Alfred Hermida on the state of journalismTumblr (3.0; @journalism)http://journalism.tumblr.com/<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/09/27/mexico-social-media-slayings-blur-the-killing-space/">Mexico social media slayings blur the killing space</a>: <p>The <a href="http://uncut.indexoncensorship.org/2011/09/journalists-decapitation-another-warning-to-social-media-users/">brutal killing of Macias Castaneda</a> in Mexico reportedly in retribution for her social media posts about drug cartels is shocking.</p> <p>Castaneda was a newsroom manager for the Nuevo Laredo daily…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/10738136518http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/10738136518Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:02:17 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/09/25/online-journalism-award-winners-for-2011/">Online Journalism Award winners for 2011</a>: <p>Congratulations to all the winners and finalists in the Online Journalism Awards. The General Excellence Awards went to BBC News, The Globe and Mail, Voice of San Diego, NJ Spotlight, OWNI and La…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/10645819847http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/10645819847Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:15:50 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/05/30/newspaper-paywalls-post-on-huffington-post/">Newspaper paywalls post on Huffington Post</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F05%2F30%2Fnewspaper-paywalls-post-on-huffington-post%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F05%2F30%2Fnewspaper-paywalls-post-on-huffington-post%2F&source=hermida&style=compact&service=bit.ly&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p><img class="alignright" title="HuffPost logo" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/v/logos/v3/canada.png?v5" alt="" width="373" height="29"/>There were two significant developments in the media in Canada last week.</p> <p>The Huffington Post crossed the 49th parallel to set up <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/">Huff Post Canada</a> and one of the largest…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/6054360283http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/6054360283Tue, 31 May 2011 21:30:09 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/05/19/journalists-use-twitter/">How journalists are using Twitter</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F05%2F19%2Fjournalists-use-twitter%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F05%2F19%2Fjournalists-use-twitter%2F&source=hermida&style=compact&service=bit.ly&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>A <a href="http://www.orielladigitaljournalism.com/view-report.html">survey of nearly 500 journalists</a> across 12 countries offers some insights into what reporters are doing on Twitter.</p> <p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2650" title="Oriella graphic" src="http://www.reportr.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/oriella.jpg" alt=""/>It found that nearly half of respondents (47 per cent)…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/5646671426http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/5646671426Thu, 19 May 2011 18:00:40 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/05/09/social-media-influences-spread-news/">Facebook’s growing influence on the spread of news</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F05%2F09%2Fsocial-media-influences-spread-news%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F05%2F09%2Fsocial-media-influences-spread-news%2F&source=hermida&style=compact&service=bit.ly&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p><img class="aligncenter" title="Pew graphic on influence of Facebook" src="http://www.journalism.org/sites/journalism.org/files/u29/4-the_influence_of_facebook.png" alt="" width="645" height="469"/>A Pew study provides further evidence of the growing importance of social networks as a way for people to share and recommend news stories.</p> <p><a href="http://www.journalism.org/node/25008">The study</a> by the Pew Research…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/5357083070http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/5357083070Tue, 10 May 2011 06:25:42 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/05/02/osama-bin-ladens-death-shows-impact-twitter/">Osama bin Laden’s death shows impact of Twitter</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F05%2F02%2Fosama-bin-ladens-death-shows-impact-twitter%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F05%2F02%2Fosama-bin-ladens-death-shows-impact-twitter%2F&source=hermida&style=compact&service=bit.ly&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>The role of Twitter in breaking and spreading news of the killing of Osama bin Laden is fascinating.</p> <p>The raid on bin Laden was being tweeted in real-time by Sohaib Athar (<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ReallyVirtual">…</a></p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/5154266342http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/5154266342Tue, 03 May 2011 02:14:40 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/04/29/audiences-read-journalist-blogs/">Why audiences read journalist blogs</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F29%2Faudiences-read-journalist-blogs%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F29%2Faudiences-read-journalist-blogs%2F&source=hermida&style=compact&service=bit.ly&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>Blogs have become part of the furniture of online news sites, with many journalists enthusiastically taking up blogging as part of their daily routine.