News Leadership 3.0

January 26, 2012

What journalists can learn from Wikipedia about community engagement

By Amy Gahran

Recently Fabrice Florin took a new job: the former executive director of NewsTrust.net (a social network where people find and share quality journalism) is now the product manager for new editor engagement at Wikimedia (the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia and other projects).

Wikipedia has a problem: the number of volunteers who write and edit Wikipedia articles has been shrinking. Florin has been tasked with encouraging more people to contribute to Wikipedia, and with making it easier to get involved. He’d especially like to see more journalists editing Wikipedia…

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OJR: The Online Journalism Review

January 27, 2012

'Think before you act' and more rules for journalists on Twitter

By Steve Fox: A couple of weeks ago I was at a hockey game with my son. During the game, as I absentmindedly checked emails on my phone, I saw a Twitter note from an alumni of the UMass program saying "Look at what this person is saying about you!" Without thinking, I clicked on the link....and instantly kicked myself for doing so, as the link ...

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News for Digital Journalists

January 25, 2012

Pew: Young adults especially interested in web blackout news

The past week saw several major news stories, from the Italian shipwreck to coverage of the Republican presidential primaries to Eastman Kodak’s bankruptcy. But Pew found that U.S. adults under 30 were especially likely to follow news of the Jan. 18 widespread blackouts of several popular websites to protest two bills aimed at stopping online piracy…

January 24, 2012

NPR releases free Project Argo WordPress tools for topical news sites

When a news topic gets popular, it might make sense to give it some special online treatment. NPR recently published its Project Argo toolkit for creating topic-focused websites using the popular free open source content management system WordPress.

Matt Thompson, Editorial Product Manager for Project Argo, explained how news organizations and others can use these tools…

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January 27, 4:00pm

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