Topic: New Media

Navigating the Road to Convergence
'Being small and a family-owned company are attributes that have helped us to become a multimedia news organization.'
By Ralph Gage

Media Convergence: ‘Just Do It’
Changing people’s way of thinking is key to ‘the media revolution’ in northern Denmark.
By Ulrik Haagerup

When the Web Feeds the Newspaper
The letter ‘i’ in iHerald stands for ‘interactivity, the individual and the Internet.’
By Eric Blom

Covering the Web as a Force in Electoral Politics
‘During the past year and a half … I've been consistently surprised by the volume of calls we get from journalists asking for help understanding this new medium.’
By Micah L. Sifry

It’s an Online World for Young People and Political News
‘My generation doesn't trust what the lone anchor tells us, nor the pundit, nor the panel of experts.’
By Jonathan Seitz

Credibility Resides at the Core of Teaching Journalism
The challenge involves adjusting to the new rigors of the practice and getting students to think in digital ways.
By Jean Folkerts

The Internet: How It Changes Everything About Journalism
‘What was once an important role—making editorial choices—starts to feel more like a bottleneck in the system.’
By Joshua Benton

A Shrinking Staff Propels a Newspaper's Transformation
‘If we’re forced to be a smaller place, then let’s aggressively teach ourselves the virtues that go along with that sensibility.’
By Amanda Bennett

Adapt or Die of Irrelevance
The clash between academic requirements for professors and the education students of journalism need to have grows more intense.
By Karl Idsvoog

Caught in the Web
‘With the Web, we could be witnessing the most important development in expressive media since the advent of writing.’
By Jon Palfreman

Community Building on the Web: Implications for Journalism
The founder of craigslist speaks about online lessons he shares with new media journalists.
By Craig Newmark

Myths and Realities of Convergence
‘… news organizations will be best served if they focus on stories—not delivery platforms.’
By Randy Covington

When Walls Come Tumbling Down
The Associated Press is making ‘radical adjustments’ to its news reports and business strategies in response to the Web.
By Jim Kennedy

Citizens Media: Has It Reached a Tipping Point?
New media initiatives emerge when citizens feel ‘shortchanged, bereft or angered by their available media choices.’
By Jan Schaffer

Toward a New Journalism With Verification
‘This journalism must recognize that the distribution, the organization, and the sources of our work must change.’
By Bill Kovach

Digital Natives: Following Their Lead on a Path to a New Journalism
By understanding how young people ‘process various types of news and formats’ using new media, journalists enhance their ability to adapt their work to emerging technologies.
By Ronald A. Yaros

Don’t Fear Twitter
Using moment-by-moment observations, ‘Twitter entries build a community of readers who find their way to longer articles ….’
By John Dickerson

Media Re:public: My Year in the Church of the Web
In studying new and old media, the author feels ‘as though I’ve undergone two religious crises; one feels like a loss of faith, the other like a conversion.’
By Persephone Miel

Digital Journalism: Will It Work for Investigative Journalism?
The Nieman Watchdog Project’s editor explores what might be missing and what might be found as journalists turn to the Web to assist in reporting.
By Barry Sussman

Childhood Memories Kindle Hyperlocal Strategies
‘Trust me, this ain’t new. If anything, it’s old school local journalism.’
By Rob Curley

Are Reporters Doomed?
Citizen journalism is here to stay. But in the rush to embrace new media we risk destroying the soul of traditional reporting.
By The Guardian

Foreign Reporting: Adding Layers to What Goes in the Notebook
Using the tools of digital media, a reporter and photojournalist create a narrative multimedia account of what's happening in Afghanistan.
By Charles M. Sennott

Young Reporters, New Tools, and Political Reporting
At MTV, the 51 members of Street Team ’08 are experimenting with format, content and distribution as they find stories to tell to a youthful audience.
By Liz Nord

Bloggers Push Past the Old Media's Gatekeepers
From YouTube to The Huffington Post, new media ‘are upending the presidential campaign process and raising questions about journalism's place in it.’
By Tom Fiedler

