Live blogging
ENGLISH - International Journalism Festival #IJF13
Free English feed of the IJF13 from Perugia, Italy, 24-28th April 2013. The festival lineup includes: Harper Reed, Mathew Ingram,Yoani Sanchez and Emily Bell.
TOP INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS
- Aron Pilhoffer, NY TIMES
- Eric Carvin, AP
- Anthony De Rosa, Reuters
- Steve Buttry, Digital First Media
- Natalia Sindeeva, Russian Independent TV Rain
- Chenggang Rui, director China Central Television
- Bill Emmott, former Economist
- Kevin Bleyer, speechwriter Barack Obama
- Paul Lewis, Guardian
- Heather Brooke, activist and author
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Douglas Arellanes former journalist at LA Times.
Started to work in the media development field. We found out newsrooms are the same all around the world. We started to recognise commonalities between news organisations and their working methods. We are therefore trying to bridge together newsrooms by producing software given away for free.
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'Teaching the fish how to walk: 5 things old media can learn from new media', w/ @mathewi. Live now! http://bit.ly/11Hou1D #ijf13da journalism festival tramite twitter 4/26/2013 9:46:43 AM
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.@mathewi says newspapers look like fortresses: “impenetrable, inhuman” #ijf13da journalism festival tramite twitter 4/26/2013 9:47:08 AM
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RT @gallizio: instant live live-blogging (@bodyspacesoc on the block) #ijf13 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIxL2D2CAAA5WtU.jpg
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Douglas Arellanes
Newsrooms have limited resources. Not much money. Softwares cost money. Also, there is a strong competition from online platforms. Another thing we recognised is that newsrooms have embraced liveblogging - perhaps the first one operated by the Telegraph - and newsrooms are cooperating more. Pool coverage is nothing new.
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"I nuovi strumenti digitali ci consentono di fare un giornalismo migliore" - @mathewi (ora in Sala dei Notari) ijf13da journalism festival tramite twitter 4/26/2013 9:50:03 AM
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'The Arab spring two years on': now at Sala Lippi w/ Seyda Canepa (NTV), Farian Sabahi (University of Turin) http://www.journalismfestival.com/programme/2013/the-arab-spring-two-years-on #ijf13da journalism festival tramite twitter 4/26/2013 9:50:12 AM
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“The power of hyperlink” - @mathewi #ijf13 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIxNGlBCcAAgTt0.jpg
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Douglas Arellanes
Pool coverage is key in conflict scenarios. With Superdesk (SourceFabric) we developed a syndication model like ScribbleLive and Storify. Pulling together stories from different parts of the web and from different parts of the world. The idea is that a liveblog can have a sort of RSS feed you can aggregate in different ways. We use open JSON standards for this communication.
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Live coverage of breaking news is now common for media organisations, with many of them running several live blogs simultaneously which is changing classical storytelling. New live blogging tools are arriving and for shrinking newsrooms it can be an answer for maintaining quality journalism. Multi-newsroom live blogs will allow aggregation of content from different newsrooms covering the same major event, such as a revolution or an election in a foreign country.
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Today we will liveblog things like the eynote speech by Mathew Ingram, a star panel featuring Adam Baker founder of Blottr; Eric Carvin social media editor AP; Anthony De Rosa, social media editor Reuters; Stuart Hughes, BBC News; Mark Little, founder and CEO Storyful; Turi Munthe CEO and founder Demotix.
We might be liveblogging BuzzFeed presentation - let's see if we can drink that many coffees... - and open democracy movements in Russia.
Finally, Bill Emmott and John Lloyd will discuss whether the web makes us free - or more free.
Please get in touch with us if interested in any particular event www.journalismfestival.com let us know by emailing journalismfestival@scribblelive.com -
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Lots of skills involve specialisation, thinking about new skills. The core skill will always be recognising and telling a story. It really relies on journalists knowing technical knowledge and ecosystem knowledge. Journalists will have to know where to spend their time more effectively.
A brilliant narrative writer is just another specialist. It could be that your speciality is in developing news apps, or aggregating, or health care and the pharmaceutical industry or finding great pics of cats like in BuzzFeed.
At Columbia we teach a course that combines computer science and journalism, for people working at the forefront of the industry. These are skills that people out there don't really have.
It is worth to remember that journalism is very important. We work in exceptional and difficult circumstances, and Italian people know it. Our report acknowledges that, and shows the path for change.
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Emily Bell, Keynote
Report Post Industrial Journalism not centred on business models even though we say at the beginning is that the advertising model has failed. Whatever comes next has to have a different model.
Post industrial journalism has to be a lot smaller.
Why post industrial? Coz journalism is not an industry anymore. Production process was all about to get stories from one end of the pipe to the other, packaging stories and pushing them through. This is not really fit for the future.
All reporting now can be done effectively with iPhone and old newsrooms can look outdated. There is no longer such a thing such the press addressing such a thing as the public.
