Mediagazer: Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames? (MediaShift Idea Lab)

11:35 PM ET, April 9, 2011

Top News:

Craig Silverman / CJR:

Is This the World's Best Twitter Account? — Meet Andy Carvin, verification machine — Yesterday morning NPR's Andy Carvin took a break from running one of the world's best Twitter accounts to explain what it's like to be a living, breathing real-time verification system.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Journalists Are Aggregators Too (And That's A Good Thing) — A few weeks ago, when the NYTimes' Bill Keller bizarrely compared Arianna Huffington to a Somali pirate, we noted that journalism is a form of aggregation as well. After all, you're taking content from the people who actually make news …

MediaShift Idea Lab:

Why Are Newsrooms Resistant to Creating Newsgames? — This past weekend a group of 25 game developers, academics and journalists gathered at the University of Minnesota's Journalism Center to examine the state of newsgames. While it can be a slippery term to define, generally speaking newsgames covers …

MediaShift:

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, NY Times Feud at Logan Symposium — BERKELEY, CALIF. — I am at the 5th Annual Reva and David Logan Investigative Reporting Symposium, a gathering of the top investigative journalists that happens each year at University of California at Berkeley.

Discussion: Guardian

BBC:

News of the World to admit phone hacking liability — Actress Sienna Miller is currently taking legal action against the News of the World — The owner of the News of the World is to admit liability in a number of cases brought against the paper for alleged phone hacking.

Discussion: New York Times, The Huffington Post, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! News, The Atlantic Wire, The Wire, Adweek, New York Magazine and Gawker

Rob Walker / New York Times:

On ‘Radiolab,’ the Sound of Science — Jad Abumrad was talking about “tension” —the tension between the certainty of science and mysteries that inspire wonder; between authenticity and artifice; between a sound that feels carefully constructed and one that feels anarchic and alive.

Discussion: The 6th Floor

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Down to the Wire Deal Keeps Government Open and Cablers Reporting — Around 10:30, the cable networks began reporting on a deal to keep the government running. The husband and wife CNN team of John King and Dana Bash broke the news during “Anderson Cooper 360.”

Discussion: New York Times, FishbowlDC, Mediaite and The Huffington Post

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

AOL Permalancers Speak: ‘We Were Very Clearly Employees’ — How many of the freelancers AOL let go earlier this week were people who, legally, could potentially be construed as employees rather than mere contract workers? Because it's a question with some pretty interesting implications …

Jacques Hebert / YouTube Blog:

YouTube is going LIVE — With over 2 billion views a day, it's easy to think about YouTube as a place to watch videos recorded in the past. But you've told us you want more - and that includes events taking place right now. In response, we've live streamed a number of popular concerts …

Discussion: The Next Web, Mashable!, SocialTimes.com, Digits, SAI, Technologizer, MacStories, Techland, CNET News, Epicenter, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Podcasting News, TechCrunch, Lost Remote, WebProNews and Gizmodo

Robert Niles / Online Journalism Review:

Page views offer only a small part of the picture in a newsroom compensation plan — By Robert Niles: How should the pay for online journalists be determined? — Pay for work is always a sensitive question. Pay, after all, quantifies work. And since most people pour more than a bit …

Discussion: mediabistro.com

David Folkenflik / NPR:

Bret Baier: The Next Generation Of Fox News Anchor … If the only thing you know about Bret Baier is that he's a Fox News anchor, the moment that sticks in your mind would be his interview a year ago with President Obama. — It took place in the Blue Room of the White House …

Discussion: The Wire, The Atlantic Wire, Poynter, TVNewser and Mediaite

Suzi Parker / Poynter:

Seeing journalism through the eyes of editor and columnist Lady Gaga — Lady Gaga has her paws in many projects - makeup endorsements, LGBT activism, a perfume deal and even a bracelet for sale that aids Japanese earthquake victims. — But now the pop phenomenon appears to be focused on journalism.

Discussion: Media Myth Alert, Editors Weblog and FishbowlNY