Why?

Do something now Write on a piece of paper one par: Why you’re studying online journalism skills. BE HONEST. Don’t write what you think I want to hear. Keep it anonymous Hand them in when finished 5 minutes!

Write on a piece of paper one par: Why you’re studying online journalism skills. BE HONEST. Don’t write what you think I want to hear.

Keep it anonymous

Hand them in when finished

5 minutes!

Now, my turn.

Northcliffe

“ Fully integrated multi-media newsrooms … all 1,500 journalists writing for both print and online ”

Trinity Mirror

“ Every morning the journalists check YouTube and MySpace for our local area"

“ web-savvy, who know what RSS is, who can edit video”

Manchester Evening News

“ I don’t want to hire single-platform journalists anymore,” Paul Horrocks, editor

Guardian, FT.com, BBC, Sky

“ A journalist with interchangeable skills is more valuable than one without…”

“… newly hired journalists are expected to be able to work in more than one area.” K Saltzis, From Single to Multimedia News

http://ulken.com/blog/archive/000145.html Technical skills required in journo job ads

Do something now Sign up to Twitter.com Go to twitter.com/paulbradshaw and click ‘Follow’ Get ready to Twitter! 5 minutes!

Sign up to Twitter.com

Go to twitter.com/paulbradshaw and click ‘Follow’

Get ready to Twitter!

5 minutes!

Twitter (microblogging)

140

140 = “ Twitter is a great way of breaking news very quickly and easily. Twitter’s mobile notification makes it perfect for this kind of service.”

Twitter is a great way of breaking news very quickly and easily. Twitter’s mobile notification makes it perfect for this kind of service.

Mobile

Alerts

Live events

Social (browse, network)

‘ Call out’ (contributors, tips, leads)

Search

Subscribe

Aggregate from

Aggregate to

Who?

Assigning reporter roles We’re launching a news site. We’re recruiting! The editors and I need to decide who covers which ‘beats’… … and here’s the assignment brief while we’re at it.

We’re launching a news site. We’re recruiting! The editors and I need to decide who covers which ‘beats’…

… and here’s the assignment brief while we’re at it.

Break.

RSS

+

Social

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Do something now Sign up to Del.icio.us Sign up to Google Reader Add OJB to your RSS feed subscriptions Join the OJB Facebook group Add other group members to your twitter 5 minutes!

Sign up to Del.icio.us

Sign up to Google Reader

Add OJB to your RSS feed subscriptions

Join the OJB Facebook group

Add other group members to your twitter

5 minutes!

Do more Go to Google News and search for key words. Set up a Google Alert or RSS feed for that search. Do the same at http://blogsearch.google.com/ and Technorati. Bookmark. Subscribe to useful RSS feeds. Do a Google search and, for a good result, click on ‘similar pages’. Bookmark. Search delicious. Add other ‘taggers’ to your network Explore Digg and Reddit too. Search Twitter Join a useful Facebook group, bookmark it Identify potential contributors TWITTER ANYTHING INTERESTING!

Go to Google News and search for key words. Set up a Google Alert or RSS feed for that search.

Do the same at http://blogsearch.google.com/ and Technorati. Bookmark. Subscribe to useful RSS feeds.

Do a Google search and, for a good result, click on ‘similar pages’. Bookmark.

Search delicious. Add other ‘taggers’ to your network

Explore Digg and Reddit too.

Search Twitter

Join a useful Facebook group, bookmark it

Identify potential contributors

TWITTER ANYTHING INTERESTING!

Directed study (5 hours) Read the reading Build your personal news service and RSS feeds Immerse yourself in your specialist area, read, network, browse, search, connect Twitter anything interesting Identify forthcoming events you might Twitter from live By next week you should have researched enough material to write a draft article , e.g. ‘Ten things you need to know about…’ Remember: editorial meeting next week, 1pm, Costa.

Read the reading

Build your personal news service and RSS feeds

Immerse yourself in your specialist area, read, network, browse, search, connect

Twitter anything interesting

Identify forthcoming events you might Twitter from live

By next week you should have researched enough material to write a draft article , e.g. ‘Ten things you need to know about…’

Remember: editorial meeting next week, 1pm, Costa.

Pub!