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Journalism RSS FeedsbIPlog has Moved!! Please Change RSS Feed and Links - bIPlog has moved to Boalt.org, the student organization for Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley's Law School. We have a number of new writers who will join bIPlog, including Aaron Burstein, Brian Carver, Will DeVries, Alex Eaton-Salners, Christen Lee, Elizabeth Miles, Aaron Perzanowski and Tara Wheatland. All are law students at Boalt, and active members at Boalt. It's exciting to have bIPlog expand with new folks writing on the topics of IP, security, privacy and digital media ....Feed Source: journalism.berkeley.edu EFF Announces New Blogs - Deep. "Note worthy news links from around the internet." Mini. "A byte-sized companion to Deep Links." In the interest of choice, I'm hoping they do a demi. You know those marketing guys say that when you offer small, medium and large, by far the biggest seller is medium. Demi-link. How 'bout it? The tagline could read: "Like two espressos after lunch, with grappa. An EFF-correcto." Anyway, I'm thrilled the EFF has brought active blogging back ... Extension on Early CFP Registration - 7 More Days .... Last Day to Register on the Cheap for CFP... - Computers, Freedom and Privacy that is, Ap 20-23, 2004. The major tech policy conference of the year gets more expensive if you register after today. Act now Students are $75 today! And with a program like this, you can't justify *not* going to some of this (It's at the Clairmont Hotel in Berkeley) .... File Sharing Lawsuits At Berkeley - Well, everybody including Mark Cuban (the owner of the Dallas Mavericks who just started blogging) is talking about music and copyright somewhere, it seems. Cuban has suddenly become very active on Pho talking about the Leahy-Hatch bill proposing to make file sharing criminal. (Side Note: Mark mentioned a company he started selling powered milk as an example toward the entrepreneurial spirit he thinks the music business and RIAA should consider, instead of fighting file sharing ... China's Digital Future Conference at the JSchool Ap 30 and May 1 - Info here. From the invite: You are invited to a conference on "China's Digital Future" at the UC Berkeley campus on Friday & Saturday, April 30 & May 1, 2004, sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism. The conference features a keynote address by Stanford University Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig and presentations by many scholars, technologists, business people and journalists who are experts on China. (Ed. Note: Jonathan Zittrain will be there too.) Check the ... PEW Asks Musicians... - What's the impact of the internet on your work. If you are a musician or songwriter, fill it out! Very important considering the "spate" of lawsuits that keep "flooding" consumers (sorry, just had to make fun of those words that those reporters overuse ). Jason Schultz does the math though, figuring that each filesharer would need to set aside $0.01483 cents per month average in order to cover settlements across all filesharers. But then Jason points ... Copyfight Grows... - Donna Wentworth sends news that some folks will be joining her: Elizabeth Rader, Ernest Miller, Jason Schultz, Aaron Swartz, and Wendy Seltzer. Good luck guys! And now to take off for 48 hours of much needed rest .... Spring Break... - Taking a couple of days off back Wednesday .... "You're Outsourced" Still Available - Donald Trump is trying to trademark "You're Fired" as of 2/4/04. (I think Fuck may still be available too. Or at least Fuck the FCC.) Courtesy of the Smoking Gun. Update: doncha just love how the press deals with IP? So ABC is talking about how Trump has filed a "copyright" request with the PTO, and Left, Right and Center on NPR just said that Trump has filed a "patent" request for "You're Fired." I'll ... Behavior Mod by Comcast, or Mickey Mouse Internet - by Farhad Manjoo/Salon (sub req or watch ad). "We use the Net as a lifeline," George says. "For anybody for whom this isn't their native country, you'd understand." But Comcast, the company that provides George's high-speed Internet service, didn't understand. Last August, the company sent him a letter telling him to quit it -- he was using the Internet too much. The firm said he was violating Comcast's "acceptable use" policy, that he was somehow ... Dylan/Garamond Make Digital Music Together - Sean Savage says: I know, you're not quite so sure about Garamond. But you -know- you're into Bob Dylan. So give it a chance. Indulging my fantasies about moveable typefaces. Course, the Zepplin/Times NR is pretty hot, though BigG/Baskerville has really nice letters. But the Beatle's Dear Prudence/Book Antiqua has to be my fav. Now that's art .... Matrix is Losing Member States - Due to privacy fears. John Schwartz/NYT reports that only 5 of the original 16 states are still in the program. Matrix was supposed to relate databases across many states and had funding from the Homeland Security Administration, and the purpose was to sift through records to find patterns of suspect behavior, among other things. BIPlog reported on this before, though it wasn't mentioned in any of the presentations at the Privacy conference I attended this ... Privacy on Several Fronts - Yesterday, I attended the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society's "Securing Privacy