tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707228007097229203.post1488488423737004426..comments2023-10-28T08:45:03.721+01:00Comments on Former home of Headlines and Deadlines : Disruption isn't an inconvenience, it's a lifebuoyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02856693084384304955noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707228007097229203.post-16067743509112063722012-01-04T10:45:47.418+00:002012-01-04T10:45:47.418+00:00Good post Alison,
I read this one; http://webupt...Good post Alison, <br /><br />I read this one; http://webupthenewsroom.com/2012/01/03/the-key-to-social-media-to-me-sharing-inspiring-stories-listening-and-connecting/<br /><br />And thought of how it related to yours.<br /><br />We need to be offering a place for the 'community' on local news sites - especially as the physical places for that community, libraries etc are being sold off or scaled back into super libraries in one town 20 miles down the road.<br /><br />EdEd Walkerhttp://www.edwalker.net/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707228007097229203.post-20217749021433538252012-01-03T18:06:45.329+00:002012-01-03T18:06:45.329+00:00Yes I see your point Nigel - at the moment we conn...Yes I see your point Nigel - at the moment we connect with a slice of who we could once reach (and I think it's no surprise that, of my papers most ingrained in their communities, it was the worker-oriented dock towns/cities of Pembroke, Portsmouth and Liverpool that had closest ties.) <br /><br />I couldn't get Jay Rosen's The People Formerly Known As The Audience article out of my head while writing the above post; reading your comment now I think maybe I was thinking people don't have the same need to re/connect with journalists at all really; self-publishing is so simple. <br /><br />I agree there has been an enduring sense of "no one can tell a story like a journalist" although hat is declining and, from my experience, you're more likely to hear that where the collective Big Names from the NUJ and SOE are gathered together than from your average news person.<br /><br />I am optimistic about the future but you're right - it's hard to see what shape it will take. I reckon we'll see it within 3 years though.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02856693084384304955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7707228007097229203.post-10239907900169649152012-01-03T16:38:06.165+00:002012-01-03T16:38:06.165+00:00Hi Alison,
Good post as always.
Are newspapers c...Hi Alison,<br /><br />Good post as always.<br /><br />Are newspapers connecting? You're right the tools are there to a certain extent, but I think you have to remember that a lot of this connection using social media platforms is going to a certain demographic which is middle class,white and left of centre which is not where the traditional evening and regional newspapers reached.<br /><br />Facebook probably bucks that trend but there is little evidence that it is being used in that way as far as I can see.<br /><br />It is a difficult one and don't profess to know the answer but I strongly believe that small is the answer and the way that regional newspapers have become virtual monopolies (and I understand the economics of why they have) is not the way forwards.<br /><br />There is an opportunity here but as you say, it is difficult for organisations to change.<br /><br />I think that there is still a certain,shall I call it snobbery,among certain news organisations and the journalists within them that they are the sole arbitrators of providing information and simply by paying lip service to social media and using the tools of the digital world that it solves the problem.<br /><br />I still believe that we are just a fraction of the way down the disruption of the media by the internet,still trying to use basically the old model with what I would call digital addons. <br />The final version that we end up with may well be something that none of us could yet comprehend or understandNigel Barlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00928134310178814741noreply@blogger.com