{"id":1373,"date":"2017-03-03T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2017-03-03T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:55:11","slug":"news-literacy-2017-a-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2017\/03\/03\/news-literacy-2017-a-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"News Literacy 2017 – a guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

With several of his graduate students NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen has just published the\u00a0second annual “What’s Changing in Journalism” guide,<\/a>\u00a0which “depicts trends that are influencing the business now, and are still new enough that even experienced journalists may not understand what’s going on. Each development gets its own page, with a concise summary, links to learn more, key people to follow: everything you need to get up to speed.”<\/p>\n

This is marvelous and helpful work. The trends:<\/p>\n

Under the principle “go where the people are,” newsrooms are now making stories and features that are fully native to social platforms<\/a>.ONE<\/sup> This is easier in the case of chatbots<\/a>,TWO<\/sup> harder when it comes to audio<\/a>,THREE<\/sup> which is just starting to adapt to the social media age. To reach people directly \u2014 without platforms in the middle \u2014journalists are doing more with mobile push notifications<\/a>FOUR<\/sup> and reviving the email newsletter<\/a>.FIVE<\/sup> Meanwhile, artificial intelligence<\/a>SIX<\/sup> is becoming part of the work flow, as new forms of storytelling emerge, like drone journalism<\/a>,SEVEN<\/sup>virtual reality and 360\u00b0 video<\/a>.EIGHT<\/sup> With technologies and platforms proliferating, news companies have to get much better at UX design<\/a>NINE\u00a0<\/sup>and make subtler use of metrics<\/a>,TEN<\/sup> since many of the traditional measures no longer apply. And with the discovery that people will<\/em> pay for news, it’s time to get smarter about membership models<\/a>.ELEVEN<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I’ve folded a recent post re Jay Rosen’s work\u00a0into this one. The\u00a0two are closely related, obviously, political concerns\u00a0being implicit in the first and explicit in the second\u00a0–><\/p>\n

My first mentor keeps a list of things in journalism that worry him the most<\/a>. His first three (\u201cranked by urgency\u201d):<\/p>\n

1. The President of the United States is proceeding as though he were liberated from the distinction between true and false. His spokespeople are following on this dubious lead. What does the press do in response?<\/p>\n

2. It\u2019s possible we are sliding toward authoritarian rule. That\u2019s a development journalists ought to oppose with all their might. But they are reluctant to think that way. They don\u2019t want to be on the opposing team\u2014 or anyone\u2019s team. They just want to report the news. \u201cWe\u2019re not the opposition,\u201d they say. Yet they may have no choice. From what traditions can they draw to rise to the occasion, and find the will to fight?<\/p>\n

3. With Trump in power there is a surplus of eventfulness, too many things to report, track, investigate, critique. Too much news! How does the press keep from exhausting itself and fracturing our attention into too many pieces?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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