1. Multimedia
Journalism
Applications & Arguments
Speed, mobility, and News 2.0:
digital dilemmas in journalism
2. News 2.0
News 2.0
Mobile
Interactive
Applications
What can we do
with multimedia?
Arguments
What should we do with multimedia?
Political economy of News 2.0
Social, cultural, ethical, legal issues
3. The changing newsroom
The analogue newsroom is now a museum piece.
Not only has the gender balance and dress code changed significantly, the
language and practices of the old newsroom are as dead as the Dodo.
Copy is no longer „spiked‟; the „morgue‟ is now a Google away and individual
workstations have replaced the long backbench where the old-fashioned
sub-editors used to work.
The convergence newsroom is a totally different beast.
4. The newsroom of now
Wheels in motion
As more news organisations develop their
newsroom models to deal with
convergence, the traditional long room shape
with desks in rows has been replaced by the
true hub style.
•Editorial functions are managed from the
hub
•Editors and senior staff operate as a team
•Reporters are assigned workspaces
according to their function
•Writers are together
•Video producers and reporters must have
a quiet and sound-proof space for editing
•Voice booths and interview studios are
clustered along the outside walls
•Access to studios must be efficient both
electronically and physically
•All content is stored on a central server
5. Multimedia = Multi-discipline
Who’s who in the digital zoo?
These are some of the new job
descriptions that are emerging
in the integrated newsroom:
•Multimedia Producer
•Video Editor
•Database Developer
•Software Developer
•Flash Journalist
•Design Technologist
6. Mobility & Speed
24 hour news cycle
Need to be first on-the-scene
First with the news
Multiple sources
57 channels and nothing on
When too much news is barely enough
Trust / Credibility / Ethics
Citizen journalism, eye-witness accounts
7. News as conversation
News 2.0
More commercial channels include audience
feedback (good, bad, ugly)
More independent channels
+ social media
Blogs
Twitter
Facebook
No longer just an audience
8. Applications
Multimedia journalism – screen-based
Image-rich, slideshows, video
Quick turn-around
Editing is important
Smaller, lighter, faster
HD quality for not much money
Close to the action
Adapted to smart phones
Easy to share
9. New news needs new methods
Social media is a channel for distribution, but also
news selection, news gathering and news research
Key applications to consider and integrate
Facebook
iGoogle or similar browser/home page application
Twitter and various „tweetdeck‟ applications
Location-based services
10. Mobile Applications
Good video smart phone
Digital HD + expansion card
Smart phone editing app
Link clips, embed audio, add titles
Video-streaming app
Live upload and streaming
Share to social media
Liveblogging
Keyboard app or notepad
11. Professional Applications
News 2.0:
the newsroom never sleeps
Live crosses – camera-to-webstream
Backpack journalism
Field editing with Final Cut etc
Rapid deployment
Difficult circumstances
upskilling/
de-skilling/
re-skilling?
12. Digital story-telling
As that world becomes more
connected through the Internet,
the importance of learning to use
digital tools to share your ideas,
your vision, your stories
becomes all the more critical.
Miguel Ghulin –
Around the corner blog
Uses multi-media resources
Text
Video
Audio
Slideshows
Flash
13. User-generated news-like content
UGNC takes many different forms
Accidental journalist
Eye-witness
Recording events as they unfold
Aftermath reporting
Political purposes
Activist use of social media
Citizen Journalism
Commercial Propaganda
Advertorial
Viral marketing
Stunts
14. SohaibAlthar has become an unlikely folk hero since his tweets
about this event were discovered. Overnight, he has gained
45000 followers and been added to over 300+ lists.
He‟s received calls and emails from all over the world to give
his account of what happened in Abbottabad.
Althar provided an invaluable insight on an international event
just by using Twitter like 200 million users do every day.
15. Arguments
Definitions of what a journalist is are contested
Profile of journalists working in news industry is changing
Types of jobs for journalists are changing
Is UGNC and “the people we used to call the
audience” undermining the credibility and power of
the mainstream media?
17. Citizen Journalist
A conscious link between
citizenship and journalistic sense-making
Activist-journalist
Advocacy journalism
Mass movement media
Organised
Seemingly disorganised
Spontaneous – not journalism?
18. Techno-legal time-gap
What we can do – tools are available
to surveill and store and
recover digital data
What is regulated
What is sanctioned by the law
19. The Ethico-legal Paradox
All the grey areas
Online privacy and invasions of privacy
BSA / Press Council / Privacy Commission
Ongoing discussion about regulation and self-regulation
Issues of territorial and global jurisdiction
Defamation / Contempt of court / Copyright
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22. The Herald on Sunday wanted to speak directly with Sperling. We
found her through Facebook - and anyone using the website should
be aware of how we did it.
Picture editor Chris Marriner obtained access to her Facebook page
through one of Sperling's online "friends". Facebook's privacy
function allow users to leapfrog through people's social networks.
This gave us access to her online musings, updates on life and
photographs of her family.
David Fisher, Herald on Sunday http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid= 10668011
23. Three months ago, when controversial financier Mark Hotchin
vanished to Hawaii, all media were desperate to find his holiday
home.
A photograph was posted on Facebook from someone who
visited Hotchin. It didn't show much - the view from the house, a
pool in the foreground and the headland across the bay.
Photographer Jason Dorday pulled up satellite images from
Google Earth and crawled the coastline until he found the
headland that matched. That identified the beach - and a trawl of
mansions advertised for rent on that coast included photographs
showing the same distinctive pool.
David Fisher, Herald on Sunday
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=
10668011
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25. News 2.0
the news industry is seen to be failing our
democratic ideals
journalists are low on international surveys of people
we trust
the professional ethos of journalism is under threat
from UGC
the commodity form of news is no longer providing
the profits it once did
26. News navigator
a navigator‟s most important role is to facilitate a
discussion about the news
a navigator has to be a talented reporter, analyst,
convener and multimedia “super-journo.”
27. Ethics is still important
Learn more about privacy. You can find a lot of
information about people online, especially via social
networking sites, but think carefully about the
consequences.
And bear in mind that it cuts both ways, if you do not
do it carefully, your online research could
compromise your sources.
28. Now more than ever, we need professional journalists
to help distinguish the wheat of reliable news and
credible opinion from the chaff of information, rumor
and propaganda that clogs the Internet, and to help
create the next-generation vehicles for online
journalism.
Doug Millison, The journalist of tomorrow, 1999
