This chapter is not how to use any particular technology, its about how to use a wide range of technologies to knock down barriers, the bring your readers closer to journalism and to bring journalism closer to the readers.
New Reporting Methods:
- Crowdsourcing– The internet allows communities to come together a provide value for a Web site. Crowdsourcing focuses that community power together on a specific project- shows that that group can outperform a small group of trained professionals and paid professionals.
- Open-source reporting– open source refers to design, development and distribution. Giving practical accessibility to the product’s sources (the goods and the knowledge). Using this in journalism means using transparency- away that you can provide benefits to the audience and the audience can provide benefits to you.
- Pro-am Journalism– most unfiltered form of collaborative journalism- allows audience to publish to the same platform, or wed-site that the professional journalists publish on. This helps produce broader and more in depth coverage.
Crowdsourcing: Distributed Reporting
- comes from outsourcing
- the power of community
- improves service and information base
- “many hands make light work”
- Reporting to a specific project
- Answering specific question
- Very powerful tool for reporting news
Crowdsourcing is Important because:
- widely differing results
- It’s not a one size fits all approach
- Can have thousands of contributions
- Hearing from the readers
- but does not work in all situations
Open-Source Rrepoting
- Today: news organization’s journalism MUST BE transparent, authentic and collaborative.
- Blogs and Twitter are good open-source reporting will not replace traditional journalism- but not the object it just bring the reader closer to the journalism and the journalism close to the reader- WHICH is the point
- Discloser of invited the reader to help with the reporting on the story
Why its important:
- Welcomes the audience’s feedback.
- Opening the process of reporting helps the journalists credibility and social capital.
Beatblogging: blogging
- Concept: build a social network around a traditional reporting beat.
- a reporter can get into beat more deeply by listening to an informed conversation among loyal readers.
Link Journalism:
- links power the web
- interactive form of information medium
- easy access to sources and documents or other coverage.
- great content with out hunting for it yourself
Pro-am Journalism
- do it yourself
- sometimes readers want to do reporting too
- no news organization can be everywhere
- readers can provide the “what” and the “why” sometimes too
- the power of the crowd and readers is very powerful and never ending information
Collaborative Publishing is here to stay:
- is not a fad
- a way to do better work news organizations must have the power of the crowd to be more efficient, more transparent and more effective.
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