This is really awesome. Wounder how the idea came up.
“Most newspapers are stuck in the late 20th century formulas, scarcely varied across the country, for section concepts (even names) and types of coverage. These conventions, moreover, carry over into digital forms, and only in the past couple of years have we begun to see new forms made only for digital channels. Amid legitimate struggle in newsrooms to make this outdated formula work with vastly reduced staffs and greatly increased production demands, there’s not enough attention on creative breakthroughs — the kind of conceptual innovation needed today. What should a print edition do in a 24/7 news world? How is it differentiated from other platforms in content, format and organization?”—
Melanie Sill, Take it from Former Editors: Newspapers Need Bolder Change.
(via futurejournalismproject)
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
A great solution / Bra recept för mediehus med tomma lokaler
I Philadelphia har det ledande medieföretaget hittat ett lönsamt recept för sina tomma lokaler. Som så många andra medieföretag har några års nedskärningar i organisationen lett till tomma lokaler. Istället för att sälja eller hyra ut så upplåter man lokalerna gratis till nystartade teknikföretag. Men inte utan baktanke.
“PMN isn’t offering up a couch to crash on purely out of the kindness of its heart: As a condition of the incubator they get an early look at whatever apps, tools, or projects the teams are working on”, berättar Nieman Journalism Lab.
GRAFIK-TREND?
“Aha, det här börjar bli en trend. Häromdagen publicerade jag en Stockholmskarta på samma idé. Nu dyker den här bilden upp i senaste utgåvan av INGRAPHICS (#3)
För övrigt innehåller det senaste numret grafik om Titanic.
ZITE SAMLAR DINA NYHETSFLÖDEN
Journalism.co.uk berättar om “the App of the week, en a App som heter Zite och “mashes together your Twitter, Google Reader and Read It Later feeds and delivers posts around your subject area”.
Zite tt enkelt användargränssnitt som lär sig vad du gillar genom tummen-upp och tummen ner knappar.
“Not only does Zite surface posts you may miss using Twitter and RSS, it is intelligent and allows your to teach it exactly what you like and don’t like via thumbs up, thumbs down buttons displayed on the story.
Zite will automatically work out your niche interests, which appear as categories along the top of the iPhone app and can be swiped through.”
Naturligtivshar jag laddat ner och ska testa den.
Zite tt enkelt användargränssnitt som lär sig vad du gillar genom tummen-upp och tummen ner knappar.
Find inspiration beyond journalistic design
SND (Society for News Design) startar en bloggkonversation med designers över hela världen under 2012.
Jonathon Berlin, SND President explains:
SND would like to invite you to join our Year-Long Conversation, a 365-day experiment about all things news design that starts today.
The Conversation headquarters is right here on snd.org where we’ll post essays, discussions, images, files to share and news of other ways the conversation will date place on social media and at events and meet-ups.
Matt Mansfield, will be the coordinator:
Find inspiration beyond journalistic design
Every day you’re seeing the culture because you are reporting on it or thinking about it for the pages you design or the apps you conceive or the code you deploy. You are on the front lines. Don’t retreat to the safe sphere of the known. Branch out. See beyond.
Design communicates and that feeds into how we behave, how we find things (or don’t). What will someone do with something you make? Design for experience. Read his article.
“Newspaper organizations (in the US) are banding together under an organization titled NewsRight to license and profit from the spread of their content online.
NewsRight launched Thursday (Jan. 5) with 29 investors, including the AP, New York Times Company, Washington Post Company and numerous other major newspaper coporations.”
Amazon.com is taking the fight with Apple´s iPad.
Fusion journalists - det nya modeordet
Så dök han då upp igen den gamle bekantingen från WAN/Ifra, Kerry J. Northrup. Mannen som skapade det mycket uppmärksammade Newsplex, den moderna nyhetsdesken. Nu i en ny roll i nybildade Global Editors Network.
Första sammankomsten hölls i Hong Kong i november 2011. Där var “fusion journalists” det nya modeordet.
“Journalists used to specialize by format. Fusion journalists have areas of expertise but their specialty is collaboration and innovation.” Så beskrev Kerry J. Northrup den nya journalistiken.
Det verkar ha varit en ganska traditionell redaktörs-tillställning. Mest intressant är möjligen det europeiska svaret på Oh My News, Citizenside.com. Även om den verkar ha en klar touch of engelsk tabloid.
“We’re breaking down the barriers between us and our audience. It’s essential if we are to survive,” förklarade Garrett Goodman, (Citizenside’s international coordinator).
(Source: news.globaleditorsnetwork.org)
