All entries tagged: distributed reporting

The future of news in 4 dimensions: How real news orgs fit in the model

In my last post, I spent a lot of time laying out a fairly abstract framework for how we can think intelligently about future kinds of news organizations. I argued they could be usefully evaluated and charted on four factors: the type of work they do, how institutionalized they are, how many resources they have, [...]

Swarming the news: The Apple crowd does its thing

This afternoon (or morning, depending where you are), an ongoing, rolling decentralized experiment in journalism goes live once again, as the Apple mediasphere covers today’s iPhone announcements through a distributed network of unaffiliated blogs and Twitter feeds.
The ad hoc network which self-forms several times a year exists because of a key confluence of facts: Apple [...]

2 comments | Posted by Tim Windsor | March 17, 2009 | 9:33 am

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