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Business Models | February 26, 2010
The case of the CBC wiki
For all the talk of how online journalism is affecting individual journalists, newspapers and other media organizations, there is one entity that often is left out: the public broadcast system. Canada is trying to change that. An innovative initiative aimed at creating a wiki page for Canadian music is shedding new light on the … Read More
Engagement | February 24, 2010
Texas State professor examines the New York Times Interactive News Technology department
Amidst all the talk of the demise of newspapers and the reports on newspaper closures and the failures of journalism, sit the academics. When a story is written about the collapse of a media organization, it is written by professional journalists within the industry. But, in the background, university academics analyze the situation, research it … Read More
Research | February 22, 2010
2010 Symposium is record-breaking for research portion of event
The 2010 International Symposium on Online Journalism will be a record-breaking one for the eleventh year of the event. The research portion of the conference, which began in 2004, has seen a steady increase in participation, and 2010 featured the highest number of submissions ever. “We received over 40 submissions this year, and that just goes … Read More
Advertising | February 19, 2010
11th International Symposium on Online Journalism switches venues for the new decade
Preparations for the 11th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism are in full swing, and in just two short months, journalists, academics and the like will descend on Austin to discuss the ever-changing landscape of journalism in all its forms. For veterans of the symposium, one of the first things you’ll notice is that the … Read More
Engagement | April 18, 2009
Perspectives on Online Journalism
Ted Kian presented his research at the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism on how internet news coverage might create different frames for gender-related sports news. He said traditional sports news coverage frames women athletes as sex objects, trivializes their seriousness, and gives men’s sports more coverage than women’s sports. The internet presents an opportunity … Read More
Citizen Journalism | April 18, 2009
The impact of web metrics on news judgment
How is citizen journalism understood? How does new technology help us understand our audience? These are questions Chris Anderson posed to the audience at the beginning of his panel during the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism. Anderson looked at the relationship between a quantifiable audience (which can be measured in numbers, visits and clicks) … Read More
Research | April 18, 2009
Readers’ Comments as Productive Participation
Edith Manosevitch, a researcher from the Kettering Foundation, discussed her research paper “Readers’ Comments to Online Editorials as a Space of Public Deliberation.” She touched on the research that has been done before on UGC and the potential of online media. But she noted that there a scarcity of work on analysis of the content: … Read More
Research | April 18, 2009
Internet’s Role in Democratization of News in China
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dong Han presented his research paper “State Policy and News Websites in China” during the 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism. “They want to boost internet for the economy but at the same time control content,” he said. The core of the state regulation is licensing, or who … Read More
Citizen Journalism | April 18, 2009
Citizen Journalism, User-Generated Content and Crowdsourcing
The second panel of Saturday’s ISOJ covered “Citizen Journalism, User-Generated Content and Crowdsourcing: Who is Contributing to the Conversation and Why?” Academics from all over the United States and the world contributed information they had gathered on user interaction and how it affects journalism. User-generated content, or UGC, has been an interesting issue for online journalism.Cindy … Read More
Business Models | April 18, 2009
Waterfalls? Bottled water? Torry Pedersen’s take on Newsroom Integration
Is newsroom integration working? Not for VG online Editor-in-Chief Torry Pedersen it isn’t. (VG online is Norway’s most profitable and most read news site) Should it work? According to Pederson, no again. Pedersen offered some very interesting percentages to back up his argument. Out of the 4.8 people in Norway, newspapers reach 52 percent of … Read More