Comments on: Newsgathering IS production IS distribution (Model for a 21st century newsroom pt.1 cont.)

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By: Triston Wallace

Triston Wallace — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:07:50 +0000

Paul – simultaneous thinking!

As you were scoping this, I (and others at Skillset) were coming up with a similar model to describe the changes that are impacting on not just publishing but the whole of the creative media sector. I think that the convergening circles – of “newsgathering”, “news production” and “news distribution” (or “Concept”, “Construct” and “Connect” in our model) is the best way to show how technology is changing the financial, operational and IP models of all our industries.

One area that we may have gone further with is the postition of the audience/reader. I argue that they are now much more intertiwned with both the Concept and Construct phases of media creation. I am not saying that we are all journalists now, just that the audience has a much more effective way of helping shape the content. This may not be a good thing!

One final point. This model is a great threat to traditional parts of the industry. It doesn’t mean that it’s not going to happen. All parts need to think about themselves as how to make sure they keep their income.

For more on our thinking please see http://blog.skillset.org/index.php/2009/03/concept-construct-connect-a-different-way-to-look-at-the-creative-media-industry/

Thanks for bringing your thoughts to my attention, Paul. Good to see others thinking in the same way.

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I’m launching an MA in Online Journalism | Online Journalism Blog — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:40:50 +0000

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Pushing Politico « Qwerty2009’s Blog — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:35:56 +0000

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By: paulbradshaw

paulbradshaw — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:56:14 +0000

It means the journalist cannot act alone, or by deadline, but in a networked, open way. That can make for better quality and more page impressions (more routes to find information), if done right!

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links for 2009-02-13 « David Black — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:06:00 +0000

[...] Newsgathering IS production IS distribution – Online Journalism Blog "Newsgathering, production and distribution are often the same thing in an online environment The point is clear. Thanks to networked technologies – and RSS in particular – there is no reason why newsgathering cannot also be news production, or news distribution." (tags: internet media newspapers newspapersites journalism newsrooms socialmedia trends) [...]

By: Jody Godoy

Jody Godoy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:56:24 +0000

Aside from the monetary concerns, I’m worried what the conflation of these activities means for the intellectual process of journalism. It seems the reporter who constantly thinks of his or her story as a quick-sell product has a different job than in the past when these spheres were separate. Resulting, as you said, in lower quality, but also making journalism a different experience altogether. I guess those are the breaks.

By: Guy Clapperton

Guy Clapperton — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:38:42 +0000

Certainly things are changing and there’s much in what Paul says. What you don’t address, though, is the need for the journalist to monetise the process somehow. I’m happy to be in today’s Guardian, for example; I did a little searching for comment on Twitter and Facebook as well as my existing network of contacts as I now do, but actual publication of the article had to happen through a ‘legitimate’ old-fashioned source otherwise I won’t get paid. And if a tranche of journalists doesn’t get paid then clearly we won’t write any more – then the notion of polished, quality-controlled journalism will fade away.

This may or may not happen and a lot of people might shrug and wonder ‘so what’ – but I can nearly guarantee they’ll miss it, and the unpolished brigade will start smarting when they get sued for the first time and realise that they need the training the outmoded professionals have had.

I’ve no doubt changes are happening. I can’t yet get my brain around how we turn the new media into a workable business model.

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Practicumpioneers’s Blog — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:37:51 +0000

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By: paulbradshaw

paulbradshaw — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:45:55 +0000

Agreed – if you see the Model for a 21st Century Newsroom part 1 (http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2007/09/17/a-model-for-the-21st-century-newsroom-pt1-the-news-diamond/) you’ll see this is the start of a longer process, although I think we should look harder at how the way we publish and distribute information can also feed into newsgathering (see part 2 – distributed journalism and part 4: push-pull-pass distribution!)