Damian Radcliffe @damianradcliffe

Reinventing JournalismTrends, Innovations and Unanswered Questions

Part 2. The evolution of Journalism

10 recent trends and developments

Obligatory use of this quote…

1. Emergence of new funders

eBay founder Pierre Omidyarsays his new flagship site for First Look Media will cover news, entertainment, sports and politics, plus “a family of digital magazines.”

Jay Rosen reports Omidyar has committed $250m to the venture.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos meanwhile

spends $250m buying the Washington Post…

2. New funding models

CROWDFUNDING

German project “Krautreporter” aims to find 15,000 people who commit to paying 60 Euros ($80) a year to fund the site.

The Texas Tribune, used Kickstarter (+ a $10k matching

pledge from the Knight Foundation) to purchase equipment to livestreamthe 2014 Texas governor’s race.

3. Big players acting like start-ups

The rise of TV like content

Increasingly regular feature

On platforms who didn’t start out this way…

4. Newer entities acting like old media

5. Everyone embracing social

"The challenge is not to get the story published, but to get the story into people’s feeds — into their Twitter timelines, into their inbox and into their chat."

- Zach Seward, Quartz

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Buzzfeed gets:

• 50% referrals via mobile

• 75% via socialBBC News Video on Instagram

Some news organizations have embraced new consumer realities and provide an editorial proposition reflecting this.

As GigaOm pointed out, Circa stories are actually longform in disguise:

“…since it allows users to “follow” a specific story, and get updates only about new developments on that story, it essentially is building a long-form news story over time —just in bite-size chunks.”

6. “Mobile First” approaches

7. “Video first” services

• 25 staff

• 8-10 videos each a day

On all the usual social platforms.

Plus Kindle Fire

and

Roku

Which enable TV viewing

“As soon as I saw Google Glass, I realised that it would allow me to do what I always do with this first-person live

recording, but my hands would be free.”

Tim Pool, Vice

Pool used Glass as part of his coverage of 2013 protests in Istanbul, getting up to 750,000 views a day of his stream.

8. New storygathering tools

9. The impact of Big / Little Data

1. .

The Bay Citizen Bike Accident TrackerUsed data from 14,113 incidents reported to the police between January 2005 and December 2009. Can filter by road conditions, lighting and other factors such as ‘who is at fault’ to determine the safest routes to use and/or avoid.

Single, searchable, database allowing users

to search for physicians or medical centers to receive listings of all matching payments.

10. J-School evolution

• Computational Journalism

• Data Journalism

• Entrepreneurial Journalism

Case Study: Cardiff University's Community Journalism MOOC

• 8,828 learners signed up for the course

• Learners came from over 113 countries worldwide

• Over 13,400 comments throughout the course

• #Flcommunityjourno was tweeted out over 900 times

Some of the big unanswered questions facing

journalism will be explored next in Part 3.

Or in the original full presentation from which this is

adapted, which you can read here: www.slideshare.net/mrdamian/reinventing-journalism-trends-innovations-and-unanswered-questions/

About the Author: @damianradcliffe

Damian Radcliffe is a Doctoral Student and an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.

He has written about journalism and media innovation for a range of outlets including: Abramis Academic Publishing, BBC College of Journalism, journalism.co.uk, Media Development Loan Fund, NESTA, Online Journalism Blog, Ofcom, StreetFight, Routledge and Talk About Local.

Links to Damian’s extensive writing and research portfolio can be found at: www.damianradcliffe.wordpress.com/writing