LJ Digital

Project Wordsworth

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:30:44 -0400

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 go to the authors.

LJ Digital: This project created by the Columbia School of Journalism is unique to the journalism world. These graduate students are asking you to decide how much their stories are worth. Check the site out and let them know what you think their words are worth.

Students, Professors: We Want Your Best #College #Longreads

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:53:18 -0400

longreads:

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 advisors help students report, write, and edit their best journalism. We’d like to encourage those writers to produce more and better work, and introduce these new voices to a wider audience of readers—and maybe even future employers and mentors.

To help in this effort, we’ve teamed up with Aileen Gallagher, assistant professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, to help search for and share outstanding student work.

Students, writers, publishers, professors: We need your help to find and share the best work of the past year.

If you’ve read (or written) something this school year, just tag it #college #longreads on Twitter or Tumblr, or email it to aileen@longreads.com.

Student publications are the easiest and best place to find college #longreads, like Mary Kenney’s account of an Indian sex worker, published earlier this year by Indiana University’s INSIDE magazine. Or Project Wordsworth, the outstanding new pay-what-you-want experiment from Michael Shapiro and students at Columbia University.

Sometimes a piece that a student writes for class, such as the one Syracuse University grad student Danielle Preiss wrote about high suicide rates among Bhutanese refugees, lands in a professional outlet. And of course, we’ll also tout good work produced by students as part of a fellowship or internship, like Columbia undergrad Jack Dickey’s investigation for Deadspin about Manti Te’o.

The only rules for #college #longreads are: Stories should be over 1,500 words and written by a student enrolled in a college or university at the time of publication.

Share stories worth reading by tagging them #college #longreads.

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Know of a writer or publication we should keep an eye on? Tell us about it in the comments below.

LJ Digital: Calling all literary journalism students! Check out this spectacular opportunity to submit your stories to Longreads.com! If you are unfamiliar with Longreads, it is a website that aggregates literary journalism pieces and is constantly posting new stories for you to read. There is NO deadline to submit and this opportunity is designed for students in our program so hop to it. Polish those stories up, get a few more pairs of eyes to read them, and SUBMIT!

Old-fashioned and New Journalism

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:04:23 -0400

pulitzercenter:

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 Barnsley, in the former industrial heartland of the north of England, where large numbers were affected by the imminent shake up.

In passing, a number of people mentioned to me, in interviews, their concerns about the likely impact on local businesses and shops of a wider raft of welfare reforms which, from April this year, would reduce the scope of benefit entitlements and also the value of benefits.

It struck me that if we could find a way of calculating exactly how much money was being taken out of local economies – and the hit to spending power – we would have a truly original take on the austerity story and one which would have a particular appeal for theFT’s business readership.

… continue reading here.

soupsoup: “Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and...

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:31:19 -0400

soupsoup:

“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 Internet should make journalists more careful and not careless. Watch the 4-minute speech now!

News Organizations Turning News Stories Into ebooks

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:40:33 -0400

News Organizations Turning News Stories Into ebooks:

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 [it] feels like a natural fit for us.”

Stop by on Thursday to learn about what it is like to be a...

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:53:00 -0400

Stop by on Thursday to learn about what it is like to be a foreign correspondent!

The Atlantic launches a new ebook division; will sell e-singles and curated collections

Wed, 01 May 2013 20:57:01 -0400

The Atlantic launches a new ebook division; will sell e-singles and curated collections:

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.

Newport Film Festival features Out of Print

Wed, 01 May 2013 20:54:00 -0400

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 the book through the digital revolution. Writers, publishers, and readers are all in flux, booksellers are closing, students are confronting new challenges, and librarians and teachers are seeking new roles. Most Americans read “short-form” text all day long, yet one out of five no longer reads even a single book, in any format, in an entire year. Listen to testimonials from authors, entrepreneurs, and educators alike highlighting how this revolution is changing every aspect of the printed word - and how it’s changing us.