A Newspaper's Redesign Signals Its Renewal
‘… newspapers have enormous strengths to rely on — and that is where we need to concentrate.’
By Anders Gyllenhaal and Monica Moses

Defining an Online Mission: Local Investigative Reporting
At the nonprofit voiceofsandiego.org, ‘From our first day our job has been to fill the gaps between what people want from their local media and what they have.’
By Andrew Donohue and Scott Lewis

Adding Radio and Video Web Casts to Political News in Print
‘… am I becoming the first correspondent in my paper’s history who has no time to think?’
By Pekka Mykkänen

Campaign 2008: It‘s on YouTube
Since the last presidential election, the ‘bubble’ in which the press once operated ‘has become a fishbowl.’
By Albert L. May

The Future Is Here, But Do News Media Companies See It?
By Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis

The New Front Page: The Digital Revolution
A former newspaper editor figures out how to fund serious digital journalism with an annual budget less than what newsrooms sometimes spent on one investigative project.
By Joel Kramer

A Digital Vision of Where Journalism and Government Will Intersect
‘… the journalistic process of assembling information and connecting the dots to inform tough questions will be easier.’
By Bill Allison

Reliable News: Errors Aren’t Part of the Equation
In the transition to digital journalism, accuracy—as an indicator of quality—must maintain its place at the top of the list of essential ingredients.
By Craig Silverman

Long-Form Multimedia Journalism: Quality Is the Key Ingredient
As a producer of social documentary projects—viewed on digital platforms—Brian Storm talks about the excitement of doing journalism in this way, at this time.
By Brian Storm

Investigating the Pharmaceutical Industry on a Blog
‘… evidence itself often emerged as the centerpiece, which has a strong impact on the audience when they see for themselves the incriminating paper trail.’
By Ed Silverman

The Web: Fertile Ground for Investigative Projects
‘Digital journalism could not be the sole domain of breaking news and blogging, and it had to be more than the repository of electronic reprints.’
By Maud Beelman

Crowdfunded Reporting: Readers Pay for Stories to Be Told
‘Reporting for Spot.Us, where money directly changes hands, is the same as reporting any story for Wired.com. For Spot.Us, the ethical promise inheres in the transparency of the funding.’
By Alexis Madrigal

Tracking Toxics When the Data Are Polluted
How computational journalism can uncover what polluters would prefer to hide.
By James T. Hamilton

Using Multimedia to Tell an Investigative Story About Innocence
‘Two departments within our newspaper—editorial and new media—had to work closely together to construct the project.’
By Christine Young

An Investigative Reporting Partnership: A Serendipitous Collaboration
‘At Northeastern University in Boston, where I joined the faculty in 2007, students in my investigative reporting seminars have produced 11 Page One stories for The Boston Globe in just 20 months.’
By Walter V. Robinson

Video News Reporting: New Lessons in New Media
‘What would it take to create good video journalism for online audiences, inexpensively and in an idiom that looked neither too homemade nor too much like TV?’
By Nick Penniman

Web v. Journalism: Court Cases Challenge Long-Held Principles
‘… courts and legislatures, reluctant to apply different rules to the “old” and “new” media, are rethinking the basic constitutional principles that have protected a free press for generations.’
By Jane Kirtley

Using Social Media to Reach Young Readers
In reporting on a case of a police informant who’d been murdered, the Tallahassee Democrat relied on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and text messages to get its reporting to young readers.
By Julia Luscher Thompson

Determining If a Politician Is Telling the Truth
‘Through our Truth-O-Meter, we graphically show the relative truth of each claim.’
By Bill Adair

Watchdog Analysis: Offering Context and Perspective Online
At the Beacon in St. Louis, reporters attempt to ‘provide context to illuminate why something is happening, explain what’s at stake, and assess what might—or what should—happen next.’
By Margaret Wolf Freivogel

Media Users, Media Creators: Principles of Active Engagement
In transforming ‘ourselves from passive consumers of media into active users … we’ll have to instill throughout our society principles that add up to critical thinking and honorable behavior.’
By Dan Gillmor