May 2013
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Project Wordsworth →
Project Wordsworth is a collective of 17 Columbia Journalism School graduate students who are running an experiment and you are already a part of it. Each of us has written a good story that transports you somewhere else, somewhere you’ve never been. That’s worth something. But how much? You decide. Your input will teach us something new about journalismâs future. All proceeds...
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Students, Professors: We Want Your Best #College...
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Throughout May and June, a new generation of reporters, writers, editors, and essayists make their way out of school and into the professional world. They come bearing clips, work samples produced for class or during an internship. Hundreds of media outlets at colleges and universities across the country publish student work, and an equal number of professors, instructors, and...
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Old-fashioned and New Journalism
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Pulitzer Center grantee Sarah Neville:
The Financial Times’ Austerity Audit has proved a vehicle for some of the most innovative digital journalism the paper has ever done.
But the genesis of the idea was a piece of old-fashioned shoe leather reporting.
In November 2011, in order to write a piece about changes to welfare benefits for the long-term sick, I had visited...
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“Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.” - Scott Pelley
LJ Digital: “Journalism is the antidote to gossip.” -Scott Pelley This is an interesting video. I appreciate this speech because it touches on the dangers of needing to get a story in first. Mistakes are bound to happen and do happen all too often. The transition of journalism on the...
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News Organizations Turning News Stories Into... →
http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/213043/what-news-organizations-are-learning-from-their-ebook-efforts/
“We think [ebooks] are ideally suited to the rhythms of a newspaper, where we are writing the first draft of history every day,” Vince Bzdek, deputy national political editor and lead for ebooks at The Washington Post, said in an email. “Ebooks are like the second draft, so...
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The Atlantic launches a new ebook division; will... →
The Atlantic is launching an ebooks division that will publish e-singles and curated collections of content from the magazine’s archives. The first e-single is only available through Amazon’s Kindle Singles store for now, though it will soon be available at other retailers.
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Newport Film Festival features Out of Print →
http://newportbeach.festivalgenius.com/2013/films/outofprint_vivienneroumani_newportbeach2013
LJ Digital: Have you been keeping up with the Newport Film Festival? Well, whether you have or haven’t been, Out of Print is a flick that may interest the publishing world.
Out of Print draws us into the topsy-turvy world of the written word, illuminating the turbulent, exciting journey from...
April 2013
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Longreads: Celebrating Four Years of Longreads →
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Longreads just celebrated its fourth birthday, and it’s been a thrill to watch this community grow since we introduced this service and Twitter hashtag in 2009. Thank you to everyone who participates, whether it’s as a reader, a publisher, a writer—or all three. And thanks to the …
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Thanks to all the Anteaters out there who voted to keep UC Irvine’s newspaper, The New University, alive! Measure U passed with flying colors. Much more reporting to come!
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“The phenomenology of reading is that in the heat of the moment, the interface...”
– Tom Lutz- editor if LA Review or Books speaking on paper vs screen reading.
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Medium Buys Science Journalism Site Matter →
Matter publishes one longform article about science or technology every month and sells them through its site and Amazon’s Kindle store. Members of Matter pay $.99 per month to subscribe.
Williams has said he’d like Medium to create “a better Twitter for long-form content,” as Rip Empson put it in TechCrunch last month. That space, Empson notes, is currently owned by Tumblr.
LJ Digital: Will...
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Guardian Witness: The Guardian's experiment with...
chrishutchinson:
This morning, the Guardian released Guardian Witness. Described by The Guardian: ‘Share your view of the world - Your chance to have videos, photos and stories featured on the Guardian’, the website and corresponding app allows anyone to submit photos, videos, and text to the Guardian.
The editorial team at The Guardian will be suggesting ‘assignments’ (current ones include...
How Breaking News Reporting Is Changing →
jasonfry:
I’ve been doing some work with my old friends and colleagues at Poynter, and wound up pitching in with their coverage of yesterday’s terrible events in Boston. Which got me thinking about breaking news and how it’s changing with readers seeing each step of the newsgathering process.
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Thin Reads Covers eBook Singles Marketplace -... →
Thin Reads Covers eBook Singles Marketplace
*54% of all e-book singles available in the database are listed as Original, which means they were created especially as short works of non-fiction or fiction intended to be read on an electronic platform for its original release. *12% of all e-book singles available in the database are listed as Encore, which means they were originally published or...
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. The rest is...”
– George Orwell (via penamerican)
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“Ebooks accounted for 22.55 percent, or nearly a quarter, of U.S. book...”
