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Thu, Aug 25 2011 07:20:51

#hhldn: how digital journalism destroyed the news cycle

Martin Belam's talk at Hacks & Hackers London, August 24

  1. Martin Belam spoke at Hacks & Hackers about news online, digital skills and digital disruption. Here's the live tweet record of his talk - I'll update it to add slides when they go online.

  2. newsmary
    .@currybet taking the stage for "How digital journalism destroyed the news cycle and what we can do about it" #hhldn
    newsmary
    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:18:23
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  3. First, a bit of context.
  4. newsmary
    @currybet: I'm not a hack. History is my field. Similar to journalism: lots of biased stories, you try & spin to a single narrative #hhldn
    newsmary
    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:19:07
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    @currybet: I'm also not a hacker. Interested in where journalism meets tech. #hhldn
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    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:19:54
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    .@currybet: "Nice thing about dead 13th-century saints is they don't tend to spam you with press releases" #hhldn
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    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:20:26
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    The lifecycle of a newspaper, by @currybet. Excellent. #hhldn http://t.co/3jpeMi0
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    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:24:08
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    @currybet: view of print process: 1 write newspaper 2 print newspaper 3 wrap fish and chips in newspaper. #hhldn
    newsmary
    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:21:06
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    @currybet: also at some point you have to send copies of newspaper to British Library & @suttonnick #hhldn
    newsmary
    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:21:45
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  10. We need to stop simply shovelling content online, and find new digital forms.
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    @currybet: web publishing is much more than just internet - iPhone, Kindle, etc.#hhldn
    newsmary
    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:22:22
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    @currybet: "when I say 'we' in a good way I mean the Guardian. When I say it in a bad way I mean 'the news industry as a whole'" #hhldn
    newsmary
    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:23:07
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    @currybet: "We are in the animated gif years" of tablet & smartphone design #hhldn
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    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:23:57
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    @currybet We're at the start of a design journey. Not all content works for all media. #hhldn
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    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:24:41
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    @currybet: getting it wrong sends the wrong signal. Eg Flash interactives on mobile; "see diagram on left" if no diagram is there #hhldn
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    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:25:30
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  16. One person with a smartphone can publish in seconds something that might take a news organisation hours.
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    @currybet: most people can publish faster than most news organisations #hhldn
    newsmary
    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:26:26
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    @currybet: print seems slower and slower. Front pages seem out of date v quickly. #hhldn
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    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:28:03
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    @currybet BBC tools are ahead of the pack; new storytelling tools appear all the time. Eg @Storify #hhldn
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    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:29:50
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    @currybet: live blogging is a native digital medium in a way that lots of trad formats aren't. #hhldn
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    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:29:55
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  21. Because individuals can do things that organisations can't, individual journalists need the freedom to go ahead and do them.
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    .@currybet: "It's vital to let journalists experiment" #hhldn
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    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:30:39
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    @currybet giving @benjilanyado's twitter trips as brilliant example of journalists experimenting & making awesome things happen #hhldn
    newsmary
    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:31:49
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    @currybet: @paullewis made a sort of riots Twitter trip - asking users where he should head for stories #hhldn
    newsmary
    Wed, Aug 24 2011 15:32:59
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