Building the ideal newsroom for the next 50 years
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All news stories are distributed in real time by participants and observers.
This ongoing process is interactive on a shared information platform until a consensus or resolve is finally achieved through the input of…
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- LocalintheKnow Publishing Inc.
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- Moncton , New Brunswick , Canada
- About Me
- LocalintheKnow is a network of community portals that earn revenues from selling SEO expertise as well as web marketing and enhanced visibility to local advertisers through the provision of advertising services on the targeted community portal network.
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- http://www.knowmoncton.com
- Share your thoughts about how the newsroom of the future should be different . (And if you do, please post a copy of your answer in the forums).
- All news stories are distributed in real time by participants and observers.
This ongoing process is interactive on a shared information platform until a consensus or resolve is finally achieved through the input of many of those who actually experience the news event. The news report is driven by additional reader queries. .
At some point, the recipient of the news is satiated with enough knowledge after several live twitter updates and blogs or personal comments aggregated into the coverage, the news article is archived.
It remains archived until the topic is searched semantically for historic or predictive value.
The role of semantic indexing and article-linking as a method of research, as opposed to calendaring of content, will allow for automated exploration and knowledge identification that will help researchers gain insight. Insight, which is again responsively posted back into the continuing narrative can enhance understanding and/or add to the story.
Reporters were once the eyes, ears and thought leaders in a community. Conjecture has driven reporting since early scandal sheet days. Today, technology allows for input from more sources and helps deliver less biased reporting of established facts, rather than conjecture.
Publishers are being stripped of their power and rendered into distribution networks that have little to no influence beyond the speed, depth and breadth of their networks. Today, the power resides with those present in the moment, who by sheer accident and input device ( iphone, camera cell, or mobile enabled laptop ) are able to report the story. On the spot story tellers seek as many distribution channels as possible. Twitter is more a crossroads on an information map, than a news distribution site.
The key to the future is that someone somewhere is always by accident where the accident of history is occuring. Even at a local level, someone is always nearby to start the record keeping. Central news organizations don't so much as send someone out as they create a platform accessibility for those who are already in place.
The challenge is how to motivate people already in place, enabled with the upload technology, to bother to report. Once the aggregation accelerates, the process of editing mis-leading or duplicate information is undertaken in a manner that is more Wikipedia than New York Times.
Given additional information, news people comment and receive new information as it becomes available. Understanding what the incident means evolves as the narrative grows. The impact of the news event grows as the narrative develops.
The trick is figuring out how to make the platform accountable and without bias distributed.
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