tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41960519532733558122023-11-15T11:20:18.298-08:00Landor On JournalismSince I don't seem to get rid of journalism, I'll try to discuss multimedia journalism. Multimedia journalism is what I do. I educate people to be good multimedia journalists.
No, I don't give any definition of multimedia journalism. There is no good one, because the field changes all the time.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12896700513924041817noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196051953273355812.post-71151167292844747862013-12-02T00:53:00.000-08:002013-12-02T00:54:18.491-08:00When everything changes, except the way journalists think lifelong learning<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Continuing professional
development has not been an issue in the journalism business. Keeping up with
the latest trends have been journalist-individuals own matters and
responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now the news industry
is facing its first paradigm shift. The industry is turning onto digital media
surfaces, and the news business desperately needs new business models. This
situation urgently calls for CPD for journalists. In the high-stress world of
journalism – everyday needing to change – CPD is noticed as something important
in the field. Still the newsrooms have problems finding good CPD solutions that
would not drain the daily newsroom resources too much.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Journalism schools
could play a leading role in creating good CPD platforms for journalists. <a href="http://www.tutka.pro/" target="_blank">TheTutka</a> cross media education environment, at the Turku
University of Applied Sciences, could function as a journalistic CPD milieu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The journalism
industry in the Western world is not only facing its biggest change since it
was born. It is erupting into the digital world with its multichannel ways of distributing
journalistic work and products. The change is driven by two groups of actors;
the advertisers, who want to be where the potential customers are, i.e. online,
mobile, in social media, and in any combination of these. The advertising
barometer by the <a href="http://www.mainostajat.fi/mliitto/sivut/Mainosbarometri_2013.htm" target="_blank">Association of Finnish Advertisers is predicting the biggestdrop</a> in advertising volume ever for print media in Finland. The advertisers’
money seems to be going to digital media.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Secondly, the news
consumers, who seem to be turning away from conventional print and broadcasting,
and seem to be turning to mobile platforms and on-demand news consumption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The journalism
industry is facing a total rethinking of its business models. The American media
thinker <a href="https://www.google.fi/#q=what+would+google+do+pdf" target="_blank">Jeff Jarvis</a> puts it as: “Journalism is no longer in the communication
business, but in the relationship business”. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jarvis suggests a
total reinvention of the news business. Journalism should start working like
Google does, which would mean m</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">anaging scarcity, not
abundance; that news media would be joining the open source gift economy
instead of thinking that it knows everything better than the consumer. Mass
communication no longer exists; the mass market is dead, long live the mass of
niches, Jarvis says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Paolo Mancini puts in
the role of journalism in the democratic society and states that there is no
time for fatalism now, but for a renewed commitment to journalism and its
role in democracy – from journalists themselves, and from media managers and
policy-makers, all of whom can learn from professional, commercial, and policy
developments beyond their own countries. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(Mancini 2004). </span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Journalism schools and
journalist educators have started asking themselves where their position is in
the huge business transition. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At
the 3rd World Education Congress in July 2013 in Mechelen, Belgium, one track
was dedicated to the theme if journalist educators should be steerers or followers
in the industrial change. The outcome was weak. Anyway, it did not seem very
important among the educators to start thinking how they, that is WE, should
change in order to be able to more efficiently serve a totally changing
industry. I participated in this track, and I felt the same confusion as many
of my colleagues. Can educators steer an industrial change? If so, then how?