LJ Digital: Come join the School of Humanities of UC Irvine in...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:03:00 -0400

LJ Digital: Come join the School of Humanities of UC Irvine in the newest installment in their Author Series. They have the great pleasure and honor of hearing Barry Siegel speak about his latest book, Manifest Injustice. Not only is this fine writer a former Pulitzer Prize winner but he is also the literary journalism department head. Please don’t miss the opportunity to hear a great writer and reporter explain his methods of the craft. Should be an informative and helpful event to any aspiring journalist.

Longreads: Celebrating Four Years of Longreads

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:34:02 -0400

Longreads: Celebrating Four Years of Longreads:

longreads:

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 …

myimaginarybrooklyn: Google Execs Talk Privacy, Security In...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:13:16 -0400

myimaginarybrooklyn:

Google Execs Talk Privacy, Security In ‘The New Digital Age’

Imagine a world with machines that wash, press and dress you on the way to work and vacations via hologram visits to exotic beaches. In his new book, The New Digital Age, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt does just that — but it’s no gee-whiz Jetsons fantasy.

Schmidt partners up with Jared Cohen, a foreign policy counterterrorist specialist poached from the State Department now working for Google Ideas. Together they forecast a raft of new innovations and corresponding threats that will arise for dictatorships, techno revolutionaries, terrorists and you.

Cohen and Schmidt chatted with NPR’s Audie Cornish about negotiating the shifting balance between privacy and security in a rapidly changing technological landscape.

Thanks to all the Anteaters out there who voted to keep UC Irvine’s newspaper, The New...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:36:26 -0400

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!

LJ Digital: News Twitters get hacked left and right. Is this the...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:20:52 -0400

LJ Digital: News Twitters get hacked left and right. Is this the problem with reporting breaking news online? Twitter should probably try to fix this.

LJ Digital: Okay, I may be late to the show on this one but in...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:22:50 -0400

LJ Digital: Okay, I may be late to the show on this one but in case you haven’t heard or use Flipboard, I think it’s time you start! Watch the commercial and find that this iPad and iPhone app (Android app coming soon) allows you to create your own magazine built by your favorite articles. Anything from news to politics to travel is available for you to swipe, share, “like,” and most importantly, read. There is even a bookmark tab available to add to your bookmarks bar for you to easily add new articles to your Flipboard! Start building your own magazine today!

millionsmillions: Was 2012 the “year of the e-single?”

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:06:18 -0400

millionsmillions:

Was 2012 the “year of the e-single?”

"The phenomenology of reading is that in the heat of the moment, the interface disappears."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:56:49 -0400

“The phenomenology of reading is that in the heat of the moment, the interface disappears.”

- Tom Lutz- editor if LA Review or Books speaking on paper vs screen reading.

cleofuckingpatra: ljdigital: *Updated schedule with additional...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:33:41 -0400

Kurt Streeter, LA Times

Jay Caspian Kang, Grantland

Vanessa Grigoriadis, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine

Milke Sager, Esquire

cleofuckingpatra:

ljdigital:

*Updated schedule with additional panel, ”Sports and Pop Culture Narrative, and the Web,” featuring Jay Caspian Kang (Grantland) and Kurt Streeter (Los Angeles Times)

DIGITAL STORYTELLING: A SYMPOSIUM

THURSDAY, 18 APRIL 2013

11 A.M.-6:30 P.M.

UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

Free and open to the public; no reservation required. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/ZRZBms or contact piersonp@uci.edu.

Featuring:

Editors from The Atavist, Byliner, LA Review of Books, Longform, Noir, and Matter; journalists Vanessa Grigoriadis (Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine), Jay Caspian Kang (Grantland, Mike Sager (Esquire), Angilee Shah, and Kurt Streeter (Los Angeles Times); and UCI faculty Jonathan Alexander, Carol Burke, Miles Corwin, Erika Hayasaki, Kavita Philip, Barry Siegel, and Amy Wilentz.

