#jpod – News industry approaches to curation and aggregation

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This week’s jpod looks at how different publishing platforms in the news industry are approaching curation and aggregation of news, from sources across the web including news outlets, bloggers and social media platforms.

Journalism.co.uk’s news editor Rachel McAthy speaks to:

• Burt Herman, co-founder of Storify
• Mark Johnson, chief executive of Zite
• Rory Brown, co-founder of BriefingMedia, publisher of TheMediaBriefing.com

Podcast: Download

In the spirit of curation, here is a list of some related reading and resources on this topic:

• Aggregation guidelines: Link, attribute, add value – Steve Buttry pulls together some standards journalists should bear in mind when aggregating news
• Five curation tools all journalists should know about – some recommended tools suggested by Journalism.co.uk
• New curation tool Bundlr sets sights on ‘untangling the web’ – Journalism.co.uk article on Bundlr
• Meet the curators – The Economist follows up on a tweet which caused much discussion during the SXSW conference
• Social media: what’s the difference between curation and journalism? – The BBC follows up on another Twitter debate
• 5 opportunities for dynamic curation tools – 10,000 Words suggests five ways to put curation into practice
• Are aggregation and curation journalism? Wrong question – GigaOm highlights the importance of putting the audience at the heart of the debate
• This Week in Review: A push for aggregation standards, and the end of an era for print – The Nieman Journalism Lab highlights recent efforts to set aggregation standards

You can hear future podcasts by signing up to the Journalism.co.uk iTunes podcast feed.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – creating an online portfolio

Looking to set up an online portfolio? Mashable has a post by Heather Huhman which details five different platforms you could use to upload an online portfolio: WorkSimple, Behance, Carbonmade, Pinterest and Dribble.

If you’re also after some inspiration for your portfolio then take a look at a collection we have previously pulled together here, offering five examples of portfolios other journalists have created, as well as their top tips for others.

Tipster: Rachel McAthy

If you have a tip you would like to submit to us at Journalism.co.uk email us using this link– we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – apps and tools for ‘facilitating the reporting process’

10,000 Words has compiled a list of “websites, applications and tools”, which arose out of the CIR/Google TechRaking conference earlier this month, which help in “facilitating the reporting process”. Tools range from those to help record audio to social media engagement intelligence and project management.

See the full list here.

Tipster: Rachel McAthy

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – blogging tips for digital journalists

Over on Ideas Tap Stevie Martin has collected some key pointers from visiting professor at City University London Paul Bradsaw, TheMediaBriefing’s editor Patrick Smith and founder of fashion blog Frassy Audrey Rogers, on blogging. Tips range from choosing a subject you’re passionate about, keeping updates fairly regular and networking with other bloggers.

Read more here.

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The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 31 March – 5 April

1. How to: verify content from social media

2. Ten ideas for news outlets using Pinterest

3. Archie Bland to be youngest Independent deputy editor

4. App of the week for journalists: SkyRecorder, for recording Skype calls on iPhone/iPad

5. Students to launch liveblogging platform Ocqur

6. Bloggers lose $105m pay claim against Huffington Post

7. Rebekah Brooks reapplies for Leveson core participant status

8. Veteran broadcaster and Media Society chairman David Walter dies

9. Future Publishing launches iPad-only title as second screen to computer

10. Police refer ‘Gypsy’ headline case to CPS

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The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 10-16 March

1. Al Jazeera to broadcast Syria documentary filmed entirely on iPhone

2. BBC: ‘sophisticated cyber-attack’ on London newsroom

3. Ebooks: a new publishing solution to an old business problem?

4. Rebekah Brooks among latest Operation Weeting arrests, reports say

5. Citizen journalism, cyber censorship and the Arab spring

6. Guardian reporter: Police communication being ‘closed down’

7. Shareholders concerned about Sly Bailey pay

8. ‘Cities expect more from newspapers that are ‘local’ in name only’

9. Former NoW reporter: ‘I was instructed to bribe police officers’

10. Syrian citizen journalists win Netizen prize

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – eight APIs for news outlets to consider

Over on Poytner Casey Frechette runs through a total of eight APIs which he insists “your news organisation should start using today”, in this useful how to.

The APIs include OpenCalais, Fusion Tables and the Guardian’s – and for each one he also offers some suggestions for how news websites can use them to improve output and the way content works.

Journalism.co.uk also has more on APIs and news outlets at this link, which features an interview with Torsten de Riese, managing director of NewsCred and who was also involved in the launch of the Guardian’s open API.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – avoiding common mistakes in web writing

On his Online Journalism Blog Paul Bradshaw has posted a list of mistakes “made repeatedly by first-time web writers” and offers detailed advice using examples on how to avoid them and improve writing standards. The post refers to issues such as linking to sources, headlines and the use of block quotes.

Read his full post on his Online Journalism Blog.

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Entries now open for 2012 Online Media Awards

Entries are now open for this year’s Online Media Awards, which set out to recognise the best digital news work from online operators big and small.

There are 17 categories covering everything from writing and editing to photography, design and use of social media. The entry deadline for the awards, now in their second year, is 23 March. The finalists will be announced mid-April and the winners at the awards ceremony in London in June.

Last year’s big winner was the Sunday Times website, which won six awards including best video journalism, best campaigning or investigative journalism, best use of photography, plus the grand prix. The site’s editor, Gordon Thomson, was named online editor of the year.

To find out more, see http://www.onlinemediaawards.net/

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Independent backs Paul Dacre’s press card proposal

Paul Dacre giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry yesterday

The Independent has supported Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre’s suggestion to create a register of accredited journalists and toughen up access to the press card.

In a leader article today, the paper agreed that the “kitemark” system had potential, claiming: “Some information sources are more reliable than others.”

Mr Dacre was right that the idea that journalists should be licensed by the state is repellent to the fundamentals of press freedom. But there is merit in his suggestion for a body replacing, or sitting alongside, the existing Press Complaints Commission, which would be charged with the wider upholding of media standards.

One of its functions might be the issuing of a press card which could be suspended or withdrawn from individuals who gravely breach those standards. And while some people will argue that a kitemark for professional journalism might threaten freedom of expression in an age when much news and comment originates with bloggers and social networks, there is no danger to that freedom in giving the public what might be called a quality reassurance. Some information sources are more reliable than others.

Dacre admitted yesterday that he hadn’t given much thought to whether digital journalists would be eligible for the scheme.

The Guardian’s Dan Sabbagh says Dacre’s proposal risks pushing bloggers “right to the fringes of the system“

Meanwhile, where would foreign media, with their own rules, fit in? Nor is it certain that a Dacrecard system would be effective. Whilst some of the reporting closed shops, most obviously the political lobby, confer benefits, being outside it does not hamper quality political journalism. It could be surprisingly easy to make a mockery of the Dacrecard system.

TheMediaBlog agrees:

This self-serving suggestion is a clear attempt to ostracise whole swathes of the predominantly online media industry who would eat Dacre’s lunch given half the chance.

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