Category: Research

Community Building: Keeping the Audience on Your Side

Making readers park their cars, online that is, was the main topic Friday afternoon addressed by five panelists. “We can always get readers to do drive bys,” said Jim Brady, vice president and executive editor of WashingtonPost.com. “But what can we do to actually make readers want to park their car.” The ninth annual International …  Read More

Users Redefine Newsworthiness of Online Journalism

With news as the third most popular online activity, researchers study how the appeal of traditional newsworthiness should cater to a new and fresh online audience. Syracuse University graduate student Ji Young Kim spoke about the new newsworthiness for online journalism at the 8th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism on Saturday afternoon. Kim discussed a study she …  Read More

Wikipedia’s Content Favors Newer Subjects

“I personally love Wikipedia,” said graduate student Deepina Kapila, “But I take it with a grain of salt.” While the debate over the accuracy of online user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia’s continues, Cindy Royal, an assistant professor at Texas State University, alongside graduate student Deepina Kapila, analyzed the site from a fresh angle.  The pair presented their …  Read More

Sink or Swim: Adapting to the New Media Environment

Bob Dylan once sang about adjusting to rapid change with his song, “The Times They are A-Changin.” No doubt today’s media environment can relate. Leading journalist researchers from around the world offered advice on how to take advantage of the changes in online journalism during the third panel titled, “Strategic Positioning in the New Media …  Read More

Podcasting: the New Salvation for Online Journalism?

If print newsrooms are to survive, their managers must be open to innovation and creativity,  and podcasting can assist them, two Syracuse University students said at the 7th International Symposium on Online Journalism. Podcasting is the distribution of audio or video files, such as radio programs or music videos, over the Internet. It is a …  Read More

The Agenda-Setting Effects Exist on the Internet, McCombs Confirms

Max McCombs, internationally recognized for his research on the agenda-setting role of mass communication, discussed the Internet as a new frontier for agenda-setting effects during the 7th International Symposium on Online Journalism. In response to a scholarly discussion that the Internet may end the agenda-setting effect, he confirmed the agenda-setting effects do exist on the …  Read More

The Future of Multimedia in the Online Newsroom

Researchers in the multimedia world gathered on Saturday during the 7th International Symposium on Online Journalism to discuss the different trends and their future effects on the developing world of online journalism. One study found that more men than women involved browse for technology news. “Sixty-nine percent of all men and 66 percent of women …  Read More

UT Grad Students Survey Online Journalism

Taking charge of the second half of the panel on Issues in Online Journalism at the 2005 International Symposium on Online Journalism, graduate students Sonia Huang and Tania Cantrell gave in-depth analysis of who is using online news sources and how their experiences affect what they read. Following Thomas Terry’s presentation on independent journalism and …  Read More

Nora Paul Defines Interactive Multimedia

Nora Paul does not like “squishy” terms such as “interactive multimedia.” She was once told that an interactive multimedia presentation consisted of a story on the Web in which the byline was a hyperlink to the writer’s bio, and there was a link to a video on the same page. She was not pleased with …  Read More

Using Multimedia to Save the Media

Jane Stevens believes that we have reached the end of journalism as we know it. Stevens, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Journalism and freelance multimedia journalist, said that while many of her students scramble to find a way to save print journalism, she wants to save journalism itself. “There …  Read More