Posts Tagged ‘NPR’

The American Society of Newspaper Editors released a new report, 10 Best Practices for Social Media, which examined the social media policies of 19 news organizations — large and small, local, national, and international — to come up with a list of best practices.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

NPR is looking for love on Facebook, as the public broadcaster rolled out its first app on the social networking site, I <3 (Heart) NPR, which allows users to tag themselves to their favorite member stations on an interactive map.

Who needs Hallmark? If your Valentine is a fan of NPR, the public radio network is offering eight NPR-themed Valentines. If your Valentine is not a fan of NPR, however, they might get a little creeped out after receiving the message, “I want you like I want Carl Kasell‘s voice on my home answering machine.”

NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard pushed for a Report an Error button from the Report an Error Alliance to be added to NPR.org in a long, well-thought-out blog post. Highlights follow:

One of the surest ways for a news organization to keep and gain credibility is to have an easy-to-use mechanism for reporting mistakes and a quick process for correcting them.

It’s inevitable that even the best, most thorough news organizations will make mistakes. The question is how they handle them. (Most do so poorly.)

Today, as more people get much — if not most– of their news online, there needs to be a common agreed-upon standard for reporting and correcting errors.

Two journalists who care very much about this issue launched an initiative last week to get news organizations — big and small — to come up with a standard on how to make it easier to report mistakes.

Craig Silverman of Regret the Error and Scott Rosenberg of MediaBugs started the Report an Error Alliance.

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NPR conducted a survey of followers of its Twitter accounts that was completed by 10,244 respondents from Aug. 25-Sept. 9, with women making up 54 percent of participants and the median age coming in at 35. Among the findings:

• 75 percent of respondents said they use Twitter more than once per day, while 13 percent said about once per day, and 8 percent replied once per week or less.

• 77 percent said they get most or all of their news online.

• Hard news/breaking news was the category most Twitter users wanted to see in Tweets from NPR, followed by events that are in progress, and offbeat stories.

• 55 percent of respondents said they follow 2-5 NPR accounts, including individual shows, blogs, NPR staff, and news topics, while 31 percent said they follow only one NPR Twitter account, 7 percent follow 6-10, and 6 percent follow 10 or more NPR accounts. 92 percent said they followed general or topical NPR Twitter accounts, while 36 percent said they followed show accounts, and 26 percent said they followed staff accounts.

• 65 percent said NPR sends out “just the right amount” of Tweets, percent felt that NPR Tweets too much, and 14 percent said it Tweets too little.

An Advertising Week 2010 panel Wednesday afternoon in New York provided a news nugget from Abrams Media and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams and an excellent rant from NPR On the Media host Bob Garfield, Silicon Alley Insider reported.

The news from Abrams: his company intends to launch three more sites in 2011, and he said at the panel, as reported by Silicon Alley Insider:

My business will be profitable in January or February. To suggest that digital media as a whole isn’t going to be profitable is ridiculous. If you’re doing good content and you’ve got devoted communities of people coming to your site, you’re not only going to be successful, but profitable. I’m not doing this because it’s a vanity project, I’m doing it because we’re making a profit.

We love the idea of having someone distribute our content, which is exactly what Yahoo! does. In the old media model, there would be 20 people covering the same flood. I don’t think that’s necessary for the success of journalism moving forward.

And Garfield’s rant, via Silicon Alley Insider:

If three-paragraph distillations of other people’s writing is your idea of content, God bless you. Then everyone’s gonna do well, and eight professionals will be doing real journalism while there’s still a little cash in the pipeline. That’s not quality content. Quality content is content that matters, not what most entertains; not the juiciest tidbit about Justin Bieber. We’re all fucked.

Though not as widely covered as some of the other speakers at D8, Vivian Schiller, president of NPR, made a few heads spin with her statement that Internet radio will take the place of terrestrial radio within ten years. One would be hard pressed to find another major executive at an “over-the-air” broadcaster who would [...]

The media world is chattering about the “death of old media” at the hands of new media like Twitter and Facebook, but with such bold claims, it is important to look at the details. National Public Radio – NPR – has been doing news, talk, and entertainment radio for forty years, and they may just [...]