Online Journalism: An Overview

Some trends increasing importance of independent & startup organizations as opposed to legacy organizations

“For aspiring journalists, this means it is increasingly likely that you will not spend your career working for a traditional, legacy organization. Instead, at some point, perhaps at the beginning of your career, you may need to be an entrepreneur, establishing your own business, or becoming a partner in a small start-up organization.” – Foust, p. 2

 More multi-way, interactive journalism (social media, citizen journalism, Web 2.0, etc.)  More active and participatory – and less patient – audiences  Search engine driven users  Universal, 24/7 production, consumption, interaction

“There can be no sense of starting at a particular time in the morning, no sense of stopping at a particular time in the evening … Our content’s got to be available when our users want it.” – Adrian Van Klaveren, BBC

 24/7 access to reams of information, historical and contemporary  Hyperlocalism  Unlimited space

Online Journalism: An Overview Some trends, cont.

 Multimedia production, consumption & distribution  Convergence (technological, institutional/business)  Rise of ‘backpack’ journalist – and citizen (backpack) journalist (writers, photographers, audio-graphers, videographers, e.g. Washington Post print reporters must learn basics of camera operation, shooting aesthetics & editing)

“On every major story we ask for a multimedia component – that doesn’t mean you have to do all of them but you have to think about what the elements should be: Is it a slideshow, is it a video, is it audio, is it graphics?” – Raju Nasiretti, Washington Post

“Everybody is a Web staffer. If you’re a print reporter, you’re also a Web reporter.” – John Schwantes, Corporate Director of News Convergence, WTHR-TV/Indianapolis Star.

Death of traditional model of revenues generation - Selling advertising - Charging subscription fees - Value-added services - Publically-funded journalism

Wordpress: Intro & overview

Content Management System

A content management system (CMS) is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based. The procedures are designed to do the following:

•  Allow for a large number of people to contribute to and share stored data

•  Control access to data, based on user roles (defining which information users or user groups can view, edit, publish, etc.)

•  Aid in easy storage and retrieval of data •  Control of data validity and compliance •  Reduce repetitive duplicate input •  Improve the ease of report writing •  Improve communication between users •  In a CMS, data can be defined as nearly anything: documents,

movies, text, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, and so forth.

WordPress.com –> hosted and managed by Automattic

PROs • free & easier to set up; • everything is taken care of by Automattic: setup, upgrades, spam, backups, security, etc. • Blog on hundreds of servers, so it’s unlikely it will go down due to traffic • content is backed up automatically

CONs • Can’t upload a custom theme • Can’t modify code behind your blog • can’t upload plugins (plugins = programs which extend the capabilities of Wordpress)

Wordpress.Org install on own server or a 3rd party hosting provider (dailycollegelife.com hosted on Hostgator.Com)

PROs • More customizable; can create own templates, change CSS, PHP code etc. • You can choose & upload own plugins

CONs • You have to pay $7-$12 per month for space on web host • More complicated (have to install on a web host, etc.) • You have to keep WP up to date, deal with plugin conflicts, back up WP yourself • You have to deal with hacking/security issues on your own MFJS 3504, Advanced Multimedia

Storytelling & Publishing

Open Source Content Management Systems & Hackers

- What is a hacker? - Why hack? - How widespread is hacking? - Malware 99% of enterprises had malware infections in network (Fireeye Blog/8-2011)

- Protecting your (CMS) site

Open Source Content Management Systems & Hackers

Open Source Content Management Systems & Hackers

Why Wordpress?

Why college life? Winter 2011 Dailycollegelife.wordpress.com

Creating a Wordpress user name/login/bio/avatar

Homework: READINGS Van, Buskir, E. (2010, May). 5-Year-Old YouTube Tops Networks’ Primetime With 2 Billion Views. Wired.Com http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/five-year-old-youtube-tops-networks-primetime-with-2-billion-views/ Seidenberg, S. (2010). Copyright in the age of YouTube. ABA Journal. http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/copyright_in_the_age_of_youtube/

Blackboard video - Creating a YouTube Account - Embedding a YouTube Video in Wordpress

WRITTEN - Issue Story No. 1 Goal Statement (post to Blackboard

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