</p> <p>The <a href="http://mediaresearch.ca/en/projects/socialmedia.htm">CMRC study on news habits…</a></p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/5100346510http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/5100346510Sun, 01 May 2011 11:19:16 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/04/27/social-media-transforming-people-news/">Social media transforming how people get the news</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F27%2Fsocial-media-transforming-people-news%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F27%2Fsocial-media-transforming-people-news%2F&source=hermida&style=compact&service=bit.ly&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>The <a href="http://mediaresearch.ca/en/projects/socialmedia.htm">third in the CMRC’s series of reports</a> on the news landscape in Canada reveals the dramatic impact that Facebook, Twitter and other social media services are having on the news…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4997279204http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4997279204Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:52:50 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/04/21/cartoon-explain-internet/">Cartoon: How to explain the internet</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F21%2Fcartoon-explain-internet%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F21%2Fcartoon-explain-internet%2F&source=hermida&style=compact&service=bit.ly&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>Here’s something for a holiday Easter weekend. A wonderful cartoon by Rob Cottingham on how to explain the internet.<br/><code> <div class="embedded-webcomic"> <a href="http://www.robcottingham.ca/cartoon/archive/poof-goes-the-internet/"><span class="webcomic-object webcomic-object-post webcomic-object-full webcomic-object-2527"><img src="http://www.robcottingham.ca/cartoon/wp-content/webcomic/noise-to-signal/2011.04.13.internet-fairy.png" width="450" height="568" alt="" title="Media literacy cartoon"/></span></a><br/><a href="http://www.robcottingham.ca/cartoon">Noise to Signal Cartoon</a> </div> </code></p> <div style="text-align:left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;"><a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/04/21/cartoon-explain-internet/?pfstyle=wp" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none; color: #55750C;"><img class="printfriendly" style="border:none; padding:0;" src="http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-print-icon.gif" alt="Print Friendly"/><span class="printandpdf" style="font-size:12; margin-left:3px; color:#55750C;"> Print <img style="border:none;" src="http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-pdf-icon.gif" alt="Get a PDF version of this webpage"/> PDF </span></a></div>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4844752297http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4844752297Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:31:58 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/04/07/mediacooler_markerplace/">MediaCooler aims to be media marketplace for Canada</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F07%2Fmediacooler_markerplace%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F07%2Fmediacooler_markerplace%2F&source=hermida&style=normal&service=is.gd&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>An interesting project that seeks to help journalists and editors connect with each other has just launched in Canada.</p> <p><a href="https://www.mediacooler.com/">MediaCooler.com</a> is the brainchild of my friend, Alison…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4427961632http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4427961632Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:14:03 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/04/02/research-sharing-links-facebook/">Research into the sharing of links on Facebook</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F02%2Fresearch-sharing-links-facebook%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F02%2Fresearch-sharing-links-facebook%2F&source=hermida&style=normal&service=is.gd&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>With social recommendation becoming an increasingly important way that people get the news, the final research paper at <a href="http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/program.php?year=2011">ISOJ</a> looked at how news travels on social networks.</p> <p>The <a href="http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/2011/papers/Baresch2011.pdf">…</a></p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4311904334http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4311904334Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:13:56 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/04/02/lessons-engage-audiences/">Lessons on how to engage with audiences</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F02%2Flessons-engage-audiences%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F02%2Flessons-engage-audiences%2F&source=hermida&style=normal&service=is.gd&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>Jim Brady, former editor of TBD.com and WashingtonPost.com, set the tone for a professional panel on engaging the audience at <a href="http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/program.php?year=2011">#ISOJ</a> by saying they were going to stick to time and…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4299056498http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4299056498Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:02:02 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/04/01/meredith-artley-cnns-digital-strategy/">Meredith Artley on CNN’s digital strategy</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F01%2Fmeredith-artley-cnns-digital-strategy%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F01%2Fmeredith-artley-cnns-digital-strategy%2F&source=hermida&style=normal&service=is.gd&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>The second keynote of the <a href="http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/program.php?year=2011">ISOJ</a> was by Meredith Artley, vice president and managing editor, CNN.com</p> <p>She started by stressing the importance of journalism and showed dramatic images…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4281633907http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4281633907Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:24:25 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/04/01/research-journalists-twitter/">Studies find journalists use Twitter for broadcast</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F01%2Fresearch-journalists-twitter%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F04%2F01%2Fresearch-journalists-twitter%2F&source=hermida&style=normal&service=is.gd&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>The final research paper at the <a href="http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/program.php?year=2011">ISOJ</a> focused on how newsrooms were using Twitter.