Daily links 09/22/2012

• Open data journalism | News | guardian.co.uk

  tags: journalism data news

  • These are the days of open journalism, reporters who can use the power of the web can produce stronger, better stories. Open journalism involves the person reading and commenting on the story as much as the original reporter, and with the power to shape and influence the news they see in front of them.

    But how does that connect to data journalism? These are two segments of the same pie chart – and for data journalism to develop beyond just being the latest fad, it has to engage and involve the people reading the news as well as creating it.

• Steve Buttry: Students already consume news digital-first; student media should follow suit » Nieman Journalism Lab

  tags: journalism students news media

  • The choice for student media is simple: Slide into irrelevancy even faster than professional media that fail to adapt, or race into the digital future and help show them the way.

• The Content Economy: Why do people share?

  tags: journalism content share collaboration

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     They were willing to share both kinds of knowledge, but the motivation for sharing each differed greatly. The documents and programs they shared because they considered them the property of the company. But the second kind, their experiential knowledge, they shared because they gained some personal benefit from doing so. The personal benefit, however, was not money or the promise of a promotion. According to the study, “Experts will want to contribute to coworkers who need them, who will hear them, who will respect them and who may even thank them.”

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