Presentation to Sound Publishing reporters. Links from presentation: http://wiredpen.com/2009/04/10/community-journalism-in-transition/

1. Journalism With A Capital “J”
Community Journalism In Transi1on
10 April 2009

2. 1.
The
900‐
Pound
Gorilla

3. Collapse of
Space, Time

4. The End of
Scarcity

5. Push BuEon
Publishing,
Shoo1ng

6. The Growth
of Networks

7. Disintermedia1on

8. As to Bell's talking telegraph, it
only creates interest in scien1fic
circles... its commercial values will
be limited.
‐ Elisha Gray

9. EPIC 2015

10. Money is the great power today.
Men sell their souls for it... The
money power has grown so great
that the issue of all issues is
whether the corpora1on shall rule
this country or the country shall
again rule the corpora1ons.
‐ Joseph Pulitzer, 1878

11. 2. Trends: Shi; Happens

12. Opera1ng Profit Margin,
Public Newspapers
• Mid‐1980s : 22%
• 1998 : 21%
• 2005 : 19%

14. 39%
Read A “Newspaper” Yesterday
Pew

15. 9%
Read It Online Only
Pew

16. State of the News Media, 2009

17. State of the News Media, 2009

18. Despera1on Thy Name Is

22. I don't so much mind that
newspapers are dying ‐‐ it's
watching them commit suicide that
pisses me off.
‐ Molly Ivins, 2006

23. 3. You Are Not Alone

26. Photobucket v Kodak

27. It’s TV, Too

28. Publishing is a business, but
journalism never was and is not
essen1ally a business.
‐ Henry R. Luce

29. 4. The Market
Abhors A
Vacuum

30. Blogging
So`ware
Is A Tool

31. How We Got Here
• 1998: Monica & Bill (Drudge)
• 9.11.2001
• 2002: Trent LoE (right & le`)
• 2004: Memogate
• 2004: Asian Tsunami
• 2005: London bombings
• 2007: AEorneyGate (TPM, George Polk award)

32. Google Is
Not Your
Enemy

33. Share Links
• 4 of 5 readers come in through search and
links – Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine

34. San Diego Fire
+
Western Washington Floods

35. Other Examples
• OhMyNews
• WikiLeaks
• Newsvine
• The Stranger: The SLOG (Erica BarneE)

36. Steve Dorsey, deputy managing
editor for presenta1on and
innova1on at the Free Press, began
distribu1ng photos of the Monday
edi1ons of the Free Press and the
News at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday
night... via Twitpic, the TwiEer
photo sharing service.
Poynter

37. PBS:
Radio on
iPhone

38. Journalism is our day book, our
collec1ve diary, which records our
common life.
‐ James W. Carey, 1998

39. 5. Tools

41. RSS

42. Blogs
• Both read and write
• Do this now : think of an idea for a blog
– Is it about how you cover your beat?
– Is it a way to share info that didn’t make it into the
paper?
– Is it subject‐oriented: reviews, lifestyle, features?
– Town Crier, Town Square or Town Expert?

43. More To‐Dos
• Dra` your first post: 10 things you need to
know about …
• Be sure to link to sources
• Be sure to promote via TwiEer, Delicious,
Publish2.0, Technora1
• Develop a blogroll of related content
• Comment on those blogs

44. +

46. A New Genre
• D versus @ versus RT
• Follow versus Friend (“block”)
• Favorites
• Broadcast (one‐way) versus Converse (two‐
way)
• Nibble v Full Course
• Many v Few
• TinyUrl et al

47. TwiEer
• Get 1ps on breaking news stories in your
community
• Share informa1on and links with the
community
• Know the topics of community interest
• Have a conversa1on with your readers
• Local model: Monica Guzman @moniguzman

48. It’s so much easier to ask a
ques1on to my locals on TwiEer
than to call each and every one of
them. I just wouldn’t have 1me to
call that many people.
‐ Kate Mar(n, blogger and educaLon reporter,
Skagit Valley (WA) Herald

49. TwiEer Tools
• TweetDeck & Sideline: The new ‘police
scanner’ or ‘wire feed’
• TwiEer Keywords: The # (hashtag)
• tr.im: TinyURL with analy1cs
• TwitPic: Publish pictures quickly
• Ping.fm: Update all networks at once
• TwiEerFeed: your blog’s wirefeed

50. Mul1media
• Carry voice recorder (and remember to turn it
on) and a Flip (or something like it)
• Get friendly with GarageBand (Mac) or
Audacity (Mac/PC) … iMovie (Mac) or Muvee
(PC)
• Pay aEen1on to the compe11on

51. Mobile/Video
• Qik
• Seesmic
• Eric Schmidt on camera phones
• Twee1ng live events

52. Distribu1on
• YouTube
• Flickr
• Technora1
• TwiEer

53. quot;In journalism, there has always
been a tension between gewng it
first and gewng it right.quot;
– Ellen Goodman

54. 6. Tips

55. Be Transparent.
Update, Correct But
Note The Change.

56. TwiEer is a
not a publica1on.

57. Mul1media:
Don’t Auto‐Play
On Load!

59. You Need Data.

60. Final Thoughts
• The mass audience is dead
• Publishing is free (push‐buEon)
• The cost of dealing with atoms goes up
as profit goes down
• Today’s professional listens as well as
talks
• This is not a cyclical change

61. The illiterate of the 21st century
will not be those who cannot read
or write, but those who cannot
learn, unlearn and relearn.
‐ Alvin Toffler

62. 7. Homework

66. Read / Watch
• Clay Shirky
• Howard Rheingold
• Jay Rosen
• TheReadWriteWeb
• A Fair(y) Use Tale (copyright)
• RSS (et al) In Plain English

67. Credits
• Mar1n quote from Journalism in the Starbucks
era
• Photos are iStockPhoto or fair use except:
– Gorilla, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahalie/135395689/
– Crowd, http://www.flickr.com/photos/twose/887903401/
– Tools, http://www.flickr.com/photos/willemvelthoven/
100371987/
– Homework, http://www.flickr.com/photos/vonbjort/
2399552152/
– Megaphone, http://warkscol.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/
superchick_megaphone_logo_hi.jpg

68. CC License:
share&share alike, aEribu1on,
non‐commercial
Kathy E. Gill
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