Online Journalism: An Overview
Some trends increasing importance of independent & startup organizations as opposed to legacy organizations
“For aspiring journalists, this means it is increasingly likely that you will not spend your career working for a traditional, legacy organization. Instead, at some point, perhaps at the beginning of your career, you may need to be an entrepreneur, establishing your own business, or becoming a partner in a small start-up organization.” – Foust, p. 2
More multi-way, interactive journalism (social media, citizen journalism, Web 2.0, etc.) More active and participatory – and less patient – audiences Search engine driven users Universal, 24/7 production, consumption, interaction
“There can be no sense of starting at a particular time in the morning, no sense of stopping at a particular time in the evening … Our content’s got to be available when our users want it.” – Adrian Van Klaveren, BBC
24/7 access to reams of information, historical and contemporary Hyperlocalism Unlimited space
Online Journalism: An Overview Some trends, cont.
Multimedia production, consumption & distribution Convergence (technological, institutional/business) Rise of ‘backpack’ journalist – and citizen (backpack) journalist (writers, photographers, audio-graphers, videographers, e.g. Washington Post print reporters must learn basics of camera operation, shooting aesthetics & editing)
“On every major story we ask for a multimedia component – that doesn’t mean you have to do all of them but you have to think about what the elements should be: Is it a slideshow, is it a video, is it audio, is it graphics?” – Raju Nasiretti, Washington Post
“Everybody is a Web staffer. If you’re a print reporter, you’re also a Web reporter.” – John Schwantes, Corporate Director of News Convergence, WTHR-TV/Indianapolis Star.
Death of traditional model of revenues generation - Selling advertising - Charging subscription fees - Value-added services - Publically-funded journalism
Wordpress: Intro & overview
Content Management System
A content management system (CMS) is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based. The procedures are designed to do the following:
• Allow for a large number of people to contribute to and share stored data
• Control access to data, based on user roles (defining which information users or user groups can view, edit, publish, etc.)
• Aid in easy storage and retrieval of data • Control of data validity and compliance • Reduce repetitive duplicate input • Improve the ease of report writing • Improve communication between users • In a CMS, data can be defined as nearly anything: documents,
movies, text, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, and so forth.
WordPress.com –> hosted and managed by Automattic
PROs • free & easier to set up; • everything is taken care of by Automattic: setup, upgrades, spam, backups, security, etc. • Blog on hundreds of servers, so it’s unlikely it will go down due to traffic • content is backed up automatically
CONs • Can’t upload a custom theme • Can’t modify code behind your blog • can’t upload plugins (plugins = programs which extend the capabilities of Wordpress)
Wordpress.Org install on own server or a 3rd party hosting provider (dailycollegelife.com hosted on Hostgator.Com)
PROs • More customizable; can create own templates, change CSS, PHP code etc. • You can choose & upload own plugins
CONs • You have to pay $7-$12 per month for space on web host • More complicated (have to install on a web host, etc.) • You have to keep WP up to date, deal with plugin conflicts, back up WP yourself • You have to deal with hacking/security issues on your own MFJS 3504, Advanced Multimedia
Storytelling & Publishing
Open Source Content Management Systems & Hackers
- What is a hacker? - Why hack? - How widespread is hacking? - Malware 99% of enterprises had malware infections in network (Fireeye Blog/8-2011)
- Protecting your (CMS) site
Open Source Content Management Systems & Hackers
Open Source Content Management Systems & Hackers
Why Wordpress?
Why college life? Winter 2011 Dailycollegelife.wordpress.com
Creating a Wordpress user name/login/bio/avatar
Homework: READINGS Van, Buskir, E. (2010, May). 5-Year-Old YouTube Tops Networks’ Primetime With 2 Billion Views. Wired.Com http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/five-year-old-youtube-tops-networks-primetime-with-2-billion-views/ Seidenberg, S. (2010). Copyright in the age of YouTube. ABA Journal. http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/copyright_in_the_age_of_youtube/
Blackboard video - Creating a YouTube Account - Embedding a YouTube Video in Wordpress
WRITTEN - Issue Story No. 1 Goal Statement (post to Blackboard
Discussion Board!)
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