Journalism 2013: all you need to know by Vincenzo Marino translated by Roberta Aiello This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Non opere derivate 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Table of contents INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................. 7 CHAPTER I......................................................................................................................................... 10 Publishing trends for 2013.............................................................................................................10 The declaration of independence by Andrew Sullivan................................................................... 11 The "Snow Fall" case: serialization and multimediality................................................................ 12 Longform journalism and profit.................................................................................................... 13 The Atlantic and the advertorial of Scientology.............................................................................13 The intellectual property of the images on Twitter........................................................................15 The fake dead girlfriend of Manti Te'o...........................................................................................16 The Washington Post, the online corrections and plagiarisms..................................................... 16 From only 140 characters to only 6 seconds.................................................................................. 17 How to use Twitter as journalists.................................................................................................. 18 Are journalists joking too much on Twitter?................................................................................. 18 Conversational journalism and the community............................................................................ 19 «Why I hate Twitter»..................................................................................................................... 19 Academic research on digital media..............................................................................................20 The length of articles and slow journalism.................................................................................... 21 Chinese hackers invade the New York Times................................................................................ 22 Market price paradox for online media......................................................................................... 22 Touchdown for Oreo...................................................................................................................... 23 Pros and cons of online publishing............................................................................................... 24 Why young people don't read newspapers.................................................................................... 24 Newspapers which can make it......................................................................................................25 The barging in of mobile journalism............................................................................................. 26 Tablet journalism and social news readers....................................................................................27 The "personal paywall".................................................................................................................. 27 Little faith in journalism................................................................................................................28 Advertising on blogs: Maria Popova and affiliate links.................................................................28 Fact-checking: the dispute between The New York Times and Tesla........................................... 29 The “new digital journalism”......................................................................................................... 30 How much is Twitter worth?..........................................................................................................31 Research on how to get more followers......................................................................................... 31 The goat and the pig...................................................................................................................... 32 Anyone can be a journalist, not everyone is credible.................................................................... 32 The hard life of a digital freelance journalist.................................................................................33 The value of work and 'visibility'................................................................................................... 34 'Write for free - it's an opportunity'............................................................................................... 35 The Atlantic's stance...................................................................................................................... 35 CHAPTER II....................................................................................................................................... 37 The ups and downs of crowdfunding............................................................................................. 37 Twitter is looking for journalists....................................................................................................37 “How do you get your news?”........................................................................................................ 38 Journalism without newspapers................................................................................................... 39 A home for anonymous sources at The New Yorker..................................................................... 40 What if mass media were an accident of history?......................................................................... 40 Why 'Snow Fall' is - or is not - the future of print..........................................................................41 Who is making money on the web?............................................................................................... 42 From "Snow Fall" to "Snow Fail"...................................................................................................43 NYT's business model, criticism and satisfaction......................................................................... 44 Yahoo buys Tumblr........................................................................................................................44 For young people Facebook is a problem...................................................................................... 45 The death of the social media editor............................................................................................. 46 Leaving Reuters for an app............................................................................................................ 46 Where do I put my article?............................................................................................................ 47 Competing against Twitter: FastFT e Fre.sh................................................................................. 48 The state of news media................................................................................................................ 48 Paywall infatuation........................................................................................................................ 49 How will the media be in 2017?..................................................................................................... 49 What's your digital strategy?......................................................................................................... 50 Who is the Tesla of media?............................................................................................................ 51 Good morning Miss Prism! How a scoop was born....................................................................... 51 PRISM and journalism.................................................................................................................. 52 ‘Blogger beats journalist’............................................................................................................... 53 The expansionist aims of The Guardian........................................................................................ 53 Freelance: a sustainable model?.................................................................................................... 54 Journalism with drones................................................................................................................. 55 Facebook and the news.................................................................................................................. 55 Knowing how to read social data................................................................................................... 56 Native advertising will not save newspapers................................................................................. 57 How to evaluate the success of a post?.......................................................................................... 57 Journalists