News business is hard and clear business, i.e. maximizing the profit for its
owners. How can the educators steer anything, while the owners are sketching
the road map? Should not the business set up the road sign before we start to
educate journalists for the new industry? These and many more questions were
asked in the discussion. We did not come up with that many good answers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Many colleagues also
pointed out that we are now discussing the huge change in the journalism
industry and asking us what we can do for them. What we journalist educators do
not do ask ourselves is how WE should be changing in order to be able to serve
the tomorrow’s journalist industry with good professionals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In Mechelen we did not
end up very far from what </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jerome Aumenten already
in 2007 stated in Nieman reports: The task faced by journalism and
communication schools and departments in upgrading their curricula is akin to
training pilots to fly experimental planes that are only partially operational
for an aviation industry being totally transformed. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">He claims that the
journalist educators seem to be lost; some are headed toward wholesale revision
of their course offerings; others are choosing to retrofit their existing
courses to accommodate the interactive, multimedia world. A go-slower, gradual
revision approach might work best for some programs, or it might simply be
dictated by the lack of a budget to do much more. But all agree that new course
work is required, so students have a comprehensive, hands-on experience working
simultaneously in doing stories for print, broadcast and the Web. These skills
- taught until recently as separate majors - must be converged in the curricula
as they are now being used in newsrooms.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let me conclude. The
journalism industry is changing because both the money and the consumers are
turning away from conventional media, and adapting to digital and mobile news
platforms. Whether or not print media is dying, or the time for its death, is
irrelevant here. The ongoing change, creating new journalist job today’s
journalist are not educated to perform, is the issue. Every media business that
wants to stay alive in the Western world, has already implemented myriads of developing
projects. Many newspaper businesses have started to realize that they made a
mistake in thinking that managing the New News Age is another day at the
office, while it de facto is a whole new product with whole new business models
and whole new consumer behavior. And of course; with whole new professionals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At the Turku
University of Applied Sciences we feel that the news businesses have been fairly
unwilling to ask themselves how continuous professional development among their
journalist could fire up the metamorphosis. The reason seems to be the everyday
pace in the industry: somebody has to come up with tomorrow’s news, while the
news companies are adapting to falling advertising income by sacking
journalists. And then the money issue: Print papers are still good, although
declining, business. You cannot jump head first from that into digital waters
without being sure the advertisers’ money follows you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And we, the journalist
educators, should not be pointing finger towards anybody. We have not exactly
been the fastest changers either. We are traditional academics. We are slow. We
are thinking inside the curriculum box.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I suggest that the
changing news business calls for changed ways of educating journalist professionals,
and for a new attitude towards journalist CPD. The industrial change is
accelerating, and it is trying to manage with the professionals it has got at the
branch. I suggest that the best way of serving the changing news business is to
introduce continuous professional development for journalists in the industry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I build my suggestion
on two arguments: First, the speed of the change in the news business calls for
very fast educational solutions. The fastest educational solution is to coach
pros in the business to better suited pros for the new news business. We have
not got time to start from scratch, if we, the journalism educators, would like
to be helpful to the journalism industry - which is our mandate - in its
change. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Secondly, it might be
possible to build a system of journalist CPD that would be based on continuous
auditing, discussions, and benchmarking together with the industry. Simply: Let
the journalist employer in in to the CPD chambers, let them tell us what they
need, and we will give it to them, i.e. develop and educate their journalists
with systematic CPD. By starting up a European network for journalism CPD we
could be even faster and more efficient. In the era of communication sharing,
we should be able to share best CPD practices through our European CPD network.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If we are successful
here, the next step would be to spread our best practices into curricula at journalism
schools.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At the Turku
University of Applied Sciences the students spend a lot of time studying in the
The Tutka newsroom. The Tutka (Tutka is Finnish for “radar”) is a multimedia
journalistic news journal, and a journalistic learning environment based on
innovation pedagogy. You will find The Tutka at <a href="http://www.tutka.por/" target="_blank">here</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. The video poster for
The Tutka is found <a href="https://vimeo.com/65894194" target="_blank">here</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Tutka is:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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students can grow to cross media journalists by producing online multimedia
journalism before a real audience of approximately 14000 consumers a month</span><br />
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professional journalists</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
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critical an innovative thinking among teachers, students and CPD journalists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In The Tutka newsroom
the students learn everything from the basic skills of the journalistic
production process to more advanced multimedia journalistic experimenting. The
Tutka courses also coach the students’ journalistic way of thinking as well as
teaches them how to handle video, audio, text and still pictures, and any
combination theses in a multimedia journalistic context.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When the students
leave The Tutka learning environment for their internships or summer jobs, they
are often asked to be consultants on how the media could develop its digital
and multimedia content and news presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">During The Tutka
courses the students produce news, reports, documentaries, and columns before a
real audience. They get feedback from the lecturers, the audience, and from
professional journalists. From time to time we bring professionals to get to
know the Tutka environment and to spur the students by giving them feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When The Tutka
lecturers discuss current matters in the industry together with the visiting
pros, the professionals almost always say that The Tutka environment would be
an excellent milieu for their own organization for testing multimedia
journalistic solutions or to learn, for example, how to handle videos in a
multimedia journalistic way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We get exceptional
good feedback from the Finnish news industry on the high standard of our
trainees and graduates. The media companies are especially pleased with the
fact that The Tutka learning environment teaches every student to handle all
the ways of journalistic expression you need in a multimedia context, i.e.
