Innovation
Newsana has drawn many comparisons to the social media site Reddit, but its co-founder Ben Peterson argued Newsana will be maintain a higher standard than Reddit and will focus on quality journalism.
One of the most ambitious and exciting hyperlocal projects in Canada right now is the CBC project “Hyperlocal,” says J-Source Innovation editor Rob Washburn. This five-week project is a call to Canadians to tell stories about the neighbourhoods.
A Waterloo-based startup Media Spot Me says it can help journalists find reliable sources and experts faster.
The Toronto Star is testing the ebook market with a subscription model — a first for a Canadian newspaper. Launched in November, Star Dispatches ebooks are long-form journalism pieces that are produced weekly. In the first of a two-part series, Eric Mark Do looks at the business of ebook production, marketing and sales.
Newsana wants to elevate the conversation and create a curation community that provides meaning to its members. Belinda Alzner caught up with co-founder Ben Peterson to ask about how they hope to capture the Internet’s short attention span and who Newsana will be beneficial for.
When it comes to innovation, what’s next for news organizations in terms of content, strategy and advertising? As Eric Mark Do reports, Michael De Monte (ScribbleLive), Zach Seward (Quartz) and David Skok (Nieman Fellow, GlobalNews.ca) delve into this during a panel discussion with moderator Marissa Nelson (CBC).
BestStory.ca has launched with its new model for journalists and audiences after more than three years of planning. Find out more about this new service.
The Journalism Strategies Conference at McGill in Montreal was full of interesting critiques, insights and thoughtful discussion. Professor Robert Washburn provides a summary blog on a few impressions from this past weekend where academics, journalists and students examined journalism and its role in democracy now and in the future.
As newsrooms become more innovative in engaging audiences, especially using new and emerging technologies, the result may be higher quality journalism, despite the predictions of doomsayers. E-journalism Professor Robert Washburn suggests the movement towards more transparency by journalists and newsrooms might lead to more competition and better journalism.
Newsrooms are using live blog technology as a gatekeeping tool for coverage during the Tori Stafford murder trial currently underway in London, Ontario. As journalists and editors grapple with efforts to provide real-time coverage of high profile cases, Twitter alone is problematic, as Toronto Star Public Editor Kathy English pointed out recently. Professor Robert Washburn argues live blogs may be the innovative tool needed to get the job done.
Innovation
edited by ROBERT WASHBURN
This section is dedicated to tracking new trends, contemporary movements and latest developments in journalism. We will discuss and share news, information and commentary about what is transforming the industry. Robert Washburn is a former correspondent at CBC Ontario Morning and he currently teaches journalism at Loyalist College.
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