Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Has the Internet "hamsterized" journalism?

Hey there newspaper reporter—has your broadband-powered job got you filing not only conventional stories, but blogging, video blogging, Facebooking, podcasting, picture posting, and Tweeting? If so, you'll be happy to know that the Federal Communications Commission earned its keep this week by coming up with a term for this ever growing set of digital duties: the "hamsterization" of American journalism.

"As newsrooms have shrunk, the job of the remaining reporters has changed. They typically face rolling deadlines as they post to their newspaper's website before, and after, writing print stories," the FCC notes in its just released report on The Information Needs of Communities.

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Source: http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/NwCO5FuRqpY/has-the-internet-hamsterized-journalism.ars

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