text, still pictures, video and audio, and any combination of these. We are
being told by the professional over and over again that one reason why the
digital journalistic product is more or less “print online” is that the
professionals come from an age where the photographers produce still pictures and
videos, the radio journalists the audio, and the print journalist the text, and
the TV journalists the TV content. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Since journalism is a
process of refining information, multimedia journalism can be made only if all
the journalistic ways of expression is molded together with the journalistic
thinking in the same brains of the journalist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So why does not the news industry in the Turku region
grab the chance and throw in some of their pros into The Tutka and update them
to multimedia journalists? Probably due to two reasons: The news industry is
not familiar with further educating journalists and CPD, since keeping up to
date with skills and knowledge for good stories has been the responsibility of
the journalist individual. Secondly, as the business cut the number of
journalists in the newsrooms, CPD loses the race to tomorrows’ news. Or as
William Peter Hamilton, the fourth editor of the Wall Street Journal, once put
it: ”A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatever to the public,
which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.
It is emphatically the property of the owner, who is selling and manufacturing
a product at his own risk”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But at some point the journalism industry has to wake
up to the fact that the New News World needs new journalists. Let us show them
that we are god and ready to face that CPD challenge.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let me look at only
one CPD definition. The following commonly used definition of CPD was developed
as far back as 1986 by the Construction Industry Council (UK). However,
Friedman et al. (2000) found that it was still the most commonly cited
definition of CPD among UK professional bodies in 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The systematic
maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skills, and the
development of personal qualities necessary for execution of professional and technical
duties throughout the individual’s working life.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Within this
definition, multiple purposes of CPD can be observed:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">• CPD is concerned
with maintaining knowledge and skills. More recently, this would be summarized
as maintaining one’s competence or competencies; in other words, CPD is about
keeping up-to-date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">• CPD improves and
broadens knowledge and skills; that is, CPD is intended to support future
professional development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">• CPD develops
personal qualities necessary to execute professional and technical duties; such
personal qualities as may be needed to achieve the above two purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This could be a very
good start for CPD for journalists. A journalistic CPD circle could, for
example, look like this:</span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Reflection</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: “Even though the
basic way of journalistic thinking is the same in the New News Age, I don’t
cope with the digital demands. I cannot produce good multimedia journalism. My
superior wants me to join CPD.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Goals</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: “I need to learn
some basic coding, and multimedia expression skills; audio, video, still
pictures, graphics, and any combination of these.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Development Plan</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: “My plan for
achieving these skills is to get good CPD education in any of the journalism
Schools in the European CPD network for journalists. They all have good
learning environments, and I might be able to contribute with something to the
students, as well.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Implementation</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: “I educate myself. I
reflect on what I’ve learnt, and how it may improve my professional work as a
multimedia journalist.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Professional
Development Record</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: “I keep record on what I’ve learnt, and
its effects on my work performances. Pluses and minuses. And examples.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Reflection and
Re-Starting</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: “I analyze the pluses and minuses together with my
superior. What could be done better? How can I now find a new CPD path, and through
that improve our multimedia journalistic products? How can my experience be
used in order to shape our new business models? Time for a new CPD round from
this perspective.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Tutka learning
environment, described above, is only one of a number of qualitative
journalistic learning environments in Europe. All good educational practices
aiming for the New News Age are probably good CPD milieus for journalists. One
of the first things every tomorrow’s journalist has to understand is the
internet – both as a publishing medium, and as a source of news. The internet
native generation is only beginning to enter the newsrooms, but being an internet
native proves nothing. It is being a journalist mastering the internet, and all