</p> <p>Dale Blasingame from Texas State University, San Marcos, looked at how Twitter was changing TV…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4266937475http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4266937475Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:07:24 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/03/31/value-theory-driving-innovation-journalism/">The value of theory in driving innovation in journalism</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F03%2F31%2Fvalue-theory-driving-innovation-journalism%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F03%2F31%2Fvalue-theory-driving-innovation-journalism%2F&source=hermida&style=normal&service=is.gd&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>Innovation has become something of a buzz word in journalism. Usually the focus on innovation is on developing new products or services.</p> <p>While it is important to figure out how to…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4235942016http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4235942016Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:54:41 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/03/30/canadians-pay-news-online/">Canadians don’t want to pay for the news online</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F03%2F30%2Fcanadians-pay-news-online%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F03%2F30%2Fcanadians-pay-news-online%2F&source=hermida&style=normal&service=is.gd&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>In the week the New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/opinion/l28times.html?_r=1">introduced digital subscriptions</a>, a <a href="http://mediaresearch.ca/en/projects/PayingForTheNews.htm">Canadian study shows that consumers</a> just don’t want to pay for the news.</p> <p>An online survey of 1,682 adults,…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4224213690http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4224213690Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:18:09 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/03/25/social-media-story-telling-storify/">Storify for social media story-telling</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F03%2F25%2Fsocial-media-story-telling-storify%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F03%2F25%2Fsocial-media-story-telling-storify%2F&source=hermida&style=normal&service=is.gd&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>In class this week, we looked at <a href="http://www.reportr.net/2010/11/06/idmaa-keynote-collaborative-story-telling-social-media/">collaborative story-telling through social media</a>, using the <a href="http://storify.com/">Storify</a> platform to look at different aspects of the <a href="http://thethunderbird.ca/?s=storify">situation in Libya</a>.</p> <p>Storify…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4097326998http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/4097326998Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:58:43 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/03/14/twitters-news-agenda-mainstream-media-blogs/">Twitter’s different news agenda from mainstream media and blogs</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F03%2F14%2Ftwitters-news-agenda-mainstream-media-blogs%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F03%2F14%2Ftwitters-news-agenda-mainstream-media-blogs%2F&source=hermida&style=normal&service=is.gd&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>The different news agendas of the <a href="http://stateofthemedia.org/2011/mobile-survey/a-year-in-news-narrative/#blogs-and-twitter-two-very-different-news-agendas">US mainstream media, blogs and Twitter</a> are one of revelations of the annual <a href="http://stateofthemedia.org/">State of the Media report</a> for 2011 from Pew’s Project for Excellence…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/3864043948http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/3864043948Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:59:21 -0700<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/02/22/experience-interviewing-gaddafi/">My experience of interviewing Gaddafi</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F02%2F22%2Fexperience-interviewing-gaddafi%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F02%2F22%2Fexperience-interviewing-gaddafi%2F&source=hermida&style=normal&service=is.gd&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p>With <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12544624">Libya in the news</a>, I thought I would share this piece I did for BBC News in 1995 about the Libyan economy.</p> <p>As the BBC correspondent in the region, I visited Libya twice and…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/3461064599http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/3461064599Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:12:20 -0800<a href="http://www.reportr.net/2011/02/16/visualization-egyptian-uprising-twitter/">Visualization of the Egyptian uprising on Twitter</a>: <div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"> <a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reportr.net%2F2011%2F02%2F16%2Fvisualization-egyptian-uprising-twitter%2F"><br/><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif&source=hermida&style=normal&service=is.gd&b=2" height="61" width="50"/><br/></a> </div> <p><a href="http://www.politics.ubc.ca/index.php?id=2463">A colleague at UBC</a> pointed out this striking visualization of the network of retweets at the time of Mubarak’s resignation on February 11.</p> <p>Computer scientist <a href="http://www.di.unito.it/~panisson/">André Panisson</a>…</p>http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/3332610026http://journalism.tumblr.com/post/3332610026Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:03:16 -0800