Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Weblog

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Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Weblog

My colleague Rob Heller's portraits of Tennesseans who experienced the Holocaust are back in Knoxville, after being shown throughout the state under the ...

Attention Deficit Weblog

Why RSS should be renamed FRED ... not really. But some folks are debating whether the public needs a more meaningful or memorable abbreviation than RSS for ...

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a podcast... and weblog section for folk music and online folklore (see the weblog front page for Bob's "Other Journalism")... and, no, this isn't about ...

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Thanks to j's scratchpad for pointing out that Wikipedia has a new entry on "citizen journalism." The article even makes the connection between ...

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Bofton's First News Aggregator, April 1704. Boston's first blog-aggregator: The Boston News-Letter brought news clips to Massachusetts OK, so this started ...

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A new "Times on the Trail" feature turns New York Times reporters into bloggers, sort-of... but they can still do fuzzy math (see below) and confuse the ...

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Breaking news -- an early-morning fire story -- was delivered to my computer this morning by WBIR-TV's RSS headline feed... Weblogger SouthKnoxBubba had the ...

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The question mark at the end of that title was for optimism, and it paid off:. 2006 update -- SKB is back photoblogging as "r.neal," hosting KnoxViews.com ...

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Bertrand Pecquerie and colleagues at World Editors Forum are blogging furiously from Istanbul, where the World Newspaper Congress and the forum are meeting ...

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After his visits to North Carolina and South Carolina, big-city blogger Dave Winer has a thoughtful essay on Blogging for small city newspapers. ...

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But he says you can... Cyberjournalis.net's Jon Dube interviewed NewYorkTimes.com chief Len Apcar about the bloglike Times on the Trail campaign page and ...

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"Newspapers are cockroaches. No matter what is introduced into the media ecosystem, the oldest of the Big Media survives..." ...

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After a quick scan of The New York Times online, I was so struck by a quote in Amy Waldman's story on Sunday's earthquake-driven tsunami that I decided to ...

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"Buzzwords" will be a good topic for the Online Publishing class this week, and where better to find examples than right here in the "blogosphere." ...

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I was reminiscing earlier today about my first newspaper job -- in a city where four daily papers' circulation areas overlapped, and how that was such an ...

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A colleague recently asked what assignments to give journalism students who want a quick introduction to "writing for the Web," so here's what my own class ...

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Beyond Blogs: Selected Book Reviews for Spring Reading. Not only don'tI have time to read more books right now, I don't have time to read these reviews. ...

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Al Gore may have done a lot for the Internet and have some ideas about reaching young people with digital media through the current.tv project, ...

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Although it's hardly headline news beyond the University of North Carolina School of Journalism & Mass Communication mailing list, I successfully defended ...

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Oh nooo.... Should we be encouraging more webloggers?! I had fun yesterday helping some folks at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology start their first ...

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After my off-hand comment yesterday about the KnoxNews home page layout, I ran into these two linked pieces today:. One of MediaCenter's Morph bloggers ...

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Many Hundreds of Thousands Creating Daily Content? The Pew Center's survey report, Content Creation Online, is getting headlines and blog blurbs like "44% ...

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A sampler from my news feeds... Some Bloggers Meet the Bosses From Big Media. "What capacity for product development do news organizations show? Zip. ...

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Between lovely banjo, guitar and mandolin Christmas carols on WDVX and e-mail from a friend in Sweden describing Santa's safe departure on his world tour, ...

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The Project for Excellence in Journalism says top professional news organizations' online coverage of the first Democratic primaries didn't break much ...

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More from 'Times on the Trail'. Here are three good things about the new Times on the Trail page that I didn't notice or mention last week (followed by a ...

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A "reality TV" documentary about the New York Daily News starts Monday under the title Tabloid Wars. Sample dialogue, from one of the reviews linked below: ...

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I've been offline confronting a six-page to-do list, so I'm missing lots of things. Here are a few, as sent out on various RSS feeds: ...

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With many things to do in the next 48 hours, I'm bookmarking these lightly browsed or RSS aggregator-delivered items to read over the weekend... ...

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Back before the word "weblog" was around, there were a few websites that were updated daily, had a fresh personality, and commented on life, the Internet ...

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For the second time this year, The Hartford Courant's op-ed department has found it necessary to apologize for not catching what appeared to be something ...

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In case I get a chance to demonstrate RSS feeds tomorrow at the College of Communication & Information Research Symposium, I grabbed some items from a few ...

