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What makes journalism ‘innovative’? Lessons from this year’s Scripps Howard Awards
True innovation in news means connecting that reader/user to important information in a new and meaningful way. Will non-journalists share your project on social media and email it to their friends? Then you might be onto something truly innovative. The day of doing journalism for journalists — or awards — is over. Focus on the customer. Serve the customer.
Get smart.
Craft your questions.
Listen up.
Empathize.
Look around.
Capture how people talk.
Establish ground rules.
Be a lab rat.
1. Inconsistencies in Profile information
2. Profile is public with default privacy settings
3. Photos on fake profile is often an attractive person.
4. Huge friend list
5.Fake profiles will rarely have any real photos
6. Barely any profile information
7. Friend requests from celebrities
8. Fake profiles will hardly have any interaction
9. Profiles of advertising nature
10. Network of fake profiles
- Find your niche.
- Be passionate.
- Keep it small and agile.
- You are the brain of your own business.
- Ask for support (aka money)
Summary of the SubMoJour Report - Sustainable Business Models for Journalism.
How to seperate facts from fiction. Must see for journalists! TED Talk by Markham Nolan. “No matter how quick we get with computers, no matter how much information we have, you’ll never be able to remove the human from the truth-seeking exercise, because in the end, it is a uniquely human trait.”
One of the great things about [journalism today] is you don’t have to wait for permission. You don’t have to wait for somebody to give you a job to start making something that you think would be good. … The more idealistic you are about your work, the more cunning and savvy you need to be about the business side of it.
This American Life’s Ira Glass adds to the most memorable commencement speeches with some timeless words of wisdom. Pair with Glass on the secret of success in creative work.
Also see how to avoid “work” and do what you love.
Reblogged from explore-blog
Credit Russ Gossett. | Click on the image for the article ‘9 Types of Local Stories that Cause Engagement’, by Eric Athas and Teresa Gorman.
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“We’re good at covering things that happen. We need to get better at covering [expected] things that don’t.”- @derekwillis #newsfoo
— Elise Hu (@elisewho) december 2, 2012“This is a quite random selection of tools and technology to inspire, invoke and maybe innovate (or other words that start with the letter “i”) Web journalism.” [By Robert Hernandez]
