This is the second part of my inaugural lecture at City University London, ‘Is Ice Cream Strawberry?’. The first part can be found here. Cars, roads and picnics Throughout the 20th century there were two ways of getting big things done – and a third way of getting small things done. Clay Shirky sums these up very succinctly in terms
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Above is an image representing how journalism has traditionally been done: You went and gathered your information You put it all together in an attractive package: the article, the broadcast package And someone else took that to the readers or viewers That linear process is pretty much redundant online. See the diagram below. I’ve found myself drawing this so often
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Last week I spoke at the BBC College of Journalism’s Future of Journalism conference about the future newsroom, and the News Diamond specifically. Chair Louise Minchin asked the following question: did these new production processes mean journalists would become more passive? It is a great question. On the surface that’s what would appear to be happening: in posting alerts and blog
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The third part of the results of my survey of blogging journalists looks at how blogging has affected how stories are researched. As journalists move onto gathering information for a story, the scope of easily accessible sources is made broader by journalists’ involvement in blogs.
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