The future of journalism is…

November 6, 2008 By 7 Comments
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OK – quick assignment for people.

Tonight, I will be going to the Christian Science Monitor’s Centennial panel on “The Future of Journalism.” Of course, the Monitor has seen the future is online, not in dead tree forms, and is moving its daily edition online early next year.

But I wanted to ask all of you out there – and I am asking this here, on Twitter, and wherever else I can think of – one question.

Complete the sentence: “The future of journalism is…”

Discuss.

UPDATES FROM THE TWITTERVERSE: Doug Haslam retweeted my question and got a few more answers to add to the pile.

From @jimphelps: crowdsourced, focused content, at the moment of occurence, highly interlinked, multimedia and collaborative.

From @cheapsuits: …online.

From @paulswansen: dead in it’s current form. (Ted note: Not so uplifting, but pretty darn accurate, considering the state of the hosts of the forum.)

Don’t forget to check the comments page to read what others are saying, when they are less encumbered by the 140 character limit.

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Twittering a taste of a newsroom

May 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment

First things first – I have been a shamefully terrible blogger recently. Or I just had nothing to say. So, well, sorry.

Now for the actual post. Our friends at WCMH in Columbus, Ohio, have broken out an interesting use of Twitter to give people a chance to get to know more of the people behind the scenes at the station. More than 20 newsroom staffers have Twitter boxes side by side on the station website, giving people who want to study the daily goings-on a chance to follow along.

NBC 4 Now – Twitter – nbc4i.com -

Of course, there are a lot of potential pitfalls. Already, you can see some people in the group aren’t updating very often. And it’s not clear whether a page of tweets will get much traffic, if the team doesn’t keep on going with it. But they very well might, and it could give people a little insight into what makes the newsroom tick.

It will be interesting to watch.

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