New Media Evolution
Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by admin in For Students, New Media
Two thoughts about new media today. First the idea of citizen journalism seemingly driving the new media train at least in part. If you haven’t noticed YouTube.com/News, you’ll want to check it out and maybe more importantly the YouTube Reporters’ Center, where veteran journalists offer their guidance and tips about how to be a journalist. I’m not sure you can teach what purist journalists have practiced for 20-30 years or more in a YouTube video, but I guess it’s a start and definitely worthwhile to hear the well-known veterans discuss the many layers of expertise that goes into a well conceived and executed story or interview. One of my favorites is NPR’s Scott Simon and a great story about one of his first mistakes told by Bob Woodward about confirming information. And of course, in true YouTube style, these videos have spawned a ’submit your video’ to help others report the news. And my second thought about new media today comes from a NYT article about a city program to ‘Foster Entrepreneurial New Media,‘ which I find interesting. It is aimed at saving jobs and re-tooling old media with the entrepreneurial spirit AND funding. For someone like me who has been in old media for 20 years and now new media for 10 years, it is exciting to see the evolution…similar to what it must’ve been like to see the innovation of the Model T Ford in the early 1900’s.
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