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Date:
12/02/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Could 2011 be journalism's Year of Context? A showcase of emerging news technology in San Francisco highlighted four start-ups that specialize in placing content where it makes the most sense. The show-and-tell was hosted by Hacks/Hackers, an informal group of journalists and coders who blur the boundaries between news and technology. Attended by about 50 professionals, the start-ups sought to streamline the movement of information from the Web to apps,... [Read more...]
Date:
09/23/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Won't somebody please think of the children? Well, OK, maybe not the children -- but young people, at least. That's just what Christopher Sopher has done with his research project, "Younger Thinking." It's a meta-analysis of available data about the relationship between the news industry and its up-and-coming consumers. Sopher, a senior studying public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, can relate to much of his... [Read more...]
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08/17/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published There's a brand new videographer at KGO-TV in San Francisco: you.As part of its ongoing "uReport" effort to solicit user-submitted content, the ABC station is now working directly with YouTube and taking advantage of its YouTube Direct technology, which lets news sites request, review and re-broadcast user-generated videos. The experimental partnership, which launched in late July, is aimed at marrying the editorial acumen of a traditional newsroom with the user-generated immediacy... [Read more...]
Date:
08/02/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Although many news organizations know they should incorporate Facebook into their social media strategies, so far they've had to rely on independent consultants to tell them what works. This week, however, Facebook outlined best practices on how news organizations can connect with the site's enormous and highly engaged user base. The findings are the result of a several-month long study by an internal team that examined Facebook usage at major... [Read more...]
Date:
06/27/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Tom Tague isn't content to let an article just be an article. "How do I take a chunk of text," he asked, "and turn it into a chunk of data?"He was speaking Thursday night at a panel discussion hosted by Hacks/Hackers, a San Francisco-based group that bridges the worlds of journalism and engineering. Coinciding with the 2010 Semantic Technology Conference, Thursday's presentation dealt with the Web's evolution from a tangle... [Read more...]
Date:
05/28/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » Poynter
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published At a conference last weekend for developers of iPad news apps, organizer Burt Herman posed an unexpected question: "How can we make news more like finger-painting?" he asked.He was responding to a point made by Jennifer Bove of Kicker Studio, a product-design firm. She had just pointed out how satisfying it is to manipulate media on the iPad, comparing it to painting. "It's as close as we can get to... [Read more...]
