Collaborative, Open, Mobile: A Thematic Exploration of Best Practices at the Forefront of Digital Journalism (original) (raw)

Work Key News: a web platform to support journalistic processes and editorial meetings

There are varied needs in newsrooms, driven by the availability for multiple sources of information, the demand for instant access of news, and the diverse possible frames for covering a given news event. Journalists would benefit from tools that help them to track their work and have more feedback from their editors and collaborators. To assist journal-istic work, we developed Work Key News: a web-based tool that allows reporters to work collaboratively according to the decisions made in the editorial meeting. Based on a news creation model and social media resources, it covers the main reporting tasks, such as proposition, decision, execution , and evaluation of stories. Prototype testing with media collaborators and workshops showed that this web platform eases the sharing of information of their stories, establish key process and relevance indicators for their work, and common criteria between editors, reporters, and media's stakeholders.

Growing Media Skills and Know-How in Situ: Technology-Enhanced Practices and Collaborative Support in Mobile News-Reporting

Education Sciences, 2019

Over the past decade, mobile news production has had a growing prevalence and has been established as a new type by modern journalism industry. Journalists understand content capturing and sharing as parts of their role in newsrooms. Mobile journalism (mojo) is an evolving form of reporting in which where people use only a smartphone to create and file stories, and it has been gaining ground during the last decade. This paper aims to examine the difficulties, issues, and challenges in real-world mojo scenarios, analyzing the efficacy of prototype machine-assisted reporting services (MoJo-MATE). A usability evaluation is conducted in quantitative and qualitative terms, paying attention to the media literacy support provided through implemented tools and the proposed collaborations. Students of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, along with postgraduate-level researchers and professional journalists, form the sample for this investigation, which has a two-folded target: ...

Newsroom 3.0: Managing Technological and Media Convergence in Contemporary Newsrooms

Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2019

News consumers are changing their way of accessing and interacting with news content, of which they are now prosumers (combined producers and consumers). Consequently, communication organizations are facing great challenges posed by the decrease of paying readers and the competition imposed by emergent technologies that allow new forms to produce and disseminate news. To understand the role of the journalists and their managers in this challenge, we investigate how top news organizations are tackling this crisis. The results of this research, of a qualitative and exploratory nature, led us to propose a framework-Newsroom 3.0-of a collaborative environment to support the production of news in an integrated, convergent and cybernetic newsroom. Newsroom 3.0 will provide support to the work of interdisciplinary teams, in respect of the coordination of the activities developed, as well as the cooperative production of content and communication between newsroom professionals and news prosumers.

Designing a Renaissance for Digital News Media

Media and Communication, 2018

User participation in the journalistic context has theoretically been possible since the emergence of the Internet. The few interface formats which have been developed to link newsrooms and citizens have, however, not followed the same explosive development as other parts of the media landscape. One reason often referred to by the scientific community is the defensive newsroom culture. This essay presents an alternative interpretation and argues that bridging the gap between interaction design research, media and communications research, and practitioners within digital news media, could shed new light on the stalled process of newsroom co-creation with users.

Textuality and interaction: the collaborative production of news stories

Intellectica, 2000

Résumé/Abstract Textualité et interaction: la production coopérative des reportages journalistiques. On assiste depuis quelques à l'émergence d'une gamme d'environnements technologiques et organisationnels où le personnel doit gérer en vitesse un grand nombre de données de type et de provenance variés. Dans cet article, nous examinons un domaine de ce type: la section éditoriale d'une agence de presse internationale qui fournit des informations en temps réel à des institutions financières. Les journalistes doivent traiter le ...