– Ebooks made up 23 percent of US publisher sales in 2012, says the AAP — paidContent (via infoneer-pulse)
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Great Long-Form Journalism, Just Clicks Away
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Interview with Survivors of "Bounty" Shipwreck →
Matthew Shaer, author of the Atavist story, The Sinking of the Bounty, recently wrote an article interviewing the survivors of the shipwreck. This is a great opportunity to get a behind the scenes look on the captivating story.
The Sinking of the Bounty is available on the Atavist website for $2.99.
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BuzzFeed Attempts Serious Journalism
BuzzFeed is More than Gossip and Wacky News
Over the past year and a half, BuzzFeed, which says it receives over 40 million unique visitors a month, improbably has made forays into the world of serious news and original reporting. First came politics; the site did some fine work on the 2012 presidential campaign. Late last year it hired a magazine editor to oversee long-form narrative...
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Amazon Helps You Create an E-book Cover →
LJ Digital: Amazon is changing the way people publish books. Anyone can do it and now, they can even help you with graphics. Forget being tech savvy and purchasing Photoshop is unnecessary. Amazon clearly presents the steps for you to design your own e-book cover. Start designing!
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OC Register Now Has An Online Paywall →
LJ Digital: Paywalls have been popping up on a number of online publications. The two big ones are The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. Adding a paywall has been the news publication’s attempt to make profit from the new digital shift. Now, The Orange County Register has joined the big papers’ club by adding a paywall on their site. Will every publication transition to a...
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UCI Literary Journalism Program to Host Digital... →
Join the Literary Journalism Program, the Department of History, and the Office of the Campus Writing Coordinator for a ONE-DAY symposium on new developments in digital storytelling. DIGITAL STORYTELLING: A SYMPOSIUM THURSDAY, 18 APRIL 2013 11 A.M.-6:30 P.M. UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: 11-12:00 “The Future of Digital Publishing”: A Roundtable Humanities Instructional...
“Major publishers in higher education have already been collecting data from...”
– CourseSmart E-Textbooks Track Students’ Progress for Teachers - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
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Byliner Finalist for the National Magazine Award →
National Magazine Award includes two finalists from Byliner. From LAT article, “This is Byliner’s first year among the National Magazine Award finalists. It’s interesting that Byliner’s stories, which are individually delivered e-books, are in competition against works published in traditional monthly magazines: GQ, Wired, Harper’s, Texas Monthly, the New...
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The Touch-Screen Generation →
The 30 or so children here were not down at the shore poking their fingers in the sand or running them along mossy stones or digging for hermit crabs. Instead they were all inside, alone or in groups of two or three, their faces a few inches from a screen, their hands doing things Montessori surely did not imagine. A couple of 3-year-old girls were leaning against a pair of French doors,...
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The Invincible Mrs. Thatcher →
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A profile of the prime minister.
Charles Moore | Vanity Fair | Dec 2011
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Is It A Book Or An App? Digital Publishing... →
First, a little context. The popular electronic reader, the Kindle, was introduced less than six years ago. Yet adult e-book sales are already outpacing adult hardcover sales. In fact, Price Waterhouse Coopers, in their Global Entertainment and Media Outlook report, projects that e-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016. Increasingly these books are being consumed on...
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WatchKickstarter for The Big Roundtable
Michael Shapiro, professor at Columbia’s Journalism school, started a longform nonfiction called The Big Roundtable. The Kickstarter was created earlier this week and the target goal of $5,000 was met by Friday.
The stories are selected by the editors at The Big Roundtable and stories, that are not typically chosen by publishing houses are there for the...
Longreads Is Joining Forces with The Atlantic →
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longreads:
We have some big news to share today: Longreads is teaming up with The Atlantic, in a partnership that will allow us to expand our site and membership model—and continue to serve this community of readers, writers and publishers.
When I first started the #longreads hashtag four years…
Very excited about this. Thanks to everyone who has participated in this community...
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Book Redifined →
ebookporn:
Here is a nice use of HTML5 to enhance a digital edition of a book on well, HTML5 Programming.
Check out this nice video explanation (except for the opening music) then click on the link above for instructions on how the check out the book itself.
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“Like the faith that there will always be money *somewhere* in writing, that some...”
– The Future of Literary Journalism? — On Publishing — Medium (via housingworksbookstore)
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“If literary journalism matters, in part, as a small arena of resistance to...”
– The Future of Literary Journalism? (via rachelfershleiser) 