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Photographs appearing on A1 of today’s paper taken with an iPhone. “The Hipstamatic app forced him to wait about 10 seconds between photos, so each one had to count.” Finding the Right Tool to Tell a War Story: Damon Winter in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com, Lens blog.
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Pageviews, though, are only part of the picture. “The raw traffic numbers matter to me — I like them, they’re good, and they’re certainly good for advertisers,” Plotz says. But the Fresca pieces are about more than, say, Huffingtonian eyeball-harnessing and traffic-baiting (PHOTOS! SLIDESHOWS! CLICKCLICKPLEASECLICK!); they’re also about brand-building. Plotz got the idea for the fellowships, he told me, through his earlier experience as a general-assignment reporter at Slate, under Michael Kinsley and, later, Jacob Weisberg. As part of that position, he got to do longer pieces of the Fresca variety; and not only did those stories “make me enthusiastic about coming to work,” he says, but they also “clearly contributed to building the brand of Slate as a place you go for excellent journalism.”
The Future of Social Media in Journalism
I feel bad for anyone wanting to be a journalist. There seems to be a lot of pressure for people who want to report on news to also become technologists, programmers, social media experts, videographers, documentarians, artists, ethicists, and savvy businessmen.
There’s going to be a handful of people who can play all those roles seamlessly, and then 7.8 billion apps and online tools to fake the rest.
I just simply can’t agree that to be on the forefront of journalism and media, you absolutely must tweet and tumble and maintain a strong social media following. It takes a lot of time and energy, and quite frankly, as self-loathing as I know some journalists to be, I know most of them also want a life. Also, if the content is good, people will find it.