in the Internet Age" Symposium. It's going on today but I'm not attending. Too many conferences, and I have a lot of work to do before tomorrow. So it was a great day, interesting presentations on lots of privacy issues, including but not limited to leaky technologies like RFID, Sensor Networks (Pam Samuelson's new research area), as well as policies on ... DRM? Chris Willis Nails It - On screen now at Media Morphosis Day 3: "Insure content security with baked in Digital Rights Management." Chris: What's the point? Michael Silberman: I think DRM could be used to keep people from stealing, and get them to pay for content. And it could be used to facilitate the making of content. No. Not. DRM for news? Okay, your content has high value for maybe, 24 hours? You want to lock it up? There is ... Translating research theory into a multilingual local news website - By Daniela Gerson: Facing City Hall in Alhambra, California, a predominantly Asian and Latino suburb just east of Los Angeles, a life-size bronze statue of a man sits holding a newspaper. A plaque says the statue is dedicated to the memory of Warner Jenkins, "Alhambra's beloved journalist/chronicler." That is the closest a journalist gets to Alhambra's City Hall most days. Local news coverage in the municipality of roughly 90,000 is severely lacking. What exists tends to be in Chinese or crime coverage in the area's larger dailies.
USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, responding to the dearth of reporting on Alhambra and the challenge of creating a media outlet in an ethnically and linguistically diverse area, launched the Alhambra Project in 2008. Michael Parks, former director of the journalism school and former editor of the Los Angeles Times, and Sandra Ball-Rokeach, a communication researcher and director of the Metamorphosis Project, collaborated with support... Take two: How Patch.com - or any national network of local news websites - might succeed - By Robert Niles: Last week, I wrote about my skepticism of Patch.com, based on my assumption that the economies of scale available to a national chain of local publications online were no longer enough to overcome to the inherent cost advantages enjoyed by locally-owned publications.
Locally-owned publications don't have to generate enough income to support regional managers and national executives. And if they're boot-strapped, they don't have to pay back VC or investors, either. That gives a local start-up a huge cost advantage in what's become a brutal online publishing market.
If you're going to start an investor-funded national chain of local news websites, you're going to need to achieve some economies of scale that allow you to make enough extra income - as a chain - to overcome the cost advantage enjoyed by your locally-owned competitors. I dismissed several such ways that newspaper chains achieved that in the past, arguing that they'd been made irrelevant by the Internet. Bu... What can journalism schools learn from watching the University of Colorado? - By Robert Niles: Last week, news reports hit that the University of Colorado at Boulder would close its journalism school. By the end of the afternoon, the story had morphed a bit - CU wouldn't be getting out of journalism education, but instead convening a commission to look at restructuring the school, putting its future as a separate entity in question.
(By the way, does anyone have an explanation why several of the former Big Eight schools transpose their initials? How does the "University of Colorado" become CU? I digress .)
Colorado's earned harsh criticism for the way it handled this announcement. Students, alumni and community members can't rally around uncertainty. Yes, journalism education needs to evolve as the industry also must, in response to the economic disruption the Internet has brought to the field. But if Colorado administrators couldn't have offered a specific plan for the future of journalism education at their institution, I'd argue they'd have served their c... Why I am skeptical of Patch.com - By Robert Niles: AOL is rolling out its Patch.com "hyperlocal" network around the country. Having watched similar efforts since Microsoft launched Sidewalk in the 1990s, I remain skeptical.
Look, we all agree by now that the Internet's changed the economics of the publishing business. One of the ways that's happened, however, makes it much more difficult to create a workable business model for a national network of local websites.
Why? Let's try this question for an example: How much money does Howard Owens at TheBatavian.com have to ship out at the end of the month to his national corporate bosses?
Of course, owner-operated sites like Howard's don't have to share any of their earnings with a national corporation. Nor do they have to pay for national and regional bureaucracies that oversee the network of local sites. Everything a local news website publisher earns goes right into that local news website.
That gives independent publishers a huge cost advantage over their corporat... What the 'Ground Zero mosque' flap says about the state of journalism - By Brian McDermott: The Ground Zero mosque does not exist.
There is, of course, the planned Park51 Muslim community center and mosque, which local authorities approved for construction on Park Place in lower Manhattan about two blocks, or about 600 feet, from Ground Zero.
