Don’t Undersell New Media
The media has always preached a healthy skepticism of fads, but don’t underestimate the power of new trends in online journalism. The fact that news of Tim Russert’s death last June broke on Twitter and Wikipedia before NBC lent a new authority to nontraditional forms of internet news.
Some intriguing new projects in online journalism are worth a look.
Interactive Narratives: a web site founded by a New York Times multimedia editor in 2003 as an index of the best visual journalism.
iReport: CNN launched this experimental citizen video journalism site in 2006. It’s basically an unvetted news version of YouTube.
Idea Lab: a group blog by Knight Foundation grantees who are “reinventing community news for the Digital Age.”
Eyetrack III (a feature of Poynter Online): results of a small 2004 study tracking how people visually take in online news.
Posterous: a free, easy way to post blog entries, photos, music, and video online without technical knowledge- all you do is email post@posterous.com.
LoJo: a journalism project based in Chicago that explores location-based technologies like GPS and interactive maps.
Know about interesting, new journalism-related Web sites? Share them with the Minnesota News Council below!
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