Benoît Raphaël

Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with...

Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable.

(via Michael Wolff on Politico | vanityfair.com)

Ce que nous apprend Twitter

Ce que nous apprend Twitter: Twitter existe depuis 2006, mais ce n’est que depuis 2009 que, dans les rédactions, on ne parle (presque) plus que de ça (le reste du temps, on parle de la fin des journaux ou de modèle économique…

Que devons nous retenir de la révolution Twitter ? http://tinyurl.com/l325xv

Que devons nous retenir de la révolution Twitter ? http://tinyurl.com/l325xv

"CNN’s citizen journalism site, iReport, has received 3,866 submissions on Iran since coverage of the..."

“CNN’s citizen journalism site, iReport, has received 3,866 submissions on Iran since coverage of the elections began, with 1,600 from last Saturday and Sunday alone, according to a press release. Of these, 131 have been used on air or online by CNN, after producers have carried out verification checks.”

- CNN’s iReport attracts nearly 4,000 submissions on Iranian elections | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog

The Emerging Journalism Stack

The old model was vertical integration. The publisher owned the printing press, bought the ink, hired the reporters, delivered the paper, and sold the ads. As in many technology industries, change begets a layered stack. And like it or not, news is now just another digital artifact. So, here is the emerging stack:

* Bottom: millions of eyes, with camera phones, SMS, Twitter, whatever works at the time. No media firm can replicate this. When people talk about funding journalism through non-profit foundations, it should be along the lines of: make sure everybody in the Peace Corps knows how to do this, or give Amnesty International money to report on prisoner abuse, or give Greenpeace money to report on environmental issues. In fact, not much else is needed beyond what is already happening; the crashing prices of cell phones is making this available to billions of people.

* Middle: the spotters and amplifiers, people who see the potential importance of a story and do a bit more research online and use their network to push the story out. Many of these people have an axe to grind, which makes them motivated, but one has to take what they say with a grain of salt.

* Top: the final mile of media, the trusted brands. Each has to earn the public’s trust every day. When you see a news item coming from multiple sources, which do you click on? Different clicks for different folks; this is no winner-take-all market. Can be MSM, can be niche. But that trust is earned every day. Facts have to be checked, and that takes time, money, and training.

Source: Don’t Let Yellow Press Standards Define the Future of Journalism

"In a news vacuum, amateur videos and eyewitness accounts became the de facto source for information...."

“In a news vacuum, amateur videos and eyewitness accounts became the de facto source for information. In fact, the symbol of the protests, the image of a young woman named Neda bleeding to death on a Tehran street, was filmed by two people holding camera phones. “It’s incredible, the volume of stuff coming out” from Iran, said Matthew Weaver, who sounded exhausted Thursday evening after blogging for more than 10 days for The Guardian newspaper’s Web site. When rallies and conflicts occur “first the tweets come, then the pictures, then the YouTube videos, then the wires,” he said. “It’s extraordinary.” Most important, he said, what people are saying “at one point in the day is then confirmed by more conventional sources four or five hours later.””

- In Iran, Journalism Makes Use of Unverified News - NYTimes.com

"20 Minutes France a annoncé, jeudi 2 juillet, le recrutement d’un nouveau responsable des..."

“20 Minutes France a annoncé, jeudi 2 juillet, le recrutement d’un nouveau responsable des nouveaux médias. Antoine Clément (précédemment chez TF1, Lagardère Active, Carat…) aura le titre de directeur général web, et succède à Hélène Fromen, qui était en poste depuis trois ans.”

- 20 Minutes réorganise son pôle web - Médias - Actualité Challenges.fr

Nos stars de la blogosphère 2009 - - Soizic Briand - Actualité...

Nos stars de la blogosphère 2009 - - Soizic Briand - Actualité Challenges.fr

"I choose to see news everywhere, that it exists before it is reported, that reporting isn’t..."

“I choose to see news everywhere, that it exists before it is reported, that reporting isn’t even a necessary part of the news. I see his view as the means by which the press controlled us, but that control is slipping.”

- Is it news if it’s not reported? (Scripting News)

"Skeptics note that only a small number of people used Twitter to organize protests in Iran and that..."

“Skeptics note that only a small number of people used Twitter to organize protests in Iran and that other means — individual text messaging, old-fashioned word of mouth and Farsi-language Web sites — were more influential. But Twitter did prove to be a crucial tool in the cat-and-mouse game between the opposition and the government over enlisting world opinion. […]
1. Twitter Is a Tool and Thus Difficult to Censor […]
2. Tweets Are Generally Banal, but Watch Out[…]
3. Buyer Beware[…]
4. Watch Your Back[…]
5. Twitter Is Self-Correcting but a Misleading Gauge[…]
6. Twitter Can Be a Potent Tool for Media Criticism[…]”

- Twitter on the Barricades - Six Lessons Learned - NYTimes.com (via participolis)