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(Updated Feb. 1, 1:45 pm) Is this a trend? Last year the city of Knoxville website started sending out news with a "Really Simply Syndication" RSS feed. ...

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Today's journalism students need more positive role models... I don't know if a new ABC-TV series about Carl Kolchak really fits the bill, but I'll watch at ...

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That headlline isn't talking about "tabloid" in the sense of "Batboy Meets Bush, Dow Soars" nonsense, just the smaller tabloid-size newspaper format... but ...

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New Hampshire Campaign News. Here are a few approaches to covering New Hampshire in presidential primary season -- one a weblog with MP3 audio, ...

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She reads the world's news with a British accent, and although she sounded a bit robotic at first, I'm going to give her a try a little longer. ...

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Reuters news stories have been available via RSS syndication through Yahoo news and its my.yahoo aggregator, as well as various news "scraping" sites that ...

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The home page of Newspaper Research Journal, a "refereed" academic quarterly, is now linked to our home page for the Newspaper Division of the Association ...

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I've told my students to read the Sunday News Sentinel for a current events quiz, and I know many of them rely on the online edition. ...

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What did President Bush say about fake TV news last week? See excerpts from Bush's Wednesday Comments on Video News Releases ...

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Like the Democratic National Convention in Boston last month, the Republicans' gathering in New York City has a crowd of bloggers covering it, ...

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From a Sunday visit to The New York Times, here are the stories I plan to spend more time reading, as soon as I finish reading a book that I should have ...

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Open up your favorite dictionary of modern communications terms and pencil the word "podcasting" into the margin between "poco a poco" (which means "little ...

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The first three items fit the "news media of the future" theme. (The rest of the words on this page are directly fron the blogs and publications cited, ...

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A friend just sent along this link to a funny, but cynical, look at what it's like to be a reporter... One of the people who passed it along included a note ...

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Catching up with the RSS newsfeeds... Sites and stories that I want to bookmark here on the blog for possible use in classes in the fall, or just to remind ...

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Investigative reporting awards A series of stories about Capitol Hill Corruption in Tennessee made to the finals of the annual Investigative Reporters and ...

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Does that mean we'll see a Pulitzer Prize weblog next year? Could be, if the blogger is based at a newspaper's online edition -- if I'm reading the rules ...

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Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee helped to kick off the Geneva summit on the information society. [BBC News | Technology | World Edition] 2:31:38 PM comment [] ...

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Ways I spend my "continuing education" time: This 20-minute online presentation (plus link-browsing time) uses a Macromedia system called Breeze to combine ...

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Nashville TV station WKRN plans to put video bloggers' work on broadcast television, according to Terry Heaton and Rex Hammock, reporting an announcement by ...

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Readers at SouthKnoxBubba's weblog are calling Senator Bill Frist unflattering names, based on these last two lines of the Associated Press story about his ...

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Audience members at the Nieman Foundation Narrative Journalism Conference were invited to blog their reactions to last weekend's three-day conference. ...

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I've been enjoying the Fireant video player since its first release, when it was just called ANT (standing for "Ant's Not Television"). ...

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A busy first week of school has made for light blogging this week, along with horrific news to talk about in class... but here's a little good news -- that ...

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More than one friend has asked why I haven't been blogging recently... Part of the reason is the end-of-semester workload, as I wrap up grading and comments ...

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"Saving Journalism (and Killing the Press)" is the headline on Jeff Jarvis's live-blogging of a Philadelphia conference that brought journalists and ...

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Hunter S. Thompson said harsh things about journalism, but he kept doing journalism -- or something like it. "I have spent half my life trying to get away ...

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Linking Errors, Plagiarism and News Site Design. Note: This item was updated several times between March 9 and 18, as noted below. ...

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So much for last week's idea of creating a regular Sunday item made up of clips from my aggregators... I was offline on Sunday, but have added a few pieces ...

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The Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication has posted its annual awards for various kinds of Web sites created by graduate students ...

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The future of newspapers -- as a business and as a public service -- is the topic of a webcast at 2 pm Wednesday, from the Media Center of the American ...

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Jon Udell's article, A channel changer for the Bloglines river of news, may have a title that only a dedicated Really Simple Syndication (RSS) user could ...

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Inspired by SKB's Friday Bird Blogging, maybe I can be disciplined enough to have a regular weekly posting under this heading for things I don't have time ...

