Tiffany B. Brown

a mish-mosh of stuff

Posts in: Journalism

Low-clutter news site design
You may or may not know (and you may or may not care) that I started my career in online journalism. So I have a bit of an interest in how news is presented online. To me most news web sites throw way to much at the user. So much so that it’s hard to [...] [5 Apr 2005]
News & blogs
In a sign that at least a few people in journalism are getting it, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has links to blogs on its news channel front. They’re all related to the paper’s tsunami coverage. But they bring up an interesting question: How and when should newspaper’s integrate audience-written blogs into their coverage and content offerings? [...] [30 Jan 2005]
Wikinews: Participatory journalism from the folks behind Wikipedia
Via C Net news → Wired: The folks behind Wikipedia launch Wikinews, an effort to get citizen journalists to cover the news. I think this is a great idea, but I wonder if Wikinews can become a credible source of news on a national and international level. I worry about the effect of editorial decentralization [...] [29 Nov 2004]
Fact-checking their a**es
Two web sites that are righting the wrongs (or just putting them in one easy-to-access place). Regret the Error: A daily compendium of newspaper and magazine corrections FactCheck.org: Correcting political mistakes, misstatements, misinterpretations and lies. [14 Oct 2004]
JAWS Camp IV: The speakers
Updated July 10, 2006 to change link to photos Since I took so long to write this, the chronological order is a little bit fuzzy. But what I do remember is that this year’s speakers were downright fabulous. Legal analyst Greta Van Susteren (part of a panel on legal coverage) and sports reporter Christine Brennan [...] [29 Sep 2004]
More on journalism vs. ‘blogging
Coverage of a recent Online News Association meeting Related posts / related reading: “What Blogs Have Wrought“ “A Blogger’s Creed“ “Thoughts on journalism and social software“ “We’re All Journalists Now We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People (great book by Dan Gillmor) [24 Sep 2004]
Today’s links:
Women game designers try to change the industry More evidence of a Google browser Andrew Sullivan on bloggers’ influence on journalism and politics (related post and some recommended reading). A presidential candidate for canonization [23 Sep 2004]
Recommended reading on bias and journalism
An opinion piece by Frank Rich on media bias, Fox News and why CNN (and other networks) is getting it’s ass kicked in the ratings. Of particular note: Fox’s feat has since been trivialized by most of its rivals as the inevitable triumph of a partisan channel speaking to its faithful. But there’s something else [...] [20 Sep 2004]
JAWS Camp part III: Day one of the actual camp
Like I said in the previous post, registration didn’t start until 3 p.m. We (Nadirah and I) got back to the resort around 4-ish. Dinner was at 6, if I’m not mistaken, but before dinner we had a cocktail reception. The reception allows members to meet, mingle, network and renew old friendships. Our location meant [...] [16 Sep 2004]
R S S is Big Media’s Friend
Dave Winer answers the question: Would a big media company lose traffic if they supported RSS? Winer hits the nail on the head with his response. But I’ll say it another way: RSS is Big Media’s most valuable delivery mechanism. As plenty of others have said: RSS is a “pull technology” instead of a “push [...] [2 Jun 2004]