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CROSSMEDIA
News journalism under challenge
Panu Uotila
An intellectual property, story or experience
that is distributed across multiple media
platforms using of variety of media forms
(Ibrus & Scolari 2012)
e.g. production among print, online, mobile
and broadcast
News flow between the platforms:
multiplatform journalism
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CROSSMEDIA?
Changes in economy, techonogy and
society
Consolidation of media ownership; cost
saving
Technological development; new platforms
Convergent culture to divergent culture
means divergent media audiences
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BACKGROUND
From a static story to a process: from social
media to print +online discussion +
conclusions to print…
From deadline to online
Short story to mobile devices, one angle to
television news, contextualization in print
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CROSSMEDIA WORK
PROCESS
Mobile & online: What is happening, where,
when (now), who? How does it look like? (in
still pictures and video)
Radio: What is happening now?
TV: What, where, when (today), who? How
does it look like?
Print: Why does it happen? Is this usual?
What will happen next? Next level: Possible
new angles.
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CONTENT ALLOCATION
Media convergency shouldn´t mean same
stories in every platform, BUT growing
story with different angles which makes
the most of each platform
Not McDonalds meals BUT á la carte
portions, made by one or group of chefs
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INTERMEDIALITY
Also mistakes will gain multiplatform
publicity
Less time for fact checking
Less journalists, less news angles, less
opinions
BUT, can mean also:
More time or more journalists for one story
Multitasking for journalists work
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CRITICS, RISKS
20% of what happened yesterday?
20% of what will happen today?
60% of what will happen in the future and
why it is going to happen?
DISCUSSION
Is this right?
What this requires from journalists?
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NEWSPAPER IN THE AGE
OF CROSSMEDIA
How crossmedia journalism and journalists
could make the most of social media during
journalism work process?
Which applications are the most useful for
journslists?
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DISCUSSION
Source for background information, 86 %
Source for current ideas, 73 % (e.g. online
debates)
Source for different news angles, 58 %
Mapping public opinion, 40 %
Searching interviewees, 36 %
Use as a primary source, 20 %
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SOCIAL MEDIA IN
JOURNALISTIC WORK
PROCESS
(Laine 2009)
Which social media you use?
Wikipedia 89 %
Online debates 66 %
Blogs 62 %
Youtube 43 %
Facebook 41 %
Myspace 6 %
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SOCIAL MEDIA AS A PART
OF JOURNALISTIC WORK
PROSESS