the journalistic skills needed in the multimedia world, that makes the
difference. In this context some minor European cultural differences do not
hinder a European cooperation around CPD for journalists. The journalist
educators together with European CPD professionals have got a golden
opportunity to contribute to the New News World. If we believe that the journalists’
skills will be the central component for the news industry of the future , we
should start creating a CPD network for journalist right away. Thousands of
journalists in Europe are in desperate need of learning the multiple skill handicrafts
the business seems to be requiring today only. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What we need now is
experience and data on journalist CPD making a difference for the news business
in Europe. We need it fast in order to show the publishers that CPD is one of
the key factor for future success in the industry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I hope that we could
start building a European CPD network for journalist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This network needs CPS professionals as well
as journalist educator professional. The network also needs to be in continuous
contact with the news business in Europe.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We probably cannot
change the fact that the journalism industry is very journalist individual
driven, since you can be the best news journalist without any academic grades.
But we can build a network, that can show the news business that we will speed
up the change, and quality, in the multimedia journalistic business. This,
again, must have a positive impact on any news organizations’ business
performance.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This text is based on my articled presented at The 2<sup>nd</sup> Carpe Conference, Manchester 2013</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12896700513924041817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196051953273355812.post-28933448691705112922013-07-05T13:09:00.001-07:002013-07-05T13:36:47.980-07:00Minding relationship or relationshitJeff Jarvis is a great artist. He is a great thinker, too. He is right when he says that the news industry has been too focused on producing content for masses. Now, Jarvis argues, it is time to skip a) the content neurosis, and b) the mass of people.<br />
The news industry, i.e. the journalists, should now understand that they are in the relationship business, where "The Mass" is an insult. Now is the time to serve the "individual" - the way Google does.<br />
Says the man Jarvis, who tries to turn Google in to a religion.<br />
No offence Jeff. But you ARE preaching sometimes...<br />
The method is to start with small data. If Google knows where you live and where you work, though you never told Google that, the new news business should do the same. That way newsmedia should create a realtionship to the consumer.<br />
The rest seems to be easy. When the individual interacts with the news medium, the individual gets rewarded, for example by having a lower pay wall.<br />
This is how I understand Jeff Jarvis.<br />
The news is not dead. It lives a better life now than ever before. We consume fast news more than ever - more often than ever, and more, like a hell of a lot more - on mobile gadgets. This also kills the argument that the form of news, the news triangle, would be gone. The triangle has presented edgy news for a couple of hundred years. And now, more than ever, we are in need of news that hits the consumer's target fast, very fast indeed. We are probably in need of an even sharper news triangle than before.<br />
You see, I don't believe in slow journalism, when it comes to news anymore. Sorry all you people believing in narratives. It is the NEWS that will be the map and the compass for the change in our industry.<br />
So?<br />
You can not (Jarvis does...) state that the conventional way of thinking in terms of content production has not been acting in a relationship manner, too. "It could have been me" is the strongest news criteria. That is taking care of relationship business. Many of these news come from people witnessing something dramatic. That is taking care of relationship business.<br />
Do these sources get any reward from the media?<br />
No.<br />
That is giving a shit about the relationship.<br />
I guess this is why people still wait for the media to surprise them, rather than helping the media surprise the helping individual.<br />
We must stop giving a shit about those who live in the world we are reporting on/from/about/trying to change. Let's for once be humble. IF we journalists still are on the small individual's side.<br />
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Jarvis is right when he says that media does not engage anymore. Media does not engage like for example Facebook. It never has, and it never will. Before Facebook, news media was not able to engage even the way a rockfestival did. Still news media set the agenda almost every day, in almost every family, and on almost every work place.<br />
(And I don't think FB will last, and you are not really the one you are on FB. If you are, stop photoing the spaghetti you just cooked...)<br />
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Maybe it is time to either stop fuzzing about the journalism being in a paradigm shift, or alternatively fuzz and fuck it all up totally.<br />