And there is also, of course, a myth - the latest outrage brand- of a "Ground Zero mosque." Headlines from dozens of outlets have trumpeted that three-word shorthand, tempered at best by the flimsy embrace of quotation marks. Yet the phrase "Ground Zero mosque" violates the most basic tenets of journalism: be truthful and be accurate.
So what's false? Simple: the mosque in question will not be built at Ground Zero. To conflate the lingering psychological toll of the destroyed World Trade Center with a building 600 feet away is as absurd as calling the Lace Gentlemen's Club on 7th Avenue in Manhattan the "Fox News Strip Club" by virtue of its two-block proximity to Fox's headquarters.
Speaking to Michael Calderon... This year's advice for journalism students - By Robert Niles: Students will be arriving (or returning) to journalism schools over the next month, providing me with a convenient excuse to offer students some beginning-of-the-year advice.
1. Don't believe that journalism school will help you prepare for your career. Why? Because your journalism career's already started. The moment you first posted a comment, photo or status update to the Web, you began your work as a journalist.
Doesn't that make just about everyone on the Internet a journalist, you might ask? Well, yes. Even if most folks never post anything newsworthy or of interest to anyone outside their immediate circle of family and friends, everyone who posts online has the potential do create journalism, should they happen to be in the right (or wrong, depending on your point of view) place or hear the right thing at the right time and post it. Immediate access to a global publishing medium allows any source to become a breaking news reporter, if only for just a moment.
... Choose Your Multimedia Tools Strategically: Story is Still King - By Marc Cooper: Marc Cooper co-coordinates USC Annenberg News21 with Prof. Patricia Dean. Marc is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Director of Annenberg Digital News, publisher of the online site Neon Tommy.
If everyone who has a hammer sees a world made only of nails, do reporters who know Illustrator think the world is one big infographic?
Choosing the right tool to tell the right story is one of the greatest challenges we faced during this summer's round of Carnegie-Knight News21 fellowships at USC Annenberg. Our mandate, like that of any cutting-edge news crew, was to at once tell the most in-depth stories while being as innovative as possible. But sometimes these two principles can pull against each other.
New multimedia tools, now reproducing themselves exponentially, provide reporters and editors with sometimes awe-inspiring ways to tell our stories. Learning to master these tools and when to choose them, however, can be as important as which tool a ... Watering-down press credentials, or denying citizens news? - By Jason Stverak: Recent articles and opinion pages have lambasted what many are calling the "watering-down of press credentials." They claim that the more people that obtain press credentials, the less influential press credentials are to the legacy media. But, those who push to increase restrictions on press credentials are in denial of the massive decline in traditional journalism. The statistics are staggering in the newspaper and journalism business. Every day reporters at media outlets are being laid off and resources are being cut. This is leaving entire communities without local news coverage and without the knowledge they need to be informed citizens. Where this drastic decline is showing its repercussions is in city halls, courthouses and state capitols around the nation. For whatever reason, it seems that among the first beats to go at newspapers are state and local government reporters. With the decreasing media presence, there are fewer journalists working to keep the pub... Lessons from launch: How TBD.com is trying to engage the community to build its business - By Robert Niles: This week, Allbritton Communications launched its new online portal and news website for the Washington D.C., metropolitan area: TBD.com. TBD.com draws upon the reporting staff of Allbritton's DC-area ABC affiliate, WJLA, and its existing cable news channel (formerly known as News Channel 8), blending them with an expanding online reporting staff, as well as a network of dozens of local blogs and websites.
Broadcasters have been attempting to build local online portals for more than a decade, following a variety of models - including nationally-branded networks, outsourced websites, and lavishly funded local staffs. By aggressively soliciting local bloggers to participate in this network, TBD.com is building upon the experience of a team of online news veterans, who've won praise and honor for their efforts at other "old media"-affiliated news websites, including general manager Jim Brady, late of washingtonpost.com.
This week I interviewed TBD's director of commun... The only metric that matters - By Robert Niles: In the nearly 15 years that I've been working online, I've watched the most popular metric among Web publishers change from "hits," to "page views," to "unique visitors" to "time on site."
But none of those metrics really matter. I've seen sites post phenomenal numbers for each of those categories, and fail. There's one metric, and only one, that truly matters in determining your websites's commercial success.
Revenue.
Your visitors can spend hours per month on your website, but a huge "time on site" value by itself won't entitle you to a dime (see Twitter). I suspect that one reason why various Web metrics fall into and out of favor over the years is that managers talk up or down those metrics based on their website's individual performance. Someone notices that people are spending more time, on average, on the website, then he or she gets on a panel at a news industry conference and - boom - "time on site" becomes the metric everyone needs to consider.
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