"The handbook includes case studies gathered through interviews with newspapers in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa, including the Observer and Daily Monitor in Uganda, the Standard and the Daily Nation in Kenya, and Grocott’s Mail, the Mail and Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Sowetan in South Af
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rica, as well as News24.com – South Africa’s biggest online news provider [...] In addition to the accounts of successful mobile services, the handbook includes analysis and expert advice covering the key questions media houses should ask themselves when going into mobile. The handbook also provides detailed how-to guides for potential mobile services African media houses could offer." (www.wan-ifra.org, August 9, 2011)
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"Mobile journalism means journalism using mobile phones. Mobile journalists, or mojos, extend the newsgathering options for a news organisation, especially for breaking news, says Stephen Quinn. By citing examples not only from Asia, but also the United States and Europe, he reports on the technique
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s of mojo reporting as well as the integration of mobile journalism in the newsroom structures. He also provides details about the six main software providers and recommends some software tools. Altogether, this is an easy-to-read introduction to an emerging field of online journalism." (CAMECO Update 2-2010)
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"Periodistas de sociales que pueden seguir los pormenores de una boda real a través de YouTube, los miles de insights que los analistas políticos pueden obtener a través de las búsquedas que los usuarios hacen de los candidatos en Internet o los recorridos de las carreras que los deportivos pued
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en trazar en mapas al hacer un cubrimiento, son solo algunos de los ejemplos de lo que hoy están en capacidad de hacer los periodistas con la ayuda de Google. En esta guía especializada incluimos algunos de estos ejemplos y le indicamos cómo materializarlos, procurando que su labor sea cada vez más eficaz e impactante." (Introducción)
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"Here are the 10 key takeaways:
1. Traditional ethics rules still apply online.
2. Assume everything you write online will become public.
3. Use social media to engage with readers, but professionally.
4. Break news on your website, not on Twitter.
5. Beware of perceptions.
6. Independently authenti
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cate anything found on a social networking site.
7. Always identify yourself as a journalist.
8. Social networks are tools not toys.
9. Be transparent and admit when you’re wrong online.
10. Keep internal deliberations confidential." (Executive summary)
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"Chapter 1 sets the scene for this book, looking in a broad-brush way at how the Internet and related technologies have changed journalism and media. It notes how audiences are fragmenting in an environment of excess information, and considers the boom in online advertising relative to mainstream me
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dia revenues. It also discusses the way that the Internet threatens traditional commercial media business models. All of the chapters that follow are more hands-on and specific. Chapter 2 shows how to use various parts of the Internet such as the UseNet and listservs to generate story ideas that are beyond the often PR-generated news agenda, and how to find experts to interview for those stories. Chapter 3 does the same with blogs and related new media such as moblogs and podcasts. Chapter 4 considers the issue of citizen or participatory journalism and discusses how this phenomenon, often called audience-generated content, relates to newsgathering and the future of journalism. Chapter 5 looks beyond the usual suspects such as Google and offers ways to use the Internet technologies to find background information for stories. Chapter 6 works from the premise that the multimedia reporter will need to adopt different information-gathering processes compared with the mono-media reporter, and shows how to do that. Chapter 7 looks at how to assess the quality and veracity of information we find on the Internet. Technologies give us access to a vast amount of data, but how reliable and accurate are those data? Chapter 8 shows how to develop a beat using the Internet. It offers strategies for developing an area of expertise. Chapter 9 reflects the generosity of journalists on the Internet. It introduces the vast array of resources that reporters have made available for their colleagues around the world. Chapter 10 considers the legal implications of gathering information online and reporting news on the web. Chapter 11 shows how to do deeper forms of journalism using the Excel spread sheet and drawing on the wide range of statistics available on the Internet." (Pages xi-xii)
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"Destiné tant aux étudiants en journalisme qu'aux professionnels désireux de coller à l'actualité de leur métier, ce livre propose un diagnostic précis de la crise journalistique et des méthodes pragmatiques pour adapter les technologies de l'information aux exigences les plus urgentes de ce
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métier: reconstruire la fiabilité du journalisme, capter et fidéliser les audiences par l'interactivité." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"L'objectif majeur de cet ouvrage est de répondre à toutes les questions que se posent les journalistes africains sur l'utilisation d'Internet dans leur contexte professionnel quotidien. Quelles sont les spécificités de l'usage d'Internet en Afrique ? Où et comment trouver des médias et des co
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ntenus africains sur le Web ? Comment naviguer sur le " réseau des réseaux " sans s'y égarer ni tomber dans les nombreux pièges qu'il recèle ? Quelle est l'utilité, pour un média africain, de " s'afficher " sur Internet ? Comment s'y prendre pour une mise en ligne réussie ? Telles sont quelques-unes des nombreuses questions auxquelles ce guide pratique propose des éléments de réponse. Que sont donc ces " @ ", ces " www ", ces " http :// " et ces " URL " qui effraient les non-initiés ? Dans ce livre, on trouvera tous les éléments pour apprivoiser Internet et toutes les clés pour comprendre son univers complexe et codé. La visite guidée s'articule autour de six grands thèmes. Pour chacun d'entre eux, on trouvera quantité de repères, conseils, trucs et astuces à connaître pour une meilleure maîtrise d'Internet. Alors, à vous de jouer, et... bonne navigation !" (Description de la maison d'édition)
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