Final EXAM Study Guide

Broadcast vs. Online video
Legacy of nightly news compared to its fragmented audience today
The rather conservative "newscast innovations" since the 1970s
The way that the broadcast news format has not changed in over 40 years.
The rather pathetic ways nightly news has embraced (NOT) the web: NBC, ABC, CBS
Should news sites allow their content on Youtube?
The advent of "raw video" (e.g., KHOU)
The advent of NYTimes Video
The importance for all young journalists to be trained in video

• AJR: Hold that Obit
• What works in online news?
  

Video Shooting and Editing
Best shooting practices: Video techniques

Economics of Online Journalism
The cost of print: Imagining a paperless society
A decline in profits for newspapers
Cutting staff; expecting staff to do more (video, photography, multimedia)
Cutting departments: investigative reporting=the first to go
Advertising trends in online news sites
Ads affecting CONTENT: ad-links in stories (troubling)
Paper Cuts
Subscription: should newspapers charge subscriptions (aka cable) or exist on ads (network tv), and, increasingly, data mining?
Registration: privacy implications
Tracking audiences like never before: heat map: implications for editorial decisions on what content is "important"
SEOs: newspapers are increasingly hiring SEOs to get their content at the top of a Google search
Contextual linking: the sponsored links at the bottom of newspaper stories (that relate to the "context" of the story)
The problem of Teen readership
The problem of getting people to read at home
The problem of satisfying in depth readers vs. skimmers
Newspapers competing with any other website

• Michael Shapiro, Open for Business, Columbia Journalism Review, July/Aug. 2009
• David Simon, Build the Wall, Columbia Journalism Review, July/Aug. 2009

Interactive Graphics
Best practices in visualization, according to Tufte

• Tufte, E. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Ch. 1).
• Knight Digital Media Center: Multimedia Storytelling

Google and Aggregated News
RSS, Feed Aggregator
Copyright/Fair Use issues with Google and its aggregation practices
The way aggregated news undermines journalists, who strive to get the story
Controversy: blocking Google from linking to stories, or using Google to drive traffic to website
Fast flip and Google: sharing the profits with news providers

• What's a Fair Share in the Age of Google?
• AP Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web
• Aggregators: To be Or not to Be
• Google Releases News Reading Service

The Online Frontier and the Future of Journalism
* Twine * Twitter * Wolframalpha * Google Wave * Bing
Ten Ways J-Schools are Teaching Social Media
Google Wave
New York Times Skimmer
NY Times Desktop Reader
PBS News Hour
Exploiting the Semantic Web
Web 3.0
* filtering content
* real-time data
* personalization
* gps
* data recognition
* conversion technologies
* cloud computing or Software as a Service
Future formats and platforms
Times Extra fails

• For Search, Murdoch Looks to Deal with Microsoft
• Maira Kalman's "Pursuit of Happiness" blog: Ben Franklin and Thanksgiving
• Overhauling PBS News Hour
• David Pogue, Twitter? It's what you make of it. New York Times, Feb. 11 2009
• PERUSE: NYTimes: Lens--future of photojournalism??

You are resposonsible for all readings and all lecture slides (which are posted on the syllabus).

You should rely heavily on your discussion board posts (and those of your peers).
The exam will be essay-based, and the more SPECIFIC examples you can use to make your points, the better. 
I will be looking for comprehension of basic points and details.