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From: Andres Rey We pushed out the first version of the Open Journalism site in January. Our goal is for the
site to be a place to teach students what they should know about journalism
on the web. It should be fun too. I started discovering beautiful things the web could do with images:
things not possible with print. Just as every generation revolts against
walking in the previous generations shoes, I found myself questioning the
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the shoes we were handed down from previous generations of editors. It
was, we were told, all part of “becoming a journalist.” We spent much of the rest of the school year asking “what should we be
doing in the newsroom?”, which mainly led us to ask “how do we use the
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words on computers, for print.
Two years later, we went back and looked at what had changed. We talked
to a dozen more newsrooms and weren’t surprised by our findings.Open Journalism Project:
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We don’t know what we don’t know
Common problems in student newsrooms (2013)
We are building a shoe machine, not a shoe.
- +In our 2013 research we found that almost 50% of student newsrooms had created roles specifically for the web. This sounds great, but is still problematic in its current state.
When a newsroom decides to create a position for the web, it’s often with the intent of having content flow steadily from writers onto the web. This @@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ steps towards having all their editors involved in the stories for the web.
We going to continue slowly growing the content on Open Journalism. We still consider this the beta version, but expect to polish it, and beef up the content for a real launch at the @@ -268,8 +268,8 @@ smell a bit different, we feel lacing up a new pair of kicks can change a lot.
Let’s talk. Let’s listen.
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