Mediagazer: Is it stupid to major in journalism? (Mindy McAdams/Teaching Online Journalism)

7:40 AM ET, May 22, 2011

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

News is a subset of the conversation — Here's a tale that reveals how journalists tend to think of their role in the conversation that makes up news and society. — I think the conversation is happening all around us, with or without the journalists. I teach now that it's the role …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Martin Belam / currybetdotnet:

My notes from the BBC Social Media Summit — I spent much of today at the BBC Social Media Summit, and thought it worth putting together a few quick notes on the things that stood out for me. — Nic Newman and social media research — First off, I thought Nic Newman's research on the use …

Discussion: Lost Remote, Metamedia, One Man & His Blog and BBC

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Future of Media: Curation, Verification and News as a Process — As part of a “social media summit” this week, the BBC posted an overview of how its user-generated content desk handles reports from the field — verifying and curating them in much the same way that Andy Carvin of NPR …

Discussion: Future of Journalism, Thanks:shelholtz

Phil Rosenthal / Tower Ticker:

'Schwarzenegger's a parent' dilemma for media: What names are news? — Satellite TV trucks were parked around a cul-de-sac in Bakersfield, Calif., last week. — Whatever the former housekeeper of Maria Shriver and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did or did not consent …

Jim Rainey / The Big Picture:

Schwarzenegger child: How Gawker named wrong ‘baby mama’ — The story of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the household worker who bore his child more than a decade ago has created something like the Fog of War, I suggested the other day. When fact, fiction and journalistic standards blur …

Discussion: Speakeasy

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

The Future of Journalism will be Ubiquitous Video, TIME.com's Craig Duff — While video plays an increasingly important role as a story telling tool, principally enhancing print reporting, in the future, video will be ubiquitous and will be indistinguishable from print.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Lindsay Powers / Hollywood Reporter:

‘GMA’ Won't Pay $10,000 for Botox Mom Photos; Investigating Claims … ABC won't pay $10,000 for photos of a mother who admitted on Good Morning America that she gives her 8-year-old daughter Botox injections after the mom claimed later it was all a hoax, a network rep tells The Hollywood Reporter.

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Michael Wolf / GigaOM:

Amazon: The Book Industry “In a Box”? — While most thought the biggest news out of Amazon's e-book business this week was the revelation that e-books now eclipse print books, it was actually the launch of the company's second genre imprint in the span of two weeks (and fifth imprint overall) that's the bigger deal.

Discussion: Publishers Lunch

Mindy McAdams / Teaching Online Journalism:

Is it stupid to major in journalism? — A funny thing about writing a blog for a long time is that sometimes you want to write a post ... and you discover that you have already written it. — My original post (from two years ago) seems to be just as valid today: Why does anyone major in journalism?

Lauren Rabaino / 10,000 Words:

A reporter's view on the news industry's broken commenting system — News comments are broken. It was a popular topic of last night's Hacks/Hackers Seattle meetup and the driving notion behind one of the Knight-Mozilla News Challenge, which asks, “How can we reinvent online news discussions?”.

Discussion: TVSpy and eBookNewser

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

On Copyright, Eric Schmidt Is Right and Britain Is Wrong — Google chairman Eric Schmidt has been taking some flak from large media and content companies for comments he made about copyright in Britain, where the authorities have been considering a rewrite of the country's 300-year-old copyright laws.

Discussion: eGov monitor, Telegraph and Future of Journalism, Thanks:mathewi

Bloomberg:

TV Networks Fueled by Netflix Effect Introduce Most New Shows Since 2004 — The four biggest U.S. television networks are introducing the most shows in seven years as subscription services like Netflix Inc. (NFLX) make spending on new programs less risky. — This week, CBS, Fox …

Discussion: Bloomberg and MediaPost