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Acronyms & Acrimony? "Internet governance" is not my favorite can of... loose ends. But depending on your favorite news source, you might think some of ...

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Here are a few stories that might be of interest in journalism classes over the next couple of weeks. Ted Koppel to Leave 'Nightline' and ABC News. ...

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This afternoon, I had just shown my friend's online-journalism class a couple of "online editor" job descriptions and talked about some of the "convergence" ...

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Khoi Vinh says he didn't do it... well, not all of it... and he's proud of it anyway. He did join http://NYTimes.com in December after many impressive Web ...

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Podcasting pioneer Dave Winer posted a note in his weblog the other day asking whether any broadcasters were offering daily news programs as subscribable ...

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"It would be nice if colleges taught Journalism 101 as if it was a requirement for every kid getting a college degree... Starting right now I think every ...

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The man with his eye on the flowerpot has come out from the shadows. In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, W. Mark Felt, a senior FBI official during ...

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Long Island University has named the Center for Public Integrity winner of the first George Polk Award for Internet Reporting for Windfalls of War, ...

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Happy St. Patrick's Day! The Boston.com St. Pat's Day page, with pint in bottom right The St. Patrick's Day parade isn't until Sunday, but it's still ...

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picture of bloglines new-items popup UPDATE: Going on July hiatus (see below) Experimenting with a variety of RSS news aggregators for a few months led me ...

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AP via RSS -- Bloggers Susan Mernit, Jeff Jarvis and Rex Hammock are reporting various angles of the news that the Associated Press has launched some RSS ...

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Michael "No Silence Here" Silence, resident blogger at the News Sentinel, has started building a list of Knoxville-area bloggers, something I've been ...

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KnoxNews.com has staff members shooting -- both video and handguns. The results are at "Random This: Our Lens on Life," a video blog or "vlog" by Web ...

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Between writing computer programs and books about computers, Paul Graham has turned out an essay on the symbiosis between journalists and the public ...

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PressThinker Jay Rosen at NYU has some ideas about finding money to pay blog editors or reporters to generate story ideas and cover stories that are being ...

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Installing a new RSS aggregator has flooded my desktop with "old news" -- things I skipped over earlier this month, including Barry Parr's Media Savvy ...

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"Unrelievedly bad" is the phrase one observer uses to describe newspaper circulation figures released this week. I read that too quickly and thought it said ...

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"Lawrence, Kansas, Convergence Capital USA" and "Watchful Eyes on Kansas Media Innovation" are the two parts of a series on National Public Radio this week ...

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I generally don't "blog live" from events, but Steve Garfield inspired me to give it a try during his presentation today... ...

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Last week, the news was Reuters RSS feeds, including summaries linked to television clips. Now regional TV news website operators are discussing the pros ...

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In one of our first news writing classes this semester, I said something to the affect that "news," at its simplest, is what you didn't know -- and now you ...

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Despite a downpour outside, the UT School of Journalism & Electronic Media's JEM Week "online journalism" panel discussion had a standing-room, ...

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I'm so glad school's out... I'll have time to browse all the sites I never heard of that won Webby Awards. The awards for Craigslist, Flickr and Google ...

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Catching up with yesterday's news about this year's Pulitzer Prizes, below are the time-stamped summaries from The New York Times. ...

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So here I am lecturing at Harvard... Well, not exactly. But I am (back) in Cambridge preparing to steal a few smartaleck cliche-busting remarks from an East ...

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My students have a weekend reading assignment from The New York Times, but the clips below won't be on the quiz... I might talk about them in class when we ...

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If you're a blogger, you don't have to be insatigatigable to take an interest in this headline: Blogger not liable for libelous comments. ...

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I usually don't do this until Sunday... but I only have time for a quick scan of the news aggregator today, and may not be back to the computer this weekend ...

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Last year 129 media employees were killed in the line of duty, according to the International Federation of Journalists, which is calling on governments to ...

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Today's Boston Globe covers the topic of summer Democratic convention coverage under the headline, "Blogs colliding with traditional media," but the actual ...

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Former Vice President Al Gore's soon-to-launch youth-oriented cable television network has a new name and weblog. Current.tv, formerly called IndTV, ...

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Jay Rosen at NYU continues his top ten ideas of 2004 list quoting Tom Curley, CEO of the Associated Press, in a speech to the Online News Association, ...

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Insiders Look at Future of Journalism, Online and Off. This is definitely the season for major studies of journalism, most recently a 500-page online report ...