Mediagazer: Social Media and Investigations ((Re)Structuring Journalism)

1:35 PM ET, November 26, 2010

Top News:

How Investigative Journalism Is Prospering in the Age of Social Media … In a society that is more connected than ever, investigative journalists that were once shrouded in mystery are now taking advantage of their online community relationships to help scour documents and uncover potential wrongs.

Discussion: Editors Weblog, BBC College of Journalism Blog and Bob Kaplitz Blog

(Re)Structuring Journalism:

Social Media and Investigations — Here's a very nice summary of the various ways journalists are turning to social media to aid in investigative reporting - from recruiting volunteers to getting readers to check documents to crowdsourced mapping (and, to get a plug in …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Court Says UK Papers Can Command Levies From Pay-For News Monitor Customers — In an important first-instance ruling, the UK High Court has upheld a stipulation that operators and customers of paid digital news monitor services should pay newspapers for crawling their stories.

Discussion: bailii.org, paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest, Press Gazette, Wired.co.uk and Editor's Blog

New York Times:

Netflix's Move Onto the Web Stirs Rivalries — In a matter of months, the movie delivery company Netflix has gone from being the fastest-growing first-class mail customer of the United States Postal Service to the biggest source of streaming Web traffic in North America during peak evening hours.

Discussion: DailyFinance

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Testing Enhanced E-Books — Publishers Gauge Whether Readers Will Pay More for Augmented Versions of Digital Tomes — An image depicts the mechanics of Mickey Mantle's powerful swing from the enhanced, e-book version of ‘The Last Boy,’ a biography of the player.

Agence France Presse:

Branson launching digital magazine for iPad — SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - British tycoon Richard Branson on Tuesday will unveil a digital magazine tailored for viewing on Apple's popular iPad tablet computers, according to press conference invitations. — Word of Branson's plans to publish …

Discussion: J-Source, Press Gazette, Mashable!, CrunchGear, The Next Web, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac and Electronista

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Why the iPad Newspaper is Doomed — It's slow and backward — The Daily will be put to bed each night for consumption the next day, just like a newspaper. As David Carr put it in the New York Times, “a button will be pushed and it will be ‘printed’ for the next morning.”

Discussion: Shaping the Future …, Examiner, the Econsultancy blog, The Wall Blog, Editors Weblog and The Huffington Post

blogs.journalism.co.uk:

Apps and widgets? The secret to blog traffic is more simple than all that — Struggling to get traffic to your blog? Want to know what widgets and apps will magically increase your hits and get you noticed? The secret is actually rather simple: Hard-work, regular updates, extensive reading …

Discussion: Editor's Blog

Conrad Walters / The Age:

What television will look like in 10 years — Fights over the remote control will be a thing of the past. Illustration By John Shakespeare. — Few people seek to look silly. In public. In perpetuity. So when The Guide decided to repeat an experiment from 10 years ago …

Discussion: Crikey

Cory Doctorow / Guardian:

News Corp Kremlinology: what do the Times paywall numbers mean? — The publisher has released some numbers for its paper's subscriber-only site - but they leave more questions than answers — Earlier this month, Rupert Murdoch's News International released figures on the performance of the paywall it put around the Times last July.

Discussion: Boing Boing

Rob O'Regan / eMedia Vitals:

Bonnier extends tablet design concept to news content — Swedish publisher Bonnier, which drew oohs and aahs earlier this year with its Mag+ magazine concept for the iPad, has extended its design format to news content with News+. — Announced today, News+ “combines the depth and editorial choices …

Jon Bershad / Mediaite:

News Outlets Eagerly Look To Twitter Followers For That Next Big TSA Video — The anger over the TSA security procedures makes for the perfect ongoing news story. Sure, that “Ground Zero Mosque” thing had public anger, an easy narrative, and racial undertones, this story has public anger, an easy narrative, and sexual undertones!

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Ex-Newsweek Editor: Daily Beast Merger Was ‘Best Bet’ — Jon Meacham. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham didn't stick around to see what new owner Sidney Harman had planned for the magazine, but if there are any hard feelings, he's keeping them to himself.

Discussion: Editors Weblog, Gawker and Yahoo! News

James Poniewozik / Time:

The Tick, Tick, Tick of the Times — The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, there was more news than the country could bear and more than a TV screen could fit. Beyond the plane crashes and burning buildings, reports and rumors abounded of other attacks, explosions, evacuations.

Discussion: Tuned In, TVNewser and Inside Cable News