Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Real-time reactions during Debate webcast

KGW.com (NBC) in Portland, Oregon live web streamed the Republican Gubernatorial Debate from 7-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 21. That's nothing unusual in this age of Digital Media.

What is interesting is kgw.com's partnership with Momentum Market Intelligence, a Portland-based firm specializing in attitude measurement technologies. Working with MMI, KGW.com offered a second version of the debate, streamed with a real-time overlay graphic displaying the reactions of a panel of undecided voters to the candidates' responses.

Here is what the mixed media stream looked like:

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Doom...and Hope for Future Journalists

I spoke to a room full of future journalists at the National High School Journalism Convention on Friday, April 15. The first part of my talk rehashed the all-too-familiar "bad news" about the state of legacy media: Declining newspaper subscriptions and TV news ratings, stagnant or slumping revenues, and layoffs and pay freezes.
The graphic (literally) illustrations of the state of the state of legacy media can be found on Journalism.org in the 2010 report. But to be honest, this is bad news to the journalists who are the age of these kids' parents.

The good news for would-be journalists is that a Wild West of new opportunities awaits. Here are some of the examples of the New Journalism that have me excited for this next generation.

Multimedia Storytelling
13 seconds in August (Minn. Star Tribune)
Year in Review (KGW.com)

Citizen Journalism
West Seattle Blog

Niche Content Sites
BikePortland.org

Old Media, Reinvented
Seattlepi.com

New Investigative Journalism
Pro Publica (which just won a Pulitzer )

Social Media
Twitter breaks Mumbai

Cross Platform Journalism
http://www.kgw.com/thesquare (TV & Web)