*****

Schedule of Events:

Welcome Message: Amy Wilentz (UCI English and Literary Journalism)

11-12:30   ”The Future of Digital Publishing”: A Roundtable

Humanities Instructional Building 135

Featuring:

Tom Lutz, Founder and Editor, LA Review of Books; Professor, UC Riverside Department of Creative Writing

Angilee Shah, Social Media Manager at Public Radio International, consulting editor to the Journal of Asian Studies and co-editor of Chinese Characters (UCPress, 2012)

Nancie Clare, Founder and Editor of Noir Magazine (noirmagazine.tumblr.com)

Mike Sager, Writer-at-Large for Esquire and founder of digital publishing imprint The Sager Group (www.thesagergroup.net)

12:30-1:30 PM   Master Class on Digital Narratives, Hosted by The Atavist

Humanities Gateway Building 1010

Gray Beltran, Multimedia Producer and Community Editor, The Atavist

1:30-2:30   Lunch Reception and Display of Digital Narrative Projects Humanities Gateway 1010

2:30-3:30 Sports and Pop Culture Narrative, and the Web

Featuring Jay Caspian Kang (Grantland) andhKurt Streeter (Los Angeles Times) Humanities Gateway 1030

3:30-4:30 PM    Live Podcast Interview by Longform of Vanessa Grigoriadis (Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine)

*Interview will be conducted in person, on-site*

Interviewer: Max Linsky of Longform.org

Humanities Gateway 1030

4:00-5:00 PM    Coffee Reception and Display of Digital Narratives Humanities Gateway 1010

5:00-6:30 PM “Storytelling, Narrative, and Writing in the Digital Age,” A Panel Discussion

Humanities Gateway 1030

Featuring:

Charles Homans, Editor, The Atavist

Jim Giles, Editor, Matter

Aaron Lammer, Editor, Longform

Mark Bryant, Editor-in-Chief of Byliner.com

*****

PARKING: Mesa Parking Structure for visitors.

http://today.uci.edu/pdf/UCI_09_map_vis_pkg.pdf

Campus Map

http://today.uci.edu/pdf/UCI_09_map_campus.pdf

www.humanities.uci.edu/litjourn

www.humanities.uci.edu/kiosk

www.ljdigital.tumblr.com

Twitter: @UCILitJ

EVENT DETAILS:

APRIL 18, 2013

11 A.M.-6:30 P.M.

UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES: HUMANITIES GATEWAY AND

HUMANITIES INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC—ALL WELCOME

For more information on Digital Storytelling: A Symposium or to attend the event please contact the Assistant Director of Literary Journalism, Patricia Pierson, piersonp@uci.edu, or Assistant Professor of Literary Journalism Erika Hayasaki ehayasak@uci.edu.

CFP: SO EXCITED.

LJ Digital: TODAY! Please come by! If you can’t, have no fear. We will be updating you with photos, quotes, and more throughout the day. Stay tuned!

Medium Buys Science Journalism Site Matter

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:52:48 -0400

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 this mean longform science NONfiction stories?! I sure hope so!

*Updated schedule with additional panel, ”Sports and Pop...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:46:59 -0400

Kurt Streeter, LA Times

Jay Caspian Kang, Grantland

Vanessa Grigoriadis, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine

Milke Sager, Esquire

*Updated schedule with additional panel, ”Sports and Pop Culture Narrative, and the Web,” featuring Jay Caspian Kang (Grantland) and Kurt Streeter (Los Angeles Times)

DIGITAL STORYTELLING: A SYMPOSIUM

THURSDAY, 18 APRIL 2013

11 A.M.-6:30 P.M.

UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

Free and open to the public; no reservation required. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/ZRZBms or contact piersonp@uci.edu.

Featuring:

Editors from The Atavist, Byliner, LA Review of Books, Longform, Noir, and Matter; journalists Vanessa Grigoriadis (Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine), Jay Caspian Kang (Grantland, Mike Sager (Esquire), Angilee Shah, and Kurt Streeter (Los Angeles Times); and UCI faculty Jonathan Alexander, Carol Burke, Miles Corwin, Erika Hayasaki, Kavita Philip, Barry Siegel, and Amy Wilentz.