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If we think that we want to be served personalised news and entertainment, in some kind of relationship with the news industry, we in the industry are supposed to give something back. If we do this, and take the audience into the production line at a very much earlier stage than now - then we truly are heading for a new world, where the journalist - having a monthly salary at a media brand, or being his/hers own brand - is taking care of both the Business.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12896700513924041817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196051953273355812.post-14268968775906413382013-01-02T03:26:00.001-08:002013-01-02T03:26:14.744-08:00News media disruption - yes, but the bread and butter is quality of information.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I like much of Timo Ketonen’s thinking in his last blog for the year 2012 <a href="http://timoketonen.blogspot.fi/2012/12/medianomics-will-2013-be-year-of.html"><span style="font: 13.0px Times; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1900ae; text-decoration: underline;">EDGE & The Social Web: 'MEDIANOMICS' - will 2013 be a year of disruption?</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is a tremendous disruption going on in the news industry, but conventional newspapers are still doing ok. They are not doing good, as in good in the good old times. But they are doing al right, in terms of surviving a recession on top of the disruption.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have said it before, and I say it again: The newspaper business in Finland is not stupid. It is still the number one medium in selling pair of eyes to advertisers. Yes, the numbers are not looking THAT good anymore, but I guess the Finnish newspapers will have over 20 percent of the market even this year. They are not going to be the winner in terms of growth. But they will be doing fairly good.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And this is the paradox of the disruption.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The news industry finds itself in a situation where the old stuff is still selling pretty good, and when there seems to be a growing audience wanting something else on digital surfaces - and nobody can be vey sure about what should be done, and how that is going to sell.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If we take a conventional look at the new industry, we would need to incorporate the retailers and their money into the development of a new news industry. If I were an advertiser, I would respond to this proposal: ”Well, ok. To a certain extent. I like your news stream, but I have my own business, too. So, as long as we can find cheaper solutions for me - cause, I’ve got my own figures, and I know exactly when it’s time for me to leave the news stream, because I can create my own attention magnets on digital surfaces - then I’m in!”.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The new world - probably rising from the digital ecosystem, is probably the new way. When print media - veeeeery slowlyyyyy - gets rid of costs for printing and distribution, there might be good business up ahead. This New World is of course The Place for everybody wanting to come up with any sci-fi idea as possible. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have heard tens of times how the news - that is the piece of news - is going to change so dramatically that we cannot even talk about news anymore. Everything will change. Strong news brands will collapse, because people get their information from the digital sources, not to speak about social media. Journalists are not needed anymore, because on the web everybody is a journalist...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yeah, right. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">All of a sudden the most evolutional part of the human being has vanished?! Curiosity. Curiosity and confirmation. Knowing what your enemies, allies and business competitors are up to. And all this in a world that is delivering faster info than ever before? Like: ”Hell, yeah. I only want my info fast and free and funny. I don’t care about if it is true or not!!!”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">First of all; we are not a species that changes rapidly. Even The Mobile Revolution has been quite slow. People have still got old fashioned telephones at the end of telephone lines at home, etc. We will probably see a start of a real mobile change during the coming years, because of tablets and better smart phones. The network operators will probably try to do their best to slow this development down with ridiculously high rates, but there must be a way around that, too.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Secondly; we all need somebody to trust. Here is where the news brands will have their new coming. We can listen to any guy on the gas station, but when it comes to confirmed news, well, then we need to be certain. This trust comes from the profession of the journalist. If you do not know what makes a journalist, please have a look at the Finnish guidelines for journalists, guidelines 1-7 (<a href="http://www.jsn.fi/en/journalists_instructions/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1900ae; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.jsn.fi/en/journalists_instructions/</span></a>). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You don’t let anybody serve your car - you get it to a garage or a guy you trust. And you pay for it. You don’t let anybody give you a haircut. You go to somebody you trust. And you pay for the haircut, too.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Producing news is about the same thing. You need good professional journalists to create quality content that people will trust and pay for. By the end of the day, every non-profit, non-salary-paying web journal will either be bought by a big media company (because it was good and trustworthy, or a competitor), or it will die, because being a journalist is fun, but fun does not feed your children.</span></div>
