Sarah Hartley

The word ‘network’ is key here – because I believe one of the fundamental changes that journalists have to adapt to in the 21st century is the move to networked modes of working.

With traditional journalism in crisis, he anticipates that the form could provide ‘a solution to a problem’, acting as ‘a service to journalists’ struggling to find outlets for their in-depth work.

The community here at AVC has been a testing ground for a new feature that Disqus will be rolling out throughout its network shortly. They call it Disqus Ranks. Anyone who has been in the AVC comments in the past two or three months has seen pieces of the Ranks service coming together.

Whether they will act as news curator/organizer or tools to take action, there are several tech startups that could prove very useful for busy writers. These newly created companies vary in their phases of development from “app coming to Android & iPhone soon” to “currently a beta site,” but, with improved functionality and good word of mouth, they could just become the Foursquares of the future.

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Passion. Having the passion to talk about and research your area of expertise. Without passion, you’re without the best chance of growing a passionate and engaged listener base – the most valuable of all customer communities.
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It should be a source of shame that big online publishers are as a matter of course not linking to sources.

Officially, a hyper-local blog is one that is focused on a specific area. A ‘London’ blog would be deemed to general; a blog that sticks to one area like Greenwich, Earlsfield or Bow would be seen as hyper-local. That said, I have also included a few general, and extremely popular, London blogs as I think they give a great insight to life in the capital.

We tell the story behind the data. Our technology identifies trends and angles within large data sources and automatically creates compelling copy. We can build upon stories, providing deeper context around particular subjects over time. Every story is generated entirely from scratch and is always unique.

The news industry, particularly in developed countries, has an R&D problem: It needs an infusion of innovation, and yet many news organizations lack the wherewithal to accomplish that in an era of diminishing resources and growing competition. This paper explores one potential solution—the open innovation model, articulated by Chesbrough (2003, 2006) and popularized in the technology sector. This theory suggests that a company can more readily innovate by opening up its R&D processes to enhance the flow of knowledge to and from the firm.

But the idea of public subsidies for journalism is seen as antithetical to the very foundation of the U.S.; it is virtually excluded from discussion, through comparisons with state media in authoritarian regimes. The claims against such public funding are never properly investigated, therefore – but there are obvious differences. Dictators funding public media will end up with state-controlled media, obviously – but democracies funding public media do not need to follow the same lines.

Here’s a simple way to figure out how many people are willing to pay for your news.

Thurman said: “Successful hyperlocal media is often issue-focused, dynamic, personal, informal and low-tech. These are qualities the web does far better than TV. What’s more, we found that the established commercial local media provider we studied wasn’t enabling community participation or meeting audience interests as well as many independent hyperlocal bloggers have done.”

only 12 percent of smartphone owners use the device for checking into location services like Foursquare or Gowalla.

Is the media industry in turmoil? Sure it is. And everywhere you look there are “amateur bloggers” causing trouble by disobeying the supposed laws of journalism — whether by quoting anonymous sources or engaging in conflicts of interest, or a hundred other things that “real” journalists supposedly never do. But licensing some small group of journalists and excluding others would not resolve any of those issues (although it might reduce the numbers of people engaging in them). All it would do is restrict the amount of information available, and that’s a much bigger problem.

Using my iPad, I asked people on the street where they liked to eat and then looked up the restaurant’s inspection report online. I was able to capture their reactions when they heard the details — things like evidence of live vermin at their favorite restaurants. It was tape I could not have gotten in the moment without an iPad.