The Mojos: The Future of Journalism

Because of the state that the economy in and the change in technology, newspapers are being affected everywhere and unfortunately losing money and dying off. In order for them to be saved from death, partnerships need to be created.

1. Newspaper companies are running out of options.

-Newspaper subscriptions are the reality.

(Example of The Selma Times Journal)

-“The Detroit Media Partnership is offering a $5,000 prize to to the person or group who can come up with the best idea ‘for helping The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press increase their audiences or better serve the community’.”

2. Companies are partnering up all over the world.

-Verizon just partnered up with Apple to sell their products (I-Phone and I-Pad)

-CNN partnered up with Google for an Ad-Sense Deal.

3. Television and print newsrooms are being combined.

-Big scale-Tribune Company (Los Angeles; Chicago; Hartford, Conn.; and Miami/Fort Lauderdale)

-Small scale- Five newspapers partner up for election polling.

Conclusion:

Because of partnerships, newspaper companies will be saved. They will be able to live and thrive on another source of news gathering: outsourcing news to bloggers and other various freelance reporters.

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Delicious Bookmarks:

Newspaper subscriptions http://newspaperdeathwatch.com/

Verizon and Apple http://www.cnbc.com/id/41019961/Verizon_to_Carry_Apple_iPhone_Ending_Months_of_Anticipation

CNN and Google http://searchengineland.com/cnn-google-sign-multi-year-adsense-deal-12036

Tribune http://benton.org/node/28442

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2008/oct/23/pressandpublishing-usa

Five Texas’ newspaper political polling

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6749964.html

The Future of Journalism and Outsourcing: The Free-er the Better

By Paige Partridge

Main slide: What's going to help cut down on cost for news comanies?
Freeier
Easier: Coming out of "Start from Sratch Html and CSS"
The Power of Wordpress: More interactivity

1.Freeier
-Early history of prices of the internet to what it is now for companies like Roadrunner, etc.
-Phones companies will cut down the cost of their internet as well
*Applications will be free
Plus blog companies have applications for their bloggers to blog wherever they are at putting more pressure on phone companies to cut down their services

2. Easier: Coming out of "Start from Sratch Html and CSS"
Web designers and developers
-Average cost
Might not be able to afford the initial cost of the website for designers and coders. Risk to have a sub standard website
Give some figures
-It takes too long to build and maintain
Give some figures

3. The Power of Wordpress: More interactivity
-Time efficient
Journalists are having to do more than one job these days. They can do that with Wordpress. Just need to be trained on how to login and load stories.

-Only need one to two people that know code. You can get as creative as you want to make you site look like you spent $50,000 on it.
-What are people (bloggers and news companies) already doing?
          Blogs are the future for news source.
            Get the percentage of bloggers that use wordpress.
            Give some examples of news stations who already use wordpress.
            Mention that Wordpress isn’t the only blog company. But there are so many more companies    that are getting the hint.
-Interactivity is huge
People through the applications can upload videos, pictures, and stories not only to their website fast, but through the applications on their phone. That is mobile journalism at it's best! If you had a website that is coded from scratch, you couldn't do that.
-Wordpress is internet based. It can be access from any computer as long as the person logs in.
-The power of links
Bloggers that work for these news companies will be able to easily link up their stories through Wordpress automatically uploading their story to the news website.

Conclusion
So, the cheaper the internet gets, the more blog companies news companies use, the easier and cheaper it will be all around making the whole process of news gathering easier and faster

Wifi in 2003 http://news.cnet.com/2100-1039-990487.html

Wifi in 2009 http://forums.wireless.att.com/t5/Apple-iPhone/Cost-of-non-free-wifi/m-p/1730029

Wifi in 2011 http://cincinnatibell.com/consumer/wireless/fusion_wifi/

Blog website one-time cost http://www.pearsonified.com/2006/06/how_much_should_a_design_cost.php

Web design costs $15-30 thousand plus maintenance fees

http://www.designquote.net/html/dq_estimate_wizard.cfm

Word Press stats http://en.wordpress.com/stats/

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Cheaper Journalism: Outsourcing & Crowdsourcing The Future of the Internet!!!

By: Joey Petric

1. Everything Live/ Real-Time: Expanding the reach of citizen journalism to a global scale

a. A far cry from today's mobile RSS feeds- real-time information from countless feeds and filters

i. This customized mix of news feeds could include the local, international, social, personal--or just plain weird

b. video-enabled mobile device will become an enhanced lens on the world, thanks to a combination of high bandwidth, location-specific information, tremendous processing power, and ultra-smart image processing

i. Video. Audio, text, photo, headline, internet radio- sharing faster & instant updates

c. Australia’s national broadband project underway- Internet infrastructure reach more deeply into places where there isn’t any – in places like Africa

i. Download a feature-length high-definition movie in minutes and about five times faster than what’s envisioned even for major cities like Washington, D.C., in 2020.

ii. The Web Will Be Accessible Anywhere Nationwide Wi-Fi is the more exciting prospect

2. “Google Life”- 90% 10% rule

a. Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia--now household names--are joined by other powerful companies in a network of touch points that lets us find the information we want as soon as we want it. News is supported by a web of contributions from consumers, for-profits, nonprofits, distribution partners, and other entities.

i. Predictive analysis contribute to the collective foresight: crystal ball culture- Google will get much better at filtering out the spam

1. Users currently rely on Consumer Reports or Amazon to get information on appliances, and get more news and information through Facebook and Twitter.

b. Rate it, rant about it, forward it to friends and colleagues, add to it, and even edit it on the spot.

i. Users could add to this cloud of news right from where they stood, or from anywhere else with network coverage.

ii. Users will be able to browse through various histories of wherever you find yourself

iii. today's audience is much more interested in the filter of their colleagues and friends who they trust more than an algorithm produced by someone else

3. Hyper-Interactive and Visual : Technology – next generation products

a. HTML5 Augmented Reality (AR)

i. If apps are the popular phenomenon of 2011, publishers’ on-ramp to digital reader payment, HTML5 is the future

1. Now companies, from The New York Times to NPR to National Geographic, are rapidly building out both staffs and products based on HTML5, “rethinking interactivity,”

ii. Browser-based HTML5-powered apps can deliver great experiences, then why do we need native apps? Websites will eventually surpass apps in readability and usability

b. Beyond Apps

i. Analysts say this new (native) app industry generated $5.2 billion in 2010 and could hit $15 billion this year.

ii. Web Access Will Not Focus Around the Computer Voice-to-text technology will replace keyboards

1. third-party plugins no longer needed to play Native supported for audio and video without the use of Flash, Quicktime, Real Player, or Silverlight

2. That means that the fluidity we’ve all come to love about apps is built into emerging browser-based applications