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<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Disruption is a thrill, but it will not make things easier. I have done some research about quality of information. See for instance: </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pär Landor: Understanding the Foundation of Mobile Content Quality A Presentation of a New Research Field. <a href="http://dblp.dagstuhl.de/db/conf/hicss/hicss2003-3.html#Landor03"><span style="font: 13.0px Times; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1900ae; text-decoration: underline;">HICSS 2003</span></a>: 88 </span><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">or </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pär Landor: On Wireless Internet Content Quality. <a href="http://dblp.dagstuhl.de/db/conf/iadis/icwi2002.html#Landor02"><span style="font: 13.0px Times; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1900ae; text-decoration: underline;">ICWI 2002</span></a>: 345-354 - at http://www.odysci.com/author/1010112985097447/par-landor</span><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But quality is a tricky one. Quality of information usually comes with the package. That means new form of presenting news on tablets, smart phones, and any surfaces we have not even seen yet. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And that, again, is a whole new ball game, since someone is going to have to build the new fancy representations. That somebody is hopefully a journalist, because I think journalist should manufacture his stories from A to Z. And, as we know, journalists are not cheap.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12896700513924041817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196051953273355812.post-13281734705726197772011-11-09T03:52:00.001-08:002011-11-09T03:52:34.503-08:00Only Professionals Are Journalists<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let’s face it. We journalist are lousy marketing people.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you stumble into a discussion about whether blogging is journalism or not, or what is the future of journalism since everybody can be a publisher on the web… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you could start yelling about how good journalist are on writing stories. You will suggest that ordinary writing people are not that good at storytelling..</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let’s be frank about journalism. Journalism is nothing more than a process for refining information. This process includes ethic elements, focus groups, timing and al lot more aspects that constantly are present in a news room.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Journalism is journalism when it contains this element of profession. Period.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The news business is in is biggest change in its history. The news business is changing paradigm, and nobody seems to understand where it is heading. This huge change gives the stage to all kinds of thinkers. How often have we not heard that journalism is dead or that the form off news is dead or a whole lot more of that kind.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The more information you are facing, the more you are asking yourself “What piece of information can I trust?”.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Quality journalism is never true. No journalism is ever true. It is at its best plausible.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The journalistic process tires to make sense of things and processes in a complex world. The better the elements of professionalism is in the journalistic process, the more plausible the outcome is.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Journalism is still not only about what you want to know. It is still – as it has always been – about what you need to know.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This will stay the same regardless if you consume journalism on paper, pads, mobiles or on television.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Only professionals are journalists.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But we are lousy at letting people know this fact.</span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12896700513924041817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196051953273355812.post-79335691434785246332011-05-25T03:59:00.000-07:002011-05-25T03:59:07.854-07:00The tablet is a good thing for the newspaper<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First I believed that after all the laptops would be the new template for electronic newspapers.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I believed in the e-paper. I guess I thought that the electronic newspaper should be more mobile.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then came the smartphones. I used my smarphone as a newspaper template one summer. I got used to it.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then came the tablets. Then came The Daily on the iPad.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tablets might work as a medium for the electronic newspaper. Some people think that the iPad is too heavy for keeping in one hand, where as the Kindle tablet is lighter. I do not know – I have not been testing either of them.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tablet – or the XL smartphone – is anyway a breakthrough for the electronic newspaper. Now the papers do not have to teach people to use the new device. People will have the device (soon, soon…) and will be more comfortable with reading the paper on the tablet.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have talked about quality of journalism recently in my blog. Quality is also a question of usability. It is very interesting, and nice, to see that newspapers are really working on creating versions especially for the tablet. This, I think, is going to create the electronic newspaper much faster than I ever would have expected. It is a good way to do quality work at once.