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This document discusses journalism ethics and values. It examines whether ethics should be timeless or adapt to changes. The author analyzes updates to core principles from 1990s-2015 regarding truth, transparency, accountability and consequences. Guidance is provided in 45 specific areas like reporting issues, writing, conduct, policies and financing. Enforcing ethics through codes and conversations rather than legal action is discussed. The use of confidential sources and linking practices are debated from an ethical perspective. Overall, the document explores balancing core values with adapting to changes in technology and society.
This document provides options and deadlines for students' 5th assignment in a media writing class. It outlines that students can cover a sports event by interviewing speakers or crowds, fact-checking, or reporting after the event. For their election-focused assignment, students can cover a campaign event, candidate's positions, election night results, or interview voters. The document also lists deadlines for the 5th, 3rd, 6th assignments and final story. It provides availability to meet with the instructor and gives feedback on students' interviewing skills.
This document provides guidance and tips for writing for social media. It discusses that social media can be used as a journalistic tool to find sources and stories. It emphasizes keeping social media writing brief, engaging audiences with questions, hashtags and images. The document also covers writing breaking news, crowdsourcing, and using social media to practice concise writing skills through limiting content to 140 characters like in a tweet. Famous quotes from historical figures are shown as examples of conveying important ideas concisely in a tweet.
The document provides guidance on covering various types of events for different writing roles in journalism, public relations, political communication, and advertising. It discusses preparing for an event, approaches to live coverage through tools like livetweeting and liveblogging, getting visual and audio coverage, taking comprehensive notes, watching for unexpected developments, conducting interviews, and following up with fact-checking and assessing impact. Types of events that are covered include meetings, trials, press conferences, sporting events, concerts, debates, conferences, and awards ceremonies. The roles of different disciplines at events like curating social media reaction are also outlined.
The document provides guidance for a media writing class, including tips on what makes a story newsworthy, such as being timely, important, interesting, with local impact or human interest. It announces an in-class writing exercise where students write a news story about themselves and includes possible approaches. The document also lists guests who will be speaking to the class, including people from Sports Business Daily and The Associated Press.
The document discusses different writing processes and provides information about upcoming guests and a quiz question. It mentions that today's quiz asks whether numbers should be spelled out in dates, percentages, numbers smaller than 10, or ages. It also outlines three writing processes - the Don Murray process which starts with an idea and collecting, the Chip Scanlan process which focuses before collecting, and the Roy Peter Clark process. Finally, it notes there will be guests on Tuesday and Thursday but provides no other details.
This document provides guidance on grammar, style, and writing best practices. It discusses the differences between active and passive voice, proper use of who/whom, avoiding weak language, and using strong and specific words. It also announces that students can present on a grammar topic starting September 27th for a class assignment.
This document discusses journalism ethics and values. It examines whether ethics should be timeless or adapt to changes. The author analyzes updates to core principles from 1990s-2015 regarding truth, transparency, accountability and consequences. Guidance is provided in 45 specific areas like reporting issues, writing, conduct, policies and financing. Enforcing ethics through codes and conversations rather than legal action is discussed. The use of confidential sources and linking practices are debated from an ethical perspective. Overall, the document explores balancing core values with adapting to changes in technology and society.
This document provides options and deadlines for students' 5th assignment in a media writing class. It outlines that students can cover a sports event by interviewing speakers or crowds, fact-checking, or reporting after the event. For their election-focused assignment, students can cover a campaign event, candidate's positions, election night results, or interview voters. The document also lists deadlines for the 5th, 3rd, 6th assignments and final story. It provides availability to meet with the instructor and gives feedback on students' interviewing skills.
This document provides guidance and tips for writing for social media. It discusses that social media can be used as a journalistic tool to find sources and stories. It emphasizes keeping social media writing brief, engaging audiences with questions, hashtags and images. The document also covers writing breaking news, crowdsourcing, and using social media to practice concise writing skills through limiting content to 140 characters like in a tweet. Famous quotes from historical figures are shown as examples of conveying important ideas concisely in a tweet.
The document provides guidance on covering various types of events for different writing roles in journalism, public relations, political communication, and advertising. It discusses preparing for an event, approaches to live coverage through tools like livetweeting and liveblogging, getting visual and audio coverage, taking comprehensive notes, watching for unexpected developments, conducting interviews, and following up with fact-checking and assessing impact. Types of events that are covered include meetings, trials, press conferences, sporting events, concerts, debates, conferences, and awards ceremonies. The roles of different disciplines at events like curating social media reaction are also outlined.
The document provides guidance for a media writing class, including tips on what makes a story newsworthy, such as being timely, important, interesting, with local impact or human interest. It announces an in-class writing exercise where students write a news story about themselves and includes possible approaches. The document also lists guests who will be speaking to the class, including people from Sports Business Daily and The Associated Press.
