Algorithmic Journalism – a “deep trend”
Thought I’d muse today about a topic I’m going to call Algorithmic Journalism. I’ve noticed a fair bit of discussion lately on the use of algorithms (typically machine-learning algorithms) to make...
View ArticleMaking sense of the Future of Journalism at the Poynter Institute
As society reexamines the roles of Journalists and Media companies, here’s a nice clip from Pointer’s Sense Making project from March 2009: [Vimeo 3926080] Here’s a link to additional videos from the...
View ArticleGoogle’s advice to Newspapers – Gina Chen
A nice summary from Gina Chen of Marissa Mayer’s – who is Google’s VP of Search Product and User Experience – testimony to a U.S. Senate Subcomitte on the future of journalism back in May 2009. Here it...
View ArticleDave Winer heads to NYU – Year Zero for Journalism
There is certainly an enormous amount of energy being applied to “reinventing Journalism” – both the trade and the business – for the digital age. Case in point, Dave Winer announced on January 14 2010...
View ArticleThe Blog is at the core of everything I do – BBC Journalist Robert Peston
Just read a nice piece from Alfred Hermida – Professor of Journalism at UBC, and ex BBC Multimedia Journalist – from August 2009 on How Blogs became part of BBC News. In his post, he references a...
View ArticleUser-generated Content (UGC) a core part of BBC’s news-gathering operations
An interesting post by Alfred Hermida – Professor of Journalism at UBC, and former multimedia journalist at the BBC – on how managing User-generated content is now a core part of the BBC’s news...
View ArticleLeonard Brody – How Journalism and News Media must change
In a recent post, I highlighted a presentation delivered by Leonard Brody on Change and Entrepreneuralism. Here’s another presentation given by Brody in January 2009 in Qatar on how Journalism and News...
View ArticleFit to Print – Documenting the decline of the Newspaper Industry
Fascinating. So first I just came across the website Newspaper Death Watch, and I must say I find its perspective fascinating. Secondly, while on the site, I came across an interview with two...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes at Citizen Journalism startup AllVoices – Mediashift,...
An interesting look behind the scenes at Citizen Journalism startup AllVoices – from PBS Mediashift: There are some interesting observations and comments in this video that shed insight into the core...
View ArticleFuture of Content and Journalism – Web 2.0 Summit 2009
Just came across a couple of great videos on the future of content and journalism from the Web 2.0 Summit 2009. The first is titled The Future of Content, and can be viewed below: The second is titled...
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