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Sep
29
A look into the future
Posted by Vera Haller on Sep 29, 2008 under: community journalism, journalism education, multimedia, online news, social networking, video | 5 Comments
An interesting posting by the Poynter Institute’s Ellyn Agnoletti gives us a peak into the future. Agnoletti attended the recent Online News Association conference and came back with a list of emerging technologies that could have an impact on how the news is delivered.
Take a look here and let me know if you find anything of interest.
Aug
24
Coming of age
Posted by Vera Haller on Aug 24, 2008 under: blogs, community journalism, journalism education, newspapers, online news, politics | 11 Comments
The convention season now upon us will not just result in the official naming of the presidential candidates for the Democratic and Republican parties. If you read all the hype in the media, the conventions also will mark a milestone for political bloggers — legitimatizing them beyond any lingering doubts.
The articles stating this apparent truth are countless. Just today, readers on nytimes.com can read, “The Year of the Political Blogger Has Arrived.” Look back a few days and find this column on The Times of London’s Web site that states the Democratic National Convention (starting tomorrow in Denver) has been hit with “Obamedia frenzy.” The column by Richard Siklos contends that blogs such as Politico and The Huffington Post are as hot a commodity as the candidate himself.
In fact, bloggers are taking center stage at the DNC gathering — even warranting the construction of a two-story tent (sponsored by Google among others; see photo from Flickr) where credentialed bloggers will have free WiFi and other amenities. For a list of the accredited bloggers, see this page on the DNC Web site. It will be a good place to start if you want to sample some of the blogging that’s coming off of the convention floor.
If you’re wondering where the political heavyweights go for their political news, check out this link: www.google.com/powerreaders. Here, Google says it has collected the sites read by the two candidates, John McCain and Obama, as well as the sites followed by political journalists.
Save the date. On Oct. 28, the Baruch College Journalism Department will sponsor a panel discussion on the impact political blogging has had on this presidential election. More details to come.
Jan
31
New or not?
Posted by Vera Haller on Jan 31, 2008 under: journalism education, online news | 4 Comments
Here is a column worth reading. It’s by Steve Klein in the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits blog. He makes a very good case for journalism schools to stop referring to journalism on the Web as “new media.” Here’s the link. You have to scroll down to the entry, “Revenge of the ‘Web people.’”