Comparing Models of Collaborative Journalism

For journalism in general, but for local news and information providers in particular, the last decade has been one of resource scarcity, uncertainty, and rapid technological development. In the U.S., as in many Western democracies, consolidation and cost-cutting have resulted in dramatic losses for local journalism in all but the largest cities (e.g. Shaffer and Doherty, 2017; Starr, 2009). Within this context, many surviving local journalism outlets have turned to collaborative journalism as a way to share data and stretch limited resources, while also providing what are o en more comprehensive stories to bigger audiences. As many are realizing, the digital age has created technological affordances that make collaboration easier than ever before. This research report identifies and compares six models of collaborative journalism that span collaborations from the hyperlocal to the international levels. We provide examples of each model, and discuss common costs and benefits for each. Identifying and describing the different models of collaborative journalism is of use to journalists, funders, and scholars alike. Further, the project points to a bright spot in journalism, and highlights one of the ways that news and information providers are finding their way forward in the digital age.

Computer Supported Collaborative Work Skills for future journalists

6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 2013

Digital Journalism has been growing steadily during the last years, thus introducing new trends and practices in Journalism Education. But Information and Communication Technology (ICT) advances require important changes in the traditional work environment. Nowadays, Journalism graduates are not only expected to be skilled only in writing, editing and broadcasting but they should also be able to create, collaborate, edit, share and publish content using web technologies. The Journalism curriculum is needed to be enforced by the adoption of best practices on Convergence Journalism and training using media industry-centered educational patterns. Already online educational modules and digital tools have been included in the structure of Journalism courses. Web2.0 technologies such as Blogs, Wikis, Social Media, and Cloud Technologies (that enhance collaborative work) aim to contribute to these requested changes.

The origin of stories: how journalists find and create news in an age of social media, competition and churnalism

Future of Journalism Conference: Cardiff, 2011

Newsgathering is an increasingly technological practice, and professional newsgathering is also increasingly under fire from amateur competition in the form of “citizen” or “participatory” journalism. In the public eye the debate is often framed as the “death of traditional journalism” and the rise of the new “digitally empowered” masses. Journalists are increasingly being told that they need to use these new tools to connect with audiences, and news organisations encourage journalists to use tools which are considered to be more efficient, more time-saving and therefore a cost-saving to the news organisation. Within the context of this changing environment, this qualitative study will examine the ways in which journalists and reporters use social media as a news gathering tool. This is part of a series of studies which examine the impact of social media on journalism practice from a variety of angles and perspectives. Working within existing theoretical frameworks of sourcing and newsgathering, and through participant observation and unstructured interviews with journalists at national newspapers in the UK, this study will focus on changes in the daily news routine of journalists, the impact of this on the stories covered, and the voices represented in the final copy, on the training and skilling of journalists for this new environment, and on the larger impact on the newsroom management and structures. Preliminary findings from the project indicate that the use of social media is not as widespread as the way it is presented in public discourse, and that traditional news practices are still firmly entrenched within the mainstream media, although there are exceptions to this within the larger environment.

Chapter seven: Collaborative Journalism and User-Generated Content

Social Media for Journalists, 2013

In this chapter we discuss the increasing openness and transparency of news organisations to content and users from outside the newsroom. We call this form of journalism ‘collaborative’ because it incorporates the audience and the public in a collaborative effort to create news. User-generated content, participatory journalism and community creation are key ways in which news organisations can connect with, and make use of, their users as producers. The increasing dependence and community relationship between users and producers is discussed, as well as some of the concerns and limits of the practice.

Mobile Journalism Practice in the Kompas.com Newsroom

Komunikator

Smartphones and social media have changed how the media gather, produce, edit, and disseminate news. By employing the journalistic capital concept, this paper examines how journalists in Kompas.com, one of the pioneers of online media in Indonesia, incorporate mobile journalism practice into their work. This article explores how journalists and newsrooms respond to change that coincides with mobile devices and social media in the newsroom. The qualitative data analysis obtained from in-depth interviews with Kompas.com journalists and document analysis revealed that the application of mojo in Kompas.com is relatively new and is still looking for a form. Kompas.com integrate mobile smartphones into journalistic work to produce stories with a multimedia approach to meet changing journalistic and business needs. Journalists are expected to produce journalistic content in short videos using mobile devices related to daily events around them. Thus, the practice of mojo emerged as a new or...