Notes for Karen’s Copy Editing/Design class
Questions for the class:
- What does "digital journalism" or "online news" mean to you? Are the terms synonymous? Why or why not?
- What online news sites do you frequent? Why? How often?
- Do you read a newspaper regularly? Watch TV news? Listen to the radio?
Key change: communication model is no longer one-to-many. Participatory – multi-directional.
Most content will be first encountered away from the domain in which it originated: eg,
RSS feeds
(for blogs, online news, other web sites), "TV" on the iPod (one step "beyond" Tivo/Replay)
Mainstream media response:
- MSNBC – Katrina
- Bluffton (SC) Today
- Washington Post
- NY TImes
Quotes:
- "[C]ontent will be more important than its container in
this next phase [of the Web]… search, RSS and video-capture software
such as TiVo… have begun to unlock content from any vessel we try to
put it in." –Tom Curley, Associated Press CEO, November 2004 -
"In the era of Internet television, it will be as simple and cost-effective
to create a microchannel as it is to create a Web site."
Jeremy Allaire, Brightcove (creator of Dreamweaver and Cold Fusion), October 2005 -
Journalism is "our day book, our collective diary, which records
our common life. That which goes unrecorded goes
unpreserved … The creation and preservation of collective
memory…" is the practice of journalism. – James W. Carey
More: Lecture – Online Media & Blogosphere
