"Das Lokale ist publizistische Kraftquelle und innovativer Hotspot, hier wird mit neuen Formen und Formaten experimentiert. Im Lokalen beginnen viele Journalisten ihre Karriere. Das Lokale ist beim Leser beliebt und der Einfluss der Berichterstattung auf die Eliten vor Ort ist hoch. Band 5 zeigt pra
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ktisch, was den Lokalteil stark macht: wie Lokalrecherche funktioniert, wie Informationen richtig selektiert werden und wie die Präsentation und die Vermittlung zum Nutzer gelingt. Denn der journalistische Alltag im Lokalen ist nicht einfach. Zeitdruck, Kungelei und Bequemlichkeit sind an der Tagesordnung. Das Buch benennt nicht nur diese Gefährdungen, sondern zeigt auch, wie Journalisten den täglichen Pressemitteilungen, Ankündigungen und Terminen neue Seiten abgewinnen können. Interviews mit gestandenen Lokaljournalisten sowie zahlreiche Fallbeispiele runden die einzelnen Kapitel ab. Das Internet scheint inzwischen allmächtig. Doch der Schein trügt: Die Regionalpresse kann sich von der publizistischen Konkurrenz abheben, indem sie auf ihre Lokalkompetenz setzt: Statt „more of the same“ heißt es fortan „out of the ordinary“. Globalität gibt dem Lokalen eine neue Wertigkeit, Band 5 greift diesen Trend auf." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This guide seeks to provide useful information from the world of journalism in order to stimulate and instruct the ever-growing number of citizen investigators — the ordinary citizens, members of nongovernmental organizations, and non-journalism professionals interested in using investigative tec
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hniques to uncover wrongdoing and expose the invisible." (Page 4)
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"The purpose of this manual is to familiarise citizen journalists with the core issues of election reporting including ethics, safety and security, fake news, hate speech and the broader issues around the electoral system in Zimbabwe. It also focuses on gender and the media, photography, live-stream
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ing and mobile reporting. The manual will offer useful tips to citizen journalists on how to write an election story for diverse platforms that include SMS, social media, radio, newspapers, newsletters, among others, capturing the essence of a story, facts, and voices and transmit that information on these platforms. It also focuses on how to gather, share, upload, livestream various pieces of information ranging from text, audio, videos and photos." (Preface)
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"Bloggers Boot Camp shows you how to create and maintain a successful blog in today's world. It teaches you how to find a niche, find your unique voice, and how to hold a conversation with that audience. It provides you with all the right tools appropriate to your content, writing style, and message
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. This new edition teaches you how to write for and promote in the world of social media. It explores and shows you how to navigate the murky waters of mainstream media that your blogging may touch. Finally, this new edition emphasizes the importance of networking and provides techniques and tips for getting a job in the blogging industry and building your reputation as a writer." (Back cover)
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"This Media Toolkit for Local Governance in Lesotho is designed to encourage media coverage of news and events in Lesotho’s rural areas at local government level. According to the publication, to improve such media coverage there is a need to focus both on the providers and the collectors of news.
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The first part of the toolkit focuses on journalists covering local governance-related news items. It is intended as a workbook for journalists at community and district levels throughout the country so that media coverage enhances people’s understanding of the local government system. The second part is intended for local government officials and non-governmental organsiations, assisting them to make more effective use of the media to achieve their objectives." (www.comminit.com, June 15, 2012)
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"Tens of thousands of citizen journalists around the world are discovering and developing a wide variety of ways to get the news out about what is happening in their communities, states and nations. They are using all the latest tools of technology to write all kinds of news. With these new tools, t
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hey watchdog government, enlighten citizens, photograph and video events, tip news agencies, create graphs, charts and cartoons, use their expertise, and tell stories. This grassroots journalism movement is worldwide and gains in popularity and influence with every new website that goes online, every blog that is created and with each digital photo or video that is uploaded. Citizen journalists are doing this for two reasons: because they care and because they can. They care about what is happening in their communities and they are armed with inexpensive and easy-to-operate tools that make it possible to reach their town and even the world with a couple of clicks of a mouse. Their work is varied in kind, quality and usefulness; nevertheless, it is changing the way the world gets its information. We are calling for one million citizen journalists around the world - in communities large and small - to step forward and fill the gap left by fading newspapers and weakening local broadcast news teams." (Introduction, page 12-13)
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