The document discusses different writing processes and provides information about upcoming guests and a quiz question. It mentions that today's quiz asks whether numbers should be spelled out in dates, percentages, numbers smaller than 10, or ages. It also outlines three writing processes - the Don Murray process which starts with an idea and collecting, the Chip Scanlan process which focuses before collecting, and the Roy Peter Clark process. Finally, it notes there will be guests on Tuesday and Thursday but provides no other details.
This document provides guidance on grammar, style, and writing best practices. It discusses the differences between active and passive voice, proper use of who/whom, avoiding weak language, and using strong and specific words. It also announces that students can present on a grammar topic starting September 27th for a class assignment.
This document provides information about an upcoming media writing class. It summarizes that there is a quiz today on punctuating sentences correctly that students should email their answers for. It also announces an academic workshop tomorrow evening on study skills. It briefly discusses the appropriate uses of exclamation points and partial quotes in media writing. Finally, it outlines the key characteristics of an inverted pyramid news story structure and why that structure remains important for press releases and digital/mobile content.
The document provides tips for finding and pursuing original story ideas. It suggests looking for ideas from news, people, social media, newspapers, websites, blogs, conflicts, context, impact, repetition, questions, technology, and inquiries. Crowdsourcing ideas from one's own social media, Facebook pages, groups, hashtags, and requests is also recommended. When pursuing a story, the document advises finding sources, determining real experts, gathering the essential facts of who, what, when, where, why and how much, considering the story elements and form, and collecting any relevant data.
This document discusses various interactive storytelling tools that can be used for digital journalism. It begins by providing examples of the author's online presence and contact information. It then poses planning questions about utilizing visuals, data, crowdsourcing, mobile opportunities, engagement, social media, and interactivity for digital audiences. Various types of interactive tools are listed, including live coverage, mapping, timelines, multimedia storytelling, data visualization, interactive databases, curation, animation, quizzes, polls and more. Advice is provided on imitating interactive stories, asking the original reporters/developers, reading code, and searching online groups. Examples are given of interactive community brackets and curation tools. Guidance is also offered on learning
This document provides guidance on using unnamed sources in journalism. It discusses when unnamed sources may be appropriate, such as when a source fears for their safety or job. Reporters should verify information from unnamed sources by asking for documentation and other sources who can corroborate the facts. Powerful or eager sources may try to manipulate reporters, so extra scrutiny is needed. Reporters should push sources to go on the record when possible and protect confidentiality only as a last resort.
These are slides for a class on updating communication ethics codes. Here's a blog post with some points and links related to the class: https://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/slides-and-links-on-mass-communication-codes-of-ethics/
Data visualization is a useful tool for storytelling that can show trends, changes, outliers, demographics, relationships, and processes in the data. It incorporates elements of time, place, demographics, results, and community input that can be analyzed individually or together. While Flash was once popular, Google Fusion/Maps is now a leading data visualization tool, and learning a new tool involves test driving it, checking tutorials on YouTube, developer blogs, or asking others for help.
This document provides guidance on writing for social media. It recommends tweeting during class at least 3 times using hashtags to discuss the topic. When tweeting, keep messages brief under 140 characters and consider images. Opinions are acceptable for some roles but know your organization's policies. Social media can be used as a reporting tool to find sources and verify information. When breaking news, share verified facts and what is unknown. Hashtags help with search and conversation. Crowdsourcing from social media also benefits reporting. Practice condensing ideas into tweets to improve concise writing. Famous speeches and sayings are shown condensed into tweets.
Job-Hunting in Today's Journalism MarketSteve Buttry
The document provides tips and advice for job hunting in journalism. It discusses positioning yourself for the next job hunt through networking, building your digital profile and resume, finding the right opportunities, pitching yourself for jobs, preparing for interviews, and following up. Specific tips include customizing application materials for each job, proofreading thoroughly, researching the hiring company and contacts, showing creativity in pitches, and following up with thank you notes. The presentation emphasizes the importance of networking through digital and in-person connections.
This document provides tips and best practices for using social media, particularly Twitter, for journalism and writing purposes. It encourages tweeting during class to practice concise writing within Twitter's 140 character limit. It discusses using images and tone to engage audiences and rewriting to get to the point quickly. It also addresses using social media as a reporting tool, being conversational rather than just posting links, asking questions to start discussions, and using hashtags to find sources and conversations. Famous speeches and writings are shown distilled into single tweet summaries as an example.
The document discusses priorities and strategies for transforming a newsroom to a digital-first model. It recommends that leadership set the example by embracing social media and digital tools. The newsroom workflow should be changed to prioritize digital platforms, breaking news should be published immediately online rather than waiting for print. Meetings and budgets should also reflect the digital focus of collecting and reporting news. Training staff on digital and interactive tools is essential to the transformation.
