objectivity - 10,000 Words http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words Where Journalism and Technology Meet Copyright 2013 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:15:01 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Report: How to Build Trust In the Digital Age A recent report published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism looks at the quality of journalism in the digital age. The report’s author, Richard Sambrook, is a journalism professor at Cardiff University and former director of BBC News.  In the report, Sambrook investigates the notions of objectivity and impartiality in the digital world, and whether or not we can trust the new forms of journalism that are emerging as a result of new technologies. continued…

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]]> Mona Zhang http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/report-reuters-institute-study-of-journalism-digital-trust-sambrook_b14225#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/report-reuters-institute-study-of-journalism-digital-trust-sambrook_b14225 http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/?p=14225 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:15:40 +0000 When Tweeting Can Cost You Your Job, What About Retweets? Last week, The Associated Press updated its social media guidelines to address the issue of retweets. Since then, the new guidelines’ concern with bias and objectivity sparked much online debate from reporters, social media enthusiasts, and media critics alike. David Carr of The New York Times Media Decoder blog tweeted: “AP to staff: Don’t retweet anything with an opinion. http://bit.ly/rKbgDE Good luck with that.”

Jeff Sonderman at Poynter introduced the idea of a “neutral retweet,” placing “NT” at the beginning of a retweet to convey: “I do not necessarily agree with this statement, but I thought it was notable enough to call to your attention.” While many in the Twittersphere concurred with this idea, for some, it brought up more fundamental issues of objectivity and journalism.

At GigaOm, Matthew Ingram lamented the requirement that journalists pretend not to have opinions, saying this suggests, “viewers or readers are too stupid to figure out where the truth lies.” He argues that these social media policies actually make things worse, and has recommended positive social media policies that tell journalists how to tweet instead of what not to tweet. continued…

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]]> Mona Zhang http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/social-media-guidelines-retweet-twitter-objectivity_b8318#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/social-media-guidelines-retweet-twitter-objectivity_b8318 http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/?p=8318 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0000