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High-res kileyrae: futurejournalismproject: The Wall Street Journal looks the best and worst jobs of 2012 with data collected by CareerCast from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The ranking criteria are based on physical demands, work environment, income, stress and hiring outlook. Journalism doesn’t do well. Software Engineer leads the pack. For future journalists, combine the two and you might be on to something. Image: Twitter post by Jason Gay, sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal. This is not depressing at all.

kileyrae:

futurejournalismproject:

The Wall Street Journal looks the best and worst jobs of 2012 with data collected by CareerCast from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The ranking criteria are based on physical demands, work environment, income, stress and hiring outlook.

Journalism doesn’t do well. Software Engineer leads the pack. For future journalists, combine the two and you might be on to something.

Image: Twitter post by Jason Gay, sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

This is not depressing at all.

Want to grow a social network to 300 million users? Get journalists to use it, write about it.

soupsoup:

muckrack:

MIT researchers have published some fascinating data on how Twitter grew during its first few years of existence. According to the research, Twitter’s “U.S. growth relied primarily on media attention, geographic proximity of users”.

The story gets particularly interesting when the researchers realized that media attention wasn’t simply a reflection of Twitter’s growth, but a cause of it:

González and Toole said their model of Twitter contagion didn’t fit Cha’s data until they added media influence, based on the number of news stories appearing weekly in Google News searches, data they acquired using Google Insights for Search, which provides historical search-engine data.

This jives with our experience building on Twitter’s API. In late 2008 we founded the Shorty Awards to honor the top content creators on Twitter (now it covers all social media platforms). The Shorty Awards became a trending topic on Twitter within 24 hours of launch, but Twitter itself wasn’t all that big at the time — only 1/3rd the size of Wordpress.com according to Compete. However, since journalists were relying on Twitter to find sources and communicate with each other, they noticed the Shorty Awards, which were quickly covered in the New York Times, BBC and Wall Street Journal without even sending out a press release.

After seeing how many journalists were using Twitter at the Shorty Awards we were inspired to create Muck Rack in 2009 to bring you, as we put it, “Tomorrow’s newspaper, today” — since you could follow second-by-second how journalists at each paper were using Twitter to do their job. We recently followed this with Muck Rack Pro to help journalists communicate with each other, PR people and sources over social media.

If you’re trying to build the next global communications platform, you might want to try to get journalists to use it to do their jobs. Perhaps this is why Google+ and Facebook are both aggressively courting journalists.

Journalists can get listed on Muck Rack and use Muck Rack Pro for free. PR professionals and those seeking to find journalists can try Muck Rack Pro here or request a free demo from our team. 

Huge fan of Muck Rack. Their daily newsletter is one of the most informative and useful things I read every single day.

The Year in News

joshsternberg:

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released its top stories of 2011.

The biggest story of the year, however, was the economy. As the recovery weakened and Washington engaged in partisan warfare over the debt ceiling, news about the state of the economy jumped to the same level of attention it had received in 2009 when newly elected president Barack Obama passed his controversial stimulus package in response to the “Great Recession.” For all of 2011, the economy made up 20% of the space studied in newspapers and online and time on television and radio news, an increase of more than 40% from 14% of the newshole studied in 2010.

Click through to see what other stories, as well as their reported frequency, made the top stories of the year.

Roger Ailes got super pissed at Sarah Palin

joshsternberg:

This is great:

Sarah Palin’s announcement that she wouldn’t run for president disappointed her legions of admirers — but it infuriated Roger Ailes. The Fox News chief wasn’t angry  about the decision itself. Rather, he was livid that Palin made the October 5 announcement on Mark Levin’s conservative talk-radio program, robbing Fox News of an exclusive and a possible ratings bonanza. Fox was relegated to getting a follow-up interview with Palin on Greta Van Susteren’s 10 p.m. show, after the news of Palin’s decision had been drowned out by Steve Jobs’s death. Ailes was so mad, he considered pulling her off the air entirely until her $1 million annual contract expires in 2013.

A tool might be able to create a shiny artistic jumble for you, but it can’t find you the story in there or explain to your readers why they should care. The essential complexity is not to be abhorred, it’s to be celebrated. So embrace that. Stop hoping for a silver bullet. Learn to program. And remember, no tool will save journalism.

shortformblog:

joshsternberg:

Good post up at Nieman Labs about journalism and technology. 

The secret: Do something cool. But don’t do it assuming it will be the future. Do it because it’s cool. (Fun fact: I knew nothing about PHP until I dipped into SFB. My HTML was rusty. My CSS was outdated. But I still figured it out. Create a reality distortion field for yourself — assume nobody else will do it.)

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