Margy's Journalism Blog

Research on Journalism

margymac1 — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:57:12 +0000

Interesting report out on a survey of journalists about issues in covering the oil sands – also a great example of the kind of research on journalism we don’t see often enough.
Paskey, J. and G. Steward, 2012. The Alberta Oil Sands, Journalists, and Their Sources. Oil Sands Research and Information Network, University of Alberta, School of Energy and the Environment, Edmonton, Alberta. OSRIN Report No. TR-17. 33 pp.
You can download it free here – http://hdl.handle.net/10402/era.25266

Site of interest – journalists and social media

margymac1 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:13:18 +0000

Hi – was looking for something else when i found this – thought it might be useful. CAJ has posted Guidelines for Personal Activity Online – could be worth a look – some intersting scenarios that could lead to good discussions.

cheers

Interesting paper on print vs online news and reader recall.

margymac1 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:07:36 +0000

Hi
Found a reference to this article in a library journal. This study “Medium Matters: Newsreaders’ Recall and Engagement with Online and Print Newspapers“, by Arthur D. Santana, Randall Livingstone and Yoon Cho presents information on a study of differences between reading news online or in print. Apart from anything else, it has an extensive enough literature review to warm the cockles of this librarians heart.

enjoy

New search tools

margymac1 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:09:02 +0000

So the tools I built last year using Rollyo.com stopped working. I have rebuilt them in Google Custom Search. Try them out – will be editing the communications subject guides accordingly over next few days. One thing to remember – as Rollyo was restricted to 25 sites, not all Canadian University and College sites are included – yet – I focused on ones with strong communications programs. Will add more universities and colleges as I have time. Have prominently indicated MRU Library’s involvement as I need to demonstrate to Google that we fit in the non-profit/educational sector so we don’t need to show ads.

MRU Library’s Calgary News Search Engine

MRU Library’s Academic Search Engine

Major report on digital news

margymac1 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:31:53 +0000

Hi – came across this while looking for something else: The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism, a report out of the Columbia Journalism Review by Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave, and Lucas Graves. Although they acknowledge that “digital journalism is such a dynamic field that some of the findings and conclusions we reach in May 2011 will be outdated within months.”, it still provides a current state of play for changing business models in journalism.

Enjoy

Site/series on the future of journalism

margymac1 — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:11:03 +0000

Picked up a copy of the Economist, and it led me to a whole series of articles on the future of news and journalism. Check out http://futurejournalismproject.org/. Some interesting things here, but worth going to the economist site- http://economist.com or searching it through the library’s site too.
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m

Happy Birthday McLuhan

margymac1 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:40:36 +0000

Celebrate Marshall McLuhan’s birthday! visit http://www.mcluhan100.ca/?p=875 and follow links to a great article in the Globe and Mail, and pieces feom the CBC.
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m

Twitter for Journalists

margymac1 — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:41:30 +0000

Found this on mashable.com – a good site for info on social media – Twitter has just published a guide for journalists with tips on how to use Twitter for reporting.
enjoy

21st century journalism and the fate of the article

margymac1 — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:39:13 +0000

Thanks to Paul Coates who alerted me to a June 20 Jian Ghomeshi interview with Jeff Jarvis, a journalism prof behind the Buzzmachine blog. His latest few pieces muse on the fact that not all news deserves an article – articles in fact should be saved where the effort of the journalist is best placed – providing context and investigation for the important stories. These are not necessarily the ones about earth-shattering events, more often they are the stories of life and people outside the celebrity spotlight. An interesting man with cool ideas.
enjoy
m

Change of address

margymac1 — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:30:18 +0000

Hi folks – just to let you know the address of this blog has changed – I have a redirect on the old page. The address is now http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/mmacmillan – email notifications should still work – but i’m using this message to test that, so we’ll see if they lead to the right place – … Read More