Modern newsrooms look a bit like House of Cards' one - the new series released on Netflix. The series is about post industrial journalism and the relationship with politics . The series has been carefully crafted with data: authors knew people like Kevin Spacey for this kind of role, and he was cast for the role.
Newsrooms sometimes know they have to change but they are locked into processes and daily barriers and CMS issues … so that in the end they don't change.
We are talking here about a major shift from a losing model to a winning one.
We talked already about Homicide Watch in DC and Scotus Blog. The first had only two journalists, so they could not use the same tools of an old newsrooms. They used databases and social media to cover all homicides in DC area, and gathered large audiences. It is not monetisable and done in a non-political way, but it does imply a political angle.
Why the Washington Post don't do that? They have other processes.
Scotus Blog is a very niche blog for court reporting, but has become the most important source for the Supreme Court. They reported the decision more accurately than CNN because they had more legal expertees than CNN reporters.
Many startups replace old institutions, which are weak and have no more longevity, they are not strong anymore. Ecosystem has become a weak one for news. There is a great deal of money going to startups and the problem of sustainability for big, old newsrooms.
A MIXED ECOLOGY. The power shift has changed from the institution of the brand to the people. A fundamental change.
We need power, strength and longevity to hold power into account, as power has all the three of these qualities.
75% of people still get the news from word of mouth. In the older days you had a blog where people can comment but only 1% of people comment, only 9% of people would put a mark or share or whatever. Last year this percentage rose to near 76%. A really enormous change.
News are broken by people in St. Peters' Square waiting for the white smoke and feeding the news into the network in real time.
Even the NBA cannot sustain the big salaries and info structures of the old business model. (Jay Z example)
The aim has always been of serving the needs of the brand. We never thought how to give journalists the right tools to build the right narratives for the stories.
A modern news organisation is more like an agency model, perhaps. For the individual journalists is a big change. We need to think who to employ if we want to survive.
Specialisation is one answer.
Think about Nate Silver translating his skills as statistician into journalism, and the NYTimes decided to franchise his blog into the website, becoming one of the components of the political reporting effort in the rump up for the US elections.
He never attended the wHite house meetings and never went on a plane with Obama. He did it differently, got it right and became the most successful and authoritarian journalist in the US.
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“Journalism schools have to produce people who can lead the industry” - @emilybell #ijf13
journalism festival via Twitter a 12.22
#ijf13 going to a journalism school is more important than it was, zegt Emily Bell. Alleen al om het belangrijke netwerk dat je er opbouwt
yolan witterholt via Twitter a 12.22
The job of journalism isn't to compete with Twitter but to coexist t.co @journalismfest @newsmodo @digitaljournal #ijf13
DSLR VIDEO STUDIO™ via Twitter a 12.22
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Emily Bell
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We got to a point where it was hard to sustain a business without public intervention or direct public funding. Many Italian newspapers are subsidised by Government.
In the UK this idea his horrifying. Being under the Gov control is a terrible idea. A mixed model (American free-for-all one) and European is a desirable balance. -
Il futuro del giornalismo per @emilybell è “sopravvivere” - galleggiare sopra uno shawarma. http://bit.ly/Zrbq0P v @journalismfest #ijf13da Leonardo Bianchi tramite twitter 4/27/2013 10:29:41 AM
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Anna Masera asks what Emily thinks about Pro Publica
Emily: people gave Pro Publica and HuffPost no credit, people thought they were not going to make it. Both proved critics wrong. Pro Publica's No Profit is still a business model. They use phenomenal new techniques to generate stories intersecting data reporting with social network. You might call it crowd-sourcing, ex examining contract superpacks amongst news channels investigation.
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If journalists are changing, how should editor change accordingly?
Emily: They are usually the most important but also expensive role. Editors have to be producers as well. People want to see the metaprocess of how you produces news. You'll have to display how is your news gathering and news writing process to the community - it should be part of the news brand. -
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REAL-LIFE GEMS IN THIS DREAMY PERUGIA, #IJF13Harper Reedda ik0mmi in 14.30#ijf13 Baci da @gbocciada letizias via Instagram in 13.18Live da Perugia: il keynote di @emilybell #ijf13da iakigram via Instagram in 14.00#ijf13 #press #festival #journalismda vikingdrum via Instagram in 14.08Keynote speech di Emily Bell alla Sala dei Notari #ijf13da reggaeroland via Instagram in 14.13Swimming pool of the Brufani Hotel in Perugia, Italy #ijf13 #perugia #italyda anto_l via Instagram in 14.30PreviousNext
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Emily Bell
You need to be really quick and really good. The question of how quick is irrelevant. Everybody, long or short form, need to be part of the conversation in real-time. Sometimes in networks not belonging to your organisation, but you need to be there so people trust you when you make an intervention.
