operation with collaborative reporters from arizona state
TRANSCRIPT
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
1/19
NewsHub
Debate 08 CoverageThe Hofstra Online Journalism Volunteers
Participate in a
Real-time, Web-based News Gatheringand Publishing/Social NetworkingOperation
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
2/19
Debate 08
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
3/19
A Hybrid Media Production
Using a workflow model developed by AssistantProfessor Mo Krochmal,
Students produced a 12.5-hour multimedianews operation (8 a.m. -12:30 a.m.)
In the Hofstra University School of
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
4/19
Mo Krochmal
Originally, a print journalist whoconverted to the web in 1994, thismodel was created by Krochmal, who
tested each model by producingcontent first solo and then rolling outfor student use. Its not print, notbroadcast, but web.
Planning for this event occurred over aperiod of eight months, and the launchwas made complicated by securityconcerns and the lar e ool of student
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
5/19
A.M. Schedule
The operation was divided into threeday parts, or sections, relevant to thetype of events being covered.
Early in the day, the work was to loadup a schedule of events, anddistribute and track the students whowere reporting that event. Thestudents had a selection of tools toreport with, including still and videophotography, audio, and live remote
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
6/19
Convergence
Recent economic events may mark thisexercise as perhaps one of the lastefforts made available by the wideselection of free web-based softwaretools and services some call web 2.0.
Many of these services are operating ona growth model, offering theirtechnology gratis as they seed a pool of
loyal users. We took advantage of a large array of
these early-stage applications to
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
7/19
Mid-Day
Assignments were tracked and new assignments wereadded and production began for the next segment.
The assignments were posted onto NassauNewsas theywere completed. Professor Krochmal produced theposts initially and trained students almost literally on
the fly to run positions. JRNL10 students, who areparticipating in the assignment desk training, ran theday-time assignment desk and also wrote news piecesdetailing the coverage of the day in mainstreammedia.
Another team of students, led by journalism graduate
student Tim Robertson (Blogger), and JRNL80 studentsKelly Glista a(Vlogger) and Jillian Sorgini(ManagingEditor), began producing the evening programmingshow by selecting and writing background news textand selecting videos of the days reports.
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
8/19
Schedule, Jobs
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
9/19
Pre-Game
The live programming required areloading of the Nassau News contentmanagement system, to include a rich-
media web-based free application,CoverItLive.com, the fourth instance ofthe use of this service since December2007.
As had been done in May, 2008, the CILservice was blended with a free videostreaming service, Mogulus.com, for thestudio streamcast and Ustream.tv for
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
10/19
Game On
When the debate began, the streamcast shifted to amore text presentation, with no narrator onMogulus.com and a live-blogging operation withcollaborative reporters from Arizona State University,and nearby Adelphi University as well as Hofstra
alumni and students. This operation was fueled by a combination of
resources: Students actively Twittered (microblog and social media)
on their own accounts, including live Twittering the eventfrom inside the debate hall as well as an official live
Twitter blog. CoveritLive was seeded by invitations to a number of
universities to join in the live audience submittingcomments.
JRNL80 students prepared briefing papers on more than
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
11/19
Post Game
After the debate, the operationcontinued, shifting to live videostreaming, originally planned to
begin with analysis, and thendebriefing reports from students whowere within the debate hall, but
unable to communicate reports dueto security rules.
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
12/19
Issues
Personnel-- University debate operations took a large number ofstudent reporters and producers out of the pool ofavailability, and school regulations deemed any otherparticipation to voluntary basis.
Participation was enthusiastic with some staying fromstart to finish.
The Professor as Bottleneck To many things to do toput it on. Overcome by on-the-fly delegating, training. Asset for
next production.
An Enthusiastic but Inexperienced Group Overcome by on-the-fly delegating, training. Now,
experienced
Stamina
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
13/19
Content
In the period from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m.,students produced:
43 separate original and edited news
posts on Nassau News, ranging fromslideshows, to taped video reports, textarticles, and audio, all reported via a
number of technologies, includingrudimentary mobile distributiontechnology;
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
14/19
Reach
From Oct. 13-Oct. 17, site attracted 637 visitors (70 percent new)from 20 countries, a milestone. Some 242 visitors came fromHofstra. 122 came from Germany.
The site logs list visitors from the University of Arizona, ArizonaState, Penn State, George Washington University, University ofFlorida, Stony Brook, Rider University, Pratt Institute, Ocean State,
New York City Public Schools, National Institutes of Health, CWPost, California State, Cal-Santa Cruz, University of NewHampshire, New York University, Northeastern University,Assumption College, Columbia University, and Amherst.
Media Organizations on the logs include: WGBH, WYNC, SouthHampton Press, Hearst, Fox/T3 Secaucus, Emmis Communications,Crocker Communications, Disney, Advance Publications, Hachette
Filipacchi, Cox Communications, Jobson Publishing, ScrantonTimes, and CBS.
Non Internet-provider Businesses visiting included: Perot Systems,Bayer, Canon USA, Daimler, Ford Motor Company, First Financial ofMaryland Federal, JP Morgan Chase, Nabisco, Rubies Costumes,and United States Postal Service.
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
15/19
Geography
748 visitors from the US. 102 Germany 7 Canada
5 UK 3 Netherlands 2 Bahamas and France 1 from Guatemala, Switzerland, Greece,
Austria, New Zealand, Turks and Caicos,Luxembourg, Finland, Iceland, Brazil,Sweden, South Africa, and Ireland
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
16/19
US
Had visitors from 28 states, themajority, 472, from New York, thenMass. (73), Arizona (38), New Jersey
(27), Maryland (22), Pennsylvania(17), California (16), Florida (15),Rhode Island (10),
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
17/19
CoveritLive
Through Oct. 17
Published Entries
Writer Comments Published: 335 Reader Comments Published: 367
Reader Comments Sent: 448
Media Counts
Images: 6 shown Polls: 9 shown
Replay
Replays Viewed: 70
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
18/19
Twitter
134 Tweets for October.
-
8/14/2019 Operation With Collaborative Reporters From Arizona State
19/19
Success
As a beta test of this mlange offreely available web-basedtechnologies and services, this was
ambitious and ultimately successful. 85 percent ofrespondents deemed it successful.
The students performed in anintense, real-world, deadline pressure-filled activity.