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Chapter 10: Managing News as a Conversation

Questions and challenges for the modern journalism: How to maintain objectivity or credibility Legal and ethical issues with publishing freedom for everyone How to gather the audience With social networking tools and blogs embedded on news sites, conversing the news is possible. One can converse through comments or social networking (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.). This […]


Chapter 4: Microblogging: Write Small, Think Big

Microblogging recently exploded in popularity along with Twitter, a microblogging website where users can post updates of their ideas or events in 140 characters. It is easy to post or follow on microblogging and the contents can be used in many ways: by email, mobile device, etc. Using Briggs’s analogy, if blogging started as an […]


Chapter 3: Crowd-Powered Collaboration

In this chapter, Briggs discuss about new reporting methods that are being paid more focus in the U.S.: Crowdsourcing, open-source reporting and pro-am journalism. Crowdsourcing Also known as distributed reporting, crowdsourcing is sourcing of the large crowd of communities gathered within the internet, that often outperforms professionals. For example, Mechanical Turk by Amazon.com, Image Labeler […]