Steve Buttry gave a presentation to the Manship School faculty about how Twitter can improve teaching. He suggested faculty assess their current "Twitter temp" in regards to how much they use Twitter, ranging from cold to hot. Buttry offered to help faculty get started or improve their Twitter use through workshops or individual coaching on getting started with Twitter, advanced Twitter strategies, or applying Twitter in the classroom.
The document discusses how newsrooms can transition to being digital-first by increasing their digital content, audience, and revenue. It recommends that newsrooms prioritize digital coverage and storytelling, processes, engagement, planning and management, mobile capabilities, and standards. Specific suggestions are provided for breaking news, daily coverage, enterprise reporting, and utilizing various digital elements like videos, visuals, and interactive features to enhance storytelling. The document also addresses changing workflows, staffing, meetings, and metrics to better support a digital-first approach.
This document discusses best practices for mobile newsgathering and live reporting. It provides tips for using social media like Twitter to engage with sources and crowdsource information. Reporters are advised to clearly label tweets as unverified and check facts with multiple sources. The document also outlines workflows for setting up liveblogs to curate community photos, videos and comments during breaking news or events. It stresses the importance of accuracy, engaging the community, and transitioning live coverage into print or television stories.
Preparing for Success in Your Job HuntSteve Buttry
This document provides tips for job seekers on preparing for and conducting a successful job search. It recommends thoroughly researching opportunities online and leveraging connections, building an online professional profile on platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter, gaining experience through internships and freelance work, networking widely both online and in person, customizing application materials for each opportunity, and following up extensively after interviews. Key steps include researching the requirements for roles, highlighting one's strengths, addressing weaknesses, and preparing thoroughly for interviews while listening effectively and asking tough questions.
This document outlines various ways for newspapers to engage their local community through blogs, social media, crowdsourcing content, live chats, contests, and video. It encourages establishing a human voice on social platforms and leading conversations on important topics. Curation of third-party content is also discussed as a form of engagement. Specific engagement tactics are suggested such as hosting group blogs, monitoring hashtags, asking questions to spur discussion, and partnering with local organizations for contests and promotions.
The document discusses various recent publications focused on ethics guidelines for journalists. It describes updated codes of ethics from the Society of Professional Journalists and guiding principles from a book edited by Kelly McBride and Tom Rosenstiel. It also summarizes crowd-sourced ethics "building blocks" from ONA, a plagiarism and fabrication guide from several journalism groups, and handbooks on verification and rules for local news startups. The document advocates for continued discussion on ethics from groups like the Reuters Institute and voices like Jay Rosen, and endorses Bob Steele's 10 questions for guiding ethical decisions.
This document provides information about an upcoming media writing class. It summarizes that there is a quiz today on punctuating sentences correctly that students should email their answers for. It also announces an academic workshop tomorrow evening on study skills. It briefly discusses the appropriate uses of exclamation points and partial quotes in media writing. Finally, it outlines the key characteristics of an inverted pyramid news story structure and why that structure remains important for press releases and digital/mobile content.
The document provides tips for finding and pursuing original story ideas. It suggests looking for ideas from news, people, social media, newspapers, websites, blogs, conflicts, context, impact, repetition, questions, technology, and inquiries. Crowdsourcing ideas from one's own social media, Facebook pages, groups, hashtags, and requests is also recommended. When pursuing a story, the document advises finding sources, determining real experts, gathering the essential facts of who, what, when, where, why and how much, considering the story elements and form, and collecting any relevant data.
This document discusses various interactive storytelling tools that can be used for digital journalism. It begins by providing examples of the author's online presence and contact information. It then poses planning questions about utilizing visuals, data, crowdsourcing, mobile opportunities, engagement, social media, and interactivity for digital audiences. Various types of interactive tools are listed, including live coverage, mapping, timelines, multimedia storytelling, data visualization, interactive databases, curation, animation, quizzes, polls and more. Advice is provided on imitating interactive stories, asking the original reporters/developers, reading code, and searching online groups. Examples are given of interactive community brackets and curation tools. Guidance is also offered on learning
This document provides guidance on using unnamed sources in journalism. It discusses when unnamed sources may be appropriate, such as when a source fears for their safety or job. Reporters should verify information from unnamed sources by asking for documentation and other sources who can corroborate the facts. Powerful or eager sources may try to manipulate reporters, so extra scrutiny is needed. Reporters should push sources to go on the record when possible and protect confidentiality only as a last resort.
