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Save jouralism – become a blogger


I could not have written a better post than this one by Howard Owens:

The new rules of the game are:

* The user is in control. They decided what, when, why, where and how to consume media.
* Users aren’t interested in our deadlines and desire to make sure we have the full story before publishing what we know. They want to know what we know when we know it. They want their news now.
* People want to participate. They want to talk back. They want to add to our stories, correct us and just spout off as need be with their own opinions.

We have decades and decades invested in doing things based on old rules. Now, the rules have changed, and newsrooms need to change as well. We need new attitudes and new cultures. This will only happen if individual journalists put forward the effort to change their minds about what their jobs are and how they do them

Here are twelve things journalist can do to help us recreate journalism for the 21st Century.

* Become a blogger. By this, I don’t necessarily mean “start a blog,” but that is never a bad idea. More importantly, become an avid blog reader. Blogs should be a daily routine for every dedicated journalist. They should read every blog related to their beats. They should read blogs about their own interests and hobbies. They should read blogs about their profession. To get blogging is to get how things have changed.

Read his post for the other eleven things.

Makes this post sound prophetic, IMO.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:04 pm October 3rd, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Politics 

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10 Responses to “Save jouralism – become a blogger”

  1. 1 John Ettorre on October 3rd, 2007 9:03 pm

    Sorry, but I think anyone who could write a sentence as thoroughly stupid as this–”This will help you better grok distributed media”–deserves only one fate: to be ignored. Here’s hoping this guy, whoever the hell he is, will learn to begin talking in English some day.

  2. 2 John Ettorre on October 3rd, 2007 9:05 pm

    On the other hand, I did really like that Journalism 2.0 document from the J-Lab. Hadn’t come across that yet, and found it valuable. So at least he gets credit for a quality link. As do you, of course.

  3. 3 Jill Miller Zimon on October 3rd, 2007 10:11 pm

    Lol – John, I definitely skipped over that line about grokking – I don’t even know what it means! I’ll have to google it after I leave this comment. :)

    The points he makes aren’t new – to you or me or many others we know – but on the other hand, he says them more or less plainly and straightforward without equivocating. I liked that.

    As for me, I STILL am working on credits with you, John? You are one tough cookie! ;)

  4. 4 John Ettorre on October 3rd, 2007 11:34 pm

    No, Jill, I’m really a softie beneath that gruff exterior. Just don’t tell anyone.

  5. 5 Jill Miller Zimon on October 4th, 2007 11:58 am

    Funny – I didn’t know you were Israeli! (old joke related to calling them Sabras)

  6. 6 John Ettorre on October 4th, 2007 12:03 pm

    Man, I’m about as far away from Israeli as one gets. But–and I thought of you when this happened, Jill–I did have a funny encounter a couple of weeks ago around the Jewish holidays, at Legacy Village. A couple of young conservative Jews in full garb were passing out literature of some sort, and when they noticed my interest in trying to see what it was, they stopped me, thinking I was a Jew. I asked them why they thought so, and one guy made me laugh by telling me it was my nose that made him think so. That was a first for me.

  7. 7 rob hawkins on October 4th, 2007 2:31 pm

    “Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes part of the observed – to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience.”

    Source: http://grok.zope.org/

  8. 8 Jill Miller Zimon on October 4th, 2007 10:00 pm

    Conservative Jews in full garb? Did they look like me? ;) Maybe Orthodox? If they were handing out literature, they were most likely Chabad or Lubovich. No other Jews typically hand out anything (actually prohibited from it). I can’t believe they’d say it’s your nose. Eek. lol

    Guess it’s that 99% genes are the same thing?

  9. 9 John Ettorre on October 4th, 2007 10:04 pm

    Yes, I meant orthodox. And I suppose I would have thought the nose comment was creepy if it wasn’t so funny and entirely unexpected. I’ve always thought of it as a Roman nose.

  10. 10 Jill Miller Zimon on October 4th, 2007 10:18 pm

    Thanks for the grok definition, Rob. After checking out the website, I can definitely say that grok is greek to me. :)

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