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To me this is good news. To people stuck in the “People are used to the newspaper printed on paper” mantra will never agree with me.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We need the electronic newspaper for many reasons – for the business, for ecology, for usability, and for getting youngsters to subscribe to newspapers again.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I moved out to my own apartment, my parents paid for a subscription to the newspaper for me. So did almost all parents. They do not do it very much anymore. Their youngsters, and the parents, get their news free.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, get The Daily going, and you might have a new wave coming!</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12896700513924041817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196051953273355812.post-13411547866780438772011-05-24T10:48:00.000-07:002011-05-24T10:48:36.582-07:00Quality of journalism is already defined<div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Journalism is a peculiar industry. It is a mass industry, where - like in all mass industries - there are lots of quality talk. When you buy a car or a pair of jeans, you the customer judge the quality. In journalism the quality is judged by the producer. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">No way, you say. We can tell quality by sold copies or reader figures or amounts of tweets!</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Oh, really? So, well-selling tabloids are quality because they sell well? Well, then quality means profit, and only profit.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have been working as an editor-in-chief and I too have been very clear on (without anything more than the intuition of an editor-in-chief) what is good quality journalism and what is not. Still, I was the producer, not the consumer.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I now think that quality will matter, and matter a lot, in web journalism. But then ”quality” has to be defined and processed in the same way it is defined and processed in other industries.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yes, a great deal of research has been done on quality of information. The quality guru Joseph Juran defines quality of information in the same way he defines “quality” in general: High- quality data is data that is fit for use in its intended, operational, decision-making, planning, and strategic roles. Fitness implies both freedom from defects and possession of desired features. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Another guru, Philip B. Crosby, presents a rather similar view of information quality - but Crosby can be implemented directly on journalism: “Communication is getting the message to the areas that need it in a way that will be accepted and implemented. That requires both credibility of presentation and integrity of content useful”, and “When we can communicate with others in a way that helps them make the choice that is best for them, we are being useful. When we aim it at something that is best for us, and not for them, we are not being useful. The whole purpose of communication is to be useful.”</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Paul Lillrank gives too something to the journalism industry. He defines “quality of information” as its ability to generate action. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Well, there you go. The definitions and the theories have been there long enough. The whole purpose of communication is to be useful. Thus, we need to define ”useful” in terms of useful to the reader or the consumer on the web. And we need to start measuring.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On the web the critical measurement right now seems to be amounts of clicks. Ok, but does it mean that an article clicked 1000 times is more useful and has generated more action than one clicked 100 times? Of course not. Amounts of clicks measure only amounts of clicks.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Look at journalism as a method for refining information. That is all there is. After that we will be dealing with the effects of journalism. That is usefulness and action generation. I don’t have the answer, but journalism with effects tends to be more important than journalism with no effects or with only brain draining effects.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 13.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Calibri; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If readers are returning to, and paying for, Murdoch’s web news, it might have something to do with quality of journalism. After all, some people, who did not want to pay for web journalism, have turned to paying customers.</span></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12896700513924041817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196051953273355812.post-82221472996111613762011-05-24T10:08:00.000-07:002011-05-24T10:50:33.691-07:00Everything, all over the place<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No longer is the newspaper The Newspaper – the main source of information for anybody. Today, every person gets his or her daily information from a myriad of sources – and in a personal way.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no “we have it all” anymore. There is only “everything, all over the place”.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, that’s nothing new.