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The uncertainty plaguing traditional media is in large part due to its apparent nemesis – social media. It’s not necessarily that those in the social media space are out to get their traditional media counterparts, but rather that market and consumer demands are shifting to the more instant, accessible and affordable online media. And stuck in the middle of this battle between aging print- and br
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Im Social Web fühlen sich Falschmeldungen und Gerüchte nicht nur pudelwohl, sie werden in kollaborativer Arbeit auch widerlegt. Einen Abstellknopf für derartigen “Prozessjournalismus” gibt es nicht.
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Mit dem Journalismus ist es so ähnlich wie mit anderen Berufen auch. Es gibt in Deutschland 20.000 Richter; aber es gibt viel, viel mehr Leute, die sich auch täglich ihr Urteil bilden. Es gibt in Deutschland 310.000 Polizisten. Aber es gibt noch viel mehr Leute, die auch ganz gut darauf aufpassen, was in ihrer Umgebung passiert. Es gibt zigtausend examinierte Pädagogen und Erzieher in Deutschland
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The uncertainty plaguing traditional media is in large part due to its apparent nemesis – social media. It’s not necessarily that those in the social media space are out to get their traditional media counterparts, but rather that market and consumer demands are shifting to the more instant, accessible and affordable online media. And stuck in the middle of this battle between aging print- and br
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There are two kinds of new media startups that are popping up here and there. You’ve got the investigators like ProPublica or the Center for Investigative Reporting who try their very best to unearth corruption, scandal and other wrongdoing. And you’ve got the community guys, doing stuff like EveryBlock or lawrence.com, and their primary goal is to really strengthen communities.
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Of the three social media platforms studied, news-oriented blogs share the most similarities with the mainstream press. Bloggers almost always link to legacy outlets for their information, and politics, government and foreign events garnered the greatest traction.

There are, however, also some clear differences. While the biggest topic areas overlap, there was considerable divergence in the sp