AG on New Media

Read on to check out a prototype of the Google Maps/Flickr mashup (hand-powered) for the BBCs trip to silicon valley.
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Perry Parks, in “The Online Revolution” from Making Important News Interesting, suggests that the newspaper audience is moving from print to online and that there are three different types of interaction between the traditional media and blogs. First, online news has moved journalism from a lecture to a conversation. Second, blogs act as the watchdogs of the watchdogs of democracy by critiquing the coverage of news organizations (Dan Rather’s retirement). Third, blogs can direct and control the news agenda (the Trent Lott story). He also discusses citizen journalism, or content creation by those in the community instead of those employed by a paper (YourHub.com of the Rocky Mountain News). Parks then presents a list of ways news organizations can make their online offerings more relevant.
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