Monthly Archives: October 2008

‘Source tagging’ lets readers find news they trust

By Julie Starr | Published: October 30, 2008

From time to time I make noises about adding context to news stories by including a reference/source list - who was spoken to, what documents, books, websites were referenced, even who initiated the story. So I was chuffed today to read about a project under way to develop 'source tagging' technology. Called Transparent Journalism, the project is the brainchild of Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust. It's being funded by the Knight Foundation's News Challenge programme and is consulting the BBC and Reuters about how to include 'source tagging' in reporters' daily workflows.

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Pneumatic story delivery

By Julie Starr | Published: October 28, 2008

Another piece of nostalgia from the NZ Herald Manual of Journalism 1967. Pneumatic tubes as a story delivery system within newsrooms were before my time but what a shame, they look cracking.

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NZ On Screen is where you go to remember things you don’t realise you’ve forgotten

By Julie Starr | Published: October 27, 2008

I've forgotten more TV shows and movies than I remember, which is what makes the new website NZ On Screen so good. In the past 20 minutes I've stumbled across McPhail and Gadsby, the first episode of Spot On and It's In The Bag, none of which I'd thought about in years. Lots of years. (My, Selwyn Toogood had lovely enunciation.)

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Journalists should ‘think more about context than content’

By Julie Starr | Published: October 23, 2008

Thought for the day (from Amy Gahran on MediaShift IdeaLab: Today's journalists can -- and probably should -- consciously shift away from jobs that revolve around content creation (producing packaged "stories") and toward providing layers of journalistic insight and context on top of content created by others (including public information). Finding ways to help people sort through info overload is far more valuable than providing more information.