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RT @stevebuttry: Did Twitter shorten readers’ attention span? @emilybell says she reads more long stuff than ever from Twitter links. #ijf13da Eleonore de Bonneval tramite twitter 4/27/2013 10:40:51 AM
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Question from Steve Buttry about ethical challenges.
Emily: the stream and the personality and the transparency of a journalist has become fundamental, and it is ultimately down to you as a journalist.lillosabato 27 aprile 2013 a 12:41
In the tech-blogging community the founder of Tech Crunch said very publicly that he takes money from tech companies sponsoring articles on the website. The model is shifting. The crucial decision is to be transparent about your fundings. The more you are, the more you'll have a sustainable audience.
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Question from the audience All newspapers in Italy are working towards a better integration between paper and online. Is this a sustainable model?
Good question. People tend to make faster progresses when things are not integrated. If you accept the print is going away in the not-too-distant future... if you accept that, the fact that digital operations will be key... then it'll make sense to work for both. If not, it does not make sense. If you are in the middle, it feels right to build a bridge. You'll see a trend now of people saying:DON'T INTEGRATE, FIND OTHER WAYS. Cost cutting will be unavoidable, but for good.
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#emilybell "don't integrate web and paper newsrooms, dis-integrate them" @Daniele_Manca #ijf13 #ijftobagida carl tramite twitter 4/27/2013 10:48:12 AM
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Anna Masera: how much time is left if we don't follow your model?
There is no one right recipe. There are different markets and environements. It really is dictated by who your readership is. If they are under 25, and you don't reach to them on social media and mobile, you'll never catch your readership, and lose -- AND DIE (I add this, muahhahaha)
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RT @annamasera: #ijf13 @emilybell to newsrooms: "Don't integrate, disintegrate!"da egorego tramite twitter 4/27/2013 10:51:20 AM
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Son finito nella foto di “@annamasera: #ijf13 in attesa di @yoanisanchez e @mariocalabresi la Sala Notari è piena http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9iF0xCMAABl2s.jpg”da Mario Gottardi in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:23 viaRT @the_thinredline: .@_arianna @mariocalabresi @yoanisanchez #ijf13 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9i6OuCAAAFu2m.jpgda arianna ciccone in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:24 viala sala piena per @yoanisanchez #ijf13 @gabrimorelli http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9j-a5CYAMKBRf.jpgda pierpaololala in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:27 viaPreviousNext
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Calabresi: Yoani has no political platform. Her blog mirrors Columbia University's motto "Show, not tell". What she does is recounting Cuban everyday life, from Christmas celebrations to the queue at the post office. It gives you an idea on how people live in Cuba.
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INTERVIENE LA POLIZIAProteste interrompono convegno con @yoanisanchez #ijf13 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9l05hCMAALN8c.jpg -
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#ijf13 i castristi hanno invaso la Sala Notari urlando slogan accuse e minacce contro @yoanisanchez http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9mtHxCUAA7t3D.jpgda annamasera in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:39 via“@LuiCaput: Parte la contestazione contro @yoanisanchez da parte di gruppo 26 julio. @_arianna grida vergogna #ijf13 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9mO5mCQAEIrmF.jpg”da StellaMaris18 in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:39 viaIl gruppo dei Generación G viene cacciato dalla sala dei Notari. "Vergognatevi" urla @_arianna #ijf13 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI9mz-ICIAA6fVq.jpgda Laura M in domenica 28 aprile 2013 a 21:39 viaPreviousNext
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And the IJF13 ended with an exciting bang.
Cuba dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez has been confronted by pro-Castro fanatics at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia
A group of around twenty demonstrators accused Sanchez of being pro-American, shouting "Yes to Cuba, no to Yankee" and throwing fake dollars with the face of Sanchez in it. They demanded the release of the Cuban Five, also known as the Miami Five (Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González) who were convicted in Miami of conspiracy to committ espionage, murder and acting as an agent of a foreign government in the US. The group left the room singing Bella Ciao, an old Communist song used by Italian anti-Fascist partisans.
Today it was the day of the shooting in front of the Italian premier's office, Palazzo Chigi, Rome, in which two Carabinieri police officers have been wounded. This obviously sparked vivid reactions amongst the community of active twitterers (also called journalists) gathered at the IJF13.
A heated debates took place also when a panel discussion was held to analyse the Five Star Movement. Grillo's supporters vehemently contested the journalists who were debating.
Big bang day for a big bang festival. It has been a great occasion for journalists to rub shoulders with each other, being told they need to change everything or being prepared to die and pleasantly breath some new fresh air from abroad.
Hopefully the wind of change will hit Italian journalism shores soon. In the meantime, let me thank you for your attention and participation.
It has been hard to liveblog it all alone, in English, but I did what I could to - at least - try to make you feel you were here, with us, tirelessly ping-balling from one debate to another while thinking and tweeting.
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