Journalists Expected to Write Copy & Shoot Video

Andy Dickinson reports on a survey of practices of video reporting within newspapers: Video is commonly shot and edited by the same person Reporters are expected to shoot video and file copy on the same story Photographers are expected to shoot stills and video on the same story You should allow 4 hours to produce… Continue reading Journalists Expected to Write Copy & Shoot Video

The “Institutional Arrogance” of News Media

Tom Curley, CEO of The Associated Press is asking the news media to rethink how they operate: “Curley said in a speech that news organizations should quit thinking like gatekeepers of information and reach out to people who are accustomed to receiving news in real time online and customizing the ways they see and read… Continue reading The “Institutional Arrogance” of News Media

Reporters Told They Now Work for Web

The Naples Daily News has been revamping their reporting operation: “It happened a year ago at the Naples Daily News. Print reporters and photographers were all told that they no longer worked for the paper, says Phil Lewis, editor and vice president of naplesdailynews.com/Naples Daily News. They were all transferred to dot.com–which the company now… Continue reading Reporters Told They Now Work for Web

Engineers Over Editors

RBI CEO Tad Smith spoke on the advertising panel at the Future of Business Media Conference: ”If you have three people to hire, do you hire three search engineers or editor? These days, you’d do better if you hire the engineers.”

How Journalists Use Google Maps for Reporting

Robert Niles speaks to reporters who leveraged Google Maps to report on the California wildfires: “The [Los Angeles] Times’ Ron Lin developed the initial version of the fire map, using his personal Google account. Lin said that he “had played around” with building Google Maps before and credited the tool’s ease of use in helping… Continue reading How Journalists Use Google Maps for Reporting

A New Pay Structure for Freelancers; Doing it Just for Fun

Marshall Kirkpatrick and The Washington Post review Brijit, “… an interesting new service that supplies magazine abstracts for those of us too busy to read through every print publication we’re subscribed to.” What is fascinating is how they pay they freelancers for the article abstracts that make up the site: “Abstracts are written by paid… Continue reading A New Pay Structure for Freelancers; Doing it Just for Fun

The Relevance of Journalist Unions

Jeff Jarvis looks at reasoning behind resigning from the National Union of Journalists. “… the union, as with the print unions of old, cannot possibly adapt to meet the revolutionary demands of a new technology.” “There is a difference, of course. The skills of compositors and linotype operators were eradicated by computer setting and on-screen… Continue reading The Relevance of Journalist Unions