Online Journalism week 1: "Why?"

Online Journalism week 1

Paul BradshawOnline Journalism Blog

Why?

Do something now

• Set up a blog using blogger or wordpress• Write your first post: Why online

journalism skills are essential in the news industry

• Write like an opinion column – be entertaining, provocative, and informed

• First draft – so just blitz it out and don’t worry about quality (yet)

•20 minutes!

Now, my turn.

Northcliffe

“Fully integrated multi-media newsrooms will soon

be in operation across its titles, with all of its 1,500

journalists writing for both print and online”

Trinity Mirror

“Every morning the journalists

check YouTube and MySpace for our local area"

“web-savvy, who know what RSS is, who can

edit video”

“video journalism courses and multimedia workshops,

attended by over 70 journalists in the North

West before being rolled out across the division”

Blog.

What?

Weblog.

“Pre-surfed web”

Expert analysis

Synthesis

Opinion

When?

1997 (ish)

Why?

Reputation

Contacts

Knowledge

Skill

Who?

Salam Pax

Daily Kos

250,000

Per day

Trent Lott

Rathergate

Guido Fawkes

How?

Regularly

Link

Community

Trackback

Tags

RSS

Make your own newspaper

Go to:• www.Wikio.com - And subscribe to the RSS feed from

http://onlinejournalismblog.wordpress.com/feed/ Try also:• www.google.co.uk/ig • www.Bloglines.com • http://search.blogger.com/ - subscribe to RSS feed of

search• www.Technorati.com • Del.icio.us

Now do it properly

• Edit your post: Why online journalism skills are essential in the news industry

• Research the subject matter• Rewrite your post so that it is informed

and backed up with facts and quotes• Worry about quality – structure, grammar,

spelling, links. Work the intro and the ending.

Directed study (5 hours)

• Keep editing for quality and authority• Build your personal news service and RSS

feeds• Read blogs• Read the reading• Write some more posts