*****

Schedule of Events:

Welcome Message: Amy Wilentz (UCI English and Literary Journalism)

11-12:30 ”The Future of Digital Publishing”: A Roundtable

Humanities Instructional Building 135

Featuring:

Tom Lutz, Founder and Editor, LA Review of Books; Professor, UC Riverside Department of Creative Writing

Angilee Shah, Social Media Manager at Public Radio International, consulting editor to the Journal of Asian Studies and co-editor of Chinese Characters (UCPress, 2012)

Nancie Clare, Founder and Editor of Noir Magazine (noirmagazine.tumblr.com)

Mike Sager, Writer-at-Large for Esquire and founder of digital publishing imprint The Sager Group (www.thesagergroup.net)

12:30-1:30 PM Master Class on Digital Narratives, Hosted by The Atavist

Humanities Gateway Building 1010

Gray Beltran, Multimedia Producer and Community Editor, The Atavist

1:30-2:30 Lunch Reception and Display of Digital Narrative Projects Humanities Gateway 1010

2:30-3:30 Sports and Pop Culture Narrative, and the Web

Featuring Jay Caspian Kang (Grantland) andhKurt Streeter (Los Angeles Times) Humanities Gateway 1030

3:30-4:30 PM Live Podcast Interview by Longform of Vanessa Grigoriadis (Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine)

*Interview will be conducted in person, on-site*

Interviewer: Max Linsky of Longform.org

Humanities Gateway 1030

4:00-5:00 PM Coffee Reception and Display of Digital Narratives Humanities Gateway 1010

5:00-6:30 PM “Storytelling, Narrative, and Writing in the Digital Age,” A Panel Discussion

Humanities Gateway 1030

Featuring:

Charles Homans, Editor, The Atavist

Jim Giles, Editor, Matter

Aaron Lammer, Editor, Longform

Mark Bryant, Editor-in-Chief of Byliner.com

*****

PARKING: Mesa Parking Structure for visitors.

http://today.uci.edu/pdf/UCI_09_map_vis_pkg.pdf

Campus Map

http://today.uci.edu/pdf/UCI_09_map_campus.pdf

www.humanities.uci.edu/litjourn

www.humanities.uci.edu/kiosk

www.ljdigital.tumblr.com

Twitter: @UCILitJ

EVENT DETAILS:

APRIL 18, 2013

11 A.M.-6:30 P.M.

UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES: HUMANITIES GATEWAY AND

HUMANITIES INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC—ALL WELCOME

For more information on Digital Storytelling: A Symposium or to attend the event please contact the Assistant Director of Literary Journalism, Patricia Pierson, piersonp@uci.edu, or Assistant Professor of Literary Journalism Erika Hayasaki ehayasak@uci.edu.

Guardian Witness: The Guardian's experiment with citizen journalism is exactly what student media needs

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:01:03 -0400

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 Views of tall buildings, The cuts get personal, and Syria refugees: your stories) that users of the app are able to contribute their own content to.

The Guardian have made it as easy to submit content to their assignments, as it is to tweet a photo from an event, or share a video onto YouTube.

Student media, often plagued by the inability to gather together good content and stories, should definitely take note. University campuses are now filled with thousands of students, most of whom have smartphones. When looking for the next big story, or photos and video from an event, it’s easy to see how an app like this, that connects the newsroom to the students, could be really useful. Not only would the newsroom have an abundance of content and material, but students would be able to get their photos and videos featured as the story develops, their own 30 seconds of fame.

Embracing students in this way is great for student media. It helps their image, encourages students to engage with stories, share stories with their friends (getting more clicks, reads, likes, and so on), and maybe students will start getting more involved in student media.

You can watch a video of the app in action here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/video/2013/apr/16/guardian-witness-promo-video

What do you think? Should people be giving their content away to The Guardian for free? Or are we doing it anyway on Twitter and other social networks, and is it a clever move by The Guardian to bring that content together?

LJ Digital: This is fascinating. Student journalists, check this out!