Twitter Widget #oj13fall Observations of the World

Tweets about "#oj13fall"

The Onion gets awfully close to the truth about news websites

It's satirical, but the truth part of it hurts. 

Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus’ VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning

http://www.theonion.com/articles/let-me-explain-why-miley-cyrus-vma-performance-was,33632/?ref=auto

"Over the years, CNN.com has become a news website that many people turn to for top-notch reporting. Every day it is visited by millions of people, all of whom rely on “The Worldwide Leader in News”—that’s our slogan—for the most crucial, up-to-date information on current events. So, you may ask, why was this morning’s top story, a spot usually given to the most important foreign or domestic news of the day, headlined “Miley Cyrus Did What???” and accompanied by the subhead “Twerks, stuns at VMAs”?
It’s a good question. And the answer is pretty simple. It was an attempt to get you to click on CNN.com so that we could drive up our web traffic, which in turn would allow us to increase our advertising revenue."

Why the Onion is Wrong About CNN and Miley Cyrus

Pretty good response to the The Onion close to home satire. Gives 3 options for news organizations:
1) You can remain in denial that quality alone will prevail despite all evidence of the contrary.
2) You can do whatever it takes to drive traffic and lose any sense of distinct brand identity.
3) You can coordinate a balanced attack between the quality that supports the brand but not traffic with more broadly appealing content that does more for traffic than it does the brand.

http://variety.com/2013/digital/news/why-the-onion-is-wrong-about-cnn-and-miley-cyrus-1200589821/

Bezos Q & A with WaPo staff

Interesting real time tweeting as the Post's new owner, Jeff Bezos, answered questions from staff. 

https://twitter.com/ErikWemple

And Wemple's follow up column:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/09/04/jeff-bezos-and-the-internets-aggregational-appetites/

What points/quotes stick out to you and why? 

And commentary from another aggregator:

http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/erik-wemple-quoted-me-on-jeff-bezos-so-i-aggregated-eriks-post/"

The Post is famous for its investigative journalism. It pours energy and investment and sweat and dollars into uncovering important stories. And then a bunch of Web sites summarize that [work] in about four minutes and readers can access that news for free. One question is, how do you make a living in that kind of environment? If you can’t, it’s difficult to put the right resources behind it. . . . Even behind a paywall [digital subscription], Web sites can summarize your work and make it available for free. From a reader point of view, the reader has to ask, ‘Why should I pay you for all that journalistic effort when I can get it for free’ from another site?”

Online book ordering info & free digital Washington Post

ONLINE BOOK INFO:

______________________________________

At Holcomb Hathaway, we understand that buying textbooks can be a significant expense for students, and we always try to price our books competitively. For the Fall 2013 semester, we are also offering your students a discount of 20% off the list price for ebooks purchased and downloaded from our website until October 1st. When preparing your syllabus, feel free to mention the discount code shown below or share it via your course management software (e.g., BlackBoard) or by email. 

Online Journalism, third edition | Ebook ISBN: 978-1-934432-29-7 | List price: $38.50 (discounted from the print book price of $48.00) | Discount code:F13eB20 | Price after discount: $30.80

 Please feel free to share this message with your students:

The publisher of Online Journalism, third edition is offering students a 20% discount off the list price of the ebook version of this text until October 1st. With the discount, the ebook will cost $30.80, which may be less than online or bookstore prices for the print book. The ebook will be immediately downloadable to your PC, laptop, or tablet.Visit http://www.hh-pub.com, search for the book title or author name, and use the discount codeF13eB20to receive 20% off your order.

___________________________

Free digital access to the Washington Post for students. 

Dear Dean Dalglish,
Rem Rieder suggested that I get in touch with you. I'm a product manager at The Washington Post. We recently rolled out a process so that anyone who signs up with a .gov, .mil, or .edu email address can get free access to the paper's digital content. I thought that many students at the Merrill College of Journalism would be interested.

All they have to do is follow the instructions on this page:https://account.washingtonpost.com/actmgmt/registration/get-nonpaid-access

Please forward this information to anyone who might be interested. If anyone has any questions, I'm happy to answer. They can contact me at the coordinates below. Thanks!

Best,
Alex Remington

Alex Remington
Product Manager, The Washington Post
alexander.remington@washpost.com
202-334-9512

Welcome!

Welcome to the future of journalism. The rate at which content is created is faster and more accessible than ever.  And there are no signs of it slowing down.

As prospective journalists, you will be the people gathering, dissecting, analyzing and publishing for the public. Your tweet can spread around the world in minutes. Your task is to make sure the information you transmit is correct.

The first time.

Once something hits the internet, it is next to impossible to bring it back. That's why it has to be right when you hit the publish key. We'll spend the semester examining how the content you consume is produced. From the user's perspective and from you, the creator's, perspective.

The journalist's world is moving fast. Keep up.

Multimedia project examples from 352 spring 2013 & 2012

These are the final projects from previous students so you have an idea of what you will be creating.

http://www.jclass.umd.edu/652352/2013spring/0101/352mm/index.html

http://www.jclass.umd.edu/652352/2012spring/oj12/index.html