These are slides for a class on updating communication ethics codes. Here's a blog post with some points and links related to the class: https://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/slides-and-links-on-mass-communication-codes-of-ethics/
Data visualization is a useful tool for storytelling that can show trends, changes, outliers, demographics, relationships, and processes in the data. It incorporates elements of time, place, demographics, results, and community input that can be analyzed individually or together. While Flash was once popular, Google Fusion/Maps is now a leading data visualization tool, and learning a new tool involves test driving it, checking tutorials on YouTube, developer blogs, or asking others for help.
This document provides guidance on writing for social media. It recommends tweeting during class at least 3 times using hashtags to discuss the topic. When tweeting, keep messages brief under 140 characters and consider images. Opinions are acceptable for some roles but know your organization's policies. Social media can be used as a reporting tool to find sources and verify information. When breaking news, share verified facts and what is unknown. Hashtags help with search and conversation. Crowdsourcing from social media also benefits reporting. Practice condensing ideas into tweets to improve concise writing. Famous speeches and sayings are shown condensed into tweets.
Job-Hunting in Today's Journalism MarketSteve Buttry
The document provides tips and advice for job hunting in journalism. It discusses positioning yourself for the next job hunt through networking, building your digital profile and resume, finding the right opportunities, pitching yourself for jobs, preparing for interviews, and following up. Specific tips include customizing application materials for each job, proofreading thoroughly, researching the hiring company and contacts, showing creativity in pitches, and following up with thank you notes. The presentation emphasizes the importance of networking through digital and in-person connections.
This document provides tips and best practices for using social media, particularly Twitter, for journalism and writing purposes. It encourages tweeting during class to practice concise writing within Twitter's 140 character limit. It discusses using images and tone to engage audiences and rewriting to get to the point quickly. It also addresses using social media as a reporting tool, being conversational rather than just posting links, asking questions to start discussions, and using hashtags to find sources and conversations. Famous speeches and writings are shown distilled into single tweet summaries as an example.
The document discusses priorities and strategies for transforming a newsroom to a digital-first model. It recommends that leadership set the example by embracing social media and digital tools. The newsroom workflow should be changed to prioritize digital platforms, breaking news should be published immediately online rather than waiting for print. Meetings and budgets should also reflect the digital focus of collecting and reporting news. Training staff on digital and interactive tools is essential to the transformation.
Steve Buttry gave a presentation to the Manship School faculty about how Twitter can improve teaching. He suggested faculty assess their current "Twitter temp" in regards to how much they use Twitter, ranging from cold to hot. Buttry offered to help faculty get started or improve their Twitter use through workshops or individual coaching on getting started with Twitter, advanced Twitter strategies, or applying Twitter in the classroom.
The document discusses how newsrooms can transition to being digital-first by increasing their digital content, audience, and revenue. It recommends that newsrooms prioritize digital coverage and storytelling, processes, engagement, planning and management, mobile capabilities, and standards. Specific suggestions are provided for breaking news, daily coverage, enterprise reporting, and utilizing various digital elements like videos, visuals, and interactive features to enhance storytelling. The document also addresses changing workflows, staffing, meetings, and metrics to better support a digital-first approach.
This document discusses best practices for mobile newsgathering and live reporting. It provides tips for using social media like Twitter to engage with sources and crowdsource information. Reporters are advised to clearly label tweets as unverified and check facts with multiple sources. The document also outlines workflows for setting up liveblogs to curate community photos, videos and comments during breaking news or events. It stresses the importance of accuracy, engaging the community, and transitioning live coverage into print or television stories.
Preparing for Success in Your Job HuntSteve Buttry
This document provides tips for job seekers on preparing for and conducting a successful job search. It recommends thoroughly researching opportunities online and leveraging connections, building an online professional profile on platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter, gaining experience through internships and freelance work, networking widely both online and in person, customizing application materials for each opportunity, and following up extensively after interviews. Key steps include researching the requirements for roles, highlighting one's strengths, addressing weaknesses, and preparing thoroughly for interviews while listening effectively and asking tough questions.
This document outlines various ways for newspapers to engage their local community through blogs, social media, crowdsourcing content, live chats, contests, and video. It encourages establishing a human voice on social platforms and leading conversations on important topics. Curation of third-party content is also discussed as a form of engagement. Specific engagement tactics are suggested such as hosting group blogs, monitoring hashtags, asking questions to spur discussion, and partnering with local organizations for contests and promotions.
The document discusses various recent publications focused on ethics guidelines for journalists. It describes updated codes of ethics from the Society of Professional Journalists and guiding principles from a book edited by Kelly McBride and Tom Rosenstiel. It also summarizes crowd-sourced ethics "building blocks" from ONA, a plagiarism and fabrication guide from several journalism groups, and handbooks on verification and rules for local news startups. The document advocates for continued discussion on ethics from groups like the Reuters Institute and voices like Jay Rosen, and endorses Bob Steele's 10 questions for guiding ethical decisions.
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