Over on his 10,000 Words blog, Mark S. Luckie has pulled out the multimedia elements of this year’s Pulitzer prize winners, showing how “traditional print stories can be married with multimedia and online projects to create a more dynamic and enticing story package”.
Tags: Mark S. Luckie, Pulitzer Prize
The 2010 Pulitzer winners were announced yesterday, with winners and finalists from online journalism, as well as print backgrounds.
Reporter Sheri Fink from the US non-profit investigative organisation ProPublica has been awarded a Pulitzer prize for her work in collaboration with the New York Times Magazine:
…for a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina.
Other online winners included Mark Fiore for his animated cartoons on SFGate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle website:
…where his biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill complex issues set a high standard for an emerging form of commentary.
The online element of New York Times’ staff reporting was commended in the Pulitzer prize for national reporting:
Awarded to Matt Richtel and members of The New York Times Staff for incisive work, in print and online, on the hazardous use of cell phones, computers and other devices while operating cars and trucks, stimulating widespread efforts to curb distracted driving.
The New York Times has the full list of 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, with comments from the board.
Or download the Pulitzer prize PDF at this link.
Tags: Mark Fiore, Matt Richtel, propublica, pulitzers, sfgate, sheri fink
Real-time reporting: This post from the Skeptic Geek’s blog features some useful tools for gathering news and filtering information from social media in real-time to make sure you’re the most up-to-the minute on your beat. Tipster: Laura Oliver.
To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.
Tags: skeptic geek, social media
New York Times technology reporter Richard Pérez-Peña examines the problem of anonymous comments being widely permitted on news sites. With the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal announcing plans to revise their comment systems, will other mainstream news organisations begin to reconsider this well-established policy?
No one doubts that there is a legitimate value in letting people express opinions that may get them in trouble at work, or may even offend their neighbours, without having to give their names, said William Grueskin, dean of academic affairs at Columbia’s journalism school.
“But a lot of comment boards turn into the equivalent of a bar room brawl, with most of the participants having blood-alcohol levels of 0.10 or higher,” he said. “People who might have something useful to say are less willing to participate in boards where the tomatoes are being thrown.”
Tags: commenting, Huffington Post, New York Times, online comment
The Financial Times is working with Foursquare to provide free subscriptions to users of the location-based social networking site who “check in” to selected locations, Business Insider reports.
The deal will target younger readers, for example by featuring coffee shops and other spots located close to universities and business schools, who may be turned off by the rates for a premium subscription to FT.com.
[T]he Foursquare deal opens the FT up beyond their typical straight-laced business subscribers, and attempts to get a decidedly younger, more web-savvy potential consumer interacting with their brand.
Tags: Financial Times, foursquare, paid content, pay wall, pay walls, paywall, paywalls, social networking
To mark the launch of a new internship scheme, Channel 4 is taking part in a live Q&A session on the Guardian’s Careers website today from 12-3pm.
Jo Taylor, head of learning and 4talent; Alison George, learning and organisational development specialist at Channel 4; and representatives from several independent production companies will be on hand to answer your questions about breaking into the TV industry.
To take part visit the forum at this link.
Tags: 4talent, Channel 4, internships, Training, TV, TV production, TV production internships
Using the West Midlands, where he edits TheBusinessDesk.com, as a microcosm of the publishing and journalism industries in this post on the future shape of media, Marc Reeves concludes that the only constants right now are “perpetual revolution and reinvention”.
Reeves’ post intelligently dissects the problems facing both the ‘old guard’ of traditional media and the ‘new old guard’:
The economics that sit behind great media engines like News International, Trinity Mirror and ITV have changed forever, but – just like the recession – that change comes with a very long tail, and its effects therefore will be felt for a long time to come (…) many players think the only sensible action is to keep on fighting the same battles will the same weapons.
(…) Anyone comfortably settling themselves in for a long career as ‘web publisher’ had better get real. Print monopolies may have lived high on the hog for a couple of hundred years or so, but the equivalent timespan in web publishing is measured in months.
And this is the real problem for the ‘old guard’. When they eventually get what the internet really means for their business, they’ll be seduced into thinking they’ve swapped the old certainties of print for the new certainties of digital.
Tags: #futureofnews, Marc Reeves
More from Nick Davies in the investigative journalist’s ongoing exposés of phone hacking by the British press: the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched a new, official inquiry into suspected interception of voicemail messages linked to tabloid reporting of Vanessa Perroncel and her alleged affair with England and Chelsea footballer John Terry.
The evidence focuses on the phone records of Vanessa Perroncel and of one of her close friends, Antonia Graham. Perroncel was accused by tabloids of having an affair with Terry.
One allegation involves the interception of a live telephone call between the two women, a more serious offence than listening to phone messages.
Published in February, the findings of a Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee inquiry into press standards, privacy and libel said the News of the World and other newspapers turned a blind eye to illegal phone hacking and ‘blagging’ (the practice of obtaining information through deception), contradicting a Press Complaints Commission report published in November.
According to Davies’ new report, Perroncel’s lawyers have also formally warned seven national newspapers that she is planning to sue them for privacy breaches.
Tags: ICO, Information Commissioner's Office, john terry, News of the World, phone hacking, Vanessa Perroncel
Video reporting: Want to know how to make the most out of video reports from events and conferences? Follow the advice of Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser in this video ‘how to’ guide. Tipster: Laura Oliver.
To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link – we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.
Tags: Andy Plesser, conference reporting, event reporting, Video, video reporting, videojournalism
The launch of the Wall Street Journal’s New York edition is just around the corner, and Rupert Murdoch is going after the Grey Lady as tenaciously as his massive advertising cuts suggest. But as the playground rivalry heats up and first blows are traded, New York magazine highlights just how much more of a heavyweight contender the Times is in terms of personnel:
Here’s a list of the reporters we know will be devoted, at least part-time, to working on the Journal‘s new New York section. After each, we’ve listed the reporters that cover the same beat for the Times. As you can see, in nearly every beat, the Times already has two reporters in place for each one of the Journal‘s.
The magazine’s full comparative list must make intimidating reading for the Journal reporters heading into the ring, but, as Greenslade points out in his post, the NY Times Company has no way near the resources of News Corp, and the Journal’s New York edition could expand significantly yet.
Tags: Advertising, new york magazine, New York Times, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal
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