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let’s talk ecology. Give me a more non-ecological way of producing daily news than to print them on paper and transport them hundreds of miles. There is none.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you see, I am a man of multimedia journalism.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ecological aspect is easy to understand. The ecological break-even for a web publication vs. a newspaper is tied to minutes of use. It is also tied to the way electricity is produced. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no carbon dioxide free way of producing electricity, so using the web will increase the carbon footprint. Finnish studies suggest that the break-even is somewhere around 40 minutes of newspaper consumption on the web. If you read longer, the paper version is more ecological.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a hard time believing this, but I don’t have any evidence.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then a word about attitude. If somebody in 1983 had put an ad about bingo, poker or – God heavens Girls! - beside a high quality journalistic article in a high quality paper, there would have been a crisis beyond belief in the newsroom. Girls, games and gambling is nothing you wrap around quality journalism.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, now you have to.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Papers are making money on the web, but not enough. And they will not make enough money before they realize that “enough” is a smaller amount than they are used to. And they still not make enough money on the web before they realize that ads on the web are not ads on paper. Girls, games and gambling – in some form – is going to be advertisers funding quality journalism.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You either take it, or leave the web. Until you find something more suitable.</span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12896700513924041817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4196051953273355812.post-62639370782474489082011-05-24T02:39:00.000-07:002011-05-24T10:53:08.825-07:00Is there still going to be The Hunt For The Scoop?<div style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Like other forces brought to bear by the web, there’s no getting around this one — rewards for originality are what we want, not just as consumers but as citizens — but creating an environment that generates those rewards will also mean dismantling the syndication model we’ve had since Havas first set up shop”, says Clay Shirky on the <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/">Nieman Journalism Lab</a>.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The question 101 is: How do we get rid of, or around, the new journalism driver – the hunt for The Scoop? Or, does The Scoop mean something else in web journalism?</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jeff Jarvis is probably right when he suggests “Report what you do the best, link to the rest”. In practice this would mean huge resource savings, since reporters wouldn’t have to work on every background detail, which would give them real resources to create and present new news.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, sharing is not what journalism has been about. The driver has been Our Scoop, which again generates consumption and revenue – and some media sticking out in the business. A media that produces scoops IS doing something right. News is still something that someone somewhere doesn’t like to see in publicity.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take away this driver for The Scoop and you take away lots of the heart of news journalism.</span></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Jeff Jarvis did not say scip the scoop. He said that by sharing old news you would probably have the time to investigate and come up with pieces of real, relevant, mattering new news. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Does it work in practice? I don’t know. In Scandinavia news media on the web share, but they don’t seem to build further on shared news stuff. It very much like Shirky puts it: “Giving credit where credit is due will reward original work, whether scoops, hot news, or unique analysis or perspective. This will be great for readers. It may not, however, be so great for newspapers, or at least not for their revenues, because most of what shows up in a newspaper isn’t original or unique. It’s the first four grafs of something ripped off the wire and lightly re-written, a process repeated countless times a day with no new value being added to the story”.</span></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being first with a revealing is still, I think, one of the most important competitive edges in the business. Yes, we can share. But no, we are not going to give up the race for being first. Being first is still The Business in the business.</span></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t believe in citizen journalism in the sense that almost everyone could become a good journalist. I believe in the profession. But still, this is nothing that would not prove Clay Shirky right. The drive for The Scoop is probably going to mean that we will have a lot more professional journalists out there publishing scoops or “scoops”.</span></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then again – the “scoops” will either mess up, or clean up, the market. Poor journalistic revelations will shoot down “professionals” as unreliable. But, on the other hand, good revelations by small new, or single publishing journalists, will expose big media corporations as dinosaurs or mummies.</span></span></div><div style="background: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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