The emerging Media Ecossystem

Blogosphere


A News Story life cycle

• It has to as soon as it comes otherwise somebody else will get the crowds.

BREAKING NEWS VERSUS ANALYSIS

1. Most news stories start off as Breaking News: a story that no one else knows about.
2. fter the Breaking News comes out, then it's time for the Analysis: Why did this happen? How could it have happened? What does it all mean?
3. Op-Ed

BACK TO THE FOOD CHAIN

1. Print Journalists break lots of news stories. If the story is exciting, other print media outlets will pick it up and run with it. You can almost always spot when this happens, because the story will often credit the source
2. There are a limited number of participants in the Traditional Media Food Chain, with only so many people available to do the original reporting and fact checking the whole systems needs to work. Because of these limited resources, many have charged Traditional Media with a consistent bias that fails to reflect the diversity of opinions and ideas.
3. a strong sense from some readers that Media organizations have a mixed record when it comes to accurately and fairly reporting the News.

WEBLOGS AS GRASSROOTS REPORTING

1. because bloggers are not biased by any one media you get a more original viewpoints and thus puts itself at the base of the media chain.
2. Because bloggers are closer to a story, they'll often pick up the sort of things that traditional Journalists miss.
3. Eyewitness blog can give readers an insiders account. and because of this grassroots reporting has continued to be a key strength of blogs.
4. As personal and powerful as eyewitness blogs can be, they often lack the credibility of a traditional news outlet.
5. grassroot blogging may differ from what the more traditional media has to say but this is what Then again, maybe the point of grassroots reporting: at least now there is access to another perspective.
6. Thematic Blogs usually involve one person(well versed in what they talk about) blogging about their area of expertise or passion.
   

COLLABORATIVE MEDIA

1. Anyone can submit an article
2. Anyone can vote on whether or not that article passes muster
3. Anyone can post comments about a story, providing feedback and building on the story

WEBLOGS WORKING TOGETHER: COLLABORATIVE MEDIA

1. people link to each others blogs many of them providing commentary and making additional points about the event.

JOURNALISTS AS PREDATOR: USING WEBLOGS FOR STORY IDEAS

1. Because of all the collborative blogs, traditional journalists get ideas for their own stories.
2. This is Journalism and Weblogs working together at its best. Bloggers break the news and hash it out... and a Journalist adds a layer of reporting on it, bringing that news beyond the Blogosphere.

WEBLOGS AS PREDATOR: FEASTING ON JOURNALISTS' ARTICLES

1. Blogs feast daily upon Articles writen by Journalists, linking to each article and adding their own comment and perspective.
   
2. now weblogs can check facts of a news article,story.

JOURNALISTS AS PREY

1. But before bloggers can start the conversation, first they need something to talk about and that is usually article are written by Journalists and published in Big Media newspapers and magazines.

THE COMPLETE BLOGOSPHERE

1. Grassroots Reporting

2. Blog Filtering

3. Traditional ReportingBlog Filtering and Fact Checking

LIES LIES AND MORE LIES

1. the information cycle between blogosphere and media can sometime reinforce lies or biases.
1. new media---people have a way to correct misinformation and circulate the correct information back into the Media Ecosystem
2. old media ---difficult in getting a Correction printed in the newspaper... and then, the chances of anyone seeing that Correction buried deep inside the next day's paper.

WARBLOGGERS TURBO-CHARGE BLOGOSPHERE

1. after 9/11 blogging became more popular and moved away from just tech blogs to political prsonal etc.
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WHY THE BLOGOSPHERE MATTERS

1. Glenn Reynolds compares blogs to 18th century European coffeeshops. where intellectuals could read the free newspapers and debate the important issues of the day. According to Glenn, these coffeeshops were the birthplace of a whole new set of ideas that fueled the next generation of thinkers, artists, and business people
1. Advantages of blogs
1. you don't have to be European to participate. and langauage does not matter because there are many translating tools.
2. Geography has become irrelevant. you dont't have to travel to a coffe hpuse.
3. the Blogosphere is free - both for bloggers and for readers.
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