livelymorgue:

Aug. 13, 1969: “Data processing cards joined ticker tape in paper blizzard,” read the caption on this photograph, which was published the day after the three Apollo 11 astronauts paraded through New York. The Sanitation Department cleaned up 300 tons of paper the following day. Mayor John V. Lindsay had urged employers to give their workers time to watch the motorcade. The city’s public events commissioner said the turnout was “the biggest ever in the history of New York.” Another article quoted an 8-year-old from Connecticut. “There’s a lot of confetti down there,” he said, “but I don’t see any astronauts.” Photo: Jack Manning/The New York Times 

Today in Tumblrs that are so, so cool: The NYT’s Lively Morgue is a collection of great photographs from their archives, accompanied by the notes that appear on the back of each one. 

Is A Reblog The New Byline?

futurejournalismproject:

Interesting idea submitted by Alakananda Mookerjee (blog / Tumblr) — FJP.

My reloaded résumé quotes a quixotic statistic—the number of my original and curated posts. I mention the number of times I have reblogged others, and others, have reblogged me. 

No, I am quipping. But, stick around.

As nearly all of us know, today, the profession of news reporting is in a state of creative destruction. 

This is the Golden Age of Social Networks. It is the heyday of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and Google+, among countless other networks. 

To borrow a phrase from David Brooks’ op-ed in The New York Times, “The Saga of Sister Kiki, “online, eyeballs and page-views are king.” 

But, regardless, a byline is what it is—a prestige. And the more venerable a publication it appears in, the greater its journalistic stock value. 

When reputable news organizations, everyone from The Economist to The New Yorker to the NPR have eagerly taken up social blogging, it is not terribly irrelevant to ask if getting reblogged on Tumblr, by a media heavyweight, is the digital equivalent of a byline in its print or online version.  

A narcissistic life-form, who believes in selfless self-promotion, may well put that on her or his résumé, stating that her or his post was reblogged by The Washington Post.

No? 

Can’t wait to see “As Reblogged by the Washington Post” on ads worldwide.

“Journalists, I find, tend to come quite late to sites like Tumblr and Pinterest. For one thing, those sites are overwhelmingly visual: images nearly always do much better than words. And more generally, journalists are much better at writing than they are at reading — which means that they’re really bad at seeing the value added by curating and reblogging.”

How sharing disrupts media | Felix Salmon

“It’s not about putting up pretty content, but about maximizing the value of the eyeballs in front of that content,” said Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter Group, a technology research firm. “There’s a real opportunity for him at Yahoo, if they can take all this data and use it for advertisers.”

Scott Thompson, PayPal Executive, to Become Chief of Yahoo - NYTimes.com

I hope Charlene Li was misquoted on this, because if she wasn’t she clearly doesn’t know what she’s talking about. An approach that treats your company’s editorial product as a simple bit of commodity “content” that just needs to be optimized for advertiser needs is foolish; it ends up devaluing what you do. 

  • The New York Times

Fox Latin America apologizes for poll asking whether Jews killed Jesus

univisionnews:

The network came under heavy criticism for posting a poll online that perpetuated a common anti-Semitic myth. (Wikipedia)

By JORDAN FABIAN
Channel: Latin American Affairs, Media

Fox Latin America has apologized for posting a poll asking whether Jews killed Jesus Christ on one of its Facebook pages.

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Honestly, Univision, you should stop reposting Onion stories….