Journalism(part 2)

Agenda6:00 – 6:30 Q&A on feature assignmentsQuotes lessons 6:30 – 7:00Another Class Feature Read 7:00-7:30Where the news industry is headed 7:30-8:30Workshop in

FormattingQuotations

Formatting for QuotesUse said: “I don’t know if I ever want to run for office again,” Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said. Attribution goes after quote: “I am not a Yankee fan,” said Curt Schilling in response to allegations that he supported the New York franchise.

Indirect quotations:Mr. Johnson, a local farmer, reported last night that he saw an alien spaceship on his own property.

Interviewing and Quoting

Attribution goes after the first sequence or at first natural break in a lengthy quote:

“It’s great to be back to Boston University,” said Michael Dodge. “I have many terrific memories of the time I spent here during graduate school. Some of the faces have changed, but this will always be special.”

“I lost my job,” Colts Quarterback Jim Harbough said. “My girlfriend broke up with me. Then my dog died.” “I felt like I was living in a country music song.”

Multi-paragraph quotes

Quote within a quote

“I wasnt going to stay,” said James. “Then she said, ‘Don’t leave me.’ and I had no choice.”

First, a few scary numbers

In 2011 even as online audiences grew, print circulation continued to decline. So did ad revenues.

In 2011, losses in print advertising dollars outpaced gains in digital revenue by a factor of roughly 10 to 1, a ratio even worse than in 2010.

When circulation and advertising revenue are combined, the newspaper industry has shrunk 43% since 2000.

Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. That’s been a fine accident to have, but when that accident stops, as it is stopping before our eyes, we’re going to need lots of other ways to strengthen journalism instead. -Clay Shirky

Photo by CS Muncy

Business models

Cut the print versions

Online Only news

• 65% of the cost is printing and distribution • Click and banner spending is on decline• Freelancers (back-back journalism)• Citizen journalism great for breaking news

Tablets

Could tablets work?

What’s the downside?

30%

Nonprofit

What are the strengthsOf the nonprofit business model?

What are the weaknesses?

Hyperlocalization

40% of all online adspending is local, up from 30% just a year earlier.

What are the strengthsOf the localized business model?

What are the weaknesses?

Paywalls

Giuseppe Bognanni

The New York Times has added more than 40,000 new digital subscribers since June, with 324,000 readers in total now paying for online access to the newspaper.

Stylistic changes

Backpack Journalism

Photo by: cigckgc

Multimedia Journalism

Citizen Journalism

Types of Citizen Journalism

• Comments• Open Source Reporting• Citizen bloghouse• Stand alone citizen-journalism site

“I think it’s just an incredibly interesting and exciting time for journalism. Sometimes I worry that’s not communicated very clearly to college students, that sometimes there’s a little too much doom and gloom that is conveyed by people in the industry. I feel like it’s a golden age of journalism. There are so many possibilities and there are so many things you can do. “ – Gabriel Dance.