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David Cohn: Pushing journalism frontiers

May 7, 2008 – 7:49 pm

At the NewsTools 2008 conference last week, I had a chance to sit down with one of the emerging luminaries of entrepreneurial, experimental journalism. David Cohn runs the BeatBlogging project for NewAssignment.net, and he also works with NewsTrust . Plus, he runs a great blog of his own and is a constant presence on [...]

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NewsTools 2008: I have always depended on the kindness of friends

May 1, 2008 – 2:02 pm

I’m not exactly Blanche DuBois, but…

I’m at the NewsTools2008 unconference at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, CA — where 150 news/media people, academics, and technologists are gathered to figure out better tools to support journalism that matters. (Follow my live coverage on my amylive Twitter account.)
…And I have apparently come down with a cold. It [...]

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Journalism: A Toxic Culture? (Or: Why Aren’t We Having More Fun?)

April 28, 2008 – 11:58 am

Despair, Inc.

Remind you of any journalists you know?…

(NOTE: I originally posted this article on Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits. But I thought Contentious readers might be interested in it, too.)
Most of what I do is help journalists and news orgs wrap their brains around the Internet. Generally I enjoy that work. Lately, though, I’ve been getting quite [...]

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Vegas-bound, sans Nokia N95…

April 25, 2008 – 1:18 pm

Quick video post from the Denver International Airport today. Thanks again to the folks at Nokia for raising on their own Conversations blog the issues related to Nokia USA’s inadequate service I’ve been talking about on Contentious.com. (See Nokia’s posts yesterday and today) . I appreciate their willingness to engage in a frank public [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Conversations, blogs, business, community, conversational media, mobile, problems, telephony, video | Comments Off

Nokia’s Blog Starts Discussing Problems

April 24, 2008 – 9:19 am

Nokia.com

Nokia’s Conversations blog is getting interesting now that it’s not all just happy talk.

Recently Nokia launched its Conversations blog, a good first step any company can take toward transparency and engagement with its customers, partners, and critics. Not surprisingly, most of the initial posts were “happy news” of one kind or another. I don’t begrudge [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Conversations, PR & marketing, accountability, blogs, business, community, conversational media, mobile, problems, telephony, tools, transparency | Comments (0)

Overhauling J-School Completely

April 16, 2008 – 3:04 pm

Sscornelius, via Flickr (CC license)

Maybe what journalism education really needs is to start over from a new foundation.

Well, there’s been a ton of great discussion lately on the theme of what kind of education and preparation today’s journalists really need, given the changing landscape of opportunities they’re facing. (Thanks to Mindy McAdams, James Ball, Paul [...]

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New J-Skills: What to Measure?

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am

Berbercarpet, via Flickr (CC license)

Journalism sudents need the right tools — and skills — for the kinds of careers and opportunities they’re really going to be making for themselves.

Picking up on my post yesterday, Univ. of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams challenged me (and her other readers) to translate my quick list of what j-schools [...]

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Newspaper Biz: Evolution Isn’t the End of the World

February 7, 2008 – 10:36 am

Rob Lee, via Flickr (CC license)

Some ways of approaching what looks like the end of the world are more constructive than others.

(NOTE: I originally wrote this for Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits. I’m cross-posting it here because I think it might also interest Contentious readers.)
This morning I read in the New York Times a cold litany of [...]

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Participatory Journalism in the USA: My Talk

November 16, 2007 – 10:03 pm

J-Lab’s Jan Schaffer will be a hard act to follow, but I’ll do my best.

Next Tuesday in Barcelona, Spain, I’ll be teaming up with J-Lab’s Jan Schaffer to give a talk on Participatatory Journalism in the USA: Opportunities and Challenges. This is part of the fourth Online Media Week. I’m really excited about it. I [...]

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CA Wildfires: Watershed Moment for Collaborative Online News?

October 25, 2007 – 11:00 am

Alex Miroshnichenko

Freelance photojournalist Alex Miroshnichenko is offering great fire coverage (and smart marketing of his skills) with Creative Commons-licensed photos on Flickr.

For the last few days at Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, I’ve been blogging examples of innovative ways that online media is being used to cover the Southern CA wildfires. It’s been astonishing. There have been [...]

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