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”We’re returning to an era when we get news from more than one source again, human beings, rather than one monopoly newspaper sending out as few people as possible so it can make as much money as possible. It’s a new golden age.
Paul Bass, “one of the most watched exemplars of scrappy, low-budget, high-impact local journalism — based on reporting, not attitude and opinion — through his New Haven Independent and Valley Independent Sentinel in the Naugatuck Valley.” Both sites are very well designed. Quoted in a NYT article about the new era of local journalism.
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”I think it’s going to be very interesting for editors to see how far along their journalists are in the work. Productivity enhancer? Yikes.
Poster on a Google Wave thread about Wave’s (supposed) impact on the writing and editing process. I completely agree.
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Using iPhone for TV journalism
A reporter at a TV station in Miami shot the video for an entire story on an iPhone, then edited it together on Final Cut back at the studio. The voice over was recorded on the iPhone’s voice recording app as well. Nice work! Now if we could just get rid of all the jiggling.
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”They wind up in London’s crowded Waterloo station where they have to dodge bullets from a CIA sniper, that of course is the sort of thing which happens to us all the time. But there are inaccuracies. The Guardian stylebook clearly states that if you are under a hail of bullets in a public place from an assassin run by a deniable intelligence unit, you have to duck into the nearest internet cafe and start blogging about it to keep the readers informed.
From The Guardian’s review of The Borne Ultimatum, via here.
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What do you do when your premise is wrong?
GetReligion’s Molly Ziegler profiles a new faith/journalism website:
Rather than looking critically at the parameters set out by the project and readjusting to reflect the reality of different religions, the group simply excludes the religion that doesn’t fit. I’m not saying I’m not sympathetic, but it’s just interesting to contemplate how this works in story assignment and development.
When sources don’t say what you want them to say, do you ignore them? Do you exclude them? Do you rethink your story’s premise? I’d say how you answer that question says a lot about the quality of the piece you end up with.
Hits home for more than just religion coverage.
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