For me, the goal of the journalist (traditionally defined) is to provide the public with the facts and context they need to make informed decisions—political, business, consumer and personal decisions—without regard for what “sells”. Many traditional journalistic enterprises are very concerned with doing content that sells copies and catches eyeballs for advertisers than truly informing the public, which is part of the pain I think Paul describes so well. Jesse Noyes. If a journalist becomes a brand journalist, that person is no longer a journalist.”. Say “I” MORE >>

Next Monday I’ll be sharing my ideas on this topic at the annual meeting of the Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA) in Washington, DC. As regular readers of this blog will know, one of my frequent topics here is surviving the new-media revolution. If you happen to be attending the event, I hope you’ll drop in to my presentation. I’ll be talking about how the transformation from industrial media to social media is is changing career paths for editor, reporters, and other content creators, and outlining nine keys to a successful new-media career. MORE >>

Moreover, she sees some benefit in using software to replace those deadwood journalists who “don’t add any value” through their work: “Writers, for example, who simply gather information, get a few comments from people and then regurgitate it onto the page, should probably start looking for another profession. It doesn’t take very long for rewriting new-product press releases to evolve from informative introduction to an industry to stultifying drudgery. They are not going away. Then last month, Steve Lohr of the New York Times revived the issue. As James W. Who Needs Editors? MORE >>

New Paltz, NY), said … ” That would be followed all too often by other background information before the key point of the story would be raised. As Linking lets people see the full context of the information you are citing. MUD day 4: If you’re a B2B journalist or a journalistically inclined content marketer, you should be faithfully following Steve Buttry’s blog. Although he’s a died-in-the-wool newspaper guy, he deals frequently and insightfully with issues that also plague trade editors and reporters. They should do better. MORE >>

One way to achieve it, Walker writes, is to use “hundreds of cameras to capture all the visual information in a scene,” then use a computer to process the results “into a many-layered digital object.” The Lytro camera. Until this weekend, when I came across Rob Walker’s brief article about it in the December Atlantic , I had figured the new Lytro camera was more cool gimmick than serious game changer. You’ve probably heard about the technology already. Confused? See Lytro’s examples.). This effect is made possible by capturing far more data than a typical camera. MORE >>