Episode #7 – Apple’s iPhone 4 & Journalism

Posted: June 8th, 2010 | Author: Chris Cameron | Filed under: Episodes | Tags: advertising, Apple, iPad, iPhone, print, video | No Comments »

It happened. Again. Another epic Steve Jobs keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference from Moscone Center in New York. As he did during his speech the last two years, Jobs announced another member of the iPhone family – this time iPhone 4 with a high-resolution screen, video editing capabilities and a new advertising platform. Chris and Josh talk how these new features could have a direct influence on the print and journalism industries.

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Episode #6 – NPR’s Mobile Efforts & Twitter in Thailand

Posted: May 25th, 2010 | Author: Chris Cameron | Filed under: Episodes | No Comments »

On this week’s episode of JTechWeekly, we talk about some weekend news, as well as NPR’s efforts to gather a mobile audience, and Twitter’s impact on the social issues in Thailand.
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Episode #5 – Twitter, Foursquare, Web Headlines and Online Video

Posted: May 18th, 2010 | Author: Chris Cameron | Filed under: Episodes | Tags: foursquare, headlines, newsweek, SEO, Twitter, video | No Comments »

This week on JTech Weekly, Chris and Josh discuss a Newsweek reporter using Twitter to profile a controversial Congresswoman, Foursquare’s role in journalism, S.E.O. of web headlines and the rise of online video for news sites.

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Episode #4 – Betty White, Disaster Reporting and Veracious Entropy

Posted: May 11th, 2010 | Author: Chris Cameron | Filed under: Episodes | Tags: anonymity, broadcast, commenting, disasters, Facebook, HowTru, journalism, NBC, news, reporting, SNL, social media, tech, TV, Twitter, validity | No Comments »

Did you catch SNL this weekend? If you did, you saw famed actress Betty White hosting, and due in no small part to a Facebook campaign to get her there. So how else is social media having an impact on TV and news? One way is in the way disasters are covered. Also this week, we discuss an internet startup trying to reinvent the way online news readers comment on and affect the way stories are reported.

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Episode #3 – Remake Camp, Sports Bots, Off the Record & Internet TV

Posted: May 3rd, 2010 | Author: Chris Cameron | Filed under: Episodes | Tags: business models, future, internet TV, Jim Louderback, journalism, New York Times, off the record, Remake Camp, Revision3, robots, semantics, sports, sportswriters, Twitter, unconference | 1 Comment »

If you’re wondering why there’s a picture from The Simpsons framing this post, it’s because in this scene Mr. Burns is showing Homer how his team of 1,000 monkeys will write the next great American novel. “It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!” Anyway, sportswriters may be doomed to something similar: robot journalists automatically producing game recaps from box scores. Will automated reporting of run-of-the-mill stories lead to more in-depth reporting? That’s one topic of discussion on this week’s JTech Weekly with Chris Cameron and Josh Sprague.

Other topics include a recap of the the events from Remake Camp, an unconference on the future of journalism, as well as a debate over the semantics of “off the record” vs. “on background,” and the future of cable TV on the Internet. Show notes will be up soon!

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Episode #2 – ProPublica’s Pulitzer, AppStore Rules, Anonymity, and Gizmodo

Posted: April 26th, 2010 | Author: Chris Cameron | Filed under: Episodes | Tags: anonymity, Apple, commenting, Gizmodo, iPhone, journalism, non-profit, ProPublica, Pulitzer, technology | No Comments »

We’re back with the second episode of JTechWeekly (though we realize we are a week late). Scheduling conflicts and technological difficulties aside, we will be recording each Sunday from now on, so be sure to stay tuned for more episodes each week!

In this week’s episode, Josh and Chris talk about what ProPublica’s Pulitzer Prize means for online journalism, and how journalists may want to be wary of Apple’s AppStore. We also discuss the future of anonymous commenting, as well as the interesting story of Gizmodo and the iPhone 4G.
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Episode #1 – iPad, Pay Walls and Wikileaks

Posted: April 8th, 2010 | Author: Chris Cameron | Filed under: Episodes | Tags: Apple, freemium, iPad, New York Times, paywalls, Reuters, subscriptions, Wall Street Journal, watchdog, WikiLeaks | No Comments »

Episode #1 of JTechWeekly is now available! In this week’s epsiode, Chris, Josh and Andrew talk about the recently released Apple iPad and its possible implications on the journalism industry. With more news organizations moving to the iPad to create new subscription models, is Apple in danger of controlling the news?

On a similar vein, we discuss the returning trend of paywalls with online journalism as the New York Times plans what we dub “freemium journalism” with a limited pay structure. And finally, we discuss the controversial Wikileaks video of the death of two Reuters journalists in Iraq at the hands of the U.S. Military. Where do we draw the line between journalism and watchdog journalism? Further show notes and links after the jump.

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Coming Soon: A Brand New Podcast

Posted: April 6th, 2010 | Author: Chris Cameron | Filed under: Podcast News | No Comments »

Welcome to JTech Weekly! We are just getting our homepage setup as we get ready to begin podcasting. Please keep your ear to ground as we are launching a brand new podcast centered on journalism and technology and their rapidly expanding and changing relationship very soon!

We are still in the planning phase but will be recording and publishing our first episode in the next few days. Our main focus is to have a friendly, casual, yet informed discussion about news relating to media and technology and how they are interacting. Think This Week in Tech meets On the Media. We are very excited and are looking forward to bringing you a great podcast. More updates are coming soon, but be sure to follow us on Twitter (@JTechWeekly)!

For more information, hit up the About page, send us an email at mail [at] jtechweekly [dot] com, or chat us up on Twitter. More coming soon so stick around! Thanks!

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