{"id":1212,"date":"2016-03-08T15:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T23:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2016-03-08T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T23:47:34","slug":"news-literacy-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2016\/03\/08\/news-literacy-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"News Literacy 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

While we’re talking about Jay Rosen<\/a>, let me introduce you to an initiative he started the other day with some of his graduate students at NYU: NewsLiteracy2016<\/a>. This is a wonderful project.<\/p>\n

Jay’s announcement on his Facebook feed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One of the first things I teach my students is: “Online, the simplest way to add value is to save the user time.”<\/p>\n

That was the principle behind a project we launched today, called NewsLiteracy2016. Each of my 11 graduate students took a key trend or disruptive force that is changing journalism and studied it until they knew it cold. Then they reduced all that knowledge to a series of time-saving features: a short 500 word introduction, a list of the best links for further reading, good people to follow for that topic, key charts and graphs to illustrate trends, a “why is this important?” box.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cover image (below) is a single paragraph summarizing what’s changing in journalism, and each clause links to the one-page study guide for that topic. So it’s both a condensation, and a table of contents.<\/p>\n

We made this especially for teachers and students, and anyone who wants to understand why people keep talking about a “crisis” in journalism. My Studio 20 students built the site and did the design. I hope you will check it out, and “like” this post so it spreads on Facebook, or even consider sharing it with your network. It will save your friends a lot of time!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"journalism\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the picture with the links working: As news consumption moves to mobile<\/a>ONE<\/sup> and publishers lose control of distribution<\/a>,TWO<\/sup> business models<\/a> have to evolve with changes in the larger ecosystem.THREE<\/sup> Wise media companies are focusing more on products<\/a>,FOUR<\/sup> exploring how to personalize<\/a> the flow of information,FIVE<\/sup> and engineering a smarter newsroom workflow<\/a>.SIX<\/sup>Meanwhile, journalists are realizing that data<\/a> can help them find better stories,SEVEN<\/sup> and they\u2019re making friends with automation<\/a>.EIGHT<\/sup>They understand that users can assist<\/a> in news production,NINE<\/sup> that if you can\u2019t have scale it\u2019s better to be niche<\/a>,TEN<\/sup> and that excelling at\u00a0explanation<\/a> can interest more people in the news.ELEVEN<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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