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By: Commentaires : sortir des faux-semblants - Media Trend

Commentaires : sortir des faux-semblants - Media Trend — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:10:13 +0000

[...] journaliste [installés sur] les sites d’information, comme le remarque Myndy MacAdams dans un post sur le sujet, les journalistes bloggeurs répondent aux commentaires, et souvent de très agréables [...]

By: angelia

angelia — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:32:19 +0000

A great piece Mindy. My students are constantly talking about “how to let people in” to their stories. They understand that the old “man on the street’ interview story/material is bogus, while at the same time they are uncertain how to deal with all the possiblity that technology opens up. I think that reporters can acutally deal with BOTH options; Make an open blog of eyewitnness testimony and comment available to readers, but ALSO weave the comprehensive and CONTEXTUAL story. Context is one of the most important things we can bring as journalists

By: Mixing it up in the comments » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:13:47 +0000

[...] A typically smart piece from Mindy McAdams on the emotional relationship between reporters and their readers, and on the demise of “story.” [...]

By: Mindy

Mindy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:04:42 +0000

@Sue Robinson – I don’t think this would be called collaborative storytelling. What DeNeen Brown did was gather a ton of information and skillfully weave it into a story. I don’t think that’s very practical as a group effort.

But members of a group can tell individual stories and share anecdotes — and also fact-check. Members of a group can say, for example, “The biggest challenge my neighborhood faces is crime,” and others can either back that up or offer a counterpoint. Journalists can come in and say this is right and that is wrong — providing the evidence gathered from good old reporting legwork.

As a result of this messy interaction, someone (maybe a journalist) might decide to weave a comprehensive story. But maybe a story isn’t what’s needed in every case. Maybe eyewitness testimony is of more value in some cases. Maybe numbers and data are more important than the story. Maybe what’s really called for is photographic evidence, e.g., the Rodney King video, the Abu Ghraib pictures.

By: Sue Robinson

Sue Robinson — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:26:40 +0000

Are we talking about collaborative storytelling here or deliberative post-journalism discussion? Or are we trying to get to a place where all of that is melded?
What about the idea of the story “stub” — something I’ve been seeing on several sites? Or a format like a Google Doc that begins the story and leaves room for commentary through the story, encouraging comment and additions within the story (as opposed to only at the end)? This latter would protect the storytelling while connecting post-conversation to specific parts of the story rather than encouraging diatribes.
On the other hand, this keeps the focus of the networking within the post-reporting realm.
The answer is a combination of approaches and employment of tools, including collaborative reporting during the process of journalism.

By: links for 2008-10-18 – Innovation in College Media

links for 2008-10-18 – Innovation in College Media — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:01:55 +0000

[...] Articles, comments, stories, conversations Mindy McAdams traces some outlines of networked reporting in a good roundup. (tags: onlinejournalism ideas) Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:02:14 +0000

Nice piece. I think reporters' emotional relationship to their audience is one of the most important things to change in today's newsrooms. One thing, though: I wouldn't confuse the death of the traditional newspaper story model with the death of storytelling. The latter is eternal; the former is an invention of the last 100 years and may be reaching the end of its natural life. (Longer response here.)