1. Online journalism: an introduction Or… How the internet changed everything
Ian Reeves

2. Journalism 2054

3. Key Launches 1989: World Wide Web created
1994: Amazon.com launches, a shop based on personalised recommendations
1994: Daily Telegraph web site, UK’s first national newspaper online
1997: Launch of BBC News Online
1998: Google, a search engine that treats links as recommendations, launches
1999: Tivo unshackles TV from the constraints of time

4. Key Launches 1999: Blogger, a personal publishing tool, launches
2000: OhMyNews launches, first mass Citizen Journalism site
2001: Wikipedia launches
2002: Friendster launches, first social networking site
2004: Flickr launches, for sharing images
2005: Youtube launches, for sharing videos
2006: Facebook launches
2007: Twitter launches, heralding the ‘real time’ internet

5. Key News Events
1997: Death of Diana – mass tributes sent to BBC site
1998: Drudge Report and Monica Lewinski
2001: World Trade Center attacks – demand causes internet crashes for news orgs
2003: Invasion of Iraq – The Baghdad Blogger
2004: Rathergate – Bloggers as watchdogs of mainstream media
2004: Asian tsunami – footage from holiday videos
2005: London tube and bus bombs – Mobile Phone Content goes mainstream
2007: Dave Winer’s bet comes good – blogs begin to outrank mainstream media
2008: Twitter starts breaking stories – Mumbai massacres

6. Where does all that leave journalism?
The dinosaur view:
Robert Fisk: “to hell with the web, it’s got no responsibility”
The apocalyptic view:
See also:
“I have seen the future. And we’re not in it.”

7. Where does all that leave journalism?
“This is the start of the medium’s new golden age. Enjoy it while it lasts.”
Kurt Anderson, New York magazine, Feb 07

8. Stages of the web Web 1.0: the net as library
Roughly Static pages with hyperlinks. Dial- up connections. Personal web sites. Geocities. Framesets. Proprietary.
Web 2.0: the net as conference
Roughly 2001 – Dynamic pages that users can change. Broadband connections. Blogs. User involvement. Youtube. Content sharing. RSS feeds. Open source. Unstructured.

9. Stages of the web Web 3.0: the net as butler
The semantic web. Contextual search. Learning from user’s choices. Mobile devices. Personalised experiences. Structured content. Web sites become web services. APIs.

10. New journalism skills New storytelling techniques
Non-linear narratives
More than just the inverted pyramid
New editing styles
Involving the audience in research
Working with ‘unofficial media’
‘Crowdsourcing’ news
Using databases
Mashups

11. Creative storytelling techniques
Borrowing from Hollywood: Cody’s Rescue
Hamming it up: the singing reporter

12. Multimedia examples http://gaza-sderot.arte.tv/en/#/time/95

13. Skills to learn Video, audio and text
Understanding basic programming concepts
Multimedia authoring – Flash and Silverlight
Social tools – networking and bookmarking
Wikis
Database journalism
Tagging and ‘folksonomy’
Distributed journalism
Online investigative techniques
Structured information – computerised storytelling

14. Assorted free online tools
Zemanta:
Delicious:
Silobreaker:
Wordpress:
Drupal:
Flickr:
Many Eyes:
Digg:
StumbleUpon:
GoogleMaps:
Newsvine:
GoogleDocs:
CoverItLive:
PollDaddy:
Storify:
Topsy
Tumblr:
Reddit:
Photopeach:
ZeeMaps:
Diigo :
Vimeo:
Dipity:
Audioboo:
Yahoo pipes:
Friendfeed :
Scribd:
Cowbird:
Qik:
Tableau Public
Tiki-Toki
Thinglink
Followerwonk

15. Techie TLA bingo HTML URL FTP CMS API SEO HTTP XML
Hypertext markup language
Universal Resource Locator
File Transfer Protocol
Content Management System
Application Programming Interface
Search Engine Optimisation
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Extensible markup language