1. The Future of Journalism and
How to Teach it
Lou Rutigliano
Doctoral Student
UT-Austin

2. Blogging

3. Blogging
Citizen journalism

4. Blogging
Citizen journalism
crowdsourcing

5. Blogging
Citizen journalism
crowdsourcing
Pro/am

6. Blogging
Citizen journalism
crowdsourcing
Pro/am
Hyperlocal news

7. Blogging
Citizen journalism
crowdsourcing
Pro/am
Hyperlocal news
Ubiquitous
information

8. Blogging
Citizen journalism
crowdsourcing
Pro/am
Hyperlocal news
Ubiquitous
information
Long tail

9. Blogging
Citizen journalism
crowdsourcing
Pro/am
Hyperlocal news
Ubiquitous
information
Long tail
Virtual
communities

10. “a meeting place for the communities
and debates that thrive within our
reader market”

11. “a meeting place for the communities
and debates that thrive within our
reader market”
“creating new sites to serve emerging
communities”

12. “a meeting place for the communities
and debates that thrive within our
reader market”
“creating new sites to serve emerging
communities”
“manage partnerships with
members of the community”

13. “editing horizontally”

14. “editing horizontally”
“draw ‘smart’ crowds - groups of people configured to
share intelligence - into collaboration”

15. “editing horizontally”
“draw ‘smart’ crowds - groups of people configured to
share intelligence - into collaboration”
“figure out what a good
smart mob story is…configure
the networks”

16. How do you teach that?

17. Back to the basics…
story ideas.
sources.
details.

18. But…
more transparent.
more available.
more responsibilities.
more “playful engagement”

19. You don’t just need to regain audience, you
need to regain students. This helps.
reinforcing value of journalism.
Imagination and attitude as important
as any technical skills

20. “It would be a waste to limit the use of technology to
those who are trained journalists, and leaving out …
insights into communities that traditional journalists may
not have.”
“Citizen journalists will force professional
journalists to stay on their toes and take
advantage of Internet resources, but I think
its ‘cheerleaders’ exaggerate its integrity
and future role in society.”

21. “Another issue that bothers me is that people are talking
about the way things are changing so fast and the
Internet is the new face of the news. That is not true for
all 6 and a half billion of us. In many places the
internet..does not exist effectively for the average
citizen.”
“Considering (a citizen journalism website) also
has advertisements somewhat similar to
newspapers, what is to stop this new type of
journalism from evolving into the old corporate
driven journalism we have today?”

22. “If citizen journalists want these stories..then we should
let them..Journalists working for papers and stations
can now use the funding and backing they receive to
burrow like thorns into the sides of city hall, the federal
government, police, FBI, CIA, NSA, big corporations..”
“If I could create a hyperlocal I would focus on a
map-based 3-d software…the info would resemble
something like citysearch but completely visual
based..that would be fricking awesome.”

23. If you don’t have a class like this, you
should, and if you have one already,
you should offer it early.

24. rutigliano@mail.utexas.edu
If you don’t have a class like this, you
should, and if you have one already,
you should offer it early.