MultimediaJournalismApplications & Arguments

Speed, mobility, and News 2.0:digital dilemmas in journalism

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

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.

The newsroom of now

Wheels in motionAs 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develop their newsroom models to deal with convergence, the traditional long room shape with desks in rows has been replaced by the true hub style.• Editorial functions are managed from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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Digital story-telling

Uses multi-media resources Text Video Audio Slideshows Flash

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

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

Sohaib Althar 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.

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?

Are we all journalists?

Citizen Journalist A conscious link between

citizenship and journalistic sense-making Activist-journalist Advocacy journalism

Mass movement media Organised Seemingly disorganised Spontaneous – not journalism?

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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.

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