version »