Online Journalism in 2007
David Stanton
University of Florida
Times are changing
- Where do you parents go for information?
- Print newspapers
- Broadcast news
- Where do you go for information?
- Aggregators / Feeds
- Online news sites
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By the numbers
- Nearly 73 percent (72.6 percent) of newspaper Web site visitors go online every day (compared with 57.8 percent of the Internet population as a whole).
- Nearly 42 percent (41.8 percent) of those who have visited newspaper Web sites have viewed streaming video on their computers in the last 30 days (compared with 27.4 percent of the overall Internet audience).
- More than one in five (23.3 percent) newspaper Web site visitors have read about politics or political campaign information online (compared with 10.8 percent of the overall Internet population).
From a Newspaper Association of America press release
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Failures of early convergence
- Structural convergence of early 2000s
- "Newsroom of the future"
- Culture clash
- Equipment / retraining costs
- Bandwidth constraints
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Growing pains
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New approaches
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Everyone wants Adrian
- Enrolled at the University of Missouri?olumbia in August 1998
- Graduated in December 2001 with BSJ
- Lawrence World and Django
- Washington Post
- Knight News Challenge grant
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A new world view
- Broadband adoption
- Content is still king
- Specialists and team-based approaches
- Multiplatform
- Utilize data
- Mashups
- Cheap and easy
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Dynamic infographics
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Future of journalism
- Information revolution
- Journalist → Information gatherer
- Computer science and programming as journalism
- The Washington Post | Apple.com profile
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